Articles by Safiya Hopfe

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  Wasted Shirt

  Fungus II

  PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2020

  Psych-rock king Ty Segall and Lightning Bolt's Brian Chippendale join forces — or rather, explosively collide — as Wasted Shirt, a long-awa...

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  Wild Nothing

  Laughing Gas

  PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2020

  Jack Tatum of Wild Nothing has often used the EP format to expand on ideas outside the context of his full-length work. Laughing Gas contin...

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  Elliot Moss

  A Change in Diet

  PUBLISHED Jan 15, 2020

  On his third LP, Elliot Moss invites us into the depths of his mental and emotional landscape with bold vulnerability. Marked by introspect...

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  Cate Le Bon and Bradford Cox

  Myths 004

  PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2019

  It is oddly appropriate that the highly anticipated collaboration of Cate le Bon and Deerhunter's Bradford Cox— part of Mexican Summer's My...

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  The Dead South

  Sugar & Joy

  PUBLISHED Oct 8, 2019

  They may be from the all-Canadian plains of Saskatchewan, but bold bluegrass quartet the Dead South pull off the grit and soul of the Ameri...

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  Becky Ninkovic

  Woe

  PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2019

  BC dance-punk warriors You Say Party are no stranger to tragedy. Drummer Devon Clifford's tragic death nearly a decade ago distorted and tr...

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  Joyero

  Release the Dogs

  PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2019

  Andy Stack, of folky electro duo Wye Oak, has toured with the National side-project EL VY, performed with Lambchop, sung for Shearwater and...

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  Cuco

  Para Mi

  PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2019

  Chicano-Californian teen romantic Omar Banos — best known as Cuco — first won our hearts three years ago, when he emerged on the scene with...