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QRO was there last summer in Chicago for the first Neon Marshmallow Music Festival at the Viaduct Theatre. The event was a beautifully-curated amalgam of experimental sights & sounds. This summer the braintrust behind the festival returns with another stellar line-up, plus a special compilation tape to kickoff the...
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Getting excited for the upcoming Mr. Fish album I Know Nothing. QRO covered the last album School For the Schizophrenic — a chopped ‘n’ screwed ‘n’ syrupy take on hip-hop coming straight out of Atlanta — and got hooked. Fuck Goblin, gimme I Know Nothing. Stream "No Giggity" below,...
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Here’s a beautiful one from New York-based dharma-core indie rockers Beat Radio. QRO’s loved the band since we heard their stellar LP Safe Inside the Sound. When the follow-up album Golden Age came out, you really started to see Beat Radio turn the corner into a fuller sense of...
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Continuing our mini-MMMP3 arc into suicidal impulses, have a listen to "Kill Me Now, Please" by (the?) Ketamines. The tambourine ‘n’ reversed-tape psychisms lend the song a more playful air than our last MMMP3 "Nothing More To Live For". But don’t be fooled! How did that Big Chill-soundtrack song...
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When I was younger and less well-adjusted a song like "Nothing More To Live For" by Le Days would cut me to the quick. I could live in the valleys and the folds of its universal melancholy for weeks on end, hardly coming up for air. But since I’ve...
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Two of Canada’s best have teamed up – Sam Roberts & Elizabeth Powell (QRO interview). The namesake of the Sam Roberts Band has enlisted Ms. Land of Talk for "Longitude", which combines his alt-country rock and her alt-indie harmony, as it stretches like Canada along the 49° parallel. "Longitude"...
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I first heard of Jessica Jalbert from the extended version of Kumon Plaza’s (who seems to be operating more under the Happy Trendy moniker these days) dynamite album Cliff. Ms. Jalbert contributed some dream vox to a re-envisioning of the track "Hans Kruger." I loved it so much that...
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Shout out to Chicago’s Supreme Cuts, the electronic music maven that closed out Way Out Weird in style. Hugs and Kisses from QRO and Cream Team! Besides ripping it up at VFW Halls, Supreme Cuts has been busy prepping his self-titled EP for release on Small Plates records, a...
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After a semi-traumatic kerfuffle with the printing press, the Chicago-based girl/girl duo Architecture finally has the sweet, sweet full-length vinyl press it deserves for its glistening, glittering dream-pop debut When We Were Young (pictured at right). Expect crisp beats set to a Siren song chorus, medieval lais-vibe, backed by...
QRO was there last summer in Chicago for the first Neon Marshmallow Music Festival at the Viaduct Theatre. The event was a beautifully-curated amalgam of experimental sights & sounds. This summer the braintrust behind the festival returns with another stellar line-up, plus a special compilation tape to kickoff the...
Here’s a beautiful one from New York-based dharma-core indie rockers Beat Radio. QRO’s loved the band since we heard their stellar LP Safe Inside the Sound. When the follow-up album Golden Age came out, you really started to see Beat Radio turn the corner into a fuller sense of...
Continuing our mini-MMMP3 arc into suicidal impulses, have a listen to "Kill Me Now, Please" by (the?) Ketamines. The tambourine ‘n’ reversed-tape psychisms lend the song a more playful air than our last MMMP3 "Nothing More To Live For". But don’t be fooled! How did that Big Chill-soundtrack song...
When I was younger and less well-adjusted a song like "Nothing More To Live For" by Le Days would cut me to the quick. I could live in the valleys and the folds of its universal melancholy for weeks on end, hardly coming up for air. But since I’ve...
Two of Canada’s best have teamed up – Sam Roberts & Elizabeth Powell (QRO interview). The namesake of the Sam Roberts Band has enlisted Ms. Land of Talk for "Longitude", which combines his alt-country rock and her alt-indie harmony, as it stretches like Canada along the 49° parallel. "Longitude"...
I first heard of Jessica Jalbert from the extended version of Kumon Plaza’s (who seems to be operating more under the Happy Trendy moniker these days) dynamite album Cliff. Ms. Jalbert contributed some dream vox to a re-envisioning of the track "Hans Kruger." I loved it so much that...
Shout out to Chicago’s Supreme Cuts, the electronic music maven that closed out Way Out Weird in style. Hugs and Kisses from QRO and Cream Team! Besides ripping it up at VFW Halls, Supreme Cuts has been busy prepping his self-titled EP for release on Small Plates records, a...
After a semi-traumatic kerfuffle with the printing press, the Chicago-based girl/girl duo Architecture finally has the sweet, sweet full-length vinyl press it deserves for its glistening, glittering dream-pop debut When We Were Young (pictured at right). Expect crisp beats set to a Siren song chorus, medieval lais-vibe, backed by...