Tag: #newmusic

  • #albumoftheday = Ingrid Michaelson: Stranger Songs

    #albumoftheday = Ingrid Michaelson: Stranger Songs

    Indie-pop, singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson has just released an exquisite new album called Stranger Songs on which every song is inspired by the Netflix series Stranger Things. The album came out just before the new season of Stranger Things started so a lot of the references were lost on me until I started watching the new…

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  • MUSIC (GODDESS STYLE): AN INTERVIEW WITH NATHASSIA

    MUSIC (GODDESS STYLE): AN INTERVIEW WITH NATHASSIA

    interview by Michael McCarthy “Synchronize your mind with me, a revelation,” sings Nathassia – channeling the Sumerian Goddess of love and war, Inanna – on her new single “Goddess.” It’s a trippy, electro/pop/dance/world music song that’s so, so good, it’s almost as divine and addictive as chocolate. Just listen to the mesmerizing track once and…

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  • #songoftheday / #amlistening = FFS – “BONES”

    If you love “the Bristol sound” made popular by Tricky, Massive Attack and Portishead, among others, then you’re going to be tickled pink in a good way by “Bones,” the debut single by FFS, otherwise known as For Fucks Sake, the new project by James of Arth and Arth fame, who I interviewed back in July.

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  • LETTER FROM THE EDITOR 9/30/18 – INCLUDES WHAT I’VE BEEN LISTENING TO LATELY

    LETTER FROM THE EDITOR 9/30/18 – INCLUDES WHAT I’VE BEEN LISTENING TO LATELY

    WHAT I’VE BEEN LISTENING TO LATELY These album picks are in order, one being the album I’ve been listening to the most. 1. Mylène Farmer – Désobéissance, her new album, which is full of punchy electro-pop cuts.  She continues to sound fabulous.  And, by the way, this album is in French. 2. Valerie Renay – Your…

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  • #songoftheday / #amlistening = SALT: “HELIUM”

    Today we have “Helium,” the excellent second single from the artist simply known as Salt.    I love the way the track blends synthesizers and snappy beats with her sometimes ethereal vocals.  The artist she most reminds me of is the great Florence Welch (a.k.a. Florence + The Machine), especially in terms of the production, which…

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  • #songoftheday / #amlistening = BALOJI: “Peau de Chagrin/ Bleu de Nuit” (Contains one very brief image NSFW)

    Baloji’s “Peau de Chagrin/ Bleu de Nuit” is one of the most stimulating videos I’ve ever seen.  Lots of beautiful colors and spell-binding imagery that could only come from Africa.  There are also quite a few disturbing images in this video that you won’t be able to get out of your head for a while.  It…

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  • MOLTEN METAL = W.A.S.P: “DOCTOR ROCKTER” (#AMLISTENING #NOWPLAYING #NOWLISTENING #NEWMUSIC)

    W.A.S.P., the brainchild of the always controversial vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Blackie Lawless, released the album Reidolized: The Soundtrack to the Crimson Idol on February 2, 2018.  The album came with The Crimson Idol movie on DVD and Blu-ray along with six tracks that were intended for the original album The Crimson Idol but didn’t make it for…

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