Flavor Wave’s single, “The Optimist,” arrived less like a declaration and more like someone tentatively drawing back a dusty curtain on a grey afternoon. From West Chester, PA, these five lifelong friends – Kyle Loedel (vocals, lyrics), Matthew Stretch (lead guitar), Patrick Blair (rhythm guitar), Noah Montgomery (bass), and Joshua Speaker (performer/drums) – typically tread alternative rock paths nodding to influences like The Strokes....

Where Industrial Meets the Afterlife: Twice Dark's Latest Single "Necromantic" Transforms Grief into Dark Electronic Gold It is easy to use nostalgia as an excuse for bad writing these days, but Twice Dark's "Necromantic" comes along like a psychic at midnight, more interested in holding its own sound séance than in talking to the dead. The mysterious artist behind this project, Josh Kreuzman, has made something...