new music

Last summer, when KC Spidle formed Bad Vibrations, his vision was simple: “My plan was to rock,” he says. A veteran of many a venerable local group (The Hold, Dog Day, Husband and Knife), Spidle was itching to play loud, heavy music—“not wanky,” he says. He wrote 13 songs in two hours and then corralled […]

The first time that Dana Beeler played in front of an audience, she was almost overwhelmed by nerves. “I performed at a high school open mic and almost fell off my chair,” she says. Although Beeler has played in a bluegrass band with her family for years, the 19-year-old says it took time for her […]

Known for outlandish acoustic hip-hop covers of “Mama Said Knock You Out,” The Caravan has been silently gaining a cult following and is now putting its debut album, Emerald City, out on wax June 12 at the Seahorse—fronted by NSLC employee/potential Playgirl cover model Kyle Mckenna, with Freddie Prinze Jr. look-alike Mark Bachynski on the […]

Long, Long, Long can’t sit still. They’ve barely played their second show, and they’re already working on their second release and preparing for a mid-June tour. After three of four band members began building a reputation across Canada as York Redoubt last year, the band’s sudden split late in the fall left plenty of disappointed […]

Here’s a conundrum: You and your friends start a band. You make punk that spangles, with romantic snappy hooks that echo in the brain for days. You do a small tour, you release a tape and suddenly everyone is in love with you. Crowds throng your shows, each person banging into the other, clutching each […]

It doesn’t get any sweeter than Heather and Chelsea Edgett. The twosome embodies love, togetherness and matrimony. Both are songwriters in their own light. Having met via MySpace, Chelsea chased Heather to Los Angeles where the two of them cultivated their craft and said their vows. Due to Proposition 8 they had to head back […]

Jenny Gillespie (also of Meat Curtains) first began performing solo under the name Oil Spills and Microrganisms in 2008, but has since switched to the shorter Micro Organs. She teamed up with drummer Mathieu Blanchard in October of last year—“I thought you were good, I wanted to play with you,” Blanchard pipes up from behind, […]

Mydriasis is one of those bands where the “new” status is a little amorphous: They’ve been jamming in various incarnations for the past two years, and three members—Mike Atwell, Mitch Henshaw and Jeff Morrison—have played together for years. But after going through three bass players and two singers, guitarist Henshaw says that the pieces finally […]