Vee Hua 華婷婷Having just reviewed GAYNG’s upcoming release, Relayted, I thought that I’d share their first video for “Cry”. “Cry” is actually a cover of Godley & Creme’s pop version of the song, but both videos...
Allen HuangSecret Cities are a psych-pop trio from Fargo, North Dakota. And much like the Coen brothers’ film of the same name, Pink Graffiti is a wonderful dreamscape of complicit artistry and deliberate complexity. Though comparable to other pop...
Lauren FukanoPretty much everything about Lookbook’s newest LP, Wild At Heart — including their choice of album name — confirms that they remain deeply enamored with the 1980s. With their synthpop sound under lead vocalist Maggie...
With his first album under the guise of The Northern Key, San Francisco’s Andrew Galluccio (or at least his label) wants desperately to be taken seriously as the latest voice in modern folk. But there’s more to being a folk musician than...
For as much flack as people gave Fall Out Boy during their run, there are a few facts that one cannot ignore. For one thing, they were able to reshape pop-punk in their own image, taking a dying genre and redefining it for middle America. In short...
What happens when you mix two familiar faces together? The result can be scary, we’ve learned, from those image-generating programs that mash two adults together to create warped, inbred-looking potential children. But somehow illustrator...
The instant I heard the opening track and single off Nedry’s debut album, Condors, I was excited. I began promoting it on a personal level, sharing it with all my friends with even a remote interest in electronic-influenced music. As far as I...
Arguably, nostalgia is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you can take inspiration from some really great sources and mold them into your own image; on the other side of that coin, it’s easy to fall into the trappings of becoming a rip-off...