Since parting ways with Brooklyn pop outfit Friends, Samantha Urbani has spent her time collaborating with artists like Blood Orange, as well as Ssion and Seth Bogart, and Nite Jewel and Zoë Kravitz. Between 2015 and now, her new solo tracks have been slowly trickling out of SoundCloud (like the fantastic “1, 2, 3, 4”, which…
When I first saw Sofi Tukker—a New York City-based duo whose dance music and live performance feel tribal, with nods toward Brazilian instruments, poets and Portuguese—it was one of the weirdest sets I’d seen of late. It was the kind of show that you watched with your mouth slightly open, one that made you tilt…
It’s really difficult to wrap my head around the fact that we lost both Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington so close together, and that the cause of both deaths was suicide. It’s a difficult pill to swallow—most of us grew up with the music of Soundgarden and Linkin Park in our ears. They were there…
When an artist passes away, posthumous albums are an inevitability, even if they feel super dirty and wrong. When the artist is as huge as Michael Jackson or say, Prince, there’s no stopping what will eventually be unearthed via the estates or from the depths of a record label’s catalogue. Is it a greedy cash-in?…
When the sisters HAIM burst on the scene with 2013’s dazzling debut, Days Are Gone, they released one of the most pristine and calculated debut albums of the last 20 years. It was a collection of 10 neatly constructed pop-rock tracks that mixed 70’s pop tones and 90’s R&B into their folk formula, as if Stevie Nicks had…
Punk purists have vilifying opinions when it comes to (GASP!) pop punk. Despite widely acclaimed bands like The Ramones and The Kinks paving the way toward this dancier, poppier sound, pop punk is often treated like a cancer in many music circles, especially older ones, whose fans conveniently forget how much they loved Dookie or …And Out Come…
File this under “Stuff That Doesn’t Suck.” Watch Canadian rockers PUP throw a punk spin on Phantogram’s “You Don’t Get Me High Anymore” for triple j’s Like A Version series. The clip is from October and it kicks tons of ass. Boatloads, even. (And remember kids: always go off-genre for covers!) PUP cover Phantogram ‘You…
Ahh, summer…sun, fun, booze, alcohol…wait, those two are the same thing. I don’t know about you, but summer to me is signified by chugging brews and crankin’ tunes. (And I guess mixing it up with some rando’s at a BBQ you didn’t even want to go to, but that’s what all the sauce is for!)…
Whenever you’re sitting around listening to a song on repeat and raging all solo-style, life is good. Toronto’s Death From Above, made up of vocalist/drummer Sebastian Grainger and bassist Jesse F. Keeler, are back with “Freeze Me,” their first new material since 2014’s The Physical World, which ended a 10-year silence from the band who initially…
Lorde’s Melodrama just dropped and thankfully, it’s everything that “Green Light” isn’t—moody, lyrically adept, sullen at times. Those worrying (like me) that it’d be chock-full of radio-ready hits and happy pop ditties can rest assured—our darker, cooler pop princess still reigns supreme in the world of alt-pop. While lead single “Green Light” did grow on me, there’s…