Bikini Kill Reuniting For NYC & LA Shows Later This Year

Jan 15, 2019

Bikini Kill are reuniting for a string of shows later this year in New York City and Los Angeles. The lineup will feature the trio of Kathleen Hanna, Tobi Vail, and Kathi Wilcox, along with Erica Dawn Lyle on guitar. It’ll be the first time they’ve played a show since 1997, though last year they briefly reunited to perform one track at a book release party.

Bikini Kill Announce Reunion Tour

Jan 15, 2019

Feminist punk pioneers Bikini Kill will reunite for three shows this spring in New York and L.A. Kathleen Hanna, Tobi Vail, and Kathi Wilcox will be joined by guitarist Erica Dawn Lyle for the shows, replacing guitarist Billy Karren. These will be Bikini Kill’s first full shows since the band broke up in 1997. (In late 2017, Hanna, Vail, and Wilcox played one song together at the Kitchen in New York City, during an event celebrating the release of the 33 1/3 book about the Raincoats by Pitchfork Contributing Editor Jenn Pelly.)

Bikini Kill Announce Select Shows in Los Angeles and New York

Jan 15, 2019

Bikini Kill to Reunite for Trio of Live Dates

Jan 15, 2019

Bikini Kill reunite for first live performances in 20 years

Jan 15, 2019

Legendary riot grrrl pioneers Bikini Kill have announced plans to reunite for trio of live performances in New York City and Los Angeles this spring.

Bikini Kill announce NYC & LA reunion shows

Jan 15, 2019

Bikini Kill are officially back!

Hand Habits' 'Placeholder' Screams With A Sigh

Jan 8, 2019

As productive as screaming into the void can be, sometimes the most effective way to air grievances is simply with a sigh. Meg Duffy, who was the longtime lead guitarist for Kevin Morby, switched their focus to Hand Habits in 2017. Duffy’s second album, placeholder, leads off with the title track, a soft yet scathing lamentation of being secondary.

Hand Habits Announces New Album placeholder, Shares New Song: Listen

Jan 8, 2019

Hand Habits—the project of Meg Duffy, guitarist in Kevin Morby’s band—has announced a new album. placeholder is out March 1 via Saddle Creek. In a press release, Duffy writes, “The songs on placeholder are about accountability and forgiveness. These are real stories. I don’t fictionalize much.”

Surfbort Featured on NME Magazine 'The NME 100: Essential New Artists For 2019'

Jan 7, 2019

Surfbort, the Brooklyn punks who aren’t afraid to get wild.

Convicts NYC Interviews Johnny Mackay on his Carlton Arms Hotel Room Art Piece

Jan 3, 2019

CONVICTS caught up with Johnny in a room at New York’s Carlton Arms Hotel that he’d been invited to creatively retrofit. Naturally, he turned the room into a three-dimensional representation of his subconscious. Come take a deep dive into the in-between spaces, the breaks both good and bad, with the inimitable Johnny Mackay.

Oh Sees’ John Dwyer talks touring, ‘Smote Reverser,’ soup, snow & more in BV Q&A

Dec 13, 2018

John Dwyer is never not busy. When he’s not touring non-stop or making records with Oh Sees (like this year’s awesome Smote Reverser), he’s got his solo project Damaged Bug, and the label he runs, Castle Face, that puts out a dozen or so records a year. He’s slowing things down just a bit this weekend when he brings his pastoral, folky OCS collaboration with onetime Oh See Brigid Dawson and a string section to Brooklyn’s Murmrr Theatre on Saturday (12/15).

Announcing DIY's Class of 2019, Fronted By Sports Team, Amyl And The Sniffers, and Whenyoung

Dec 3, 2018

It’s that time of the year again, dear readers! Just before we wind down and start tucking into more Yorkshire Puddings and mulled wine than you can shake a tipsy stick at, it’s time to take a look forward to 2019.

Hand Habits LA Weekly Feature

Nov 30, 2018

Hand Habits is a project from Meg Duffy, an L.A. singer and guitarist from upstate New York who has played with Weyes Blood, Mega Bog and Kevin Morby. The songs on Hand Habits’ 2017 album, Wildly Idle (Humble Before the Void), are generally laid-back indie-pop reveries, with such gentle ballads as “Flower Glass” and “Actress” alternating with occasional arty interludes like the sound collage of murmuring voices “Greater L.A. (Scene).”

Watch Jeff Tweedy, Ty Segall, “Weird Al,” More Perform in Bed for Charity

Nov 29, 2018

Bedstock is an online “music festival” initiative by MyMusicRx, a program from the Children’s Cancer Association. The annual event features artists performing from their beds as a show of unity for children that have to spend their holidays in hospital beds. This year, artists including Jeff Tweedy, Ty Segall, Ben Gibbard, “Weird Al” Yankovic, TV on the Radio, Japanese Breakfast, Tune-Yards, Whitney, the Black Lips, Mary Lattimore, and many others participated in the event.

Amyl And The Sniffers Will Have The Last Laugh

Nov 28, 2018

The Australian band premieres the video for “I’m Not A Loser” with NYLON

Tim Presley Talks White Fence, DRINKS, Collaborations, and More

Nov 26, 2018

Tim Presley is one of our favorite artists here at WMF for a host of reasons: his steady quality musical output under the White Fence moniker, the significant role he played in a crucial era of post-punk mainstay The Fall, and his contributions as one half of DRINKS are three of those reasons, but there are even more topics we’ve been eager to cover with Tim. Curious about his diverse musical endeavors as well as his upcoming 2019 album, we recently had to the pleasure of conversing with Tim about these subjects and others, including his visual art, past collaborations with Jack Name and Ty Segall, and his return to simple, melodic songwriting.

Surfbort's Friendship Music is Featured on The Mercury News 'Best punk rock albums of all time?'

Nov 15, 2018

Who better to talk punk rock with than John Doe of X?
Thus, I used the occasion of X’s return to San Francisco to chat up the legendary X man about his all-time favorite punk albums. He was definitely game, but he broadened the topic to include records that influenced him as a punk-rock musician.

Alt Citizen Premieres Surfbort's Music Video 'Dope'

Nov 15, 2018

Staying sober never seemed so cool. In Surfbort’s latest music video, “Dope”, lead singer Dani Miller sings through her mascara stained tears about leaving drugs behind. She stumbles down the Hollywood walk of fame and straight into her lover’s tinfoil clad arms in a DIY home-video haze (directed by Gilbert Trejo). It’s a slower, more melodic approach than their typical balls to wall punk we all know and love. Subverting society’s beauty standards and social norms amidst coming out about her relationship with drugs, “Dope” is arguably Surfbort’s most personal release to date. Watch below.

Oh Sees share the Origins of their video for “Enrique El Cobrador”

Nov 13, 2018

Origins is a new music feature that gives an artist the chance to reveal the influences behind their latest effort.

Surfbort, first album in all friendship

Nov 13, 2018

With Friendship Music, the punk tornado from New York Surfbort, led by the exuberant Dani Miller, shakes political music and opposes the established order as if we were in 1992

Opening for Iceage, Surfbort Is Riding the Freak Wave

Nov 12, 2018

The Brooklyn-based quartet is visually and musically stunning, to say the least, and singer Dani Miller is like no one else in rock music right now. Perhaps this is why ex-Strokes and current Voidz member Julian Casablancas snatched them up for his Cult Records label in October of 2017 and put out their new record, Friendship Music, late last month.

Surfbort’s Dani Miller is the friendly, burrito-puking queen of punk

Nov 12, 2018

Dani Miller is the puking punk princess bringing friendship and music to the world. The frontwoman of Surfbort, Miller and her band recently released the aptly titled Friendship Music, Surfbort’s first record on Julian Casablancas’ Cult Records. “It’s a record to be there for everyone, be a friend for anyone in need. It’s our response to these wild-ass times,” Miller describes.

The 15 Chicago Bands You Need To Know in 2018

Nov 8, 2018

Originally known for its jazz, blues and gospel music in the first half of the 20th century, Chicago’s music scene is one of the most diverse and historic in the country. Chicago has become synonymous with genres like those as well as house music, punk, alt-rock, hip hop, heavy metal, pop-punk and more.

Homeshake shares “Like Mariah,” announces new album Helium

Nov 7, 2018

Peter Sagar a.k.a. Homeshake has built a sizeable cult following for his smooth, playful, and intimate R&B compositions. Next year, he’ll share a new project called Helium, and today we’ve got its first single “Like Mariah.”

NYC Party People We Love Right Now Features Surfbort's Dani Miller

Oct 30, 2018

New York City nightlife is a constantly changing, beautiful beast. So to spotlight some of the NYC’s buzziest scenes—envelope-pushing queer parties, rock-and-soul ragers, new high-art affairs—we tagged along with a handful of personalities who are making the most of the city that never sleeps.