Articles by Peter Ellman

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  Luke Temple

  A Hand Through the Cellar Door

  PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2016

  Look at the cover art for A Hand Through the Cellar Door. The character is thoroughly obscured but somehow still recognizable as a person,...

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  DJ Taye

  Move Out EP

  PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2016

  Chicago footwork is to house music what bebop was to jazz, an unapologetically intricate, complex, and aggressive evolution that detractors...

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  Jess Williamson

  Heart Song

  PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2016

  Austin, Texas boasts a uniquely rich and heterogeneous rock scene, with SXSW attracting all kinds of sounds and homegrown talents ranging f...

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  Omar Rodríguez-López

  Weekly Mansions

  PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2016

  Omar Rodríguez-López is known to most as the guitarist and driving force behind At The Drive-In and the Mars Volta. He's basically worshipp...

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  The Jessica Stuart Few

  The Passage

  PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2016

  Jessica Stuart is definitely an outlier in indie rock. The self-described "prog Joni Mitchell" sings (Auto-Tune-free), plays guitar and kot...

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  SIANspheric

  Writing the Future in Letters of Fire

  PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2016

  Bands that get categorized as "shoegaze" can stylistically vary greatly, from catchy dream-pop to trippy psychedelia. SIANspheric land clos...

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  Carson Teal

  Carson Teal

  PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2016

  A recurring theme in Canadian art is that of being caught between American and British influences. Torontonian Carson Teal's debut EP might...

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  Claire M Singer

  Solas

  PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2016

  Claire M Singer is a composer whose recent work has incorporated a mix of organ, cello and electronics. Though modern in her approach, her...