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The emphatic quintet returns with its first new song in eighteen months. The rousing "It's Your Call" is a heat-seeking musical missile trained on the glow of the brain's endorphin centers. It begs to be belted in front of bathroom mirrors--accompanied, preferably, by windmilled air guitar--its melodies echoing off tile surfaces while neighbors scribble angry … Continue reading Daily Yinz – The Ghost Club – It’s Your Call
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot today ### I Swallow Ghosts - John Cena Later Skyscraping riffs? Check. Belted vocals with British affectation on vowel sounds? Check. Punny song title shielding raw, bruised emotion? Check. The emo trifecta, completed. More from I Swallow Ghosts Follow on Instagram and Facebook … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 02.09.24
Watererer's latest release is an exercise in pure improvisation. Spontaneity plays a role in all of Watererer's albums, but it's the central tenet of their latest, EM Stealth Sound New Geometry Hippocampal Ice and Space (Watererer again wins the award for Band Whose Album Titles Most Resemble A Dictionary With Darts Thrown At It), a … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Watererer – William Henry Butter Fox Tally Talbot
A meditative performance that took place at the Carnegie Museum of Art in December. A raga is a melodic framework within Indian classical music meant to "color the mind" and instill certain emotional states within the listener. On December 14th, artists André Solomon (flute), Trē Seguritan Abalos (flutes), Stephen Chin (tabla), and Aaron Basskin (synths … Continue reading Daily Yinz – André Solomon, Trē Seguritan Abalos, Stephen Chin, Aaron Basskin – Do we really know all the sounds of winter?
Today's exercise features a state representative on the verge of a mental breakdown CONSTITUENCY BRAINSTORM SICK DETERMINE “Your constituency depends on you, sir.” “What do you think this is over here?” “There have been articles, sir. Posts.” “It sort of looks like a little scorpion.” “A scorpion, sir?” Rhonda Meeples, Rep. Brendt Rooski’s flinty Chief … Continue reading Random Word Generator 02.06.24
New Castle emcee Ensilence pays tribute to the great Nas. Illmatic is my favorite hip-hop album. That opinion is neither controversial nor original. Who doesn't love the jazzy austerity of the instrumentals, Nas's all-encircling flow as he describes, through clouds of blunt smoke, the sights and sounds of Queensbridge? With her latest single, "Understandable Smooth … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Ensilence – Understandable Smooth Shi
I4A returns with a third collection of freewheeling explorations. I4A albums can and do contain most anything--growling, rhythmic reveries, elegant piano serenades, bluesy vamps, new-agey tone poems, howling eruptions--and I4A 3 is no different; it does in fact contain all of those aforementioned features. That and opener "Wrinkled Hunter," which rocks and rolls along--its warm … Continue reading Daily Yinz – I4A – Wrinkled Hunter
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Adam's Purse - Birdie Shoegazey rocker in which melancholy guitars cry out like alien birds taking off from a fuzzy purple tree branch. More from Adam's Purse Follow on Instagram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihzg4aB20qY ### Neen Fleezy - Werewolf (Christmas Gift) What do … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 02.02.2024
Brednotbred's latest release, Suspension In Time, is a two-sided tape full of haunting ambience. Side A, "avoidofaffliction," a piano piece that deploys tape phasing to gorgeous effect, feels like the kind of thing you'd find playing on a victrola unearthed from the recesses of a dusty attic. According to the journal that accompanies Suspension In … Continue reading Daily Yinz – brednotbred – avoidofaffliction
A succinct lyrical collage whose composite parts blend to create a topsy-turvy atmosphere. Cliff Fields refers to his style as "observational music." It's an apt description; when we experience the world, our senses pick up on a dizzying array of stimuli and feed them to our brains, which we rely on to provide some sort … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Cliff Fields – Wages
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