DISARM Magazine

Words by Jacqueline Howell, Photography by Dave MacIntyre. Ride takes the stage at Toronto’s jewel, the Danforth Music Hall, like visiting old friends. This is one legendary British band who never …

The Twilight Sad: Toronto, Velvet Underground, May 16th, 2019. The Twilight Sad have returned to Toronto with their latest album It Won’t Be Like This All the Time. The Sad have built a fanb…

By Jacqueline Howell Thirty years later, Disintegration is both transformative and transcendent. The chronicle of a break down and survival has grown with us into a uniquely life-affirming artisti…

By Jacqueline Howell The Specials, by now an institution to those who know, reached their first number one album on the music charts in the U.K. in February 2019. Fans who do social media the right…

Originally from the small town of Salinas, California and now based in New York City, The Mystery Lights sound is described as a “fuzz-fueled hopped-up 21st Century take on 60s garage pebbles…

Craig Finn of The Hold Steady is set to release his fourth solo album, but third of a trilogy, entitled I Need A New War . The album follow’s 2015’s Faith in the Future and 2017’s…

Hailing from Southampton, Burning House is comprised of front man and guitarist Aaron Mills, drummer Dominic Taylor and bassist Patrick White. Mills, the band’s sole songwriter has refined th…

The Lost End is a post-punk band from Norman, Oklahoma formed in August of 2016. They have just released their second album called Without Being Anything. Listen to “Chemistry Now” With…

“Gordon Lightfoot” harangues his manager, Bernie, in a delightfully petty rivalry with another musical client. He often does this in song. “Corey Hart”, “Geddy Lee”, “Burton Cummings”, and a cast o…

I recently had the pleasure of fulfilling a dream; seeing a J Mascis solo set live. After absorbing hours on YouTube of Mascis absolutely shredding it on a banged-up acoustic guitar, the excitement…

Luca Bandini and Alessandra Gismondi are the sole members of the Italian group Shad Shadows. The emerging duo draw inspiration by way of experimental electronic sounds, film soundtracks, 80s/90s in…

We recently featured “Sleepwalker”, the dreamy Post-punk music by Crooked Ghost, on our New Music Radar, and now, front-man Ray Clark has been kind enough to indulge us with answer…

Happy New Year! Our 33rd playlist of Shoegazers we’re listening to features some of the best music from Shoegaze, Dream Pop, and Noise bands we’ve curated off SoundCloud. This time arou…

Neonian is the work of Bath based producer and DJ Ian Sawyer. Treasure is his first mini LP and features 6 tracks of melodic electronica inspired by the likes of early New Order, Orbital, The Chemi…