Brooklyn Vegan — Los Angeles art-punks Hit Bargain, which feature members of These Are Powers, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Cold Beat, North Highlands, and Beach Fossils, released their debut album, 'Potential Maximizer,' today... Continue reading… more info

Stereogum — Hit Bargain make punk music without the macho bullshit, channeling that aggression into forceful, confrontational explorations of gender and power dynamics. The LA quartet, made up of members of the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Cold Beat, These Are ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Hit Bargain are a self-described "queencore" band ("an intersection of queer, queening and hardcore") who are based out of L.A. but feature members from a number of defunct NYC bands... Continue reading… more info

Impose Magazine — New York musician RAFT, née Patrick Noecker, has played with bands like These Are Powers, Liars, and n0 things. As RAFT, he performs live minimal soundscapes, with ephemeral textures created by iPhone apps, phone messages, customized guitars, pedals... more info

Impose Magazine — DUBAI is a new group formed by Anna Barie, former frontwoman for These Are Powers (and Impose contributor, but come on, who isn't these days), and her husband Johannes Buff of Le Knell, who live in Lyon, France. "We submitted our application to b... more info

Impose Magazine — This past Friday night, Anna Barie and Pat Noecker, two of the three members of These Are Powers, assembled onstage at Death by Audio as part of the memorial series for Ariel Panero, in order to call it quits. Calling themselves simply "Powers", they... more info

Abeano — Who? 25 year old Chicago born NYC based remixer and producer. His name? He’s not telling you. It’s not Bill Brenmar but we’ve heard his surname might be Salas. Why? His playlists and remixes have hardly been off our (laptop) ster... more info

XLR8R — Bill Salas is chuckling during our email conversation. "I'm in Trier, Germany now," he writes. "The toilet paper is like cardboard." read more more info

The Culture Of Me — Sponsored by Death & Taxes magazine and Tiger beer, Union Pool will play setting to a free party on September 23 with DJ sets throughout the night from the Finger On The Pulse guys and featuring live performances from Gatekeeper and These Are Powers,... more info

Discobelle.net — Brooklyn producer and member of These Are Powers – William Salas AKA Brenmar – will release his debut EP right here on Discobelle Records in late October. The EP will contain 4 original tracks + remixes from British heavy hitters Ikonika & Optimu... more info