Sometimes it’s nice to be wrong. When I put on Calyx’s new single Leslie Plain and Strong, from their upcoming album Stay Gone, I thought “Awesome, I love folk punk”. Ten seconds later, I was pleasantly startled. To be fair, [...]
Photo Credit: Chloe Carrasco Sometimes it can be hard to tell if a song is very complicated or very simple. This is usually the mark of detailed and refined songwriting. If I had to bet, I’d say Palberta’s latest single, [...]
Music serves many purposes, and the most primary is as a vessel for storytelling. This is not to say that the frills offered by tasteful and skillful instrumentation are not important, because they are. We are reminded of both of [...]
There’s an endless number of reasons that make a song “catchy”. One of those is guitar riffs that you can feel all the way down to your toes. That’s not just an example, Gamblers’ new single “Do I?” has guitar [...]
Photo Credit: Jake Driscoll Sometimes music videos are little vignettes that accompany a song, and oftentimes they are just a rendering of a band’s performance. The LA/Nashville partnership Baseball Game toes the dividing line between those two genres with their [...]
Some musicians spent quarantine writing new songs, some spent quarantine performing live online concerts, and The Menzingers spent quarantine reimagining their most recent album. The band from Scranton released their sixth studio album “Hello Exile” in October of 2019, an [...]
More now than ever, it doesn’t seem far fetched to say the world is falling apart at the seams. But when you have your own internal struggles and afflictions, that doesn’t seem so ominous. Elise Okusami, from Oceanator, dabbles in [...]
For a track to be “catchy”, it doesn’t always need to slap you in the face. When a track is understated and melodic it can be entrancing. One word I would definitely use to describe King Casio’s new single “BBBC” [...]
New Jersey bands, especially college bands, almost always have a surf and garage rock-like quality to them. As Cheyenne Dan matures, they trade in the dissonance that comes with garage rock for the cohesion of power pop. Their recent release, [...]
“Less is more” will drive you insane. Some of your favorite songs may run less than two minutes, which might then lead you to scouring the internet for a longer outtake version. Merce Lemon’s “Baby” feels like it will be [...]
