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Premiere: Don’t ‘Put It All On Me’ – MacGregor Burns unveils his enigmatic indie pop plea ahead of new album.
We are very honoured to premiere the single ‘Put It All On Me’ from MacGregor Burns. Burns is Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter who has a fascinating resumé, having worked an eclectic mix of jobs, from Hollywood tour guide and pet relocation specialist to substitute teacher and water polo referee. He brings his varied experience to the …
Premiere: The Afro Nick races the clock in ‘Get There Before Noon’
We’ve all been there: we’re racing against time to do something or go somewhere and struggling to motivate ourselves. Without wanting to make the obvious reference, sometimes you really need to just get it done. Nick Anastasakis wrote a song about that sense of urgency. The Greece-born and LA-based musician, who records as The Afro …
Premiere: Kit Major fights for self-acceptance on ‘Garbage Planet’, off October’s new EP
After releasing the loosie ‘Let Me In Your Band’ earlier this year, Kit Major has her sights set on bigger things, with the follow-up to 2022’s Vampire Saturday EP pencilled in for the end of October. The lead single from her forthcoming Love.Sick.Major. EP finds the Los Angeles artist doing her best to accept herself, …
Premiere: Chiara Angelicola returns as Bird Call with the quietly devastating ‘Tiny Transistor’
We all coped differently at the start of the pandemic in March 2020. For Chiara Angelicola—the Guatemalan-Italian who’s been operating as Bird Call for about 15 years, and who should have been on the road touring her latest record, Year of the Dogfish, released a few months prior—it was an especially intense time; she was …
News: Dream Phases switch off on ‘Turn Away’; new album Phantom Idol out today
Los Angeles quartet Dream Phases spent the guts of the past two years at work on the follow-up to late 2021’s second album New Distractions, and that time bears fruit today with the release of its successor. To coincide with the record’s release, they’ve shared a video for ‘Turn Away’, a song about being overwhelmed …
Premiere: Joseph Luca is looking for ‘One Last Dance’, new EP out today
Over the last six months or so, the Los Angeleno Joseph Luca has released a steady stream of music forming an EP triptych called Ouroboros. Life and Death are already out there, and today Luca completes the trilogy and cycle with Rebirth. To coincide with its release, he’s shared a video for ‘One Last Dance’. …
Premiere: Phil Galloni goes too far on title track from forthcoming new EP ‘Push My Luck’
A few weeks back, the Los Angeles-based Chicagoan Phil Galloni announced his third EP as Waverly Drive, and he’s sharing the collection’s second single today. The title track from Push My Luck is a great example of the sort of scuzzy indie pop Galloni excels at; the foundations of his sound were laid on previous …
Track/Video: Singular instrumentalist and song-writer Low Leaf announces new EP ‘Red Moon’ with the spectral jazz-blessed ‘Blue Nile’.
It’s a testament to creative energy that LA multi-instrumentalist Angelica-Marie Lopez has continued to evolve the Low Leaf project over a spell stretching back to 2011’s ‘Chrysalis’. Nothing has ever flagged in this long running flow of multi-dimensional work, anchored around Low Leaf’s instrumental foundation of piano, harp, guitar and vocals but cast off by …
Track/Video: Argentinian sound artist QOA announces new album ‘SAUCO’ with the vibrant detail of ‘LIQUEN’.
LA based, Argentinian QOA (aka. Nina Corti) is a digital sound artist and illustrator whose practice is centred on listening and tuning in. That doesn’t mean QOA’s attention is solely drawn to other conventional tunes or conversations but instead they seek out the auditory stimuli of the non-human world, plants and animals, streams and undergrowth, …
Premiere: Joseph Luca airs his ‘Dirty Laundry’ in new video; new EP out now
Last Friday, Los Angeles artist Joseph Luca released part 2 of his ongoing Ouroboros EP triptych, a series that kicked off late last year with Life and now continues with Death. We suppose, given the theming, part 3 is Rebirth, but we’re going to have to wait until later in the year for any further …