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DANIELLA MASON: THE LOVE IS POP INTERVIEW
by Michael McCarthy If you’re a big fan of singer/songwriter fare then you might already be a fan of Nashville’s Daniella Mason, whose touching song “Sleep” was posted on Youtube approximately five years ago and has since been watched over 26,000 times. It was followed up with such emotive songs as “Shade of You” and…
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#songoftheday = SAY LOU LOU: “STAYIN’ ALIVE”
“Somebody help me…” Say Lou Lou’s new single is a cover of the Bee Gees classic “Stayin’ Alive” and it’s Fabulous with a capital F. Completely and utterly gorgeous. At times, it’s a faithful enough cover, but at others it’s a reinvention. If I’m being entirely honest, I must admit that I’m not much of…
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NEWS: THOM SUNNY GREEN (alt-J) LETS FANS REMIX SONGS FROM HIS SOLO DEBUT
Thom Sonny Green of alt-J’s “debut solo LP, High Anxiety, dropped last week via Sudden Records / Canvasback with a massive 21-song tracklist of cerebral, experimental electronic. As a bonus for fans, Thom teamed up with Fiasco Design to create a unique platform for fans to remix four unreleased tracks. Via Thom’s website, the user is…
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#songoftheday = DAWN RICHARD: “CALI SUN”
D∆WN, better known as Dawn Richard, veers in a mainstream R&B/pop direction with her new single “Cali Sun,” which hails from her third album, Redemption, which is said to be the “final installment in the trilogy.” I was a big fan of the two previous albums, Goldenheart and Blackheart, which were both very abstract sort…
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#songoftheday = EARL SWEATSHIRT FEAT. KNXWLEDGE: “BALANCE”
OK, so this is more of an interlude type of track than an actual song, but it’s the best thing I’ve heard all day, hence my dubbing it #songoftheday. What we have here is Earl Sweatshirt rapping about stuff and that’s always plenty to satisfy me. He’s one of the most under-rated rappers in the…
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An Exclusive Interview with Rebecca Clements
interview by Michael McCarthy It’s funny how everything is connected. Earlier this year, I was listening to a random artist on Soundcloud – I can’t remember who – and the next thing that came on was a song by Brandyn Burnette, who I wound up interviewing. During that interview, he mentioned that he was doing…
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CATCHING UP 4.0: Wild Beasts, Tarja, Witherscape, HyunA & Stellar
Wild Beasts’ synthy new album Boy King is out now and is a breath-taking alt pop masterpiece. It’s the sort of record Radiohead might be making if they weren’t so abstract these days. From the opening one-two punch of “Boy King” and “Tough Guy” through closer “Dreamliner,” there isn’t a bad song in the bunch.…
Thank you for your comment. I don’t know what to think about Marilyn Manson and the Evan Rachel Wood thing…
I met Marilyn Manson twice. I was probally 24? Blonde hair and skinny. He had someone film each one of…
I enjoy getting lost in the gentle aesthetically psychedelic dreamscape that Still Corners creates. I’m an old man who lived(s)…
Greetings! I just released my vocal and songwriter debut today called The Kryptonite EP and was reaching out to send…
Thank you for posting this clip. Truly one of the most astonishing perfoances I’ve ever seen. Kudos to James Cordon…