Articles by Luke Ottenhof

Cattle Decapitation

Festival de Musique Emergente, Rouyn-Noranda QC, September 2

PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2018

At first blush, it would seem an unusual decision to close out a relatively mellow alternative music festival with an evening of uncompromi...

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Learning and Knowing

PUBLISHED May 31, 2017

Liz Powell has always been curious. "Left to my own devices, I tend to just enjoy curiosity," she says, warmth detectable through the phone...

Land of Talk's Liz Powell Is Done with Cynical Hipster Bullshit

PUBLISHED May 17, 2017

Liz Powell is done with pretending. That much is clear from the first seconds of Land of Talk's stunning new record, the evocatively titled...

Land of Talk

Life After Youth

PUBLISHED May 17, 2017

"Yes you were, you were on my mind!" These are the first words Land of Talk's Liz Powell shares with us after seven years of silence. It's...

Girlpool Don't Want to Be Famous, Just Honest

PUBLISHED May 15, 2017

Last year, Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker, the duo behind much-hyped Los Angeles band Girlpool, recorded their second album, Powerplant, n...

Girlpool

Powerplant

PUBLISHED May 10, 2017

Lo-fi as a genre marker has swapped connotations over the years. At first, it denoted a low quality of sound (low fidelity), which would in...

How Brooklyn Hipsters Charly Bliss Learned to Shake Off Expectations and Become a Pop Band

PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2017

Charly Bliss, a Brooklyn band composed of four old friends, recorded their debut record twice. The spritely, irresistible Guppy, brimming w...

Charly Bliss

Guppy

PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2017

Brooklyn-based quartet Charly Bliss — with Eva Hendricks on vocals and guitar, brother Sam Hendricks on drums, Dan Shure on bass and Spence...