Distorted guitar chaos. Playful beats skewing a conventional melody. Effervescent basslines that are as translucent as they are thought-provoking and startlingly emotional. Mischievous rhythms that beg for us to dig deeper in the master mix. In songs like “Stand (With Your Heart in My Hand),” “You Fooled Me Once,”...
Little Coyote are one of the more distinctive units I’ve had the pleasure of hearing in some time. Their new single “Witness”, the band’s first studio release since debuting in 2017 with the collection The Trouble with Teeth, illustrates why. The haunting piano melody opening the track has a...
Dan Rico - Dre@m Vaca$ion Thoroughly modern yet grounded in essential songwriting formulas extant in popular music since time immemorial, Brooklyn based singer, writer, and multi-instrumentalist Dan Rico scores big with the release of his single “Dre@m Vaca$ion”. The single is drawn from his forthcoming release via label TMB Limited entitled Basement Pop,...
The second EP release Like a Shadow from Charlottesville, Virginia’s four piece Gold Connections is the band’s first release since May 2018’s full length Popular Fiction. Describing the band’s musical style as “indie rock” is a broad but fitting label for the quartet’s work, but there’s a distinct singer/songwriter level of intimacy contained in...
Chicago’s four piece Woongi produces a signature brand of synthesizer and bass driven music with melodic vocals and a cinematic sound. Their new single “Fire’s Dead” is my introduction to the band’s work and the song’s confident sonic architecture impresses me for many reasons; Woongi excels balancing the recording...
URL: http://on-j.com/ Few releases stand out with as much individuality as OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN'S new single “MARCH”. Released by Sister Polygon Records, a label ran by post punk four piece Priests, it is the first recording we’ve heard from JOHN since 2014’s Injury Train and...
Run Home Jack are the latest memorable musical act coming out of the Carolinas, in this case the Greensboro area of North Carolina, and the first single “F.Y.H.T.” from their soon to be released second EP Part 2: I Tried will go a long way towards establishing them as one...
The viral single, co-produced by Renholdër (AKA Danny Lohner of Nine Inch Nails) and featuring the powerful vocals of Chino Moreno, now has it's beautifully unsettling and highly anticipated visual companion. The unapologetically stark music video, premiered today on Revolver and didn't disappoint. While expectations...
On the whim of a fleeting guitar melody, Of Movement & Music comes alive before our very ears in its opening track “Right Here,” the first of twelve boldly-crafted songs that The Camino Side Project has produced for us in this all-new album. A thumping beat forges a wicked harmony with...
All those who enter any of the ten tracks to be found on China’s new album And Then Nothing Happened will encounter a gilded collection of material perhaps best defined as bittersweet folk music filtered through an edgy brand of indie rock tonality that stands unparalleled in 2019. Whether it be...