Posts from the ‘Albums’ category

Abstract imagery of a person's head; the top and bottom half of the head is split apart horizontally. Random objects like tack hurdles, mirrors, a ladybug, a sneaker, and a cup and string phone, are float out from between the split head. The background color is a blend of pinks, blues, orange, yellow, and white. Stylized text on the top of the frame reads, "Rainbow heartache"

Rainbow Heartache: Megawave’s musically colorful debut album

Every band is different, as are the stories of their respective journeys. All the same, there are some groups for whom it’s easier to see…

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Prepare yourself as “NIKARA presents Black Wall Street”

Vibraphonist, composer, and educator, Nikara Warren, being being the multi-faceted music professional she is, it’s no surprise that free-flowing and more compositionally-liberal styles like hip-hop,…

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Johnny Loves Maddie and singing about “Skies of Tangerine”

It’s often said that context matters. This rings true for near most things in life, whether it’s the full context of a photograph, a conversation,…

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Itai Kriss and Telavana celebrate the celestial with “Supermoon”

The term “world music” is both comfortably recognizable and culturally reductive to everything that supposedly falls into the category. When it comes to the music…

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“You Must Be This Tall To Die” and ride Action Park’s emotionally turbulent debut

The newest addition to the global punk canon, You Must Be This Tall To Die, the debut full-length from emo pop-punk band Action Park, fits right in…

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Rachel Eckroth’s composer creativity thrives in the “The Garden”

Composer, pianist, vocalist, and clever arranger, Rachel Eckroth, reminds listeners on her newest LP, The Garden (Rainy Days Records, 2021), that imagery paired with music – even…

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Get a surge of dopamine and nostalgia with VNRVLY’s new EP

Mixing of genres of instrumental-bending of music typically known in one style often raises eyebrows, either out of shock and displeasure or curiosity and intrigue.…

Cover art for Tin Can Collective Album, "Axiomatic Alarm Clock" Illustrated line design overlaid on a light green to rose pink solid color fade background

Don’t press snooze on Tin Can Collective’s “Axiomatic Alarm Clock”

There’s something about the particular way in which Long Island, NY quintet, Tin Can Collective, repeatedly leaves listeners stylistically stumped and-or cramming multiple musical labels under…

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Indulge in the imaginary innocence of Josselin Prud’hom’s “Le Louphoque”

Who hasn’t at some point or another, decided to “play tourist” for a day or a weekend, in the place they call home? It’s a…

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“People, Let’s Dance” to Public Service Broadcasting’s new single

Public Service Broadcasting is a group that’s long been hard to sonically summarize. The sounds and arrangement thereof that the London, England band have implemented…