We received Lizzienrose‘s EP, “Banner Year,” one day like a small care package full of thoughtful surprises. Not even fifteen minutes long, its a collection of five songs that sound like they could be pulled from five very different albums, [...]
After all the hard work and build up to the release of her crowd-funded new album Slow Phaser, Nicole Atkins’ national tour begins this week. Wednesday night she played a surprise warm up show at The Saint, which included support from [...]
I’m still smiling like a dope from Friday night’s Don Giovanni Records showcase. Nowadays it takes a lot to get me motivated to travel from my suburban sprawl in New Jersey out to Brooklyn, especially in the dead of winter, but [...]
Brooklyn-based duo Weeknight make dark pop music. Their sound is a dreamy landscape, where intense backbeats coexist with floating synths, and where our inner goth kid makes peace with our preppy side. Think The Cure meets Beach House. Their debut album, [...]
Alt-punk girl group Sharkmuffin had a busy 2013. They played SXSW, showcased at CMJ, and released their newest EP, 1099. Not ones to take a breather, they’ve already started the new year with the premiere of their newest video for “Quarter Machine”. [...]
Under “basic info” for Sun Looks Down on their Facebook page, the New York City quartet has written off their genre simply as “sungaze,” a heading that extends to the Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen collective member’s latest EP. With Facebook as [...]
Gretchen Lohse is an author of many worlds, painting them through picturesque folk inspired lyrics, and conjuring them through the many instruments she plays off her debut solo release Primal Rumble. A Philadelphia native, Gretchen is the front woman to the folk [...]
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, a band who caught attention in the MySpace era by cultivating their image through comical PSA-inspired music videos, has been active on the Seattle music scene with their own fusion of psychedelic, dance, pop, punk, [...]
With her third album, the crowd-funded Slow Phaser, coming out in February, Nicole Atkins is going to have a busy 2014. But before this new journey she will be concluding this year, and closing a chapter in her life, at [...]
Pop and Rock can come from any source, as Joanna Newsom has proven time and again with her innovative, lush harp playing. Enter Linnea Olsson, a Swedish chanteuse who composes unique, inherently hook-littered tracks wielding a cello. Linnea Olsson’s debut [...]
