Time, the latest track by Monique Barry, wafts in, somewhat nervous breathing mixed with delicate, wistful piano notes that blend into high vocal sighs. Her vocal line comes in straight and almost too present; it turns, for me, the song into something that you would...
Music Reviews
Top 10 tracks to come out in March
March saw another fantastic month for music as we poignantly entered the season of rejuvenation. Here are my Top 10 tracks of March: Soccer Mommy - Shotgun Singer-songwriter Soccer Mommy AKA Sophie Allison is back with "Shotgun", the first glimpse of her highly...
Josh Savage New Single
Josh Savage- How far I've Come A British Parisian based in Berlin has a uniquely distinctive ring to it, and that is the pathway of talented indie-folk singer-songwriter Josh Savage. This sense of uniqueness is mirrored in his music, as Savage creates organically...
NY Nu-Grunge band realation release What Lies Beneath EP
The three member alternative rock project reaLation. (not easy to type with auto-correct!) will unleash their 90s reminiscent EP “What Lies Beneath” later this month The group, which consists of guitarist and vocalist Steve Feliciano, bassist and vocalist Vincent...
the impeccable, shimmering not like this by beth crowley
feels as though a fresh spring breeze just blew through one’s hair Nashville, Tennessee-residing singer/songwriter Beth Crowley, who initially gained recognition ten years ago through her popular YouTube videos, and later, with her own brand of literate, original...
review: atmospheric old school groove from f.e.e.
Kieran Jones aka F.E.E. (Fuck Everyone Else) presents his unashamedly old-school mix of electro dub, hip hop, and groove on his new album Returning to Earth from Other Planets. Kieran has been around for a long while, and has never stopped bringing out good music:...
review: basil panagop & the swirlingly atmospheric hip hop of new single mtl
The music of Basil Panagop is laid-back, assured and thoughtful. It’s hip hop, the kind that revels in languidity, in an indolent assuredness. Basil Panagop himself appears at first sight to be something of a mystery: With a name that may or may not be Greek, and...
Vincent Littlehat & Chris Zippel are Dreaming You Off: Review
Vincent Littlehat is something of an anomaly: despite success as a professional performer, dancer and model, she is all but invisible... which makes me wonder if there’s something behind the somewhat Scandinavian intonation of her vocals on the opening of Dreaming You...
ORIAN Releases Debut EP Before It Weighs Us Down: “the comfort that allows me to climb out of myself”
ORIAN releases his brand new EP Before It Weighs Us Down today. There must, in the end, be a thousand different reasons why people make music. ORIAN's? “I wanted this collection of music to be the comfort for me that allows me to climb out of myself, as so much music...
Review: Idiot’s Dream by Freddie Dickson: intimate and disarming with a flare of Nick Cave
British Indie Singer-Songwriter Freddie Dickson Berlin inspired new EP Idiot's Dream is out June 4th, 2021, via Shakey Records. The EP's title track Idiot's Dream starts out with ominous jangling electric guitar chords and an ethereal phantom falsetto before dropping...
Review of Into the Stars by Vincent Littlehat / Chris Zippel
Why look into the stars? To find experimental pop/dance singer songwriter Vincent Littlehat’s hypnotic new single and video “Into The Stars” (Allisum Records), out today (28.5) The three-minute dance alterna-pop confection is a collaboration with Berlin based...
Review: Nothing2 by Strange Souvenirs: rolling orchestral crescendos and a blood-spattered drunken choir
The Berlin/Hamburg based brothers Thomas and Matthias Juhnke a.k.a. Strange Souvenirs are back out the shadows of The Famous Gold Watch Studios with their latest single 'Nothing2'. After repeating this song about 6 times in a row on my first listen, a strangely...
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