DannyLux is reinventing corridos through a Chicano rocker lens. The Mexican-American singer is breaking through thanks to his innovative blend of Mexican folk balladry with an indie-rock edge. He grew a fanbase on TikTok after his songs were shared thousands of times on the app. Through a new partnership with Warner Music Latina, the label […]
Listen to Blu DeTiger for 30 seconds and you’ll know exactly what defines the young artist’s music. It’s the bass. Not those thumping samples found on any modern pop track, but slinking lines plucked and slapped from a real bass guitar — sounds of a bygone, much funkier era. For 22-year-old DeTiger (her real name), […]
Hidden gems can often find listeners at the strangest times. That includes when they’re out walking their dog, like Jenevieve was in a Los Angeles-area park back in July, before the 24-year-old vocalist stumbled on an abandoned box full of albums. “There’s some CDs. I wasn’t gonna touch it because it was on the ground,” […]
When Charlotte Sands posted a TikTok at the beginning of COVID asking Yungblud to let her open for him on tour, she didn’t know that it would actually happen. The idea was something the blue-haired singer-songwriter had been putting into the universe for a while, and it finally seemed like her unrelenting hope was paying […]
The Lazy Eyes may be fresh in their 20s, but all four members are already feeling the pangs of nostalgia. Roughly seven years after forming, the Sydney-based band is finally ready to drop their self-produced, self-recorded debut album, SongBook, in March. The collection is an escapist, idealistic, time-traveling journey that frolics in Beatles-flavored strawberry fields, […]
There are a lot of things you can say about Little Green House, the debut full-length from the Connecticut-based Anxious. For one, the album doesn’t sound like the first big release from a quintet of Zoomers. It could’ve just as easily been released by a band like Texas Is the Reason that broke up long […]
Success is where you find it in the constrictive new COVID age. At least that’s how William Murray, the frontman for one of 2021’s most delightful new bands, the ‘60s-jangly FUR, says. Since it isn’t necessarily happening in the old chart-climbing hit-single way that it used to, artists are turning to online platforms, often with […]
Musicians often bristle at being compared to other bands, but not Bad Mothers. “I think the Queens of the Stone Age reference makes all of us pretty happy,” singer/guitarist Matt Dalton says about recent write-ups on Bad Mothers’ liberating but masterful brand of dirty rock ‘n’ roll. “We’re pretty big Queens fans, but honestly, [the […]
The Red Pears have a thing for authenticity. Since 2014, Henry Vargas (vocals and guitar), Jose Corona (drums), and Patrick Juarez (bass) have been steadily pounding it out at packed house parties, backyard shows, and DIY venues around Southern California. Along the way, they’ve earned a reputation for intimate and intense performances, organically growing into […]
Charlotte Cornfield and I are sitting at a picnic table, in a quiet park at the end of a busy street in Toronto in the waning days of the fall. Over coffee and out of earshot of midday dog walkers, we’re discussing her new album, Highs in the Minuses. Cornfield is affable and disarmingly laid-back, […]