photograph by Rick Barnwell With the exception of The Smiths, when rock bands break up–even when they do a final tour–it’s rarely forever. From My Chemical Romance to Blur, we’ve seen multiple reunion tours in recent years. But when Baltimore, Maryland’s Have Mercy went on… Read More »Artist Interview: Have Mercy
There is often an order to these things, as you might have noticed – first we introduce you to the band as snappily as we can, then we focus on the thing that we’re sharing today, be it an album stream or a new video,… Read More »Video Premiere: Quits – “Bucolica”
Spectral Lore has definitely been prolific over the past decade, but sole member Ayloss has been adamant about one crucial thing: none of the handful of releases (something like twelve) are the proper album followup to 2014’s mammoth double-album III. Acting as individual genre studies… Read More »Track Premiere: Spectral Lore – “Our Castles Have Fallen (Raging Winter)”
The Japanese House has taken over the world in the past few years and shows no signs of stopping soon. After their 2019 release, “Good at Falling,” The Japanese House has continually sold out venues across the country – they even opened for labelmates and… Read More »Photography + Review: The Japanese House and quinnie
The end of the year countdowns are finally here! As always, we’ll kick off with the big one: The Bias List’s top 50 songs of the year! Each day this week, I’ll be counting down ten of the year’s best, until number one is revealed… Read More »The Top 50 K-Pop Songs of 2023 (Day Three: 30-21)