Who Is...?s Archives
Who Are…Yuppies
Yuppies took a very long time to make their first album — the band … more »
Who Are…Ski Lodge
Ski Lodge’s debut Big Heart opens with a jangle and a pout, a tumbl… more »
Who Are…Stillsuit
Oakland’s Stillsuit mix experimental noise rock with punk politics,… more »
Who Are…Icona Pop
Thanks to both canny use in a pivotal scene of the HBO show Girls and a m… more »
Who Are…Joanna Gruesome
Some bands meet in record shops and some meet through Craigslist ads, but… more »
Who Are…Morne
Impacting with the same bleak emotional pounding as Neurosis, the lumberi… more »
Who Are…Ghost Wave
Inking a record deal is a major milestone for any band, but when it… more »
Who Are…Pure Bathing Cu…
Pure Bathing Culture’s partnership sprung from Daniel Hindman and S… more »
Who Are…Ruby Pins
Ruby Pins is the recording alias of Lillian Maring, best known as the dru… more »
Who Are…Little Daylight
Thanks largely to their remixes of songs by Edward Sharpe & the Magn… more »
Who Are…Heliotropes
It’s clear from the get-go on A Constant Sea, the debut from Brookl… more »
Who Are…Speedy Ortiz
Speedy Ortiz began as the solo project of New York native (and ex-Quilty … more »
Who Are…Light Heat
Quentin Stoltzfus shot through the ranks of a late ’90s Philadelphi… more »
Who Are…MS MR
“We fear rejection, prize attention, crave affection/ Dream, dream,… more »
Who Is…Marques Toliver
If Marques Toliver comes across a bit brash, it’s because there… more »
Who Are…Mt. Wolf
When Kate Sproule started Mt. Wolf in 2011 with her childhood friend Stev… more »
Who Are…Bleached
When women and girls listen to love songs written by and/or performed by … more »
Who Are…Golden Grrrls
I interviewed Golden Grrrls before their show with Brilliant Colors in Ol… more »
Who Are…My Gold Mask
At this point, the breakup album has been bent into countless shapes. So … more »
Who Is…Uncanny Valley
Oakland’s Uncanny Valley occupy a corner of the electronic undergro… more »
Who Are…The History of …
Two years ago, Stephanie Min and Jerome Watson formed The History of Appl… more »
Who Are…Foxygen
One minute their tunes are as delicate as a drawing by Matisse, the next … more »
2012 Breakthrough: Matthew E.…
Sometimes breakthrough albums capture attention because they are sonicall… more »
2012 Breakthrough: Cold Speck…
[Of all of the records that came out this year, none captured our hearts … more »
