Recent Articles in Now Hear This!
Hopeful Monster: Now Hear This
Hopeful Monster, begun in 2001, is the main musical project of Toronto-based Jason Ball, and not just a mere term used in “evolutionary biology to describe an event of instantaneous speciation, saltation, or systemic mutation…
SCAMS: Now Hear This
The UK’s hardworking, film-loving SCAMS are the most recent top pick amongst a plethora of bands who’ve sent us their music, just dying (ahem) for a chance to answer Sentimentalist Mag’s own version of the infamous Proust Questionnaire.
The Woodlands: Now Hear This
It’s not often we come across a musical act that forms as the result of an old-fashioned, friendship-into-love scenario, rather than a rockin’ ad on Craigslist or random meeting in a music scene. The married duo of Hannah and Samuel Robertson, otherwise known as Portland, Oregon’s The Woodlands, create captivating folk songs that unfold as [...]
Now Hear This: Beware Fashionable Women
Barak Shpiez, frontman of Pittsburgh’s Beware Fashionable Women, is a musical force of nature with a penchant for writing indelible pop hooks and sun-soaked harmonies, songs made for summer.
Now Hear This: Unicycle Loves You
Self-described as “Dark & twisted, light & airy, or raucous & wild,” Chicago quartet Unicycle Loves You formed in 2006 and have since garnered buzz among hometown blogs and national press such as SPIN and Filter thanks to their energetic and impassioned shape-shifting live performances…
A Million Interviews Through the Globe: The Silent Years
Compared to household names like Elliot Smith and Tim Buckley, Detroit band The Silent Years recently released their much-anticipated album The Globe. With themes like alienation and existentialism, the band executes vulnerable rock resoundingly without crossing over into whiny, maudlin ballads.
Now Hear This: Sarandon: No Cardigans Please, Twee is Simply Awful
The UK’s Sarandon like to call themselves a pop band with a short attention span. The name of their latest album, Kill Twee Pop, (released in the U.S. on Slumberland Records), seems to say it all: this is no cutsie neo-folk act, but rather, a spastic, twitching garage punk act that delights both in mashing [...]
Switches Are At Full Tilt
This young UK act has no need to switch it on. They’re already on fire, stirring up our stages and television screens across America. Not only have they already played Jimmy Kimmel Live, but their single “Drama Queen” is the theme to the MTV show Legally Blonde: The Search for the Next Elle Woods and [...]
Now Hear This: Dasher
Some bands may flaunt the cliché “we’re big in Japan” even if they’ve played there once to an empty room, but Brooklyn’s Dasher can honestly boast about something far more exclusive–the fact that they were recently number one on the charts in Peru. Their current lineup came into being in spring 2007 in NYC, having [...]
Brooke Miller : Sentimentalist Magazine Interview
When did you put the current band together? We started playing together officially on June 4th. that was our first gig. the day prior we had a 6 hour rehearsal. I remember cause it was the 2nd wedding anniversary for Don and I. June 4th. (photo by Amber Rima McLinn) How did you meet the [...]
