The latest by Alex Southey wouldn’t sound terribly out of place somewhere within The Arkells early repertoire; even vocally he almost takes on a style I can only describe as a sleepy and slightly slurring Max Kerman sitting on the floor of his McMaster dorm room after striking out while trying to pick-up at a college party he stayed much too late out at. Much … Continue reading I wanna tell you about Alex Southey’s God’s Green Earth
It’s a tale as old as time. A young Norweigan woman takes to the stage: a portable computer set-up, we imagine, with her hand delicately placed on the mouse that rests just to the right of its keyboard. She’s about to hit record on her latest YouTube video, a cover song recreation of a classic masterpiece. Today, she takes an extra moment to light a … Continue reading Relive the Magic of Beauty and the Beast with Minniva
Baltimore-based MC S.I.N quickly became one of our favourite rappers after we caught wind of their Nightlife 4 (Thinking) Introverts EP released in 2022 and we’re constantly impressed by their thoughtful introspective lyrics, confident flow and charismatic hip hop productions. Their latest might be one of their best yet and it just dropped today making it one of the last releases of 2023 and a … Continue reading Not just a ‘City Boy’. We’re toasting the year with S.I.N’s latest release that just arrived today.
Fresh off the 94 from her home state Minnesota and into the full-barrel honkey-tonks of Nashville, Tennessee comes 19-year old Sydney Hansen. Her latest single, “For Better” kicks off with southern charm still glistening from the polish that Nashville is not just known for but renowned and admired the world over. Without hesitation you’re transported into the Ryman auditorium where we have no doubts Hansen … Continue reading There’s good, there’s great, and then there’s Sydney Hansen’s “For Better”
If we are to take its title in a literal sense, before “Puzzle” even begins we envision ourselves sat at a table with a scattered collection of puzzle pieces. Some are right side up, others colors entirely escape us, replaced by the cheap cardboard our mural was printed on. As the gauzy guitar joins us, sounding as though it’s coming directly to us from the … Continue reading Life dictates the cutouts in Kenny Fame’s Puzzle.
We’re not one to admit it but sometimes when we listen to a track for the first time, we throw it on without headphones. We did that with this one, but only got a few seconds in before we’re reminded why putting on a pair is such a critical step. We weren’t running it through a club PA so we were already missing the low … Continue reading How Do You Do It Without Making It Nauseatingly Extravagant?
We love, love, love when we get submissions through the music submission mailbox, but sometimes we’re a little slow at getting ourselves over to it to pick up what’s waiting for us and we’re sorry about that, but certainly not as sorry as today when we noted an unusual odour coming from the back of the locker when we opened it up today. Cat food. … Continue reading We found some cat food in the mailbox.
With an almost animalistic nature, a lush wave of soulful blues guitars rushes out. Perhaps unsurprising given its namesake, the alluring tone is joined by jazz-inspired rhythms, soulful bass bopping along to the intentional shuffling of the drums and breezy staccato guitars carrying the beat steadily onto our auditory canal. While we got a small taste of the vocal stylings of Alien Feli at the … Continue reading Jazzmine? Alien Feli’s latest feels more like a musical Goldmine.
We embark down a long dirt road to find ourselves on a cattle ranch somewhere just outside of Nashville, Tennessee. Lured in by steel guitars and charming fiddles weaving their plectrums and bows across their strings, we are utterly possessed to begin our two-step the moment our boots hit the gravel. Somewhere in the distance it’s as though there is a barn full of strangers … Continue reading We’re Blowin’ Dust as we race towards Randy Ross’s latest.
Crooked Forest 