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Let’s keep with the theme instituted by Lissy Trullie yesterday, shall we? Like Lissy Trullie, Mickey Gang is a band masquerading under a solo artist’s moniker. Likewise, Mickey Gang have turned on ears with a hyped track that isn’t indicative of their range of talent.
Mickey Gang is Arthur, Bruno, Ricardo and Joao, four Brazilian teenagers [...]

Sirens, programmed fanfare, synths, syncopated guitar plucks and then, just like honey indeed, Goapele’s voice covers the sonics with soft coos and sighs. Produced by Bedrock, I’m most fascinated with how surprisingly warm the track comes across despite its austere production. This is definitely whetting my appetite for her upcoming album.
Learn more about Goapele here.
Goapele [...]

I sort of hate it when new artists hit the ground running with a cover. If you’ve heard of newcomer Lissy Trullie it’s almost certainly due to her cover of Hot Chip’s Ready For The Floor. Add in the connections the 25-year old New Yorker has accrued from years of modeling in the form of [...]

I never expected to give Mika any press—I never really cared for his hyperactive persona, and despite my absolute detest for barely in-tune screaming kids on recorded tracks (look for a whole post about it soon) his new single We Are Golden, and especially it’s deceptively amateurish video, caught my attention. There’s a “bigger than [...]

Coming out of the gate like a far more approachable and less elitist version of Vampire Weekend, here’s the debut video from Friendly Fires for their sophomore album, dropping in the fall. The layered and cascading percussion take the spotlight, with Ed Macfarlane’s plaintive chanting of “Kiss of Life” breaking through the ordered noise like [...]

I like Mr. Hudson (or the concept of him) for a couple of reasons:
1) He should have been born about 15 years earlier because his voice belongs to the 80’s. Simply Red, Tears for Fears, even Fine Young Cannibals all come to mind. These comparisons are meant as compliments.
2) He works with “super cool” modern [...]

South Carolina isn’t exactly a musical hotbed, so I was surprised to find it the home of electronic shoegaze one-man act Washed Out (aka Ernest Greene). This year has seen the resurgence of lo-fi, garage and shoegaze genres and Greene’s music takes those influences and distills them into something quite different and very new.
There’s a [...]

The summer brings out different emotions in me—it’s only natural. I have said in previous posts how times and seasons are marked by specific albums/acts/genres in my head. And on that rare chance I can score a car ride through the city, maybe even with the top down, I just want to hear slow, west [...]