Scrutiny, Alienation, and Jay-Z: An Interview with Jacodie Big Mountain 

By Evelyn Flores & Erika Nunez, Photos By Gabrielle Davila Ortiz “Weed, struggle, and riffs,” says Jacodie of Scrutiny when asked to describe the band’s music in three words. No explanation necessary. Scrutiny’s no-skip, self-titled EP was released on Spotify last year on 9/11, the name inspired by the band’s surrounding environment when they formed […]

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Reincarnate – Witch Fever

From Manchester, UK comes doom-punk quartet Witch Fever. Last October, they released their debut EP ‘Reincarnate’ made up of six songs that tackle the reclamation of power in a misogynistic western society. From this EP comes their single of the same name: ‘Reincarnate’. When speaking to Upset Magazine, Witch Fever explained that the song began […]

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Penguin Slide – ANTI​-​VISION

“Welcome back, failure, you’re my friend. Starting over fresh, just gonna fuck it up again,” opens Las Vegas astronaut rock band Anti-Visions in their latest single ‘Penguin Slide.’ The song was mixed, mastered, recorded, and engineered by Cody Leavitt at Asteroid M Records. On the single, Anti-Vision shared that it’s, “[b]een a real struggle navigating […]

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Comfort to Me

I haven’t been able to stop listening to Comfort to Me – Amyl and the Sniffers’ second LP – since its release a few days ago. I guess this isn’t too hard to believe since my car rides have consisted of a heavy rotation between their self-titled album, the Jonas Brothers, and the same fifteen […]

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Los Espookys

A few weeks ago, Eunice unexpectedly sent me a playlist. Okay, I shouldn’t make it sound dramatic; she sends me music quite often, but it’s usually not in the form of a playlist. This particular playlist she sent was named Los Espookys – Soundtrack. I was instantly intrigued. The playlist created by indicemx consists of […]

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Super Besse – Un Rêve

Super Besse is a post-punk turned coldwave duo from Minsk, Belarus. With their last album Un Rêve (2020), Maksim Kulsha and Aleksandr Sinica combined their original post-punk sound with techno and electronic beats. The shift in sound reflects their interest in electronic music that came before the album’s development. Each song on the album was […]

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Aurora Boreal

Earlier this month, Señor Kino from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, released their third full-length album Aurora Boreal. The album comes with great anticipation as it was meant to be released more than a year ago but was put on hold because of the pandemic.  With this LP, Señor Kino isn’t completely moving away from their surf-punk […]

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