“Lucha” by AKACATS is the newest sultry and evocative single from the rising Chilean act, real name Catalina Rojas. Having been relatively quiet since the drop of her 2019 mixtape MELT (which is fantastic and highly recommended by the way), Rojas has been performing live and hard at work on this single as the lead into her upcoming studio debut Cupido. A lot of times with hip-hop acts of the…
Introspective songcraft rose in value last year, as the insularities of 2020 forced a collective look inwards for the first time in generations, and it’s in this spirit that Paul Rocha’s Apophenia feels like a truly iconic offering. In Apophenia’s ten songs, Rocha navigates narratives that feel like internal thoughts only realized when left alone with ourselves to rhapsodize and recall memories and visions once abandoned in youth. “Sister Silhouette,” “The Other Side,”…
When it comes to an album that truly challenges the most basic structuring around what an album can attempt to be, look no further than poet and Sasquatch enthusiast Marty Achatz’s collaboration with Streaking In Tongues’ in the new book-album-spoken poetry hybrid released under the name Slow Dancing With Bigfoot. Constructed of song titles as eccentric as “A Pig’s Orgasm Lasts 30 Minutes” and “Bigfoot Takes His Wife to Mount…
“To never quit, no matter how dark the tunnel is. To always let God have control of my life, and to never be too busy to appreciate the things that really matter.” Tod Lippy’s second LP Yearbook starts with plenty of ambitions, and it only makes sense due to the aptly-titled opening track, “Ambitions.” The lyrics might throw listeners off at first but upon learning that Lippy dug into his…
Bill Abernathy’s new EP release Who Are You, Who Am I? is the next chapter in Bill Abernathy’s musical journey. It is fair to say his relationship with music may be a bit bittersweet having stepped away for several years between his youth and late in the last decade, but gratitude is unspoken quality present throughout this EP’s four tracks. WEBSITE: https://www.billabernathy.com/ He pursued music with a passion during his youth but…
When you’re sixty-eight and retired, there’s no telling where the future might end up taking you. Retirement is meant for grand adventures and relaxation alike, but there’s no handbook of rules or recommendations to take under your wing — for some, they’ll rekindle an old hobby and hone in on it tenfold. Others will take up something new and use retirement as an excuse to fully branch out of their…
Numbers don’t lie, and judging from the digits Dici is rocking on streaming platforms around the internet, I think it would be safe to say that he’s catching fire like nobody else in 2021. His single “Five Rings” is a certifiable indie hit, but its glam-style melody skewed with unpolished hip-hop swagger isn’t the sole reason why. In the pop genre, there’s something we like to call the star element that you…
Pistols at Dawn don’t seem to care too much about becoming the pop/rock stereotype you’ve grown up with, and if that wasn’t more than obvious before the release of the video for their new single “Crown,” it’s going to be now that the song is attracting so much fanfare this spring season. Raining rock n’ roll lightning down upon anyone who happens to be listening, Pistols at Dawn force riff…
I think we often associate the feelings of paranoia in music in very simple ways. There’s a kind of skitchy stretchy and uncertain sound that permeates a track, but what would happen if you took those feelings, but combined them with the mellow tunes of someone like Toro Y Moi or the early days of Vampire Weekend or We Are Scientists? You end with the band Mold! and their new…
Let it be said that Trevor Drury cannot be pinned down as just one particular thing. With a deep-rooted appreciation for music before going into an acclaimed career as a model for the likes of Tom Ford all while songwriting and crafting on the side, Drury made his debut with the stripped back mood piece The Start and has now shown a new side of his multi-faceted talents with his latest single “Alice” from his…
