Month: August 2016
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On their last few albums, Die Antwoord were a very gimmicky, almost comedic duo. As Ninja describes their new video for the single “Banana Brain, “A young girl sneaks out to a party with an unusual thug rap-raver boy and has the worst / best night of her life.” Suffice to say it’s a pretty…
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by Michael McCarthy If you’re a big fan of singer/songwriter fare then you might already be a fan of Nashville’s Daniella Mason, whose touching song “Sleep” was posted on Youtube approximately five years ago and has since been watched over 26,000 times. It was followed up with such emotive songs as “Shade of You” and…
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“Somebody help me…” Say Lou Lou’s new single is a cover of the Bee Gees classic “Stayin’ Alive” and it’s Fabulous with a capital F. Completely and utterly gorgeous. At times, it’s a faithful enough cover, but at others it’s a reinvention. If I’m being entirely honest, I must admit that I’m not much of…
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Lately, new release day has been so ho-hum. The things I like tend to just creep out, sometimes on new release Friday, other times on the old new release Tuesday schedule…. Or on some arbitrary day of the week. But today there are lots of solid releases out. The first is Butch Walker’s latest offering,…
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Thom Sonny Green of alt-J’s “debut solo LP, High Anxiety, dropped last week via Sudden Records / Canvasback with a massive 21-song tracklist of cerebral, experimental electronic. As a bonus for fans, Thom teamed up with Fiasco Design to create a unique platform for fans to remix four unreleased tracks. Via Thom’s website, the user is…
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Today I went to order Melanie Martinez’s killer art pop album Crybaby on Amazon and it was 18 and change. Noticed that it’s also available on cassette for 24 and change. This is ridiculous. I know some people feel nostalgic about cassettes and I actually ordered a new cassette deck today, so I kind of…
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D∆WN, better known as Dawn Richard, veers in a mainstream R&B/pop direction with her new single “Cali Sun,” which hails from her third album, Redemption, which is said to be the “final installment in the trilogy.” I was a big fan of the two previous albums, Goldenheart and Blackheart, which were both very abstract sort…
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interview by Michael McCarthy When I lived in Glendale, a suburb of Los Angeles, a decade ago, I went through a long period of being anorexic. During this time, I read every eating disorder related book I could find. I suppose I read some of them because they were triggering and encouraged me to restrict…
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OK, so this is more of an interlude type of track than an actual song, but it’s the best thing I’ve heard all day, hence my dubbing it #songoftheday. What we have here is Earl Sweatshirt rapping about stuff and that’s always plenty to satisfy me. He’s one of the most under-rated rappers in the…
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interview by Michael McCarthy It’s funny how everything is connected. Earlier this year, I was listening to a random artist on Soundcloud – I can’t remember who – and the next thing that came on was a song by Brandyn Burnette, who I wound up interviewing. During that interview, he mentioned that he was doing…
