Other artists want a seat at a table. Ray Gibbz flips it instead with no apologies. That defines the entirety of his latest release, If I Ruled. For a self-taught producer, songwriter, and rapper emerging from San Diego, Nas’ If I Ruled the World becomes a clear touchpoint in shaping Ray Gibbz’s vision for this […]
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Imagine grief when it doesn’t come off like a movie that made you cry like a bucket or a devastating video that lingered like smoke in your room. What you’ll get from Reetoxa’s Love Keeps Burning Still is grief settling in the most tender, softest way possible. Reetoxa is a Melbourne band fronted by Jason
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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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The air in a cramped apartment feels a little lighter when Paycheck to Paycheck by Credible Witness starts to rattle the floorboards. It arrives with the frantic energy of a morning commute where the train is late but the sun is shining and you still believe in the possibility of a win. This is a
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,
The way a single clean guitar string vibrates against a hollow wood body feels like a secret being told for the first time and MP Grey finds that exact frequency on Unfold. It begins with a quiet shimmer and a breath so the room feels twice as large and I remember hearing those first few
MP GREY SHATTERS THE CEILING OF INDEPENDENT ALT-ROCK ON THE ATMOSPHERIC ANTHEM UNFOLD Read More »
The air in electronic music feels stagnant and over-processed but then comes oddhippo to smash the glass with their latest offering Self Obliteration. It hits like a brick through a screen and demands you pay attention to the grit underneath the pixels because this is the sound of an artist reclaiming their pulse. This Brighton outfit refuses to
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Imagine a dimly lit room where the only light comes from the embers of a dying fire and the world outside has faded into a quiet blur of midnight blue. This is the space Ike Rivers inhabits on his track Everything To Me and it feels like a secret whispered directly into your ear while
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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
