Timothy Alice & the Dead Star Band’s “Winning Number” Rocks Buffalo Blues
So let’s say I’m a drop of water starting at the Granddaddy of Great Lakes: Lake Superior. I avoid evaporation, or extraction, and keep flowing; I peer over the sea of fellow droplets at the fading view of Duluth, Minnesota and flow into the super-lake of Huron and Michigan – maybe catch a glimpse of […]
Gidea’s “Intrepid Traveler” & Foolish Endeavours
Gidea invokes a tarot card to describe the release of her first single, Intrepid Traveler: The Fool It’s a bit on the nose; The Fool is the beginning of the major arcana cards (as it sounds: the “Big Deal” cards), representing the naive, cup-overfloweth enthusiasm of a new life cycle. Much like the Fool, Gidea […]
Kenja Time’s “Dust” & Shanghai’s Underground
If you were to head on down to one of Shanghai’s oldest underground indie venues, YUYINTANG, in the small, cramped space of sweaty weekend-goers, you might feel the reverberation of the hottest new band bouncing off the walls and into your head. Kenja Time (空加太) is one such band. Taking off in the Beijing underground […]
Thomas Flynn’s “Following” and Norwegian Rest Stops
I’ve been watching a lot of travel documentaries. Something about the cozy-ness of staying home, sludged into my couch like a burrowing animal, watching some of the greatest landscapes pan out on the TV screen – it strikes a perfect balance of marvel and comfort. The most recent one I watched was on Norway; they […]
Talel McBriar’s “Little Hell” and Autumn Walks
As autumn threatens its coldness – and the certainty of winter in its wake – I do what any music-obsessed nerd does. I make a Fall playlist. This is one of the fun things about seasonal shifts: the rituals. There are universal things, like pumpkin spice lattes, Halloween decorations, raking and crunching the fallen leaves. […]
Bami’s “I Don’t Know How to Be Alone” & Melancholy Bops
What do you get when you mix Ariana Grande, Genshin Impact, Thom Yorke, BB King, and Nirvana? Right, well: a mess. Or, maybe – indie pop? Four-man South Korean band, Bami (바미), has released their most recent single, “I Don’t Know How to Be Alone”, a bass-line groovy, vocally wispy, and lyrically melancholy song about […]
Soffee’s “Orange Maple” is Delightfully Bittersweet
Soffee’s music is a latte. It seems the autumnal-themed songs are rolling in with the turn of Fall, and Soffee‘s 8th single “Orange Maple” is no exception. While the titular maple tree is Fall-themed enough, I dare to make more parallels. Indeed – Soffee’s sound is not just the tree; it is itself like the […]
