Beyond Structures Clockenflap 2023 Day 3: Running Youth, Otoboke Beaver, 9m88 and more By Khee Hoon Chan • February 9th, 2024 It’s day three of Clockenflap – and the final day of what is shaping up to be one of my favorite festival experiences.
Beyond Structures Clockenflap 2023 Day 2: Atarashii Gakko!, Omnipotent Youth Society and more By Khee Hoon Chan • January 30th, 2024 After grabbing an exorbitant hotdog from the festival grounds, which I paid around USD25 for, I continued on to some of the day two acts.
Noise Complaint Age, Angst, and Paint It Black By Ben Sailer • January 26th, 2024 On their latest album Famine, long-running hardcore punk band Paint It Black prove that righteous anger has no age limit.
Beyond Structures Clockenflap 2023 Day 1: Uchu Yurei, Wang Wen, Envy, Yoasobi By Khee Hoon Chan • January 22nd, 2024 Clockenflap 2023 was three beautiful days long, and here are the highlights of the festival’s opening day.
Noah's Beat Box Hip Hop at Fifty By Noah Springer • January 9th, 2024 After stepping back from the contemporary, Noah reflects a bit more on the different eras of hip hop and what they mean to him.
Rookie of the Year Lana Del(’s) Rey By Matt Marrone • January 4th, 2024 The spirit of the Newport Folk Festival is all about the music, from the morning sets to the closers, not all about Lana.
First Quest: The Music By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 11th, 2023 There is always some new relic to haul up from the pits of the earth.
Casting Deep Meteo Grails Scores the Theater of the Mind By Levi Rubeck • December 8th, 2023 More than curtains cut for mood or ambience, Anches en Maat begs the listener to simmer in their own headspace for a while.
Beyond Structures World’s End Girlfriend Composes Requiems For The End of Days By Khee Hoon Chan • December 7th, 2023 The music of World’s End Girlfriend, thankfully, resists the dichotomy of heightened emotional stakes versus the subdued lull of post-rock. Thus his melodies hardly, if ever, collapse under their immensity.
Past Presence Jenny from Thebes Review By Emily Price • December 5th, 2023 Jenny from Thebes is trying harder than maybe any previous album to create a specific place, but it still feels unmoored, somewhere between Greece and Austin.
