Their 2011 album Channel Pressure was all queasy synthpop, like a bad-dream memory of '80s PBS science-film soundtracks, but Ford & Lopatin go in a couple of different directions on a new…   Read Story »

Les Demoniaques is the project of Dum Dum Girls leader Dee Dee and Tamaryn. Take a listen to their cover of Jesus & Mary Chain's "Teenage Lust": They remove the fuzzy, sweaty crunch of the…   Read Story »

In the spirit of Tri-Angle records' Lindsay Lohan tribute album Let Me Shine For You, gothy shoegaze specialist Tamaryn scored Lindsay Lohan, a short film by glossy New York-based pop painter Richard…   Read Story »

A few months ago we posted a sunny "indie rock" NYTimes photo shoot, one set around Coachella and its proximity to L.A. and Jenny Lewis. These pictures of Salem and Tamaryn illustrate an…   Read Story »

I woke up early Thursday to a message from Sasha Grey titled "Sleazy Passed." She'd sent it at 5:30 AM and said, among other things, "Now I know how people felt when MJ died ... I think." A certain…   Read Story »

This sweet, flowery, emulsion burning video for "Dawning" features Dominant Legs' Hannah Hunt along with Tamaryn. It was directed with an eye to vintage 120 Minutes by Christin Turner, who also…   Read Story »

Last night our STEREO★GUN collaboration with PopGun Booking went down on both floors of Santos Party House. Sometime from when we organized it, to the actual happening, people got especially…   Read Story »

If live music is a thing you enjoy, you could do worse than to visit our fair city next week -- from like noon until whenever you get tossed out of your evening destination, from Tuesday to Saturday,…   Read Story »

Every autumn NYC's week-long college music marathon is a great excuse for radio promoters and DSLR-toting bloggers to hobnob with famous publicists. Those who attend on official CMJ bizness even…   Read Story »

This weekend in Las Vegas, Matador Records is celebrating 21 years of shaping the ship of independent music with a fearsome deepdive through its roster, headlined by the reunited "classic" lineup of…   Read Story »