Based in Los Angeles and comprising of members from various parts of the world, the Mercy Beat’s latest single “Sweet” owes a great debt to New Wave and 80s synth pop – in some way […]
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Originally from Detroit and now residing in New York, singer/songwriter Alex Winston’s debut effort, King Con was released early last year to critically praise. She’s playing sporadic live dates while working on a new album, which is slated for a […]
While in France, singer/songwriter Jay Chakravorty met a Mexican woman who used to playfully call him Cajita, which translates into English as “little box,” thanks to the fact that she claimed that every time she […]
Originally one half of the sister duo Festival and a member of the experimental prog project Ga’an, the Brooklyn-based electro pop artist Lindsay Powell now performs as a solo artist, under the moniker of Fielded. […]
Twintapes at Piano’s 2/19/14
Last Thursday was a pretty typical night for me in some respects – I first stopped at Rockwood Music Hall to catch a very dear friend of this site, Nicola play an acoustic set and […]
Originally conceived as an imaginary band, Eternal Lips is the pop-based music project of Brooklyn-based musician and artists Grey Gerstein. Lyrically and sonically, the project was meant as a way for Gerstein to explore the conventions and […]
Recorded over a 15 month period in the Horrors’ East London studio/laboratory/bunker with co-producer, Craig Silvey, who has worked with the likes of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire and the National, Luminous is the much-anticiapted and […]
The Brooklyn-based duo of Josh Ocean and Eric “Doc” Mendelsohn, better known as Ghost Beach, have started to gain the attention of the blogosphere for a sound that’s heavily rooted in 80s synth pop and […]
Now known as international stars and critical darlings, indie electro pop/indie rock act Cut Copy started out from humble beginnings – as the solo creative project of Melbourne, Australia-based DJ and graphic designer Dan Whitford in 2001. By […]
Vanessa Brown, writes, produces and performs as V.V. Brown and when she released her latest effort, Samson and Delilah, Brown added the title of record label head to her description, as she released the album through her own […]
Alan Wilkis is the mastermind behind Big Data. and his first later single “Dangerous” featuring Joywaye is an incredibly funky and slickly produced bit of electro pop that’s perfect for the dance floor – and […]
https://scache.vevo.com/m/html/embed.html?video=USUYG1041298&playerType=embedded Waajeed, a founding member of the famed Detroit-based act Slum Village met Dede Reynolds and Tim K, who were working together in a duo called Dede, in a bar beneath the J train in […]
Lenses, the latest album by the Los Angeles-based (by way of Portland, OR) duo of Soft Metals sonically owes a great debt to the legendary godfather of contemporary electronic music, Giorgio Moroder and to late […]
Afrofuturism is an emerging movement consists of an aesthetic look, feel and sound that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, Afrocentrism, magic realism and frequently non-Western cosmology to comment and critique the plight of […]
Although their first full-length effort was released in 2007, the Brooklyn-based trio of House of Blondes had only begun playing live shows together in 2012. in fact, I caught about half of the band’s second […]