Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I recorded this album basically whenever I had time, which was not that much, compared to the average Joe,” Slater explains over ...

Gabe’s Iowa City was packed with music enthusiasts, and Stop/Time festival goers, on Saturday night. The room was dimly lit, where the only sound you could hear was the band on stage. The floor was ...

Kai Slater is keeping the music flowing this year, and doing it for some of the greatest record labels in underground rock history. After reissuing last year's Sharp Pins album Radio DDR on K Records ...

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This week in Indie Basement we’ve got new records by Sharp Pins (Lifeguard‘s Kai Slater), Oneohtrix Point Never, Irish-by-way-of-Portugal band pôt-pot, and Chicago’s Glyders, plus two rave-forward ...

Kai Slater is the lead singer and guitarist for Lifeguard, the noisy young Chicago art-punk band signed to Matador, and the publisher of Hallogallo, a zine that grew out of the city's vibrant teenage ...

Kai Slater is one busy dude. Between playing in numerous bands and releasing music under various monikers (Sharp Pins, his oh-so-fantastic post-punk band Lifeguard, Dwaal Troupe, Sublime Jupiter Snake ...

Ground Control Touring has once again organized its annual abortion access benefit concerts throughout the United States to raise money for Noise for Now, tapping Sharp Pins, Been Stellar, Lip Critic, ...