A portrait of love and grief, Karen Allen’s latest album Here We Are Now should resonate with anyone who’s ever experienced loss and recovery. Honest and relatable storytelling Each song from the album seems to recall scenes from Allen’s memories in vague yet relatable detail. Rather than focusing on the specific events that […]
Author: Jaren Cloud
Jaren Cloud is a lifelong musician and recently assimilated desk monkey writing feverishly from a basement somewhere in the California desert.
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Beatnik Neon is returning to the music scene on November 16th with Rides, their first single since the release of their 2016-17 EP series, Atramentous. Rides is the debut release for a new incarnation of the band in which the creative talents of founding member Nolan Farmer are joined by those of newcomer Yann Marc […]
It is much easier to talk about artistic freedom than it is to fully realize it. As artists, our ability to conceptualize and express new ideas is hemmed by the boundaries of our own knowledge and experience. Breaking through those boundaries and achieving a level of expression which can be considered truly free requires time […]
At a point in music shaped by formulas and marketing strategies, where the value of a pop song is derived almost entirely from the technology used to produce it, El Gato Dice’s latest album, Tres, reminds us of an earlier time when the heart of pop music was still red, beating, and engendering noise complaints […]