Sometimes being at a party is like riding a wave of energy, full of fun and interesting people. Sometimes though, you end up stuck in someone’s bedroom–alone and wondering how long you can hide in there before some couple tries to use the bed. This is the kind of party New York musician and producer Rena … Continue reading
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A Gesture for VÉRITÉ.
VÉRITÉ creates airy tracks with sparse instrumentations and repetitive lyrics. Her songs are atmospheric and her star is rapidly rising. The enigmatic artist sold out her first ever headlining tour last year, and included festival debuts at SXSW, Lollapalooza and Firefly in her list of achievements. She just dropped her new EP Living and already her singles ‘Constant … Continue reading
Sunflower Bean.
Sunflower Bean, a psychedelic rock group from Brooklyn, is releasing a new album this February. The trio of under twenty-one-year-olds: Julia Cumming, Jacob Faber and Nick Kivlen, have been together since 2013. Their music consists of Cumming’s ethereal singing mixed with grounding cadence from the bass and Faber’s drums. Adding to this is Kivlen’s infectious … Continue reading
Listen: Daisy Chain
Bianca Casady & the C.i.A. has released another single from their upcoming album Oscar Hocks. ‘Daisy Chain’ was the first song created for the album and was written during the course of a migraine, a feat within itself. ‘Daisy Chain’ is also the name of a 2012 New York exhibition of Casady’s where she mixed wildflowers … Continue reading
Art & Activism Go Hand-in-Hand
When an artist embraces an activist message, their work can cultivate courage within people and communities. The results of such art can be inspiring and, ultimately, empowering. On Nov. 19, four artists from Northern California and beyond presented their work and stories of activism at the Crocker Art Museum’s second Art Beyond Fear panel discussion. … Continue reading
See: Cane Morto’s Amo-Te Lisboa
Italian street art collective, Cane Morto, will be releasing a film chronicling two wild months of unauthorized street painting in Lisbon. Amo-Te Lisboa: An Ignominious Street Art Movie looks to be a somewhat surrealist take on their painting endeavors, centering the story around a “cruel dead-dog deity called Txakurra, which gives [Cane Morto] the power to paint together as a … Continue reading
Hear: Bombadil-New Album and New Tour Dates!
North Carolina-based folk/pop band Bombadil will hit the road next month to support their upcoming fifth album, Hold On, due at the end of March. For the tour, the band will use the classic keyboards, guitar, drums and bass set up in ways both old and new to create a show full of eclectically offbeat and dynamic folk-pop music. The set will … Continue reading
Hear: Slaptop’s New Video “Distraction”
San Francisco based producer Slaptop has recently released the music video for his new single “Distraction”. Directors Gabriel Gomez and Julien Melendez work together to distill the essence a night of spontaneity in the city that never sleeps, and follow-up Slaptop’s previous single, “Sunrise”, which is well on its way to reaching 600,000 views. “Distraction” was chronologically filmed during one night in a New York … Continue reading
Homonymic Sapiens
Parkay Quarts is a new and rather brief incarnation of the band Parquet Courts. Composed of the two members of the band that weren’t starting a family or getting a graduate degree in math, the homonymic alter ego previously released an EP called Tally All the Things That You Broke. And now they are coming … Continue reading