Interview: Wilderado
Prior to their June 1st Great Scott gig, we had a chance to chat with Max Helmerich from LA-based Wilderado, an alternative indie band whose mix of folky grittiness and anthemic rock may bring to mind the...
Local Spotlight: Vundabar
There’s something to be said about the swath of musicians from Boston—as Brandon Hagen put it, “it’s like the biggest small town.” And Vundabar fit right in, their music familiar and...
Interview: Talking Business Cards and Custom Fonts with Julia Jacklin
Almost all of the online interviews with Australian artist Julia Jacklin mention two things: Britney Spears, the catalyst for her musical career, and her job at an essential oils factory line. While...
Moving On and Finding Pleasure: Sondre Lerche
That modern culture has a particular fascination with coming-of-age is hardly a new observation. The perennial popularity of The Catcher in the Rye, the clamor over Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, and...
Video Premiere: “Lean” (Sound It Out Session) by Lilith
Hannah Liuzzo and Kelsey Rose Francis are lifelong friends. They met at band camp and both studied music in college. Liuzzo describes growing up playing the flute as “actually not rock and roll, as it turns...
Interview: Parissa Tosif of Vallis Alps
After turning heads in the music blogosphere back in 2015 with their self-titled debut EP, Australian indie electronic duo Vallis Alps (vocalist Parissa Tosif and producer David Ansari) dominated HypeMachine...
Interview: DREAMERS
LA-based rock-alt band DREAMERS recently released their much-anticipated debut LP, This Album Does Not Exist. Ethereal and upbeat it incorporates "themes of existence and existentialism, but it’s easy...
Interview: Cigarettes After Sex
We had the chance to chat with ambient pop group Cigarettes After Sex, who will be performing at Great Scott this Sunday. The band has only released a handful of songs—all wrapped in album art featuring...
Video Premiere: “Devil’s Wine” by Elliot Taylor
Cynicism has always been in singer-songwriter Elliot Taylor’s blood. As a child growing up in Northern England, he supposedly told his parents that he thought “we were all part of a big computer game.”...
VuHaus Expands Reach of Public Radio Into Video Content; Adds WGBH’s Front Row Boston to its Ranks
Public radio stations have long been the vanguard of organic music discovery. Beck, Lorde, Spoon, and Vampire Weekend are just a few who got their starts on public radio and have since gone on to have prolific...