A Misty Awakening – Kali Malone’s Living Torch Alton Sturgis December 7, 2022 Album Review Kali Malone—a Denver-born, Stockholm-based sound artist, model, and experimentalist—transitions from her organ-centric work to a new artistic era with her LP release Living Torch (2022). Malone’s pre...
You can leave it to Alex G Div Buccieri November 7, 2022 Album Review, Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie scene, indie-pop, LGBTQ+, Multimedia, music, News, Reviews Surely, you or someone you know went to the Alex G concert in SF. The event, held Oct. 19 at The Fillmore on a chilly fall Wednesday night, mothered something other than the usually-disquieted Alex G, thanks to...
Far from a Wayside: Bedouine’s third album displays songwriting brilliance Anahit Hovsepyan November 6, 2022 Album Review, Reviews Azniv Korkejian, also known as singer-songwriter Bedouine, pulls in listeners with her poetic lyricism and elegant style. With her third record released just over a year ago on October 22, 2021, Waysides contin...
From the mind of Björk spawns Fossora Jackie Greene October 31, 2022 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Reviews, Rock With no choice but to isolate during the pandemic, many of us, in our collective boredom, spent our days coping with various outlets. Some of us took up new hobbies, like baking bread or crocheting. Others look...
Let Loose with Tank and the Bangas Ansley Stotelmyre April 11, 2022 Album Review, Photos On Friday April 8th, Tank and the Bangas came to August Hall in San Francisco, and gave a performance that left people candidly dancing to their own hearts content with each other, with each individual smiling ...
Molly Nilsson’s Sidereal Message to an Impending World Ally Flygare April 5, 2022 Album Review, Opinion, Reviews Swedish singer-songwriter Molly Nilsson is no stranger to exercising her independence. Writing, producing, and publishing her own music — through her independent record label Dark Skies Association — allo...
An ode to sensitivity: Nilüfer Yanya’s hypnotic sophomore album Painless Liv Bjorgum March 31, 2022 Album Review, Reviews 1 Comment Nilüfer Yanya’s ethereal sophomore album Painless (ATO, 2022) chronicles the complexities of loneliness and uncertainty. The Chelsea artist’s brutal honesty adds an edge to her signature dreamy, pop-rock s...
A Miserable Apocalypse: Injury Reserve’s By The Time I Get to Phoenix Alton Sturgis November 18, 2021 Album Review By the Time I Get to Phoenix (2021) is the newest release from Injury Reserve, an Arizona-based experimental hip-hop group. Their first mixtape, Live From The Dentists Office (2015), broke waves as one of the d...
A Race to my Downloads with Alex G Ally Flygare November 17, 2021 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Creative Writing, Opinion Alex G’s 2010 self-released album, Race, is an ode to the trials and tribulations of young adulthood. Released when Alex was a mere 17 years old, the pains of being a teenager growing up in suburban Havertown...
I don’t know about you, but both my favorite album and I are turning twenty-two: A love letter to 69 Love Songs Baylie Raddon September 7, 2021 Album Review, Creative Writing On September 7th, 1999, a new life was brought into the world. Though only a newborn, it was filled with complexity, somber observation, cynicism, and underneath it all, a guarded sense of optimism. Two days la...
A Conversation with Up and Coming Rapper Kidd Kenn Jax Samsell June 11, 2021 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview, Reviews Kidd Kenn is an 18 year old rapper from Chicago who is breaking out into the rap game. Kenn is a vibrant personality with bright hair, flawless makeup, and an energy that can undeniably be felt even through Zoo...
More Experimental Delight on Ecco2k’s PXE Xia Jimenez May 4, 2021 Album Review PXE (2021), pronounced “pixie,” is the newest EP from multi-hyphenate artist Zak Arogundade, also known as Ecco2k. Following the release of a few singles and the artist’s debut album in 2019, PXE now move...
Explorations into microtonal tunings volume three: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s L.W. Lily Ramus March 22, 2021 Album Review With a band as prolific and experimental as King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (KGATLW), it is hard to imagine what a self-titled album, an artist’s definition of their sound, might be like. Still, it is surp...
Unmasking Edith Whiskers Anna Armstrong March 5, 2021 Album Review 2 Comments If you spend as much time on TikTok as I do, it is likely you have heard the slowed, acoustic version of “Home” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros sung by Edith Whiskers. You might have heard the class...
The Dichotomy of Fame: The Psychedelic Porn Crumpets’ fourth studio album celebrates hedonism while tackling fears Lily Ramus March 5, 2021 Album Review 1 Comment On their fourth studio album, SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound (2021), The Psychedelic Porn Crumpets combine poppy hooks, layered psychedelic textures, and hard riff-based alternative rock, comfortably leaning into a ...