Haley Bonar, “Kismet Kill” Haley Bonar‘s new video, directed by Nicole Brending, tells the story of a prom queen grown old. Pale pink, black, and metallic shades suit this song perfectly, teasing Bonar’s new album Impossible Dream, due August 5. The Counterfactuals, “Every Turn You Take Is Right” “I didn’t set out to write a song […]
As many college students will tell you, being invited to a professor’s house is a unique and exciting experience. For a Carleton College student to be invited, therefore, to the house of philosophy professor Dan Groll—frontman of the Counterfactuals—was a special treat. After somewhat awkwardly letting myself in, I followed my ears down to his […]
Lovely Dark: Into the Roil Psychedelic, layered, and theatrical, Lovely Dark’s upcoming full-length Into the Roil, out March 1, sounds like a walk through a fairytale forest, where the Decemberists meet The Doors meet Fleetwood Mac. The six-piece band’s meticulous and innovative blend includes organic strings, accordion wails, and roaring, distorted electric guitar, all dancing under […]
Kristoff Krane, I Freestyle Life Over the course of his nearly decade-long career, MC Kristoff Krane has made a lot of fans—and a lot of friends, many of whom he’s collaborated with on record. Eyedea, Slug, Joe Horton, and Sage Francis are just a few of the artists heard on I Freestyle Life, a retrospective collection […]
