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A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot today ### Brodie Casanova - Worth Ya While An infectiously sunny beat--it sounds like a chipmunk doing the Milly Rock--buoys Brodie while he tunes out negative influences with music, video games, and the roar of an Italy-bound plane taking off. More from Brodie … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 02.23.24
Fam Ross and Arsinel team up for a track inspired by a Pitt basketball standout. On January 25, 1988, Pitt's Jerome Lane went up for a dunk. When his sneakers left the court's surface, he was a talented junior forward with a penchant for rebounding. When he touched back down, he was a legend. He … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Pen Lordz- Jerome Lane (prod. M.Germ?)
A sneak preview of the first single from XC-17's upcoming album, due out later this year. XC-17, a former member of the spectral RnB duo ALONA and a founder of the LGBTQ dance party group Dyspheric, is releasing a full-length album later this year, and was kind enough to share some of it with Bored … Continue reading Daily Yinz – XC-17 – RIDRARC
The psychedelic septet's latest album is "Sunny Daze For President." Whatever is going on at the White House in the "Sunny Daze For President" album cover looks preferable to whatever is going on there now and whatever what will be going on there in a year. Unless enough people cast their vote for Sunny Daze … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Sunny Daze & the Weathermen – Wasting My Time
Lounna's latest single is a ball of warmth to get you through the cold late winter. If somebody had come to the kid version of me, his little hands wrapped around a cup of hot chocolate after an afternoon spent sledding, and said, "You know, there's going to be a day when you see snow … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Lounna – Peak Season
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Aysie - Dreamy Lover Aysie's yearning vocals, both sung and rapped, float above stutter-stop percussion and pillowy synths; a fitting listen for this Valentine's Day week. More from Aysie Follow on Instagram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5POjpgEEu74 ### Stay Another Season - Justify Your … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 02.16.24
Dream Home knocks the sound of rock music invitingly off-kilter. There's a dulled sensation I get in my head the morning after a night of restless sleep. It registers visually as well as mentally; surroundings look a bit wonky, like they're being viewed through trick glass. Dream Home's latest release, Hold On So Tough, passes … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Dream Home – Lake Artemesia
The sludgy first single from the duo's upcoming album, Direct Inject (Relapse). Sixty-six years ago, in 1958, another duo released a song--affixed with a six-syllable title--that reckoned with the terrifying Pandora's Box that was and is the atomic bomb, what horrors it did and could still unleash. Where The Louvin Brothers' "Great Atomic Power" was … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Zombi – Post-Atomic Horror
Today's exercise features a riff on the history, present, and possible future of Bar Harbor, Maine. HARBOR RIDGE STOP DEMONSTRATOR The harbor is depressed. It lies all day under blankets. Blankets of fog that run aground and push through the streets until they tangle themselves up in the mountains. Blankets of people, some dragging lobster … Continue reading Random Word Generator 02.13.24
Demo Disc is the culmination of a series of singles and videos that Sherry CD-ROM has released over the past year. Is it possible to really know yourself? The idea of "you" that you hold in your head does not exist anywhere else. No matter how truly you try to draw your own outline for … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Sherry CD-ROM – Demo Disc
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