We were all 21 and had fun and went out every weekend and were depressed and drank a lot of beer and got sweaty in basements at house shows and made sweet love…

For New Jersey natives Forth Wanderers, everything is happening at a million miles per hour. They're now quietly drawing in the balcony of Rough Trade before their in-store performance, an appreciated break from the weekend they've had…

Inspired by their collaborative film, Dream Girl, creatives Bryan Villalobos and Martine Gutierrez talk relationships, dating apps, and fitting and breaking societal ideals in twenty first century New York City. 

Nicholas Fernandez, Natalia Blanco, and David Lee studied sculpture together and have been collaborating since 2014. They are the resident artists for Secret Friend 002, the second installation of our immersive party series.

For the last three nights of 2017, the Chicago band Twin Peaks played three sold out shows at Thalia Hall along with their best friends, Knox Fortune, Sun Cop, Dehd, Post Animal, Today's Hits, and NE-HI. "Cold Out There, Warm in Here," a group zine by photographers Rachel Cabitt, Cooper Fox, CJ Harvey, Natalie Leonard, Tim Nagle, Emily Quirk, and Daniel Topete, captures the three nights in 80 pages.

At age thirteen, I moved to Miami from Colombia. In high school I painted and played in a sloppy hardcore band and then moved to Chicago to get my BFA from the School of the Art Institute...

Last year was the most uncertain year of my life. No money, lots of emotions, big risks. But my photos were the opposite of all that. I try to emphasize the good things. We spend so much of our lives worrying; about the future, money, love, death...

While Boston's Vundabar are obviously known for their music, they're also known for their dramatic and lively performances, charmingly goofy demeanor and if you didn't know, they also have quite the knack for the art of visual imagery.

Multimedia artist Elise Wunderlich was born in the early 90’s in Portland, Oregon. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design’s Sculpture Program and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. 

Australian psych rock band Stonefield premieres their film “Recording Far From Earth,” a behind the scenes look into the making of their third album.

Philadelphia’s Corey Flood takes us on the road for their first tour since the release of their EP “Wish You Hadn’t.”

We rounded up a few of our favorite acts playing the 2018 Northside Festival so you could get to know them a little better.

Chicago’s Post Animal fills out our Setlist before their headlining show at Rough Trade with Paul Cherry.

Midweek Music Playlist for the week of June 4th, 2018. Featuring Dehd, Barrie, Snail Mail, Parquet Courts, Sam Evian, Native Sun and more.

Austin by way of Alabama musician Caroline Says premieres her music video for “Mea Culpa”.

Brooklyn musician Sam Evian let us go through his camera roll to see all his adventures while on tour in the UK in May.

Photographer Hayden Sitomer documents life on the road with Half Waif and Hovvdy during their Cranberry/ Lavender tour.

An essay of possible responses to a single question: why a relationship ended. Told with urgency and repetition, writer Kate Devine articulates the unexplainable nature of heartbreak by recounting tangible objects and circumstances that characterized a year.

Serena Ferrari grew up in upstate New York writing poetry and short stories in her free time, before receiving a film degree. She returned to her first love of creative writing as well as her home upstate, where the two constantly inform each other. In her sister poems she discusses the sensation of loving.

Jonathan Burkhalter was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He earned a BA at the University of Tennessee and currently resides in New York City, where he is an MFA Candidate at Sarah Lawrence. His work has appeared in Ray's Road Review, Hooligan Magazine, Eropium, and elsewhere.

We rang in 2018 in one of the coldest parts of the country: Chicago, Illinois (pretty sure the city recorded its coldest New Year’s Day to date). Chicago’s very own Twin Peaks, the 5 piece band, held a three night run at Thalia Hall over New Years weekend - bringing along fellow Chicago acts and friends, Sun Cop, Knox Fortune, Dehd, Post Animal, Today’s Hits and NE-HI.

Have you ever had a holy sh*t moment when you realize how cool your friends really are? Often, we’re quite proud of our surroundings and that seems to be one of the many perks to being a creative person- other creative people.

Trey Gruber, frontman of rising Chicago band Parent, passed away last month at 26. Just over 1000 people live in New Vienna, the rural Ohio village where Gruber grew up. From childhood on, he worked on the family farm, but grew more restless and disaffected by the pastoral setting with age. He channeled his provincial alienation into music, emerging a highly emotive, prolific songwriter.