Photo by Scott Evans Guy Blue – No Other Life (Without You) alternative If you’re due a cry, “No Other Life (Without You)” by Milwaukeean indietronica musician Jack Ladd, AKA Guy Blue, might be able to open the floodgates. A simply gorgeous melody is given heightened meaning with lyrics thatContinue Reading
As societal creatures, city living fulfils all of our modern-day needs. The interconnectivity of the masses undoubtedly occasions convenience. However, living on the peripheries of society, in small rural settlements, detached from the machines of big towns and cities, can supplement inconvenience with an advantaged perspective, though some moreContinue Reading
Rushkeys is the moniker of Lithuanian producer Domas Ruškys. His stage name is clever, with his family name Ruškys being phonetically close to Rushkeys, a word that accurately describes his bolting, notation-heavy electronic dance music. Ruškys has been a professional sound engineer, composer and recording artist for over a decadeContinue Reading
The science on friendships is out; they are critical to our mental health and general well-being. Friendships allow us to share our ideas without fear of being judged and can make the burdens of life seem less insurmountable. Unfortunately, the importance of physical comradery has waned in our digital world.Continue Reading
LA-based four-piece Bondo make delicately robust music on their debut album Print Selections. If “delicately robust” sounds like an oxymoron to you, that’s because it is. The group’s music is contradictory in that it is both gentle and edgy, innocent and sinister, and lulls the listener into a strange worldContinue Reading
Photo by Kyle Johnson Vitesse X – Right Now alternative pop NY-based electronic thaumaturge Jordan Stern, AKA Vitesse X, spins an intoxicating waterfall of sputtered melodies, hazed-out vocals, and danceable percussion on her recent single “Right Now”. The single is taken from the upcoming follow-up to her debut album, Us Ephemeral,Continue Reading
Photo by Sinitta Leunen Igor Ballereau – ijkl French composer Igor Ballereau leads the listener down complex corridors of dark piano, expressive guitar, gutsy percussion and strange sonic experiments on his recent album ijkl. Field recordings of crumbling earth and falling stones are set against sporadic and discordant strikes onContinue Reading
There’s a haunting quality to the music of New York-based artist Sam and the Sea. On their debut EP, “Evil Ghosts,” they deliver seemingly gentle songs, but there is more happening under the initial surface of experimental folk and shoegazing indie, a type of heavy metal in disguise, like aContinue Reading
Being able to find value in the regular is a precious gift. Poets need this skill, not just to help them give meaning to nature but to life. Someone who knows this is Italian producer Joao Ceser. It’s easy to envision the Brianza-based producer sitting in his studio atContinue Reading
The recently released trailer for the Tetris movie led me down a wikihole where I landed upon “The Tetris Effect”. The Tetris effect is when you engage in a game for an extended period, and the logic of the game world follows you into the real one. So, for example,Continue Reading