Joy Electric: Dwarf Mountain Alphabet — Ronnie Martin has been making experimental synth pop under the name Joy Electric for nearly 20 years now. Over that time, his music has taken a number of turns, but at the same time, it’s kept the light and whimsical nature that the name ‘Joy Electric’ implies. If you’ve [...]
If you heard the future, would you recognize it? Deastro aka Randy Chabot is a man whose art challenges conventional pop at every turn. Whether it’s making his unique blend of swirling bleeps and bloops over driving beats or designing his many album covers, he definitely has a talent for creating a lot of interesting [...]
Velvet Blue Music has been a constant in the indie rock community for over 16 years. How have they manged to stay afloat all this time even as the music industry has dramatically fluctuated? VBM’s founder, Jeff Cloud attributes it partially to sustaining an unwavering commitment to music he loves and a tremendous amount of [...]
Neon Indian: Era Extraña– When I first heard Neon Indian‘s first record, Psychic Chasms, I had a difficult time really getting into it very much. I appreciated the experimentation with electro that he was doing, but I thought the album just had too many songs that were too washed out by fuzz or just weren’t [...]