Kilo Kish tackles broad sweeping introspection on Reflections in Real Time HR Huber-Rodriguez March 13, 2016 Album Review, Reviews Reflections in Real Time is an intensely personal album that attempts to make sense of the arc traced by one’s own life from the point of view of 25 year-old hip hop artist Kilo Kish, and it is excellent. A...
Wet cry and dance with debut record, Don’t You Brendan Gibson February 10, 2016 Album Review Wet’s debut was a long time coming. Kelly Zutrau, Joe Valle, and Marty Sulkow have been creating and playing music together in different incarnations for nearly a decade. After coming together in Brooklyn...
Zayn takes best direction with “Pillowtalk” Leka Gopal January 28, 2016 News Ten months and four days. Not even a whole year has gone by since Zayn Malik departed One Direction to “be a normal 22-year-old” and simultaneously pursue a solo career. Twenty-eight days into the new year,...
Wet announce release date for debut album, Don’t You Brendan Gibson September 26, 2015 Album Preview, News Brooklyn-based electronic pop trio Wet have announced via Twitter that their highly anticipated debut album, Don’t You, will be released on January 29 through Columbia Records. Preceding the announcement ...
Interview: Shy Girls on growing up, moving west, and making The Dream Joanna Jiang May 28, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview Dan Vidmar, or Shy Girls as he's better known, seemed a little roadworn when we spoke to him backstage last Friday, but he didn’t show it in his performance two hours later at Rickshaw Stop’s weekly POP...
Hozier bares his dark soul at SF Masonic Kavitha George April 17, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Impossibly tall, wavy hair in its distinctive bun, and bewilderedly shy as if he couldn't believe the throngs of screaming girls were waiting for him, Andrew Hozier-Byrne - known by his stage name Hozier...
Rhye mesmerize the Fox, “Open” up about musical identity and transitioning Logan Hansen and Joanna Jiang November 14, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview You may know Rhye from their critically-lauded album Woman (2013): upon release, its beautifully-crafted intimacy rendered any makeout playlist without at least one or two choice tracks instantly obsolete. To...
Young & Sick to play The Independent: “Twentysomething” and making waves Joanna Jiang June 25, 2014 Album Review, News Under the moniker Young & Sick, LA’s beloved album artist and fashion designer Nick Van Hofwegen’s own musical career has had a smooth liftoff. Three years in the making, Young & Sick boasts a spa...
LIZ resurrects “Y2K” sounds in Just Like You Ning February 27, 2014 Album Review, News LA princess LIZ repackages familar sounds from decades past in bright pink candy wrap on her debut EP, Just Like You. The seven-track album loosens hip-hop and pop chains from the new millennium, giving the ...
Pharrell Williams “Happy” to announce G I R L [Stream] Linda Choi February 26, 2014 News Pharrell Williams, prodigy producer, seven-time Grammy winner, and rumored vampire, has recently announced his second studio album, G I R L, set for a March 3rd release date. However, there is no need to wait u...
Black Atlass releases Young Bloods EP Joanna Jiang February 18, 2014 Album Review Alex Fleming's Black Atlass is like a fusion of The Weeknd and Gardens & Villa raised in stylish, sophisticated Montreal. However exclusive the Montreal scene might feel there, 19-year-old Fleming has ...
