Haunting, folksy soul sung beautifully. This second album from Canadian singer-songwriter is ambitious and intricately assembled, yet stays true to the “doom soul” aesthetic of her past work. In fact, if anything, Neuroplasticity magnifies the doom with richer songs...
“World's Loudest Band” isn't so loud right now. Significantly mellowed out and more monotonous than their first two albums, charged, melodic guitars take a back seat to more prominent percussion and drier vocals. Without a doubt the San Francisco shoegaze outfit...
Airy pop for flower-crown wearing Coachella goers. Zella Day may not be a name you are familiar with, but her musical style definitely is. On most of her self-titled EP, Arizona-born now LA-based Day draws striking similarities to well-established pop artists we've...
For those of us here in the US, it seems like every time a UK citizen turns on the radio they get an exclusive new track from an exclusive new producer who defies all genre descriptions. In fact the game of trying to label electronic musicians has become so obtuse and...
Courtesy of Last.fm Storm and Stress's 2000 release, Under Thunder and Florescent Light, is an album totally unlike anything before or after it. One moment it feels like watching the sun break through a gray mist and the next, being sucked into a void of blinding...
Exhibit One: Tkay Maidza from Adelaide, Australia (Courtesy of Grand Stand) Iggy Azalea is racist (among other things) and I cannot support someone who is so absorbed with her own ego that she cannot see the wrong in her words and actions and who will not afford...
Courtesy of Clash. When I came up with the idea for this column, I had a few specific pieces in mind, including the one I wrote about last week. Another is the subject of today's analysis, “Poke” by Scottish indie-folk band Frightened Rabbit. One of my favorite...
Two great guys. Picture taken by me!! Rafael Smith and Tyler Osborne are postgrad roomies. They also happen to be WVAU alumni, as well as avid vinyl collectors. But these two aren’t your average 2014 record purchasers. Their apartment is home to a wide variety...
We sat down with Rome Fortune after his performance at the Black Cat to talk to him about his first ever tour, growing up in Atlanta, and his plans for the future.The interview (audio):Find Rome's just-released mixtape, Small VVorld, here:
Courtesy of Mastodon's Twitter. I've got a new pleasure, and it's not guilty. The metal band Mastodon's music video for their new song, “MotherloadÛ, started a great twerk debate, and I am in love with all of it. Mastodon is a bit of progressive metal staple....