In December 1976, Melba Moore made history at the Metropolitan Opera House. An Evening with Melba Moore at the Met marked the first time a Black pop artist headlined a one-woman show at one of New York’s most prestigious venues,… Read More
St. South, neé Olivia Gavranich, has released a debut album full of raw emotions and intimate bedroom pop. Get Well Soon is a loose concept record about a breakup and the variety of responses it produces. St. South’s warm, relaxed… Read More
It’s one thing to wear your influences on your sleeve. The Blam Blams, a quartet out of Nashville, have gone so far as to raid a glam rock closet from the mid-1970s and are trying on every outfit. But this… Read More
Bright, sleek, and shiny, Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield revisits Charles Dickens at a time when the Victorian novelist’s work should have new relevance. While the book’s themes of betrayal, identity, class, and survival-of-the-fittest economics are fairly… Read More
Los Angeles’ SHOCKEY goes in for a bit of glam rock mixed with lo-fi, slacker pop on an ode to the true joys of being “high”. “HIGH” could be your new favorite stoner pop song, and it’s got languid, rolling… Read More
New York producer Gromo bases his music around the intersection of hip-hop, R&B, and electronic/dance. His previous single, “Don’t Care”, is a minimalist electrorap number that showcases the producer’s signature sound. For his latest song “Slowly”, Gromo stretches his wings… Read More
Nothing in life offers guarantees that everything will be fine. Nothing assures you that your behavior will win you either comfort or justice. Nothing keeps the water clean and the floods down, and the winds light. Country singer Ruston Kelly… Read More
Sometimes the power and promise packed into a pop single can be heard in its opening notes. However, Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” is not typical pop. It’s six-minute plus duration gives it an unlikely length for a single.… Read More
Daniel Rodriguez knows loss, and perhaps more intimately than many of us. Running parallel to Elephant Revival’s breakup was the end of a 14-year romantic relationship. These two significant misfortunes left Rodriguez seemingly lost. However, he turned a new leaf… Read More
While the COVID-19 pandemic put plans for their third album on hold, Brooklyn-based psychedelic dream-pop/jazz/soul sextet GADADU saw it as an opportunity to revisit an old song and reconstruct it remotely. The result is “dosaardvark”, their new single, which premieres… Read More