Some cover songs take a classic song for a politely restrained reinterpretation. They’ll adjust the chords slightly, or maybe swap an acoustic for a piano. They’ll slow things down by 10 BPM and assume that’s job done. Others seem to take the approach that is marked “Crazy ideas”. Magumbo’s “cover” of Mariah Carey’s “We Belong […]
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In a move that is both incredibly sweet and a bit on the dark side, LY@TT have penned a tribute song to Pete Ham, one of music’s most unfortunate lost souls, and decided that the best way to honor him was to leave the painful parts in all their jagged glory. For listeners only familiar
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Some songs show up with the subtleness of a brick through a window. They do exactly what they say they’re going to do, point out who the baddies are and then proceed to scream their message at you until you either agree with them or take yourselves and your attitudes somewhere else. Deportee’s “Black Women
At some point in every dream, it loses its shine. Most people aren’t interested in talking about that point. Most people are interested in the dream. The initial momentum. Late-night idea sessions. Inspirational quotes overlaid on stock photos of mountains. The dreams where you wake up to it all working out, then do a magazine
This is a weird time to be involved with music; it demands we all be content creators, influencers, amateur marketers, compulsive oversharers, and, when we have time, musicians. All the songs now come pre-packaged with personalities, branding, carefully manicured online identities detailing everything the artist had for breakfast and their subsequent thoughts and feelings and
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You know the modern crisis that is only really a modern crisis is one that begins when someone who you were so easily labeled as ‘just a friend’ sends a totally mundane text that somehow your brain insists is a world-altering event? And then you hear a song capturing that? It’s not a love song,
Love songs are difficult to write. Music has been churning them out for centuries with varying degrees of sincerity and alarming levels of acoustic guitar, but because to make one now, in an era where emotional vulnerability is often filtered through layers of irony or buried under overproduction, requires a certain willingness to be painfully
There’s a certain kind of album that basically introduces itself before you even press play. Like it wants you to know exactly how it was made so you’ll listen a little differently. Aeroplane by Connie Lansberg is very much that kind of album. In this instance, the setup is kind of the whole hook: one
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There is a very specific kind of rock album that seems to exist entirely to remind you that somewhere, somehow, a man in a leather jacket is still leaning dramatically into a microphone while someone behind him attacks a guitar like it personally insulted his family. Degeneration, the latest release from Deep Jimi, is one
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There’s a particular kind of music release that doesn’t really care whether you experience it as an “album” in the modern, tightly curated, playlist-optimized sense, and instead behaves more like someone opening a vault and saying: here, this is everything, take your time. The Vault 2 by C’batch is exactly that kind of project; a