María Escarmiento, a one-of-a-kind personality. After her stint on the musical talent show, Operación Triunfo, she dove headfirst into the Spanish urban scene, collaborating with key figures and producers, creating dancefloor heartbreakers, and blending sensuality with melancholy. Her stylistic range is diverse but cohesive; steering away from reggaeton, she has increasingly embraced pop, electronic, and… Read more »
Anchored by a mutual predisposition for unpredictability, Quarters of Change fuse together a signature hybrid of nineties-style alternative hooks, crunchy space rock soundscapes, and strutting seventies grooves. After piling up millions of streams, selling out shows, and inciting critical applause, the New York City quartet—Ben Acker [guitar, bass, synths], Attila Anrather [drums], Jasper Harris [guitars,… Read more »
Since their debut as Brijean, the project of percussionist/singer-songwriter Brijean Murphy (the percussive heartbeat for live bands like Mitski, Poolside, and Toro y Moi) and multi-instrumentalist/producer Doug Stuart has moved with ingenuity, fusing psych-pop abstraction with dancefloor sensibilities. Through the body and mind, rhythm and lyricism, they make sense of the worlds around and within; 2021’s Feelings celebrated self-reflection; 2022’s Angelo processed… Read more »
Sex Week, the rising New York duo of actor and musician Pearl Amanda Dickson and songwriter and producer Richard Orofino, released their debut, Sex Week EP, on August 30th via Grand Jury. Songs like, “Kid Muscle” showcase the band’s unique seductive sound and alchemy, pairing sprawling slowcore with black metal-inspired growls and sinister whispers. The… Read more »
Folk Bitch Trio—Gracie Sinclair (she/her), Jeanie Pilkington (she/her) and Heide Peverelle (they/them)—are known for enrapturing audiences around their home city of Naarm/Melbourne with sensitive and thoughtful arrangements of three part harmony. What began as an unserious collaboration between three friends has led the trio to share stages with acts such as King Gizzard and the… Read more »
Bonny Light Horseman’s new album, Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free, is an ode to the blessed mess of our humanity. Confident and generous, it is an unvarnished offering that puts every feeling and supposed flaw out in the open. The themes are stacked high and staked even higher: love and loss, hope and sorrow,… Read more »
LETTUCE is (a) the prime ingredient in a salad, (b) a slang for cash, (c) a green herb that can be smoked, (d) a genre-busting six-member musical collective formed in 1992 by four alumni of the prestigious Berklee College Of Music, or (e) all of the above. If you answered “e,” then you’re in on… Read more »
Menahan Street Band is an amalgamation of various musical disciplines spanning years of collective musical exploration by its individual members: Thomas Brenneck (Budos Band, The Expressions, Los Yesterdays), Dave Guy (The Roots, Late Night House Band, The Dap-Kings), Nick Movshon(Lee Fields and the Expressions, The Black Keys, The Avalanches), Leon Michels (Big Crown Records, El… Read more »
Jamila Woods is a poet, musician, and teaching artist born and raised on the South Side of Chicago. In 2016, Jamila released her critically acclaimed debut album, HEAVN . Her second studio album, LEGACY! LEGACY! (2019) pays homage to a collection of artists of color who have influenced her life and work. Jamila’s third solo… Read more »
For over two decades, Atmosphere has maintained a course of rigorous output, releasing over two dozen studio albums, EP’s and collaborative side projects in as many years. In that time, the venerated duo have built a legacy out of bringing honesty, humility and vulnerability to the forefront of their music, continually challenging themselves to evolve… Read more »