Earlier this year, we posted the video for "The Beauty Surrounds," a melancholic synthpop song from the Chicago duo Houses. Now, the Brooklyn-based producer Silent Rider has remixed the track,…   Read Story »

In Houses' melancholic "The Beauty Surrounds" video, you can watch frontman Dexter Tortoriello build a tent in the desert and pine for the absent Megan Messina. Their latest video for "Beginnings" --…   Read Story »

Chicago band Houses describes their interests on Facebook in four words: "Sustainable living, being alone." Despite their isolationist tendencies, the band released a new video today for their single…   Read Story »

Two bands we like a lot -- BTW Dominant Legs, and Houses, who were part of STEREO★GUN -- get together on this remix of "About My Girls." The song was part of Dominant Legs man Ryan William Lynch's…   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 »

We mentioned boyfriend/girlfriend band Houses' charming formation story when we premiered their video for "Endless Spring." It's hard not to think of their self-imposed isolation in Hawaii while…   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 »

With the pale shots of sunsets and palm trees, "Endless Spring" feels like summer especially with the song's small tempo shifts that make it feel like it's gently retreating and pushing forward. The…   Read Story »