Born in Poland, Larcin is a rapper, singer, and songwriter. He came to America when he was eight years old. When he was 12, Larcin started playing the piano. Around 2017, he began to record everything he wrote. Starting his music career, Larcin tried to develop his style and find his way in the music industry. His musical influences vary
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Rory Stewart, a.k.a. R.O.A.R, was born into a musical household and began singing at a young age. He started singing in the school choir and landed a solo part in the school play. In high school, he started listening to hip-hop and discovered beat-making through a close friend. Rory started playing the guitar when he was in his 20s. Later,
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Mitt Holly was introduced to music composition when he was in the fourth grade. He first got into alto saxophone, then taught himself how to play the drums by playing Sum 41 and Blink 182 songs. By his second year of high school, he fell in love with hip-hop music and studied rap composition and flow from the likes of
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Based in Victoria, Canada, CALICO is a Folk-Americana collective that’s composed of Tony Cecchetti, Chris Couto, Will Lloyd, and JeanSe Le Doujet. The group of friends connected through writing music together while in the confines of their own homes. CALICO hopes that their nostalgic and deeply poetic music moves their audience. They share, “We hope it reminds you of a
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Going by his artist name Songbird, Joe Moralez is a Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and producer. His lyrics incorporate a broad range of political, social, and philosophical influences. Meanwhile, his overall work is centered around self-empowerment and love. Songbird gets his musical inspirations from artists like Michael Jackson, Madonna, Tears for Fears, Mariah Carey, and Whitney Houston. Over the years,
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Hip-hop and RnB music producer Zo.Lyfe has been producing music since he picked it up as a hobby in 2006. Born in Long Beach, California, ZO was surrounded by music growing up and knew that’s what he wanted to do. During their high school freshman year, ZO and his best friend talked about becoming producers as adults and sharing their
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Pop punks Ceteri have a new video from this past year’s record “Tough Shit.” Shot by Chanceler Primo, the band is shown playing in an open path of grass in the middle of the forest, as well as along a creek. The song is about the ponderance of whether there’s a God that will grant one’s dreams to come true.
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Folktronica project Homerow has kicked the new year off with a fresh album. While gentle as a feather, the emotional conviction here is heavy and powerful, detailing feelings of escaping reality and sanctuary in sleep. There’s tales of hypnosis, being broken up with your former self, reconciliation, and coming to terms with the ways things are. Cloudy weather and pale
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Drum and bass duo Mungo Mountain have a new self-titled EP out. They rampage with headbanging riffage and blistering industrial texture over five gnarly tracks. It’s entirely instrumental despite the false start exclamations at the start of “Solipsist.” 2020 was a hefty year in terms out of output for Mungo Mountain and they’ve already kicked off 2021 with this EP
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Hip hip producer Phatbrane has a new EP out on PV2. It’s four tracks of groovy, jazzy instrumentals themed around a science experiment. There’s cerebral samples and moonlit atmospheres that are guaranteed to keep you relaxed. We look forward to more from Phatbrane and PV2 in the months to come.
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Zipten is on fine form with yet another treasure, ‘Midnight Walk.’ Sending shockwaves around the electronic world, ‘Midnight Walk’ kicks off with a tapping rhythm. Also, it holds many sounds which add weight to the already full mix. For me, I enjoy how Zipten has added a few layers of bass into the mix. It sounds as though the sub-bass
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Ben Slowey talks to the electric psych rockers.
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Wisconsin artist Alyssa Caroline may only be a freshman in college, but her singing and songwriting ability carry a sense of maturity. Her acoustic vocals are spoken from the heart, giving listeners a sense of vulnerability that speaks to the authenticity of her music. This is found in all of the songs she has released, but especially in “Through It
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We’ve got a new lo-fi pop artist on our radar, Yvonne Dollheart. She dropped a record on Halloween of seven tracks, encompassing dream pop and eccentric psychedelia. There’s a haunting presence of echoing background vocals under Dollheart’s poetic lyricism as she sings along downtempo production, although “Bottom of the Pool” kicks it into an upbeat dance vibe. She’s got an
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Hip hop artist Wave Chapelle kicks off 2021 with a new single produced by Menebeats. He raps about not taking risks if he wants to be making money. In a clever play on the word’s definition, he mentions putting bands in the safe acquired by *not* playing it safe. Wave Chapelle continues to prove himself as one of Milwaukee’s finest-bred
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Mind Gore is an extreme metal project of the experimental collective Fundamentals. They’ve got a new EP of three songs out, and it carries quite the demonic trance. The title track’s riff feels like a relentless onslaught of terror while “Blue Conundrum” is an industrial headbanger and “Madman of the People” feels like opening a portal to Hell. There’s been
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R&B artist MNTRY (formerly known as Tr3y) has a new single and video out. As the title suggests, he’s in the back of a ride with a girl and is tempted to be intimate with her in the Phillyflyboy-directed visual. The driver isn’t looking and the bedroom’s thirty minutes away. It’s a provocative tune that suits a nighttime romantic venture
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Hip hop artist Dassolo is out with his long-anticipated debut album. A central theme of this body of work is the role that turning up has for Solo; the world is a complicated and pressurized place where you constantly question your worth, so drinking and making music is what helps him make sense of it. This is expanded upon in
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Ben Slowey sits down with the long-running hardcore band.
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Dubstep producer Mystic Visitor has a new track out today to honor his late grandfather. He’s stated on social media that he believes it’s some of his best production to date; it’s a carefully sculpted and intricately assembled banger that utilizes drilling textures as well as synth waves. It feels like robots are using power tools and building something. An
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Hip hop-R&B artist MackLee’s latest single touches on coping with the evil and unfairness of the world. He wants to be laid down in a bed roses and feel cleansed. Showcasing both rapping and singing over a sharply somber beat, MackLee makes effective use of AutoTune here, and his emotional tensions become palpable through bars about having no sense of
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Acclaimed hip hop artist R.A.P. Ferreira (formerly known as Milo) has a new album out. In an ode to poet Bob Kaufman, Ferreira delivers his artful and eccentric wordplay over twelve tracks while exploring the theory of harmonious structures. There’s frequent production shifts throughout each track as he conveys colorful depictions of oatmeal cookies, having selves within himself, the power
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KASE is an avant-garde jazz collective consisting of Jamie Breiwick, John Christensen, and knowsthetime; they’ve got a new record out today on B Side Recordings. In the most experimental of approaches to jazz the group plays with turntablism, rapping from CRASHprez, live beats, and free improvisation throughout these eclectic compositions. The final track extends this fusion over fourteen minutes. Classics
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Ben Slowey sits down with the guitarist and bandleader.
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Hip hop artist TEZjay has a new video out to his song “Games,” which was on last year’s “It’s About That Time” album. Shot by Blaq Visualz, the video opens with TEZ signing onto Call of Duty. After he gets killed a few times, TEZ loses his temper and the song gets cued. He’s in an arcade rapping, where he
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