Growing up, Arum Rae’s family frequently moved, and she found shelter and a sense of belonging in her various schools’ music programs. While attending her third high school, her choir teacher heard her sing, and believed in […]
Tag: Steven A. Clark
Up and coming artist Jordan Bratton started to make waves after the releasee of last year’s The Grey Area. Building up on the momentum The Gray Area created, Bratton is putting the finishing touches on its follow up; […]
Evy Jane is a Vancouver, BC-based duo of singer/songwriter, Evelyn Jane Mason and producer, Jeremiah Klein. And the sound they’ve crafted, as you’ll hear on “Worry Heart,” the first single off the band’s forthcoming EP […]
The Chicago-based emcee Jason Maek has quickly developed a reputation for lyrics that are thoughtful, thought-provoking and at times polarizing. “Fix It,” the latest single off Maek’s collaboration with Zaena, Maek Pandamonium describes a man’s battle to […]
Comprised of vocalist Randa Leigh and producer/multi-instrumentalist Brian Vincent, the Portland, OR-based electro pop act SOS have publicly claimed the xx, Aaliyah, D’Angelo and Kanye West as influences although lyrically, the duo’s work explores the […]
There are quite a few people who will complain that contemporary hip-hop is dead; however, what many of those people shamefully have missed is that hip-hop has quietly gone through a revolution similar to the […]
Taylor McFerrin is a Brooklyn-based producer, composer and DJ whose musical style has been heavily influenced by 60s and 70s soul, golden era hip-hop, free jazz and electronica. On his own work. McFerrin not only […]
As a producer, Peter Cooper, better known by his stage name Stumbleine has developed a reputation for a sound that manages to mesh heartache and ecstasy and for material that’s slow-burning and seductive. However, his […]
As a girl, Arum Rae’s family moved often, and at every new school she attended, she found shelter and a sense of belonging in music programs. While she was attending her third high school, her […]
Maya Vik has received quite a bit of attention for her take on electronic pop/funk. As a member of Montee, she won a Norwegian Grammy, but as a solo artist she’s received quite a bit of attention […]
Beacon’s debut For Now EP was a hauntingly ominous album that manages to burrow into the dark places of regret, temptation and obsession with an extremely minimalist form of modern R&B and electronica — it’s an anxious, […]
Beacon’s For Now EP was a hauntingly ominous album that manages to burrow into the dark places of regret, temptation and obsession — it’s an anxious, fever dream of an album. As a result, For Now landed at number […]
a Q&A with Steven A. Clark
Ranking fourth on this site’s Best of 2012 list, behind the co-number ones, Cody ChesnuTT’s certain classic, Landing on a Hundred and Lee “Scratch” Perry and the Orb’s trippy, mind-bending The ORBSERVER in the star […]
It’s been a while since i’ve had a throwback post, and since i mentioned Timex Social Club’s “Rumors” in relation to both Public Enemy‘s Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black and Steven A. Clark’s Weathervane Music collaboration […]
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/track=3761635946/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/ Weathervane Music created a new documentary series called Shaking Through in which emerging artists are brought together with top artists to write and record an original tune in two days. The latest episode of the […]