Indie pop band Howard Grove dropped a new single this week. It’s an affectionate song about cherishing the time you’ve got with your loved ones while they’re still here. The lyrics reflect the comfort in loneliness because it protects you from abandonment or loss. Howard Grove touch on mortality and time with a waterfall of downtempo psychedelia in “Nebraska.”
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Jazz artist Jamie Breiwick released a new album of both original compositions and improvisations. Breiwick’s instrumentation here consists of trumpet, water trumpet, and finger cymbals. Enlisting Tim Ipsen on bass, the duo challenge the barriers between structural and formless expression. Every sound and movement is precise and intentional because each feels right in the moment; sometimes Breiwick plays his horn
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Hip hop artist Beamon has a new album out. The rapper brings his aggressive emo style to a new level, spanning over 24 tracks with variable tones but a consistent mood. The painful subject matter erupts with the tenth track “God of the Winter” where Beamon screams for everything to get the fuck out of his way; the 16th track
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Wayne Dreadski, an Atlanta musician, comes back with a bang with his new single, ‘Da Candyman.’ The track is a hidden gem with plenty of talking points, taking us on an adventurous journey that is enthralling from the outset! The song begins with a guitar rhythm that meets a low vocal from Wayne. It’s clear from the first second that
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t’s hard to know exactly where to start when listing the accomplishments Hippy’s achieved on its latest full length release, Falling in Love With Being Alive.
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Mother Ghost has crafted a well put together, deliberate combination of qualities, tunes, approaches, and stylistic maneuvers on its debut album Somnambulo, which was unveiled to the world at large a mere five days ago.
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Psychedelic rockers Adorner recently dropped their debut single. With soaring vocal harmonies, New Age-friendly piano and sensual guitars, the band conjures a multicolored layer cake of a song, bursting with lovelorn emotion. It’s the type of song where you notice a different sound or component embedded every time you give it a listen. We hope to hear more from this
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Hip hop artist Kid Vibe enlisted 721Gusto for a new single recently. Sampling a solo violin over a trap beat (produced by Aryel), Vibe spits bars about minding his business and getting his snack on. In spite of fools talking shit, he’s got money in his pocket and can do it better than anyone with his name in their mouth,
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Pop artist HymnWho has a new single out ahead of his upcoming new project out this weekend. The song’s got an interesting blend of rock and dance style. Lyrically it’s about loving on someone, and that being the only thing that matters to you. The world is waiting to know about this person but you’re the only one that knows
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Hip hop artist Genesis Renji’s got a new joint out today. He raps about being in a relationship where he and his partner have different needs, and even though they miscommunicate sometimes, they know they’ve got something special. It’s a song about navigating the gray area; Renji knows himself and his boundaries very well, and not everyone will understand. Many
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Profess is the solo indie rock project of Eric Arsnow, known for playing in surf punk band Devils Teeth. His new song here is actually twelve years old, written and performed with his friends for his wedding. He recently found an old phone demo of it and decided to bring it back to life. It’s got a lo-fi emo feel
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Alternative rockers The Nile Club have yet another single out, closely following “Ob-Long.” This one’s about feeling like a waste of space, down on your luck, and stuck in a rut. Vocalist Malachi Kaehne brings the meta lyrics where he’s sick of staying up trying to write songs all the time. Well, he wrote a pretty good one here –
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Dream pop artist Jacob Slade has a new single out this week. It’s a cooled-off tune about a relationship that you don’t want to lose; it feels painful every time you have to think about being apart. Slade compares the fading summer heat to the dissolution of the flame in the relationship, but it’s always still burning just a little.
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Celebrity Warship Culture is definitely onto something with its latest offering, the nine-track album Recreational Everything.
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These days, you’re lucky if you get just one style per song from an artist—and that’s really pushing the boundary if we’re talking an original one.
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Hip hop artist Yo Dot has a new single and video out, with the video directed by Miguel Sierra. It begins with a TV turning to the video itself, finding Dot out and about with the nighttime Milwaukee skyline behind him. Other scenes find him in a clothing store, walking into a bar, and lounging on the couch. He drops
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Metalcore band I, Manifest are back with a new single. It’s a brutal jam about suffocating under a cloud of toxicity, doomed to be a disgrace. The band utilizes both ends of the metal vocal spectrum here with shrieks and growls, as well as having a killer breakdown that will rattle skulls. Get excited for their new EP “Nihilist” due
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A review of Iration at Summerfest 2021.
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Pop punk band Bad Year’s latest single is about “jumping ship” in a relationship. Things have been rocky lately and the future is looking bleak, so you’re debating whether or not to abandon it. The song makes effective use of the sinking-boat metaphor, giving it all you got while you’re still here, but ultimately knowing the fate that lies ahead.
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Blues folk act Old Wolves is out with a new record, closely following last week’s single “Shovel and a Broom.” For those that yearn for the darker side of folk music, look no further. These songs are largely about impending doom as we remain trapped by the shackles of capitalism, fighting for survival. As the song “The Lonely Oak” touches
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The range of the musicianship displayed on Zack Oakley’s debut album Badlands is nothing short of remarkable.
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There are album concepts and there are concept albums.
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This year I had the pleasure of attending day one (of three) of Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago. It was my first time seeing a large-scale live music event with thousands of people in attendance since the pandemic. Pitchfork thankfully required proof of vaccination and many showgoers wore masks, so despite the readjustment anxiety of navigating crowds again, it felt
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Bahar incorporates her Turkish roots on her latest track.
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“Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day” sumarizes how I felt leading up to see the titular band Greensky Bluegrass. The progressive midwestern bluegrass band took to the stage on September 9th at Summerfest to an extatic crowd. The now jam band legends have acrewed quite the following in the 21 years they’ve been playing and they
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