Category: electropop
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interview by Michael McCarthy One of the most bewitching albums I’ve heard all year is Rose & Thorn by British artist Wendy Bevan. Not merely a singer/songwriter/violinist, Wendy works in a variety media including film, visual imagery and intense, experiential artworks. To experience any of her work is to step into an alternate world where…
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Adam Jensen continues to be brutally honest on his red hot new single “The Mystic,” singing about his relationship with his mother and sister and trying to stay sober, among other things, all over massive, punchy beats that slam against your head as you listen. In an infectious way that you’ll enjoy the hell out…
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review by Michael McCarthy all photos by Joshua Bernard Electronic producer/artist The Range – real name, James Hinton – opened the show, taking to the stage at 8:05 with “New Lots.” He delivered a high energy set of songs mostly taken from his recently released sophomore album Potential and its predescesor Nonfiction. Although he played…
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This past Tuesday night, October 11th, 2016, I was fortunate to catch the young woman who calls herself Elohim live. The mysterious singer/songwriter/electronic musician is currently out on tour with EDEN, but I’d had insomnia the night before and was too tired to stay and check out his set. I was admittedly unfamiliar with his…
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by Michael McCarthy Time sure flies, doesn’t it? These days, mine is taken up by doing interviews for Love is Pop and working on my novel Book of Shadows 2. Yeah, I know, the first book hasn’t even been published yet, but if I can’t find an agent to get me a publishing deal soon…
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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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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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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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Back in June, Brooklyn-based piano composer Andrew Shapiro released his third piano album, appropriately entitled Piano 3. (Perhaps you are one of the six million people who streamed his song “Mint Green” – from his 2008 debut, Numbers, Colors and People – on Pandora?) That he was releasing another piano album was hardly a surprise…
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FEMM stands for Far East Mention Mannequins and they’re one of the most sensational J-Pop acts to debut during the past few years. Here we have their brand new single, “Neon Twilight,” which is actually in English, so if you’re one of our readers who can’t stand to listen to music that’s not in English,…
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London-based producer/songwriter SchulKid will be releasing his debut EP, Physical Education, on July 30th. In the meantime, we’re tickled pink to premiere his new single and video, “La La Lave,” featuring the lovely I Am Harlequin. The EP’s previous single, “Love Like This” featuring Tara Priya, was critically acclaimed and followed the fetching singles “Wildest…
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Musically, Phantogram dive deeper into the realm of mainstream pop with their infectious new single, “You Don’t Get Me High Anymore,” but they certainly have not lost their edgy. They might even be edgier. I suppose some will complain that it’s more pop than electropop or whatever, but I happen to think it’s awesome.
