Monthly Archives: August 2016

#songoftheday = DIE ANTWOORD: “BANANA BRAIN” + TOUR DATES

Posted on Aug 31, 2016

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...

#songoftheday = MICHAEL SWEET: “RADIO” + ONE SIDED WAR REVIEW

Posted on Aug 30, 2016

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The second single from Stryper frontman Michael Sweet's new solo album One Sided War is called "Radio" and it pokes fun at rockers who think they can just move to Nashville and become country stars. Starting and ending with banjo, it's a pretty funny song, especially if...

DANIELLA MASON: THE LOVE IS POP INTERVIEW

Posted on Aug 29, 2016

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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...

#songoftheday = SAY LOU LOU: “STAYIN’ ALIVE”

Posted on Aug 27, 2016

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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...

CATCHING UP 6.0: Butch Walker, Carly Rae Jepsen, Banks & Steelz, Britney Spears, Delain

Posted on Aug 26, 2016

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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...

#songoftheday = G-Eazy – “Calm Down”

Posted on Aug 23, 2016

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NEWS: THOM SUNNY GREEN (alt-J) LETS FANS REMIX SONGS FROM HIS SOLO DEBUT

Posted on Aug 23, 2016

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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...

CATCHING UP 5.0: SKELETONWITCH, OLIVIA HOLT, HAILEE STEINFELD, DANIELLA MASON, PLACEBO, SUICIDE SQUAD: THE ALBUM, LINDSEY STIRLING

Posted on Aug 19, 2016

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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...

#songoftheday = DAWN RICHARD: “CALI SUN”

Posted on Aug 19, 2016

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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...

JUST WRITE: AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK

Posted on Aug 18, 2016

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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...

#songoftheday = EARL SWEATSHIRT FEAT. KNXWLEDGE: “BALANCE”

Posted on Aug 17, 2016

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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. ...

An Exclusive Interview with Rebecca Clements

Posted on Aug 16, 2016

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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...

#songoftheday = THE AGONIST: “THE MOMENT”

Posted on Aug 16, 2016

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#songoftheday = SCAVENGER HUNT: “RIVER RUNS DRY”

Posted on Aug 12, 2016

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NEWS: THE PRETTY RECKLESS ANNOUNCES WHO YOU SELLING FOR DUE OUT OCTOBER 21

Posted on Aug 9, 2016

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August 9, 2016…After topping the rock charts in 2014 and 2015, The Pretty Reckless returns with their extraordinary third studio album Who You Selling For, due October 21st on Razor & Tie. The new album is the band’s anticipated follow up to Going To Hell, which spawned the biggest rock song of 2014...

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