Every week, the staff members of the Messed!Up Magazine team picks their favorite tracks that they’ve been listening to as of late. This week, our Staff Picks are curated by the Editor, multifaceted co-editor DJ Pappaledig and photographers Björn Vallin and Richard Bloom. Picks of the week Alkaline Trio: “Bleeding Out” ***** Circa Waves: “Old Balloons” ***** Florence + The …

Messed!Up Magazine bring the dancefloor to your homes every Saturday afternoon with floor bangers that will get you in the mood for a long club night later. Tune in our playlist every Saturday afternoon, sometimes mixed by the staff, sometimes by specially invited guest DJ’s.

Singer/songwriter and guitarist Karla Chubb grew up listening to acts like Guns N’ Roses, and it was the level of adoration extolled by audiences on records such as Live: Era ’87-’93 that led her to consider a career in music. When a close friend emigrated to Canada, Chubb dealt with the situation by penning some of her earliest compositions. In …

The seeds of Nation of Language were planted when the label release of a second album by Ian Devaney’s onetime high-school band the Static Jacks fell through in 2013, ultimately leaving him back at his parents’ in New Jersey. His father played OMD’s “Electricity,” a song Devaney was familiar with but hadn’t heard since he was a schoolkid, in the …

Joel Gibb formed the band in 2001, establishing a tone that espoused freedom, sexuality, and inclusiveness, dubbing it “gay church folk music.” Musically, the songs were melodic, bordering on radiant, with arrangements that utilized stacked harmonies and orchestral instruments like strings, horns, glockenspiel, and harp. Their debut, Ecce Homo — a collection of four-track demos released on Gibb’s own Evil …

The band started in 2001 as a solo project by songwriter, producer, and DJ Dan Whitford, who released the single 1981 and the EP I Thought of Numbers before drafting in other members to fill out his synth- and sample-based sound. Guitarist Tim Hoey, bassist Bennett Foddy, and drummer Mitchell Scott debuted on Cut Copy’s first full-length album, Bright Like …