Mar 27
Love Lives in the Body by Soft Blue Shimmer/Live Show Review By Kylie Arbini | Top Tracks: Prism of Feeling, Cloudless, and 9090 From their first EP Nothing Happens Here to their debut full-length record Heaven Inches Away, Soft Blue Shimmer has spent their actively blossoming career crafting and perfectly packaging hazy sonic landscapes for …
Mar 08
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, and Lava By Emy Gladden Photo credits: google photos Top Tracks: Gliese 710, Iron Lung, Magma Australian psychedelic fusion band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are one of the most diverse and prolific acts of today, releasing multiple albums a year and …
Mar 02
Rina Sawayama – Hold The Girl By Tyler Mandell | Top Tracks: Frankenstein, Hold the Girl, Minor Feelings | Worst Tracks: Hurricanes Photo Credit: Google Photos Synopsis: Hold the Girl has songs as good as anything Rina Sawayama has ever done, but too much of it feels misguided and limiting after such a promising debut …
Feb 03
Preacher’s Daughter by Ethel Cain By Kylie Arbini | Top Tracks: Family Tree, Ptolemaea, and American Teenager I’m not a particularly religious person myself. While I occasionally attend temple with my sibling and use God’s name in vain at the slightest inconvenience, I most commonly find myself attributing my struggles to the fact that someone up …
Dec 05
Sandinista! – The Clash Photo credit: Google photos By Tyler Mandell |Top Tracks: The Magnificent Seven, Police on My Back, Washington Bullets The Clash are considered one of the defining bands of the 1970s punk rock scene and dad rock playlists everywhere. You still often hear all their major songs on classic rock radio and …
Dec 04
Concert Review – Magdalena Bay at 9:30 Club By Amal Qazi On Friday November 18 of 2022 synth-pop duo Magdalena Bay played at 9:30 Club in D.C. with New York pop artist Bayli as their opener. Though Magdalena Bay’s singer, Mica Tenenbaum, had lost her voice right before the D.C. show, the duo performed a …
Nov 28
The Jungle Giants at The Black Cat By Amal Qazi On Sunday November 13th The Black Cat hosted alternative/indie Los Angeles based artist Tim Atlas and Australian indie rock band The Jungle Giants. The venue itself is small, certainly compared to other well known D.C. venues like The Anthem. The stage is low to the …
Nov 28
The Murlocs – Rapscallion By Emy Gladden |Top Tracks: Bellarine Ballerina, Virgin Criminal, Bowlegged Beautiful Only a year after the release of their previous album, Bittersweet Demons, Australian blues rock band The Murlocs came back full force with Rapscallion. Rapscallion sees the band’s style progress from blues rock to full-on rock n’ roll. Hard rock …
Nov 21
Drake – Her Loss By Joshua Kornell | Top Tracks: Privileged Rappers, P*ssy & Millions, Middle of the Ocean, More M’s Worst Upon finishing this album, a record I’d never thought of in over two years succeeded in crossing my mind. Jay Electronica’s ‘A Written Testimony’ was the rapper’s first and decade-long anticipated debut that …
Nov 11
Awaken, My Love! – Childish Gambino By Tyler Mandell | Top Tracks: Redbone, Me and Your Mama, Stand Tall It’s the most fun to write about albums that are revivals of a certain vintage genre or music scene, because you get to compare a lot between artists of completely different time periods. I had always …