Tag: 2014
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interview by Michael McCarthy Back in July of 2013, I gave a very positive review to the debut album by Starkill, Fires of Life, which was a perfect blend of the death and symphonic metal subgenres. Nightwish as performed by Dimmu Borgir, if you will. Well, those artists continue to be among the band’s influences…
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Oh, Whinnie Williams, how can we count the ways we love you? Remember the first time you heard Lily Allen and it felt so magical and new? Or the first time you heard Ellie Goulding, perhaps? Well, Whinnie Williams’ Bad Girl EP is just as wonderful and exciting, primed to give you a rush like…
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“She ate my heart / I love New York City,” sings Lenny Kravitz, oh so passionately, on “New York City,” one of the best cuts from his primo new album Strut. Roughly ten years ago on his Baptism record he did a tune called “California,” putting the golden state up on a pedestal, the song…
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Sweet, sweet, sweet, holy mother of bliss! Damn, if “My Beat,” the debut single by husband and wife team Kenny and Laura Cash, is not the catchiest song we’ve heard all week!
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…And then Tokio Hotel went to the discotheque. Sort of anyway. The verses of “Love Who Loves You Back” are sheer synthy pop, but the chorus is entirely danceable and would even seem to be aimed at the clubs. It’s not EDM though. No, this is more like disco circa ’79, the cream of the…
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Often, Sylvan Esso rely on big beats to drive their songs. But sometimes they like to get mellow, too. And that’s precisely what they did when they remixed PHOX’s “Slow Motion,” giving it light, minimalist beats. It’s very James Blake-ish, which isn’t a bad thing at all. If you’re a fan of electro-pop then you…
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Wow. This one is out of the ballpark amazing. A gem of an pop rock song that sounds like something The Cars would have done in 1984 while still sounding perfectly modern at the same time. All we know is that every moment of this song is exhilarating.
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“Even if I’m hurting, I keep moving on,” sings actress/singer/songwriter Cassie Steele on “Dreams,” the new single from her recently released EP entitled Patterns. The entire EP is an electro-pop masterpiece and “Dreams” is a shining example of that. Except that it’s not so sunshiny, veering more on the melancholic side of the emotional spectrum.…
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“Just breathe and breathe once again,” sings Chad Hollister during his latest tune, “Breathe.” It’s a lovely little song that can lift your spirits on a bad day. In fact, I was having a bad day after discovering that I accidentally installed Malware with a Chrome or Firefox extension yesterday. This really freaked me out…
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I was recently introduced to the music of Veiga Sanchez, who goes by the name Salt Ashes, and after listening to just a couple of her songs I already fell head over heels in love with her sound. Like any artist, she has influences and those influences can be heard in her music. But, here’s the thing…
