Though this is her third album, Jesca Hoop is still a relative unknown to many music listeners. What is known, and should who aren’t familiar should know, is that Hoop has hobnobbed with some of the biggest names in the biz. She’s cut her teeth by working with the iconic Tom Waits (for whose kids
With electro pop en vogue at the moment, it’s easy to see why a band like Passion Pit would be on the cusp. The Cambridge, Mass.-based outfit formed in 2007 while most of the members (except for lead singer/keyboardist Michael Angelakos) attended the Berklee College of Music and since then have established themselves as one
One of the treats of Lollapalooza are the after-hours shows that scattered throughout the Windy City. This year is no different. Some of the biggest names that’ve graced the stage in Grant Park earlier in the day will be playing at some of the most intimate venues in the city. While most of the bigger
Over the past 18 months, you’d be hard-pressed to find a group that’s exploded onto the music scene as fast as the Alabama Shakes. Hailing from Athens of their namesake state, the Brittney Howard-fronted outfit has gone from playing small bars to playing some of the biggest festivals in the world. How has this happened?
Having featured them as our Artist of the Week and really digging their latest album, Ownerless, we felt it the time was right to chat with one of our favorite new bands, Everest. We caught up with singer Russell Pollard who discussed the difference between being on a major and an indie label, the band’s
Flying Lotus will be releasing Until The Quiet Comes, the long-awaited follow-up to 2010′s Cosmogramma on October 2 on Warp Records. Composed, according to the rapper, as “a collage of mystical states, dreams, sleep and lullabies”, the new album has the distinct feel of a nighttime voyage. The sound is an unhinged, yet elegant evolution
For a 22-year-old, Cosmo Jarvis has a lot going on. Firstly, he released his new and third album Think Bigger on July 17th, via 25th Frame/ The End Records. If that wasn’t enough, Jarvis has just finished his first full-length feature film, entitled Naughty Room. That’s right, a multi-faceted threat. Born in New Jersey to
Over the past few months, soul music has had a bit of a revival. You’ve seen here on our site with features on Mayer Hawthorne and Frank Ocean, and likely multiple other outlets as well. Why is soul making a comeback? Easy. When you have singers who understand the history and meaning of the genre,
Saturday night in Los Angeles offers up an abundance of opportunity for people to get themselves into all sorts of sin and misery. You can drown your sorrows at the local neighborhood watering hole, or you can get sloshed with your friends at the club de jour. Or, if you’re a music fan, you can
With their new album Ownerless debuting on Billboard’s Top 100 “Heatseekers” chart (their highest-rated album debut to date), Everest has just premiered the album’s first video. Drawn from the album’s title track, the “Ownerless” video was released this morning. “The first thing that came to mind for inspiration when listening to the song was this