Four-piece band The Spring hails from Florida, and their sound captures a summery, beachy feel that draws from the group’s experiences in the balmy state. “Victoria” is their second release of 2019, following “Colors of Consciousness” earlier this year. The single is a hopeful, energetic story of achieving success in the competitive music world. The
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Written during a two week period following an injury in her music studio that left her unable to hear, “Gold Rush” is an exploration of searching for success in Los Angeles and a tribute to singer-songwriter Elodie Reverie‘s 70s music influences. Trained as a pianist, “Gold Rush” and her previous release
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At the end of last month, Oakland rapper G-Eazy released a collection of B-sides nearly two years after the release of his previous album, The Beautiful & Damned. Though the rapper finds his flow in rare verses over the three song release, the music showcased in these B-sides is largely business as usual. The collection
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Punk has since its inception been a largely male dominated space, its signature angst and aggression thought better left to a traditionally masculine style. In the past few years, femme punk artists have been gaining considerable traction in the mainstream punk scene. Cherry Glazerr and Mannequin Pussy, among others, have risen to prominence. In Patience,
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Mikaela Straus, better known by her stage name, King Princess, has taken the pop music world by storm, first with last years EP Make My Bed and now with a new single, “Cheap Queen.” Straus has created a mania in the queer music scene, being hailed as “royalty,” “the Jewish queer pop icon we’ve been
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Emily Bear has been expanding her arsenal of musical ability since she was very young. She’s a singer, songwriter, composer, and pianist, and released her first EP more than a decade ago, at the age of nine. Along the way, she’s been supported and encouraged by talk show host Ellen Degeneres, and appeared on Ellen
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Electro-pop group The Eiffels have honed a consistent, dance rock sound for years now, and now, fresh from last year’s Vans Warped Tour, they’ve released a brand new single “Spin Around.” Though they’ve been active since 2015, the Eiffels have yet still to release a full LP, creating a somewhat rare chronology of the evolution
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On May 14th, Tycho and Saint Sinner dropped “Pink & Blue,” the second single from the soon to be released album, Weather. This will be their fifth studio album, and the first to feature human vocals beyond just snippets. The vocalist on this track, Saint Sinner, is a competent singer, if not exactly a surprising
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For Logic, it’s not enough that he’s an immensely successful rapper with listeners numbering in the hundred millions. He’s obsessed with his legacy, and being recognized as a hip hop titan not just by his fans but by the giants of the industry. On “Homicide,” Logic’s bitterness about this lack of recognition boils over as
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This week, British psychedelic pop band Club Kuru released their second studio album, Meet Your Maker. Club Kuru has made a name for themselves over the past few years with their distinctive sound and exuberant live performances. Together, the members of Club Kuru create a colorful, textured psychedelic sound. Band frontman Laurie Erksine was a
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It’s been three years since Schoolboy Q has released an album, but from the way his latest drop, CrasH Talk, has been reported, you would think it’s been a decade. Hip hop is not a genre in which artists are inclined to take their time with releases. C There are a staggering number of incredible talented
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Prior to 2018, Singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett excelled in metaphor but never really with speaking plainly about emotion. Her last album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, saw Barnett turn her witty, incisive gaze inward, letting loose righteous and honest anger. In her newest single, “Everybody Here Hates You,” she shows no signs of losing that
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“You Need a Dog,” the new music video out from Las Aves, opens on singer Zoe Whalen sprawled dejected in a teenaged bedroom. Pictures of celebrities plaster the walls and a stuffed dog sits at her feet. She’s just been dumped, and in a wistful deadpan she sighs into the phone, “I wish I could
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Queendom, the debut album from reggae singer Analea Brown, dropped March 22 and rose quickly to the #2 spot on the Billboard reggae charts. Before now, Brown has spent most of her career behind the scenes, ghostwriting for other artists before taking the spotlight as a performer. It’s surprising and impressive, then, to see how
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Since his 2016 debut, Izzy Heltai has used his music to speak candidly about love and pain, and to remark on the natural beauty that he immerses himself in. “Marching Song”, his latest single, follows the release of last year’s EP, Sweet Apathy, in which Heltai unpacked his struggles with depression, and the resultant dissolution
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