For the love of music
Dangerous Muse – Red EP Electronic synth-pop artist Mike Furey, AKA Dangerous Muse, has been on the scene for a while, breaking through with MTV-approved “The Rejection” in 2006 and with an enticing video for “I Want It All” in 2009 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN6sc-zpFL0). Mike has released a string of singles and EPs, with 2 … [Read more...]
Every now and again, you happen upon an artist whose stellar output and formidable back catalog encourages reflections on why they're still working the underground circuit while acts like Coldplay and Carly Rae Jepsen are granted the privilege of infiltrating our daily lives with their paint-by-numbers pop. Indeed, the capricious listening habits … [Read more...]
Migrating from the swamps and humid air of Florida to the bustling crowded elegance that is Brooklyn, New York is quite a stark contrast but was a necessary journey for the experimental pop quartet Conveyor. Recently signed to Paper Garden Records, Conveyor’s debut self-titled LP was released on Tuesday, July 17th. Borrowing from sounds mirroring … [Read more...]
Adventures of Fi in Space is the brainchild of EndAnd, the indie rockers from space (er, Brooklyn). Adventures of Fi in Space is actually two EP’s joined to make one, nine-track album. The first EP is aptly named, Adventure of Hi-Fi in Space and the other, Adventures of Lo-Fi in Space. Starting as a duo between guitarist and vocalist, Daniel … [Read more...]
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the four years I’ve been working for this webzine, it’s that every burgeoning artist should get the benefit of the doubt. To make a lucrative, successful career in musical performance was a frustratingly volatile pursuit well before file sharing and streaming media changed the game, but even though the … [Read more...]
Less than six months after he furnished an album with some of the most deliciously eclectic treatments of old T. Rex and Bruce Springsteen tunes, songwriter Mark Lesseraux returns with a succinct EP of original material. Culled from paraphernalia that goes as far back as 2009, this five-track set largely sidesteps the acoustic debonair cool of … [Read more...]
When it comes to crafting succinct blasts of scrappy, blues-driven rock 'n’ roll, there are few bands right now doing it with more spry spunkiness than Brooklyn’s Obits. With the musical economy of Spoon but the wiry performance practice of, say, The Strokes or The Walkmen, Obits fuses unrelenting grooves and urgent tempos with careening stabs … [Read more...]
Do you miss rock from the early to mid 90s? If so, New York's own Worst Case Ontario might be your new best friend. It almost makes me want to find an old flannel and some combat boots. Almost. The band's approach is pretty standard - two guitars, bass, drums, vocals - throw 'em in a room together and see what happens. There's plenty of chugging … [Read more...]
Small Black are a meek group of Brooklynites who make timid, but remarkably engaging lover’s rock - usually squelched through a few fuzzy amps. If that sounds like every other act coming out of Brooklyn these days, you’d be right – indebted to Animal Collective, leaning towards Lo-Fi as an aesthetic rather than a curse, and more than okay … [Read more...]
Fang Island describes its sound as "everyone high-fiving everyone." And, the Brooklyn quintet's anthemic and soaring songs make it quite possibly one of few bands befitting such description. Check out MP3s for two new tracks, "Daisy" (MP3 HERE) and "Life Coach" (MP3 HERE). Fang Island began, oddly enough, as an art school project while the band … [Read more...]