The life of a musician can often be a rather tortured existence, even if and especially when things couldn’t be going better in their career. Being the median between the music and the listener isn’t easy; it means existing in the sacred space between raw...
NAPSTER: https://co.napster.com/artist/dangermaker In the music video for the Bay Area rock foursome Dangermaker “Pressure,” which is also the lead single from their highly anticipated new album Run, dreamlike imagery intercut with the band’s steady play hypnotizes us alongside the song’s intense grooves, leaving us dazed, confused, and...
Mary-Lynn and Emmy-Lou Doroschuk are the songwriting engine for Wave 21 and the genesis of the name, the name taken by father Stefan Doroschuk’s pre-Man Without Hats band, enhances what already feels like a strongly familial affair. The self titled debut from this Montreal based...
In the new video of Hazey Eyes’ collaboration with Yolk Lore, “Scars,” listeners are treated to a jarringly dramatic visual experience that is on par with the song that inspired it, and despite its ambitious blueprint and stylish production it stays elementally efficient and supremely...
By Olivia McAuley Rebecca Rosoff and Sonny Lanegan are the fire and water duo behind alt/indie outfit Slow Roar. The LA-based multi-instrumentalists/producers released the self-titled EP last year, winning over new fans and music publications alike. Nothing conveys the pairs ability to create a distinct moody wanton energy...
Every generation needs an album that champions the primitive chest beating of our ancestors and invokes thunder and lightning from the sky above in an electrical firestorm, and Jupiter in Velvet just might have produced that album in his new LP Beautiful New Day. We...
Sunglass Moustache’s eleven songs are a musical kaleidoscope with a consistent thread binding them all together. There are definitely strong similarities in the writing style between these various tunes, the production achieves a rare level of unity, and the songs with lyrics possess a hard,...
By John McCall The two “Time Bomb” mixes make me want to move from the first. AV Super Sunshine has worked with iconic DJ and talented producer Michael Bradford before and their latest collaborative round has produced an indelible modern EDM rock classic with this new single...
By John McCall Within the first few seconds of “Ivory Tower,” the first of ten tracks in Vinyl Floor’s gorgeous new LP Apogee, the slightest notion that we’re about to listen to anything similar to the rock music of 2018 is instantly dismissed, and we’re left...
By John McCall Volume, by The Eyebrows, from North Carolina, is the project of guitarist Jay Carrigan and drummer Shawn Lynch, along with Darrin Gray. The producer involved on this release is REM’s Mitch Easter, for a radically familiar sounding album that only Easter himself can achieve,...