Vesper Wood, the solo project of Christina Wood, will release Instar, a transcendent, soul-stirring debut album on March 1st. Originally from Kentucky via Germany and London, Wood is better known as half of the UK electro-pop duo Kaleida. Recorded in Bristol, UK with producer Ali Chant (Perfume Genius, Aldous Harding, Soccer Mommy, Jenny Hval), Instar …
Month: February 2019
One of most influential artists to come out of Atlanta in recent time, multidisciplinary artist BOSCO shares her striking new video for her most popular song to date, “Cruel”, along with the single’s re-release today. Lined with fantasy and nostalgia, the film beautifully captures the lows and highs of an intimate relationship and ultimately its …
A certain venue I used to write creative posts for is still using my writing somewhat disctinct style, which is…pretty awesome actually. They paid me well considering, right up until I got back from my first trip to Jamaica. That was a paid position I kind of invented and it really helped the club reestablish …
Mack Avenue Records is excited to announce fall tour dates for the Julian Lage Trio, featuring the album band (guitarist Lage, bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Dave King from The Bad Plus) for their first tour ever. Lage will appear on October 11 in Portland, OR at Mississippi Studios and in Seattle, WA, on October …
Following the recent release of his video for “Desperate” featuring Nina Nesbitt, unstoppable hit-maker Jonas Blue has now unveiled the sun-soaked video for the release of his fresh anthem“Wild.” Taken from his debut album Blue, the melodic hit was directed by creative mastermind Daniel Carberry and sees Jonas embrace Latin American culture alongside Puerto Rican rapper Jhay Cortez, (best known for his J.Balvin collaboration “Estan …
Holly Tucker had a great run with her last single, “The Finer Things.” It collected over 100k Spotify streams and is still climbing, broke into the Top 40 on every chart in Texas, led to multiple big show/festival shows for later in the year, and was just extremely fun for her to put out to …
No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs, but rather tries to please his commanding officer. – 2 Timothy 2:4 I’ve heard a lot of Christian music over the years, but this is the first song I can remember which presents the whole Gospel, all of the Good News, in one song. …
John Vanderslice is returning with his first album in six years, The Cedars, due out April 5, and today he shared a new single, “Will Call,” a song that he calls his biggest departure yet. Consequence of Sound premiered the track today, writing, “this new track uses slightly off kilter electronic elements to create a feeling that teeters between grace and anxiety. …
Angel Cage strikes like Banksy in the night, spraypainting trenchant thoughtbombs on the street wreckage of our minds, making us wish we were so clever, and then dancing away, leaving us to weep inwardly at the disposable nature of everything. They’re guerrilla Shirley Manson. I was going to say “guerilla Garbage,” but you might have …
Dark, bloody, sexual and melodic, these are the stylings of gothic-pop songstress, Dol Ikara. https://www.dolikara.com/
Wales 2019 Continues: This is lovely. Give it a listen immediately. The home videos on the music video are delightful. “This song is about looking forward to someone very special visiting,” says Welsh singer-songwriter Dan Amor. “We spent a lot of time on the fade out of this track, layering the diminishing vocal with increasing …
“What would it sound like if a woman had fronted Joy Division?” It’s an entirely valid question and now we know the answer: It’s MUCH better this way. Brussels-based post-punk outfit Whispering Sons has released their long awaited debut album Image. The ten tracks, recorded over a period of ten days at GAM Studios in …
Watching a double feature of the Worst Best actor in America today. A man who only previews scripts after an 8 ball of coke. A thespian who challenged himself to employ a plethora of accents when it was not even necessary, and nailed not a single one of them. …an artist with a batting average …
As I sat in my cab today, listening to “Stayin’ Alive” at crushing volume and appreciating that delicious bass line which seems to have a life and a manifesto of its’ own, I realized the BeeGees and disco by extension have enjoyed a dramatic reversal in my level of artistic appreciation. In that brief two- …
Tiny Fighter offers an enticing mix of indie-rock and berserker chamber pop. Despite the staggering odds against them ever meeting, Therese Karlsson (a down-to-earth feminist truck driver from Kalmar in southern Sweden who understands the intangible things that are truly important in life) and Tim Spelman (an uptight doctor from Melbourne, Australia who thinks “career …
On paper, this shouldn’t work. A fifty-something geezer from England locks himself away in his tiny home studio for three and a half years, to pour his soul into an album of self-penned songs. The result? Songs for the Fragile Collective the album from Mark Applin and friends, operating under the name Skylephant. It’s a …
Mother Mink is the band that will charm the crowd into dancing, singing and at the very same time make them reflect on the big global challenges of our time. With a baritone saxophone connected to an amplifier, distorted synthesizers, surf-guitars, drums and vocals, Mother Mink creates a most unique sound landscape. Despite the band´s …
“Slap Shot,” the 1977 movie about a minor league hockey team, is widely hailed as one of the best sports comedies ever made. It’s certainly got strong trailer material with Paul Newman smiling rakishly in the rink and a trio of affable brothers clotheslining opponents with a smile. The movie may even be brilliant as …
Danish pop sensation KING’s new record ‘S**t Show’ is sultry, tongue-in-cheek and instantly infectious: a kaleidoscopic neo-soul anthem to kick start your 2019. Produced by Berkay Birecikli aka VOID – whose credits include work with FKA Twigs and Lana del Rey – S**t Show creeps up on you. Starting with sparse chords and stripped back …
If my count is correct, this is four years running that Seattle gets a concert from NY ska band the Toasters. No complaints here. The Toasters are always fun. This time the line up (besides founding member Robert Hingley AKA Bucket on guitar & vocals), consisted of a very lively horn section (bass grillbert on …
Just have a good clean primary. Don’t let the Russian trolls and bots trigger you. They should be more obvious by now, unless you’re a dumb ass. Don’t be afraid of Bernie Sanders. Nobody is too old. Biden could wrestle a bear. Ignore the nonesense about Warren and that Pocahontas bullsh☆t. I found out in …
This is a great album, a must hear. Clara Baker’s voice is able to spin loss into beauty while her guitar playing and new approaches to sounding out and recording acoustic instruments give her songs an extremely contemporary context. Please listen. Destined to be one of the best albums of 2019, Clara Baker’s Things To Burn is said …
Bicoastal indie-pop duo EXES and LA-based synthpop duo JOME will release their collaborative EP, Nothing’s Out To Get You on March 8th. In anticipation, please listen to this advance single, “Stay Still,” a powerful ode to the feelings surrounding love, loss, and tragedy. About “Stay Still,” Allie McDonald of EXES comments: “‘Stay Still’ was the first …
Eda Green is an American Singer/Songwriter originally from Rochester, NY and New Jersey. Escaping domestic abuse at home, 12yr old Eda, her mother and brother moved to Los Angeles, California where she currently resides. When Eda and family settled into LA, they happened to coincidentally land at the same apartment complex as a “crazy amount of Viners” …
Paul Manafort knows that spending the rest of his life in prison is much better than what will happen to him and his family if he rats on his Russian handlers, I mean business partners, I mean the Mob, I mean the GOP…sorry I mean Vladamir Putin. Maybe he’ll get a pardon, but I think …
“There’s a blessing in the river that you’re only going to find when you’ve been to the bottom, you can talk about the climb.” – Nuela Charles, “Long Way Down” “This song came out of a session with production duo Towers,” says Canadian, Swiss, and Kenyan songstress Nuela Charles of her latest single, “As we …
Those lazy Corporations just want welfare handouts. If that is “just Capitalism” then so is a welfare mother trying to get the best deal to try to compete in a highly competitive market. It’s a slippery slope. Now all these corporations expect a FREE ride. But that’s just business! Well so is Pimping. And pimpin’ …
Freedom Fry is releasing their second single and third new song of 2018. “Junkie.” “This is our indie pop ode to being in love and hopelessly addicted to someone.” – Bruce & Marie FreedomFryMusic.com Looking back through my emails I found two wonderful videos from Freedom Fry. This is their video for “Classic,” of which …
Florida-based indie folk singer-songwriter Vesper Wood, the solo project of Christina Wood, has released another new single from her upcoming solo debut album Instar slated for release on March 1st. “Carson” is a raw, emotional track about being an outsider, inspired by the writer Carson McCullers. About the new single, Wood comments: “The tune has an American, nostalgic feel for me…and I tried to keep the …
The Portland-based indie folk group Shook Twins have released their 4th full length album, Some Good Lives. Everybody in your life will write his or her own chapter in your story. Take a step back, and you’ll see the influence of your loved ones, mentors, and friends in your decisions. Shook Twins refer to these folks in the title …