Music Song Picks of the Week There are so many cool songs with female names in their title which makes me wish I had one of them too… Kelly for example, a laid-back number by American Wrestlers and our Song Pick of Monday. The Flavr Blue delivers the soundtrack for the lazy July afternoon at the
Music Releases and Announcements: Heather Woods Broderick // Little Boots Heather Woods Broderick – Glider If somebody releases music under her real name, in particular if it’s such a long one, it spells seriousness to me, often a tad too much. Glider is a serious album that carries a lot of sadness, but it often opens up to lush soundscapes
Music 3 Is A Band: The Eiffels Leisurely listening through tons of new songs on SoundCloud… I Did It Now stood out, and I wanted to immediately listen to it again. And a third time, while checking out the band: The Eiffels. From Los Angeles…. aha, that explains the upbeat, energetic vibe. Three musicians Sean Ulbs (vocals,
Music Life Soundtrack: Imagination - Just an Illusion I can’t think of any other song that teleports me to a certain time and place in the same way as Just an Illusion by the British band Imagination. It was ’82 and I was with my dad on vacation on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. There was a
Music Album Review: Bully - Feels Like Bully at Maggie Mae’s (SXSW 2015) I found Bully the first time on the lineup for SXSW 2014. I was intrigued by the story of singer and songwriter Alicia Bognanno, who came to Nashville as a sound engineer. We missed their show back then, but one year later they
Music Our Look Back at Northside Festival 2015 Remember our write-up Getting Excited for Northside Festival? The bands we wanted to check out for the first time or see live again? A good three weeks after the 7th Northside Festival has concluded, we can take stock: whom did we end up seeing? And… where there any surprises? New
Music Song Picks of the Week UK Band Landshapes plays Union Pool on July 16th. That’s why I listened to their song Stay and I really like it, so it’s our Song Pick of Monday. We’re staying in the UK but are leaving London, heading a bit further North to Norwich to listen
Releases and Announcements: Apple Music Last week Apple Music went finally live and like always when Apple does something, everybody has to say something about it. Probably the most talked about feature is Beats 1, a 24 hours, global radio station poised to make listening to radio cool again. Many love it, including me: there’
Music PHOTOS: No Joy live at Rough Trade No Joy is a Canadian four piece, originally founded by Jasmine White-Gluz (vocals, guitar) and Laura Lloyd (guitar), now joined by drummer Garland Hastings and bassist Michael Farsky. They do shoegaze, almost in the literal sense of the word: both guitarists operate an impressive array of technology at their feet
Music LIFE SOUNDTRACK Kraftwerk - Die Roboter I think I heard this song first 1979 in music class. We were asked to bring some cassettes to be played in front of the class and a fellow student brought Kraftwerk’s Die Roboter. The kids back then were divided between classical music (those who learned instruments) and 50s
Music NEW ALBUM: Glower - The Circle Binds The second Low Motion, the title track of Glower‘s album starts, I loved it already! It’s about the feelings The Circle Binds is able to evoke: it is as if I’m sitting in my favorite bar and surprisingly, an old friend comes in, one I haven’t
Music NEW ALBUM: Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool The first time we saw Wolf Alice was on the second day of SXSW 2015 at The Parish and we were pretty much blown away. The band had so much energy and singer Ellie Rowsell was so intense and beautiful that we both became immediate fans. The same has apparently
Music TORRES gave a mesmerizing performance at the legendary Mercury Lounge From the moment TORRES takes the stage to the unavoidable ending when she has to leave it again, Mackenzie Scott (who goes by TORRES) holds a tight grip on her fascinated audience. Having seen TORRES twice already before (for SXSW2015 and at Baby’s All Right), I knew about her
Music Song Picks of the Week The Song Pick of Monday Come in comes from London musician GEoRGiA (capitalization hers). I love the industrial beat on this track, which is off a four track EP with the same name. More of this please! Are You Happy asks The Outdoor Type in our Song Pick of Tuesday.
Releases and Announcements New Releases Wolf Alice – My Love Is Cool Oliver: This week two female-fronted four-pieces battle from both sides of the Atlantic it out for the most love from the critics. London band Wolf Alice released their excellent debut My Love Is Cool on Dirty Hit Records. More about it on
Music 3 Is A Band: Little Racer I’ve known Little Racer’s music for quite a while but only now, with having lost or dropped their fourth member and with being on Papercup Music, I stumbled across them again. Almost literally, because I saw them in the audience for a show at UO Live Stage on
Music It Hugs Back - Slow Wave What I love most about Slow Wave, the new album by the British four piece It Hugs Back, is the chilled and overall highly laid-back vibe. Especially in songs like Somnolence or Anyway, Matthew Simms’ vocal and guitar style remind me of a few 90s favorites of mine. Listening to
Ibeyi play a surprise acoustic set at Rough Trade NYC Ibeyi is one of the new bands I’m the most excited about this year, so it was a no-brainer to rush to Rough Trade NYC last Friday to see them live once more. They played an acoustic set in the store itself, not in the back room venue, which
Music Waterstrider played a beautiful set at Palisades Two months ago, I came across the album Waterstrider, the self-titled debut album of the Californian band Waterstrider and wrote a review about it. I loved the album back then, and I still do and so it was a no-brainer to go see Waterstrider live when in town. Touring with
Wolf Alice live at Poisson Rouge When I read about a show at Poisson Rouge in the Greenwich Village, I picture sitting at a table with a glass of wine while nibbling some sushi. You can do that there for some shows, but for a rock band like Wolf Alice, it is turned into a packed
Song Picks of the Week Looking for the perfect Song Pick of the Day, we decided on Perfect by ONWE – easy, no? Northside Festival is all about discovering new bands and enjoying shows of long time favorites. ONWE fall into the former category because we never heard them before but enjoyed their performance as part
Music Releases and Announcements New Releases Gengahr – A Dream Outside Elke: The slowly unfolding, ethereally beautiful and highly catchy Bathed In Light might be familiar for many ears and now there’s luckily a whole album of “more” to it. Gengahr a four piece from London, have released their debut album A Dream Outside
