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Alan McGee Goes It Alone With New Label Creation 23
In the mid-’90s, Alan McGee was on a roll. As the boss of Creation Records, he was the Lord of the Britpop Empire, having signed Continue Reading
Austin Lucas Shares Politically-Charged "Already Dead" (premiere)
Austin Lucas releases Alive in the Hot Zone! on 30 October via Cornelius Chapel Records. The release will be available on vinyl, CD, and digital Continue Reading
Irish Alt-Pop Artist Rebekah Fitch Faces Loss on "Dust" (premiere)
Irish alt-pop singer-songwriter Rebekah Fitch possesses a powerful and moving voice filled with emotion and the ability to connect with listeners at a visceral level. Continue Reading
Elizabeth Cook Looks at Her Past to See What's Next on 'Aftermath'
Critics consider the Rolling Stones’ 1966 album Aftermath as one of the most important rock records. That was the Stones’ first “real” album rather than Continue Reading
Lomelda's 'Hannah' Is an Internal Dialogue Leaking Out
Some music is just internal. It creates its own world, plays by its own rules, and speaks to itself only. Yet, sometimes this internal music Continue Reading
Yachtclub101 Mix Synthpop and Cats on "Leave Me Alone" (premiere)
Scott Ayers once fronted the Lovemakers, recorded an album on Interscope with them, and scored a hit with “Prepare for the Fight”. Now, the talented Continue Reading
Leeds Indie Rockers Eades Proclaim "I Want More"
Leeds’ Eades are here to proclaim for those doubters in our midst that guitar rock is not dead. There’s still plenty of room for creativity Continue Reading
GOSS Creates an Electropop Anthem with "Everybody's Going"
Denmark’s GOSS is a rising electropop artist with a penchant for creating anthemic earworms and a history working with Mura Masa. “Everybody’s Going” is the Continue Reading
BAERS Debut the Cabaret Pop of "Augen Zu"
BAERS are a new pop-rock band out of Germany that marry cabaret-esque vocals to funky bass, hook-filled hummable choruses, and a dash of Weimar flair. Continue Reading
Kate Bush's Splendidly Transitional 'Never For Ever' at 40
“Where does Kate Bush come from? You can’t hear her influences”, said English rapper and actor Tricky for the 2014 BBC documentary The Kate Bush Continue Reading
Brothertiger Discusses Finding Inspiration in the Strangest Places
When Brothertiger’s John Jagos takes a break, he means it. For the Ohio-born, New York-based master of emotional synthpop, his career has already been full Continue Reading
'Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement' (excerpt)
Excerpted from Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement by Jonathan M. Berman. (Footnotes omitted). Copyright © 2020 The MIT Press. Excerpted by permission of Continue Reading
Samuel Tucker Young Releases “Whiskey Burns”
Following his ‘Timberwolf‘ album, Samuel Tucker Young returns with Whiskey Burns. Written and recorded at the height of quarantine, Young captures feelings of despair as Continue Reading
Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche Say "I Can Still Hear You" (premiere + interview)
I Can Still Hear You is the new 11-song set from mother/daughter duo Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche. Releasing 30 October via StorySound Records, Continue Reading
Ambient Producer Joshua van Tassel Believes We Need More Beautiful Things
“I feel like really just straight-up beautiful things have become uncool. There’s this idea that sentimentality is looked down upon, and emotion is not cool,” Continue Reading
Korine's 'The Night We Raise' Is Shimmering Synthpop With Its Heart on Its Sleeve
Synthpop that harkens back to the innocence of the 1980s is in great abundance these days. While instrumentalists like Com Truise and Paul Haslinger effectively Continue Reading
Badfinger's Joey Molland Tells the Story of the "Rainy Day Man" (premiere)
Joey Molland’s latest LP is Be True to Yourself and arrives on 16 October via Omnivore Recordings. The album is a collaboration between Molland and Continue Reading
Georgia Anne Muldrow's New Jyoti LP 'Mama, You Can Bet!' Is a Revelation
Jyoti’s (aka Georgia Anne Muldrow) Mama, You Can Bet! is a revelation — of time, of rhythm, of sound. It takes the free-ranging jazz sensibilities Continue Reading
Vancouver's Yukon Blonde Drift Into Dreamy Neo-Psych on "You Were Mine" (premiere)
No one could ever accuse Vancouver’s Yukon Blonde of remaining stuck in place, releasing the same album over and over again. Indeed, the band are Continue Reading