Name Sayers will impress all but the most cynical or dismissive listeners. Their eleven-song outing Joyboys in the Grindhouse is a bucket of blood synth pop feast but doesn’t stop there. They spike their combustible musical concoction with generous doses of hip-hop, rock, and electronica without ever coming across as a well-intentioned hodgepodge of sound. In lesser hands, it would sound like a band trying too hard, doing too much. Name Sayers,…
What inspired you to start creating music? I just wanted to get things I had experienced or observed or felt out of me and into the world. I believe songs are the best way for me to share. There’s an old saying about not dying with all your music still inside. Did being raised in the greater St. Louis area have an influence on your music? I’m not sure that…
Good songcraft tends to take years to develop instead of mere months, and this can be quite a difficult reality for some indie players to face. There’s a lot of work that goes into cultivating something special for your audience, and if there’s anyone who knows what I’m talking about, it’s a pop singer like Taylor Jules. Jules’ sound has been getting progressively tighter not through the past decade but,…
This video feels like an invitation to an intimate and laid-back groove session. How did you try to achieve this feeling in the video? Just being who we really are, no acting, with the personal and group photos, along with the group performing helped to pull it together. How have elements of jazz, R&B, and hip-hop helped create your sound today? The hip-hop and jazz elements are covered by Slum…
In an indie music scene dominated by various genres and experimental sounds, it is rare to stumble upon a band that seamlessly blends the infectious rhythms of funk with the introspective nature of indie music. Noshows, the indie outfit fronted by producer and songwriter Max Satow, breaks the mold with their latest single, “Slow Up (feat. AUD).” This funk-infused gem not only showcases their undeniable talent but also highlights the…
The weight of the instrumental prowess is certainly familiar, as is the elegance of the arrangement that will soon come together before our very ears, but in its totality, there’s something very different about both Giorgia Fumanti and the song “Quand on Prie La Bonne Etoile” as they’re presented together in the new album Cinema Collection. As you might be able to guess, Cinema Collection is a record full of cover songs handpicked…
How much thought did you put into the visuals for “I Hate My Ex”? How did you want them to look? It was a spur of the moment video. We were shooting video for “Someday” and we had all the models and the location. I just was like, “fuck it” – I knew I wanted to make a video for “I Hate My Ex.” It was really on-the-fly vibe. A…
Rockers Mainland Break can be very conceptual when they want to be, and while I enjoyed every bit of what their rivals have had to say in the past few months, I don’t think it prepared me for what I was going to review this summer in One Way Ticket to Midnight. URL: https://mainlandbreak.com/ Just looking at the album cover of One Way Ticket to Midnight alludes to a contemporary surrealism so many…
What was it like adopting a new genre? It’s actually very different and fun. It feels very normal because it’s a genre of music that I’ve always wanted to do. Your lyrics in “Love Language” are very vulnerable, can you speak more to that, and how you had the courage to speak from your heart? I’ve always wondered how I could get the thoughts of how I felt in a…
Step into room, and you will see Henri Cainglet’s work. The Filipino native has an undeniable, visual aesthetic that inspires both delightful bewilderment, and a sense of all-encompassing, wild-eyed immersion. There’s something refreshingly modern about his style, whilst simultaneously displaying a kind of timelessness. Mr. Cainglet’s mixture of his cultural roots with elements of key American painters creates this kind of uncanny valley viewing experience. You feel like you are…
