February 25, 2014

by Michele Zipkin In this day in our pop-soaked music age, it’s getting less common to find a musician who can sing live with the same passion and purity of tone as Lily Kershaw.  This past Sunday night, the twenty-two year old Los Angeles native cooed and belted out arresting Read More

Doomsquad Kalaboogie Reviewed by: Sebastian Mackay   First and foremost, Doomsquad get extra points for having inventive song titles (“Born From the Marriage of the Moon and a Crocodile”, “Kalaboogie”, “Ovoo”). More importantly, however, is the music itself. “When the Dead Read More

St. Vincent Self-Titled Reviewed by: Stephen Krock   This princess of alternative pop returns on the scene in St. Vincent’s fourth and self-titled album. She joins the ranks of Robyn and Marina & the Diamonds, with a punkish royal promenade of tracks that have the harsh, Read More

Bleeding Rainbow Interrupt Reviewed by: Samantha Weinraub   On a personal level, Bleeding Rainbow won me over before even listening to them. There’s something about taking a beloved artifact from childhood, (like television program Reading Rainbow, say) and turning it into Read More

Brandt Brauer Frick DJ- Kicks Reviewed by: Sebastian Mackay   A fairly eclectic mix of reasonably short tracks that feel as though they’re designed more for movies and video games than booty shaking. A bad thing? Maybe, maybe not. The maybe:  it’s a collection of 28 DJ Read More

Yellow Ostrich Cosmos Reviewed by: Melissa Komar   Cosmos is definitely something to howl at the moon about, sans the solar system references and inspirations.  Yellow Ostrich’s fifth album plays like a band that has polished their product like a debut and it reaches far Read More