Andy Hermann

Groundislava; Credit: Friends of Friends

WeDidIt’s Groundislava and His New Cyberpunk/Trance-Inspired Album

Andy Hermann
Like a lot of teenagers in 2003, Jasper Patterson was obsessed with The Matrix. Then his mother gave him a copy of William Gibson’s groundbreaking cyberpunk sci-fi novel, Neuromancer. “This is where it all started,” she told him. Ever since, Patterson, who produces electronic music under the name Groundislava, has......
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Overwerk

Andy Hermann
In a mere two years since releasing his first EP, 24-year-old Canadian producer Edmond "Overwerk" Huszar has taken the EDM world by storm with a sound that's two parts Justice and one part Hans Zimmer. Mixing dramatic, orchestral passages with the usual serrated synths and dive-bombing basslines, Overwerk tracks such......
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California Chalice

Andy Hermann
A festival highlighting "glass, music and medicine" — in other words, pot culture — Chalice California brings together a small but eclectic musical lineup centered around the makers and users of that greatest piece of marijuana-inspired folk art, the glass waterpipe. Between checking out the latest in pipe technology, attendees......
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The Milk Carton Kids

Andy Hermann
When Eagle Rock natives Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan weave their voices together, the effect can silence the most restive crowd. Then one of them will crack a joke and leave that same crowd in stitches. With their vintage guitars and microphones, Milk Carton Kids often are labeled folk revivalists,......
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The Koreatown Oddity Was Caught Driving While Black

Andy Hermann
When he's not rapping in a wolf mask as the Koreatown Oddity, Dominique Purdy writes screenplays. His first feature script, Driving While Black, starts shooting in a few weeks. This is ironic because, at the moment, he can't drive. That's because he got a ticket he got for, you guessed......
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Emma-Lee

Andy Hermann
There are tribute songs, and then there are stalker songs; Toronto singer-songwriter Emma-Lee's "What Would Tom Petty Do" lies somewhere in between. An unabashed attempt to get her hero's attention, "Tom Petty" easily could have come off as crass, but Emma-Lee has enough charm and (more importantly) songwriting chops to......