A few more artist year-end lists from you. First is Cold Beat, the current group from onetime Grass Widow bassist Hannah Lew, who released their terrific third album, Chaos by Invitation, earlier this ...

Cold Beat‘s third album, Chaos by Invitation, is out today via main member Hannah Lew’s Crime on the Moon label. Lew, who made this record almost entirely on her own, warms up Cold Beat’s sound a ...

Better than: scrolling through Star Wars puns on my newsfeed. If there was any take-away from last night’s show at The Hemlock it was this: shredding bass and bad-ass women make for a sonically ...

Hannah Lew, the bassist for San Francisco’s Grass Widow, has gone the DIY route in conceiving and releasing her own music since 2013, as Cold Beat. Anchored in low-fi post-punk that somersaults ...

Formerly part of the Grass Widow trio, Lew now steers Cold Beat: an atmospheric punk band that is as apt to leverage garage-rock guitar riffs as it is breathy vocals and synthetic overlays. Lew is an ...