Combining trap, hip-hop, jazz, Detroit techno & ambient electronics, Shigeto’s The New Monday has turned the sounds of Detroit into the neon city of Tron. Basslines…
I reviewed The Belle Game’s Fear/Nothing for its usage of synth-pop as a platform for self-empowerment. Lead singer Andrea Lo furthered proved what I already…
I had the pleasure to see Romes in concert, and their self-titled debut album delivers in barrels their fun, summery energy. This band aims for…
Conceived during increasingly long periods of isolation caused by increasingly intense bouts of anxiety and depression, Canon Blue’s Lasso Yo weaves those difficult personal struggles…
A debut says a lot about an artist, and Kelela makes two things clear: she is simple and self-aware. In many ways, those are the…
The Cults have been one of my favorite bands…. since ever. Their mesh of 60’s pop with enough electro-wave to revive a cemetery could leave…
Wolf Parade’s Cry Cry Cry should be called Drama Drama Drama, and I love it. Soaring choruses, rousing anthems, sprawling guitars and chaotic keys make…
It is a somber time in this world, which is why JP Cooper’s Raised Under Grey Skies is befitting in title and times.…
Benjamin Clementine can be for soul what Frank Ocean is for Hip Hop; adding a sense of strange to the heart of these genres. Clementine’s…
What unabashed irony that Younger Now is about Miley Cyrus on getting older! Yes, she is still in her early twenties, and I am…
Barns Courtney’s brilliant debut, The Attractions of Youth, is rocking feast of sounds and analysis on being young, ambitious, and totally lost on how to…
Demi Lovato’s Tell Me You Love Me might as well be the club album for every woman that has danced with her man, loved him,…
At 22 tracks, Jhené Aiko’s Trip is a psychedelic nose-dive into the much needed but much procrastinated desire to grieve. At least most of us…
Ásgeir is one of the best concerts to go to when you want to feel lost in music. The Icelandic artist brought the Northern Lights…
Hoodie Allen IS a New Yorker, and his new album, The Hype, is a love letter to the sounds and souls you will encounter in…