If you took a listen to Jessie Baylin's new record Firesight without glancing at the album cover, you'd probably guess she was older than her 24 years. Based in Los Angeles by way of New Jersey, Baylin has a voice…
Continue Reading →Sometimes the best thing about catching an arena rock spectacle isn't your favorite headliner, but the chance to see some pretty amazing opening acts before they start selling out arenas. If you've already snatched up tickets to the late summer…
Continue Reading →What do you do if you want to be a standout artist in a saturated genre? If you're Swedish born Theresa Andersson, you approach the challenge in a non-conventional way. Andersson, who played every instrument on her new album, drew…
Continue Reading →The other day, a guitar fanatic friend of mine - who incidentally also handcrafts guitars for an impressive list of virtuosos you'd all know - burst into the room looking like a kid fresh off of his first roller coaster…
Continue Reading →Rarely does a new musical artist grab me by the heart and stop me in my tracks. Stockholm's young and gorgeous Lykke Li wins the prize-- I'm floored. Talented, humble, delicate, and even dare I say visionary. Her music is…
Continue Reading →Today, at lunch, the topic of road trips and music came up and it got me thinking about what sort of music would be able to sustain me while driving long distances. I think /Passenger's (yes with the slash) U.S.…
Continue Reading →Synth-pop is best done by Brits who have the formula down: 808 style beats, shrill keyboards and grinding bass. Throw in a vocoder and nicely placed live covers of Devo's "Whip it" and you've got Does It Offend You, Yeah?…
Continue Reading →From an organizational perspective -- even a musically inclined one -- the odds of finding three beautiful girls, all long-locked, well-worded, and in possession of keyboards, seem slim. The odds of them finding each other -- that seems near impossible.…
Continue Reading →We love following the impact technology has on music. The LP produced great albums, the CD great songs and the MP3 great sounds. As much of a sweeping generalization as that is, the concept of the mashtape is definitely a…
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