By: Jennifer Perkin – Damon McMahon’s story is one-in-a-million – a former New York musician residing in China when Chicago label Locust Music discovered his long-shelved solo bedroom recordings and set them for release in 2009. McMahon promptly returned to the US to tour behind his long-delayed debut and subsequently released new material … Continue reading
Photos by: Matt Klopot – New York City-based all-female lo-fi indie pop quartet Dum Dum Girls, who released their third album, Too True, which was produced by Richard Gottehrer (Blondie, The Go-Go’s) and The Raveonettes’ Sune Rose Wagner, and which spawned the singles “Lost Boys & Girls Club” and “Rimbaud Eyes”, performed at Lee’s Palace in Toronto … Continue reading
By: Charlotte MacPherson – Having taken the pop electronic front by storm over the past little while, Jean-Philip Grobler, better known under the alias St. Lucia, delivers a beautifully and carefully constructed collection of tropically ambient ballads with When The Night, which was released on October 8th via Neon Gold/Columbia. Originally hailing from Johannesburg but since … Continue reading