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Listening through Hundred Waters’ forthcoming and self-titled debut LP is like traversing a winding maze of harmonies and instrumentation. From the opening track “Sonnet” to the final “Gather,” the group presents themselves as an ethereally complex project that demands our attention. Deviating from other electro-heavy artists littering Skrillex’s OWSLA label (Porter Robinson, Zedd, M Machine, [...]
For the past sixteen years, Ian Bavitz, better known by the moniker Aesop Rock, has yet to take a break. Starting out as a college student self-releasing records from his dorm room, his fan base grew due to his challenging and skilled lyricism as well as being on of the few artists who distinguished themselves [...]
Although often said to the point of exhaustion, critics and fans have a knack for describing artists as mismatched with their respective decade. And let’s be honest, even when it’s true, half the time the cliche factor alone turns us off from actually checking them out. There’s only so many times I can be sold [...]
If there is one thing Nashville has recently been lacking, it’s big-name electronic shows. With Limelight, the previous electronic hub, declining into more or less of a musical ghost town, there has been a notable decline in headline DJs visiting the region. Luckily, Porter Robinson is breaking down this newfound taboo June 28th. Embodying the [...]
On June 5th I co-hosted Slip of the Tongue, the official podcast series of The Silver Tongue, and towards the end we weighed in with what’s spinning on our iPods these days. My contribution to that discussion was a Nashville-based band called Fly Golden Eagle, a largely unheard of group that defies genre categorization on their [...]
Earlier this week PUJOL released United States of Being, the band’s first full-length LP on Omaha-based indie label Saddle Creek Records. PUJOL’s eponymous front man and sole songwriter is Daniel Pujol (pronounced with a hard “j”), an occasional college student and always songwriter who is known for being both prolific and hardworking—two tenets of [...]
This coming Saturday, March 24, Nashville is being occupied by none other than Asher Roth. If you’re thinking of the rapper that came onto the music scene with his heavily-criticized debut “I Love College”, then I would expect to hear a chorus of crickets following this announcement. But if you’ve followed Roth in recent years [...]
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