Articles by Joshua Kloke

The Highest Order

If It's Real

PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2013

When One Hundred Dollars, one of Canada's most promising country acts, split in 2012, fans wondered what would become of Simone Schmidt. Gr...

Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck Mulls over Future Album Plans as He Hits the Road

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2013

Phosphorescent just released the project's fourth album Muchacho, on Dead Oceans, but as Matthew Houck, the man behind the experimental Ame...

Phosphorescent

Muchacho

PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2013

There's a calm confidence throughout Muchacho, the sixth full-length from Phosphorescent and fourth on Dead Oceans. Matthew Houck (the man...

Golden Grrrls

Golden Grrrls

PUBLISHED Feb 25, 2013

On their self-titled debut LP, Golden Grrrls have suffered an identity crisis. The Glasgow three-piece eschew the painfully emotive rock th...

Run Forever

Settling

PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2012

Pop punk has always maintained a very strong collective approach; it's a genre littered with tales of teenage woe and apprehension towards...

The Beets

Stay Home

PUBLISHED Jan 11, 2011

The Beets are the kind of band that are easy to love; they have a carefree aesthetic present throughout the 13 nuggets of delicious lo-fi g...

Russian Futurists

The Weight's on the Wheels

PUBLISHED Nov 16, 2010

While the rest of the indie rock world is hell-bent on releasing fuzzy, crusty garage rock, Matthew Adam Hart (who records and performs und...

Nobunny

First Blood

PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2010

Given the fleeting disposition of Justin Champlin, who as alter-ego Nobunny has spent the last ten years touring, writing and recording wit...