Chase Mcmullen

I’ve been lucky enough to catch Nat Vazer on tour a few times now. Her (and her tight knit band’s) shows always offer visceral catharsis, guitar-heavy, danceable jams with Vazer’s lyrics and emotive singing dealing the key wallops. While her debut, Is Thi... See more

A windswept beach. Certainly not the summery kind. Picture some faraway piece of coast, so isolated as to have been essentially lost, only enjoying the occasional lucky passerby. It’s fall, or perhaps winter, and the icy waves slowly lap up the untrodden,... See more

Ransom deserves this. The man’s been rapping since 2000 (folk still remember the A-Team? Your favorite [or least favorite] podcaster sure has had some chapters) but – following beef with Budden, a prison sentence, and more – finally began more properly re... See more

Funny. For all the years of attempts to undermine, undervalue, and underrate Lily Allen – from her first label sidelining her, to harsh judgments of her appearance and behavior, to claims she was reliant on this producer or that person – precious few pop ... See more

Being an indie queen sure ain’t easy. Not that it ever was, but for the recent generation in particular, being picked apart, pinned down stylistically, constantly bounced between poles of ‘overrated!’ and ‘underrated!’, forced into corners, and so on, see... See more