sawdustandgin: Best Albums of 2017 Drawn by me. 1. Violents and Monica Martin – Awake and Pretty Much Sober Pen, pastels. album review | buy Awake and Pretty Much Sober | website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Soundcloud 2. Kacey Johansing – The Hiding Pencil. album review | buy The Hiding | website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | … Continue reading
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Hungover with Violents and Monica Martin’s LP
sngalbums: This is the album everyone needs. I’ve been saying it all year, since its release last April: Awake and Pretty Much Sober is impossible to dislike. Violents is a project helmed by Jeremy Larson where he writes and produces music with an invited guest vocalist; previous projects include Stacy King (Eisley, Sucre), Olga Yagolnikov (Kye Kye), and singer-songwriter Annie Williams. In this iteration Larson … Continue reading Hungover with Violents and Monica Martin’s LP
Hungover with Violents and Monica Martin’s LP
This is the album everyone needs. I’ve been saying it all year, since its release last April: Awake and Pretty Much Sober is impossible to dislike. Violents is a project helmed by Jeremy Larson where he writes and produces music with an invited guest vocalist; previous projects include Stacy King (Eisley, Sucre), Olga Yagolnikov (Kye Kye), and singer-songwriter Annie Williams. In this iteration Larson teamed … Continue reading Hungover with Violents and Monica Martin’s LP
Kacey Johansing No Longer Lives in Hiding
sngalbums: At the center of The Hiding is a lyric on the title track that gets at the heart of Kacey Johansing’s message. “Everyone keeps hiding what they long to find,” she sings, as if unveiling a universal truth that no one wants to admit that they knew. On this new record, she discusses relationships and love, often as an intrusive observer, though it could … Continue reading Kacey Johansing No Longer Lives in Hiding
Kacey Johansing No Longer Lives in Hiding
At the center of The Hiding is a lyric on the title track that gets at the heart of Kacey Johansing’s message. “Everyone keeps hiding what they long to find,” she sings, as if unveiling a universal truth that no one wants to admit that they knew. On this new record, she discusses relationships and love, often as an intrusive observer, though it could all … Continue reading Kacey Johansing No Longer Lives in Hiding
vōx Envelopes the Pico-Union Project with Illuminating Performance
sngshows: Originally appeared on Grimy Goods. Words by me, photos by Emery Becker. Her name speaks for herself, or rather for all of us. vōx, Latin for “voice” and often band shorthand for “vocals,” doubles as a symbol of unity for the LA artist–her voice is our voice too. It is her chosen instrument, and her new EP, I Was Born, is resplendent in vocoder … Continue reading vōx Envelopes the Pico-Union Project with Illuminating Performance
Best Albums of 2017, part 4
#11-30, ordered alphabetically Hayden Pedigo – Greetings From Amarillo buy album | Facebook | Instagram | Soundcloud | Bandcamp Pixx – Age of Anxiety SnG album review | buy album | website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Soundcloud Jordan Rakei – Wallflower SnG coverage 1 | SnG coverage 2 | buy album | website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Soundcloud … Continue reading Best Albums of 2017, part 4
Best Albums of 2017, part 2
#11-30, ordered alphabetically Kim Ann Foxman – Energy EP buy album | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Soundcloud Gabriel Garzón-Montano – Jardín buy album | website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Soundcloud | Bandcamp Geotic – Abysma buy album | Twitter | Instagram | Bandcamp Abysma by Geotic HDLSS – Selections From DUMB SnG album review | buy album | website | Facebook | Twitter … Continue reading Best Albums of 2017, part 2
“Ripe” is the brilliant new collab between Banoffee and SOPHIE, who has been releasing her own new original tunes lately. Equal parts industrial techno and bubbling pop, this jam will assault your senses. Best Songs of 2017 2. Banoffee – Ripe Banoffee | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Soundcloud | Bandcamp | @marthabanoffee Continue reading
sawdustandgin: Kitty put out an incredible mixtape back in August, and has just graced us with a new video for “Mass Text Booty Call,” one of the wildest tracks on it. The opening of the video is a parody of the intro to Fatboy Slim’s 1998 single “The Rockefeller Skank,” which actually comes at the very end of the previous track on You’ve Come a Long … Continue reading
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