As spring approaches, so too does MACKandgold’s music video for a song off of her Take Solace EP. “The Middle” is an electronic-pop track with hints of country in its pronunciation. This heartfelt song focuses on the reconciliation of a broken relationship, or in other words, finding the “middle ground.”
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Growth is the flower that emerges from the soil and lifts its head into the unknown. Coming from a lengthy hiatus after his early days with the Southern California band, Refrain, Davie Chandler takes a bold new direction. “Sometimes” is an atmospheric electro-pop melody that is promising for Chandler’s future works.
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With the deluxe release of their 2020 EP, Remote, “Quarterback” is just one of five new tracks. The single is a poppier shade of Wallows’ style of alternative rock, ultimately sounding like a proto-summer anthem.
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With their seventh studio album, Spare Ribs, the duo tangles with UK politics, personal introspection, and the corruption of capitalism. Though, there’s a lot more to the record than those punk-geared topics.
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Viagra Boys’ (latest release) Welfare Jazz isn’t quite an album you dance to. No, it isn’t something you vibe to in the background, either. It’s an album that stretches your ears wide open and climbs in, crawls through your ear canal, sits in the shadow of your brain, and stays there for hours after the fact.
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In an inter-mesh of math rock and classic garage punk, Hugh Effo’s self-titled record emerges as a pleasant verbiage that charms the attentive ear. The Los Angeles based band presents their first full-length record with ten bombastic tracks that wind themselves to very impressive highs.
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The Los Angeles psychedelic-fused rock group, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, advances their groove-driven discography with their newest album, Monsters Eating People Eating Monsters.
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Toronto-based Pretty Matty’s music can best be identified as pop punk. But, as their latest single “You’re Not There” proves, it’s the punk which comes first for the band. And if punk lays the foundation of this musical house, then its walls are made with pop-bounce and its roof is a shelling of modern rock.
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Barring the apocalypse, 2020 America rivals the political whirlwind of 2016 where the fate of the nation practically sits on a coin toss. The Los Angeles punk band, Dirtycakes, highlights this likeness with the remaster of their anthem, “Resist 45,” a track originally released in 2017.
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A year after his last project, Iron Lungs, Oakland musician Kevin Nichols returns with a bangin’ single. In “Hanging on to My Head,” Nichols creates a highly creative and provocative space which echoes the distant grunge faze of the 90s. Make no mistake, however, as Nichols proves to advance the formula, as he usually does. “Hanging on to My Head” is alternative, engaging, and fresh.
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From the galactic cover art of her recent albums, to song titles like “Constellation” or “In The Z Plane,” and even to the spaceful tone of enrapturing psychedelic noise which washes over the listener without pause — It’s clear that Winters handles a cosmic theme in her music. And this is especially true for Winter’s new album, Endless Space (Between You & I)
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Janelane’s recent single, “14 Days,” evokes a variety of feelings about love. Or, perhaps, the lack thereof. The ambiguity of its message, namely the implications of “finding bronze” when you believe you “struck gold” in a partner, prompts the listener to question this significance themselves. Or, if not, it still gives them a killer track to listen to.
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