BIG ! BIG ! shout outs to Miss Maile Young for letting me interview her about songs that make her cry! I loved talking to this adorable little lady and crying together :~) A beautiful thing that I was able to realize during this interview was that the songs that make...
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Week In Review: Pree, Roz & The Rice Cakes, The Greeting Committee, & Keeps
This week I was lucky enough to see some great bands from all over the US. On Thursday I was over at Songbyrd Music House in Adams Morgan, one of my favorite venues in DC. I have seen some of the more talented local bands at Songbyrd, so when I found out that a band I...
My Beef with Gene Simmons
Courtesy of Cherry Bombed Singer-bassist Gene Simmons of Kiss has recently reached the top of my shit listÛÒand for good reason. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Simmons says he's looking forward to the death of rap and the revival of music with lyrics and...
Interviews: Beya Likhari
Beya Likhari is a soulful songstress hailing from Baltimore. Her melodies and sentences flow cooly together in a way that stays in your headspace. We had the opportunity to chat with Beya on Wednesday morning about the Baltimore music scene, finding the perfect...
Deconstructing the Weakerthans’ "Reconstruction Site"
Courtesy of Anti I'm just going to come out and say it: I'm a sucker for concept albums. Especially when the concept is something subtle. There's something about realizing a collection of seemingly unrelated songs are actually related that gets me going. Something...
The Mind-Bending Creation that is Psych-Folk Music of Pre-Revolutionary Iran.
Courtesy of KIRN 670 AM The following songs represent a treasure trove of tracks mostly hidden from the world, disappearing following the Ayatollah's strict control over the dissemination of Western culture in Iran. The 70s in Iran before the Revolution was an era...
Live in the Hive: Free Cake for Every Creature
Philadephia-based Free Cake for Every Creature joined us in the studio with her earnestly sweet anthems of young-adulthood.
Female Artists Make Me Happy but Misogyny Makes Me Mad
Courtesy of Slate Mood: When you're happy that female musicians are thriving but angry about the misogyny in the music industry. However, this is not going to become an endless rant about the inequities that female-identifying musicians face. Instead, let's...
Different Approaches to the “Low Self Confidence” Song
Courtesy of Burlington Hypnosis It's clichÌ©d for indie band songwriters to have low self-confidence. There is nary an album I've heard that doesn't include at least one song about how they can't talk to girls—or anyone for that matter. What is different,...
Weekend Watch: Reviews from the Week of 2/29
Animal Collective- Painting With Courtesy of Domino Records A Bunch of sounds that shouldn't go together but somehow creates incredibly catchy indie music When it comes to experimental indie music, Animal Collective are the indisputable trailblazers. The band is...