Justin Nozuka’s Run To Waters is like putting your mind on a yoga mat, and asking it to stretch until it finds its center. It…
Editors’ played to Millennials’ inner teens across the Irving Plaza Land. Blending their indie rock with post-punk sensibilities, the night felt like a reliving of…
Courtney Barnett’s Tell Me How You Really Feel gives off a literary vibe. I kept on thinking of Jardine Libaire’s White Fur with Barnett’s capacity…
What if you took a rock anthem and turned it into a ballad? Imagine “We Will Rock You” if it were led by violin strings?…
Kitten’s Chloe Chaidez is a tour-de-force. Coming out in her “Oops, I Did It Again” outfit, she could not stop tossing her arms and legs…
Playing a show at Mercury Lounge, G-Flip came out looking like a Skater Girl, but her performance challenged the “easy-going” stereotypes tethered to such an…
Seeing Smoke Season at Rough Trade, I kept on thinking of No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom; their experimental electro-pop pulsed with its same endearing, instinctual sense…
I LOVE Kassin’s Relax. When ever someone brings the “Latin- Samba” heat to their sound, my soul and roots feels summoned to the dance-floor. It…
Ssion’s O is pure experimentation at its finest. Blending punk, pop, and glam, O feels like a sex pistol filled with glitter; to shoot its…
It is hard to describe Pavo Pavo’s effect, but it kind of feels like the sleepy dreaminess you get after an exciting day or a…
Marian Hill took Brooklyn Steel in a storm of R&B futurism. As the crowd sang their songs like they were serenading their crush or musically…
The Bones of J.R. Jones took Mercury Lounge on a religious experience. I know I often talk about society or spirituality, but The Bones of…
You know you are a big deal if you have no opening act. It happened with Lily Allen, and then again with Sloan. Albeit, both…
Benjamin Jaffe’s Oh, Wild Ocean Of Love is a sweet, Western infused romance. You feel like you have walked into an old town filled with…
SYNOPSIS: As a member of a notorious Brussels gang renowned for their expertly-executed robberies, Gigi (frequent Roskam collaborator Matthias Schoenaerts, The Danish Girl, Red Sparrow), tends…