Coma Girls‘ have shared their new single “Candles,” a slow-burning folk-rocker about the guilt and shame that often comes with addiction. The outro opens up into a sheet of distorted guitars, as Spino repeats an aching mantra over and over: “Leave your candles lit / My pain keeps burning on and on and on.”
Ten years ago, Aaron Mader, AKA Lazerbeak, dropped Lava Bangers—a 20-track exhibition of underground hip-hop power and maximalism. Like Run the Jewels’ El-P, Lazerbeak landed devastating punches with his beats, creating bangers in the purest sense of the word and capturing the attention of superstar-in-the-making Lizzo. READ MORE…
ELPENTHE AKA: Elliott Beenk releases his new EP, ELPENTHE I, a five track collection of electronic and R&B-inspired bedroom-pop grounded in a love of connection mixed by Kevin Smith (Harry Styles, Phoebe Bridgers, Frank Ocean) and mastered by engineer Stuart Hawkes (Lorde, Charli XCX, Amy Winehouse). Today, the multi-artist has shared the album highlight “Forbidden.” READ MORE…
“The name ‘Ditchbird’ sounds like a folk artist,” he says from his home studio in Minneapolis, where both Real Enough For You Now and the harder-hitting Some Dreams EP were recorded, “but I wanted to make sure people were aware that I’m not going to sing songs with an acoustic guitar on my couch forever. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I have more rock songs in me. It’s the sound I grew up hearing.”
The Wirelight is the recording project of Lewis Beard, who might have been born a decade or two too late. New single, “Everything’s Cool,” takes us back to the wonderful days of Material Issue and early stages of the Gin Blossoms. READ MORE…
