Archive: 2021

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Anthony Vasquez who writes and records as Otis Kane found a passion for music at a very young age. His football coach at the time had ties to the music industry, which led to his first recording studio experience. From then on, Vasquez knew that he wanted to […]

Check out the spellbinding and gorgeous new single “Melting Day” from Los Angeles-based Sandwoman. With a captivating vocal aura, she dances across a synthesizer-saturated world with an inviting tone and melodic flair. “Melting Day” is a lovely and simple timepiece, a creative and carefree track reminding us of Blondie meets Cate Le Bon. “I wrote […]

You might not yet have heard Left Field Messiah play, but you’re probably familiar with its parts. The band – featuring Steve Bays (Hot Hot Heat), Erik Janson (Wildling), and Jeremy Ruzumma (Fitz and The Tantrums) recently conjured up a slinky beauty titled “Left Field Messiah” that covers the blue-eyed soul alt pop spectrum ala Hall & Oates, Mark Ronson, […]

This Saturday, February 20 at 6pm EST, Low Cut Connie will air a special episode of their acclaimed livestream concert series “Tough Cookies” in partnership with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which will feature interviews with original members from Sly and the Family Stone, including Jerry Martini, Larry Graham, Freddie Stone, Greg Errico, as well as Phunne Stone, […]

Copenhagen’s Iceage – Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, Jakob Tvilling Pless, Johan Surrballe Wieth, and Dan Kjær Nielsen – has announced their fifth album, Seek Shelter, out May 7th on Mexican Summer. With that they have presented a new single/video, “Vendetta,” (below). Enrolling Sonic Boom(Pete Kember of Spacemen 3) to produce the record and an additional guitarist in the form of Casper Morilla Fernandez, Seek Shelter sees Iceage’s propulsive momentum pushing them […]

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are excited to announce their seventeenth studio album L.W., to be released February 26, 2021. The album serves as a direct follow-up to last year’s full-length K.G., and is the third volume in the band’s explorations into microtonal tunings (which began with 2017’s Flying Microtonal Banana). Pre-save the album HERE. Following the recent releases of […]

Staggering and sonically delightful, The Local Honeys deliver power, education, and a healthy dose of uprightness on their two-song release, Dying To Make A Living and Octavia Triangle, out via La Honda Records. Kentuckians through and through, Linda Jean Stokley and Montana Hobbs are exceptionally skilled old-time musicians with robust and dynamic voices that convey […]

Death Become Life, the forthcoming album from acclaimed Oakland-based hip-hop orchestra Ensemble Mik Nawooj, is slated for release on March 19. Death Become Life consists of ten tracks and five accompanying live performance videos. Three of the compositions—together known as the Fountainheads Suite—are a direct response to COVID-19 and its disproportionate effects on marginalized communities, […]

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians release their new album, Hunter And The Dog Star, this week via Thirty Tigers. In many ways, this is the second album in the group’s new phase of existence, having come together with plenty of reunion fireworks with Rocket in 2018. Though they have never really ceased being a musical entity, there have […]