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In our latest edition of Silk Screens, Berkeley, California producer Yalls details the inception of “Remember,” one of the many standout tracks on his latest EP, The Voice. Name your...

In his second week as May’s Artist Resident, Columbia, South Carolina’s Mat Cothran (aka Coma Cinema) shares a new song he recently recorded with close friend John Forest Klein (aka...

PORTALS columnist Jasmine Zhu reflects on the role songs play in our emotional lives and the weight of the associations they carry. Here are some palatable phrases—love of beauty, resentment...

MVP aka Most Valuable Play highlights artists and their favorite records. This week we cornered self-described “industrial surf-gaze” trio Odonis Odonis and were pleased to get words from two of the...

Rhythm, classical and contorted, drives this mix made by Los Angeles producer Anenon of Non Projects. A mix is always a good excuse for me to share some music that has currently...

Mat Cothran (of Coma Cinema) is our new artist resident for the entire month of May. His first entry features a video he recently made with longtime collaborators and friends...

Cayucas has just put out their new record, Bigfoot, with Secretly Canadian. The release comes just before frontman Zach Yudin’s favorite time of year: summer. And with a full-blown US tour ahead,...

Just months after calling it quits in Brooklyn, Night Manager alumnus Ezana Edwards is back with Blood Sister, a new Ganglians-backed pop-punk trio out of San Francisco, California. Read through...

Daniel Kolitz of the Printed Internet writes about nostalgia, M83 and the endurance of a certain romance in sound. I’m writing this in the town I grew up in, back...

Stream Here Tracklisting: 01. SpookyFish — “You’re Not the Moon” 02. Takako Minekawa & Dustin Wong — “Party on a Floating Cake” 03. Lee — “Flight 6:09″ 04. MedicineHat — “Spells” 05. snacs — “was a fool” 06. Dream Sick — “Wrap Around the Bend”...

In her fourth (and final) week as April’s Artist Resident, Boston’s Emily Reo explores Boston’s thriving DIY and DIT communities. Hello dear friends! It is with great sadness that I...

The Reel World is a PORTALS feature that focuses on tape culture. The ongoing series discusses recent tape releases and prominent cassette labels in an attempt to better understand the growing...

In our latest edition of Silk Screens, Erin Fein of Psychic Twin discusses the making of “Strangers” off of her new Strangers 7″ courtesy of Polyvinyl Records. Over the summer...

Finally I arrive at posting one of my favourite pieces of the year so far. Thomas William‘s “Boy Sauvage” is dense. Its percussive elements not only provide movement to the...