Tag: review
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Bo Rocha will release a new 4-track EP entitled Hold My Gaze on 9th September 2016 via Bait and Switch Records. In the meantime, your summer is going to sizzle with her just released new single “Enough For You.” The mix of its hard-driving beats and her fluttery vocals is direct and moving and sure…
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I can’t remember the last time, if ever, that I’ve featured jazz on Love is Pop. It surprises me more than it probably surprises you. I do like a little jazz music with my Sunday morning coffee now and then. Well, to be sure, I listen to jazz on other days, too, but there’s something…
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“Please tell me I’m broke / It’s much easier that way.” So goes part of X Ambassador’s “Low Life,” a song about fighting the good fight and losing. If you like melancholy, you’re in for a real treat here. This song will have you wishing you were a therapist so you could counsel the band…
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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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Tuesday night – 6/21/16 – I was fortunate to catch Ladyhawke on the opening night of her North American tour, her “first time playing here in ages,” at Brighton Music Hall in Allston (Boston), Massachusetts. First, I must say that I was very impressed with her opening act, Polyvinyl labelmate Psychic Twin, otherwise known as Brooklyn,…
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Aphex Twin’s new single/video is the song “CIRKLON3 [ Колхозная mix ],” which just so happens to be the first time Aphex Twin has released a video in 17 years. I dare say it’s his best song in 17 years, too.
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We last heard from singer/songwriter KT Tunstall in the form of her Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon album, which was a haunting and delicate, folky affair. Her latest single, “Evil Eye,” is perhaps best described as pop. Irresistible pop that’ll surely brighten your day and make you listen to it on repeat, the two qualities…
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Elisa has been one of my favorite artists for over a decade now. In Italy, she’s a superstar, a veritable household name. In a perfect world she’d be just as popular here in the States, which she really should be when you consider that 95% of her music is in English. To that end, she’s…
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Dawn Richard delivers another twisted R&B song destined to toy with your head with her latest single, “Not Above That.” It’s so far out there that I’m not even sure I should be calling it R&B. Maybe there should be an R&B sub-genre called gloom for songs like this? I suppose you could call it…
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Once upon a time — the mid ’90’s to be precise — I interviewed Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue for my hair metal zine, ANT, The Only Cool Magazine That Bites. I asked him what he was listening to lately and he said “Garbage and God Lives Underwater.” I went to Tower Records on the…
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“I’m a monster / It’s in my bloodline,” sings Morgan Kibby, a.k.a White Sea, on her “Bloodline,” which is one of her most addictive songs to date and also one of her deepest, the lyrics haunting and melancholic. Those words could also be used to describe the song’s video, which Kibby directed herself. It’s beautiful…
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We last heard from New Zealand’s Pip Brown when she released her 2012 album Anxiety, which was a solid pop record that featured a lot more guitars and considerably less synth and electronic sounds than her self-titled 2008 debut. Unfortunately, many fans — and critics — complained about the change of direction. On her new…
