Danielle Chelosky is a New York-based writer who grew up on Long Island, goes to school in Westchester, and lingers in Brooklyn. She’s interned at Paste Magazine, Kerrang!, and Consequence of Sound, and her work has been featured in The FADER, MTV News, Bandcamp Daily, and more. She spends most of her time either typing on her laptop while listening to emo music or driving around in her car Cody also while listening to emo music.
Ryan Hemsworth's goal was simple: To allow his love for indie music to interact with his passion for producing. He's worked with Tinashe, Tory Lanez, Yurufuwa Gang—the list goes on and on, and it's diverse and full of surprises. For Quarter-Life Crisis, his EP released on Nov. 4 via Saddle Creek, the Canadian producer switched gears and brought in a…
Slow Pulp aren’t sure how to sonically categorize themselves, so they jokingly offer: "cow rock," "slowcore" and "not emo, but emotional." They’ve been labeled as shoegaze before, but they think the reason for that is: "We’ve put out such a little amount of music that people don’t know what to call it yet." The group is based in Chicago, but the four of…
Terra Lopez—the mastermind behind the thoughtful R&B project Rituals of Mine—is familiar with grief. When she was five and her brother was four, the two almost died in a garage fire. "I always think back about that," she shares over the phone on a peaceful Wednesday afternoon, "because it was literally a split moment where if I didn’t wake up…
On July 1, a mysterious Soundcloud link and Twitter account circulated the web. "Occult Classic" was its name; they were a band, a secretive one, making ridiculously interesting, explosive music. It sent Twitter users amok, with indie rock lovers begging for answers, even though "Occult Classic" spell out their real name in one of the songs: Illuminati Hotties. A few days prior,…
A child’s voice opens up Fevers And Mirrors—the third studio album by Bright Eyes—unconfidently reading the words: "So long, everything!" There is not a better way to set up the tragedy to come in the following 11 tracks. In Nebraska in 1999, the indie three-piece recorded the folksy-emo masterwork with the help of many others on unorthodox instruments such as…
