Devon Chodzin

2 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Devon Chodzin

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. On a partly cloudy afternoon, two teen boys venture outside and get a hold of a grasshopper. The brown-haired boy utters: “I hereby sentence the defendant to death by, uh (snickering), uh (even more snickering), saw off his tweeter.” His blond friend manifests a chainsaw out of nowhere, slices the grasshopper in two, and wounds his buddy in the process.

1 month ago | pastemagazine.com | Devon Chodzin

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Even if you’ve been avoiding the New York ambient and hip-hop scenes, which I don’t recommend doing, there’s a chance you’ve heard the work of Lia Ouyang Rusli. They’ve struck up a creative relationship with Julio Torres, through scoring his directorial debut, 2023’s Problemista, and his surreal 2024 HBO series, Fantasmas.

1 month ago | pastemagazine.com | Devon Chodzin

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Pan is one of those mythological figures we can’t get enough of. A mix of animal and human, ambling between traditionalism and libertinism, Pan’s antics make for irresistible entertainment in ancient Greece and a figure of fascination for literary and spiritual movements that look back to Greek tradition for evidence of their own parentage.

2 months ago | pastemagazine.com | Devon Chodzin

Perhaps more than any of their peers in the contemporary heavy shoegaze ecosystem, Cloakroom seek a balance between atmosphere and song. Where the “doomgaze” label that they often earn suggests an overwhelming heaviness, their most recent albums—2017’s metallic and dreamy Time Well and 2022’s spaced-out Dissolution Wave—indicate more headiness to their songs than to those of others in their orbit. It’s what’s kept them singular among other ‘gazers dipping into the metal toolbox.

2 months ago | stereogum.com | Devon Chodzin

On Detroit stages, Khachab really is the star. Every member of Prostitute kicks it into high gear, but over their years performing cuts from Attempted Martyr following lockdown, they’ve really amped up the live show. They were slightly concerned that the content might not go over well: “We played ‘All Hail’ at this bar called the Old Miami that’s a veterans’ bar and there’s this line in the song about me taking down the Twin Towers,” Khachab recalls.