QRO recently chatted with Timmy from Ima Robot in the calm before the storm. Their second album, Monument to the Masses, comes out on September 12.
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Leading up to their second album, Monument to the Masses, Ima Robot recorded roughly 100 songs. While a dozen of these went to the new full-length, the band decided to dedicate nine more to non-EP/LP called Search & Destroy. This... -
Where rock and pop collide, expansion meets introspection in a delicate balance. Employing the sweeping Britpop sound of the 90's and quick, biting lyrics of recent, popular Northern acts, Mark Stoney has hand-crafted tunes worthy of arenas, pubs, and bathtubs - by himself. ... -
With a post-apocalyptic sigh, The Foundry Field Recordings passive/ aggressively usher in a desolate future through streaming, lo-fi melancholy pop. Broken by lost airwave transmissions, their album Prompts/Miscues beautifully signifies an end of an age of innocent expansion, with calm, ethereal ballads, waiting for the... -
British hiptronica outfit, Rubicks, is the brainchild of Vanessa Redd & Marc Makarov. The pair, inspired by London's underground uberstyle, created a fuzzworthy alternadance sound - rabid and quirky like a hairstyle you'd wear only to a club. ... -
Beulah: The Final ShowThe story goes like this: In 1994, Miles Kurosky meets fellow mailroom worker Bill Swann in a downtown San Francisco securities firm. They initially harbor intense dislike for each other, but the need to leave the world of nine-to-five drudgery and create a body of...by Allan Mendoza
Toronto’s controller.controller’s reliance on a steady disco kick drum pulsing on top layers of gritty post-punk guitars makes it easy to assume they’re another New York band. However, lyrical clues from front woman Nirmala Basnayake on “Disco Blackout” make it clear that the band is...
"The Guitars Is Code”
Tom: A few months back, Allan asked me to accompany him to a free outdoor show at Vassar to give him a hand with an interview he had secured with Alien8 pop sensations the Unicorns. Seeing that the Unicorns were preceded...
The music of Ben Kweller has a similar effect on anyone with ears to listen and a heart to beat. In his most recent contribution to the music world, entitled On My Way, every note seems to take on a new meaning, just as Ben...