With BAD PREMONITION, Canadian Columbian artist Valerie Teicher Barbosa, also known as Tei Shi, returns powerfully with a 6-track EP that heralds her return to self and her origins as an independent...
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Miles GinozaVicky Farewell has worn a lot of hats in the music industry. She has toured as a keyboardist for Kali Uchis and Willow Smith, has writing credits on multiple Anderson .Paak records including the Grammy-winning Ventura, and has worked on music...
Vee Hua 華婷婷On its surface, PARASAiL-18, the 2022 full-length from experimental solo musician The Growth Eternal, comes across as a smooth, harmonious, and vocoder-laden electronic offering. Beneath its surface, however, one finds a challenging, highly-personal...
It’s the Spring Equinox, and I am at the Showbox in downtown Seattle, surrounded by the excitable chatter of a relatively young, mostly BIPOC audience that is dressed adorably and ready to impress. We are waiting for R&B musician David...
Dos Santos Band Interview: City of Mirrors Dynamically Reflects U.S. Latin American Musical Identity
On City of Mirrors, the fourth full-length record from Chicago’s Dos Santos, the five-piece band once again showcases their musical expertise by presenting a rich, multicultural melting pot of sounds. Coming from wide-ranging diasporic...
Ramona Gonzalez, better known to many by the moniker Nite Jewel, hasn’t always allowed the public into her private life. The influential Los Angeles-based electronic pop musician may have been releasing records on her own since 2008, but it is...
Zach FrimmelThroughout Deantoni Parks’ 20-plus-year career as a prolific, experimental drummer and record producer, he has collaborated with luminaries such as Flying Lotus, Sade, and more deeply with the Velvet Underground’s John Cale and Mars Volta’s Omar...
In Los Angeles-based musician Patrick Shiroishi‘s latest music video for “To Kill a Wind-Up Bird,” excitable free jazz comes face-to-wrinkly-puppet-face with a Looney Tunes-inspired experiment, which sets skronking sounds to...