[FESTIVAL COVERAGE] Hangout Music Festival 2013 Recap

We rolled up on Gulf Shores, Alabama at 4 am after driving 15 hours through the night. We have to pick a friend up at the airport in 4 hours, we haven’t yet slept, and so we park the car and try to catch a couple zzz’s with the ocean as our playlist. How could [...]

[EXCLUSIVE] Interview with Charli XCX + ‘True Romance’ Album Review

Reading music:   The first time I heard Charli XCX, my heart was a wasteland, befitting the material of her groundbreaking first single, “Nuclear Seasons”. I parroted her lyrics to myself as I retreated within my “shelter to survive this storm”, otherwise known as that selfish, dark abode in my wounded mind I escape to. [...]

[EXCLUSIVE] Backstage Interview with Dragonette

Canadian pop trio Dragonette are a lot of things. Anyone who has spent some time with the group can attest that they are extremely talented, super nice and genuinely humble, and they have their own brand of quirkiness that they pull off with effortless cool. I first caught up with Joel, Dan, and Martina while [...]

[MONTHLY] Remember Thy Motherf*cking Self: Sights and Sounds Best of 03.2013

A bit belated on the write-up (smack me on the face! please, you know I like it), but this edition of the Sights and Sounds’ Best of 03.2013 finds us wrestling with that eternal dynamic of fleeing affection for self-survival and meeting the end of relationships head on with a grim smile. Don’t worry, none [...]

[EXCLUSIVE] Backstage Interview with The Knocks

NY electro-dance duo The Knocks are on the verge of making it big. I mean really big. With years of performances and scores of remixes under their belt The Knocks could possibly be one of the most underrated groups on the music scene right now. But that won’t last for long as they have been [...]

[Feature] Spotlights 8: Best New Indie Music

This edition of Spotlights finds us dipping our toes into the dark pools of human affection before realizing that requires a little more light than we currently have stored up. Thematically, this week’s list coalesced around the idea of a waning emotional openness to the people around you, while still whetting your physical appetite. People [...]

[PREMIERE] The Sights and Sounds Presents: The Sights Episode 1 ft. Na Palm

This has been a long time in the making and we’re very happy to bring your the premiere webisode of The Sights. Over the course of a month we go to and cover a lot of music. A lot of the that footage never makes it out to you guys so we wanted a way [...]

[PREMIERE] Brøthers – Is This The End (Interview/Review)

  Brøthers is an emerging band heralding somewhere out of these United States of Idled America, making music that seeks, at the very least, to move others past the feelings of stagnation that plague them. Like modern day existential warriors, Brøthers have constructed two tracks thus far (“We Are Pushing On” and new single “Is [...]

[FEATURE] Train Your Ears To Say Yes: Rules For an Original Track

Part 1: Train Your Ears To Say Yes: Rules for an Original Track So, there is tons of new music out there. You feel like it’s impossible to get through it all and still find quality music. You wonder how in the hell those music bloggers do it, bringing you all those exciting new tracks [...]

[MONTHLY] Um, F*ck Fear. I Have None: The Sights and Sounds’ Best of Feb. 2013

We haven’t done this in awhile and it’s totally Kavit’s fault (you’re a pillar of success, Kavit) so here’s a larger set of our Sunday Spotlights compiling our best of the best for the month—at least according to what that wily Kavit thinks (and, you know, he’s a bit of a pusher about featuring his [...]