Dhani Harrison has a story to tell. After working with thenewno2, Fistful of Mercy and scoring movies and television, the musician found himself hearing a certain sound in his head that he had to make real. The result is In///Parallel, Harrison’s first solo album, a 10-track record that was released on Oct. 9. The album […]
B L A C K I E’s Remains Channels the Collective Rage and Pain of the Oppressed
Like a lot of Americans, I’ve spent most of 2017 tense and nervous and unable to relax, wired on the buzz of anxiety that comes from every cursory glance at the headlines. I feel like the world is ending not as a bang but as a joke and all I can do about it is […]
Zac Pennington and Brian Lawlor’s Always and Only the Lonely is a Beautiful Examination of Suffering as Art
“We don’t care to be understood, to understand is to lie.” – Implied Violence mission statement The only real constants to avant-pop act Parenthetical Girls were front man Zac Pennington’s melodramatic, ever-reaching vocals and taboo lyrical fixations. Throughout Parenthical Girls’ career, the band shifted line-ups and aesthetics, utilizing ornate instrumentation at first, then wielding increasingly more electronic […]
Future’s New Album is an IKEA Couch of a Record
The consensus of 2016 was that Future had a bad year, but it’s more accurate to say that his stranglehold on rap music simply loosened by a finger or two. While critics who were penning his hagiography the year before rushed to declare that Future was “over,” he was busy forming a symbiotic chemistry with […]
Champions of Good Times: An Interview with Seattle Duo Sisters
Sisters have made a name for themselves in the highly competitive Seattle scene with their ambitious events and athletic approach to music, and their brand new album Drink Champagne is poised to make them break out on a larger level. Impeccably arranged and produced, the lavish album mixes the band’s impressive technical chops with Hall & […]
Pet;Wolf, BLXPLTN and Seizing Fascist Imagery to Use it Against Itself
The other day, upcoming hip hop artist Pet;wolf emailed Loser City’s Kayleigh Hughes with a link to a new video he put together for his track “Dance with the Devil.” The video is decidedly lo-fi and low budget, a simple straight ahead webcam shot of Pet;wolf lipsyncing his track with occasional scratchy white out illustrations […]
Hawaiian T-Shirt Make Music for Punching and Dancing on Their New EP
The intentions behind Hawaiian T-Shirt’s eponymous new EP are made clear in simple language on their Bandcamp page. This is music “to maybe dance and punch people to and maybe laugh or cry,” covering all the necessary emotional bases: excitement, anger, happiness, sadness. The most important word repeated in that description, though, is “maybe” because […]
Exclusive: The Full Track List of Songs Cut from Anohni’s Paradise
Anohni has announced a companion EP to last year’s exercise in political maximalism HOPELESSNESS. Titled Paradise, the EP contains tracks left off the record but which still maintain thematic and stylistic similarities. Containing tracks like “Jesus Will Kill You” and “She Doesn’t Mourn Her Loss,” we can expect these new tracks to be just as […]
Play It Loud is a Delightfully No-Frills History of the Electric Guitar
Few instruments are as symbolic of revolution as the electric guitar– visually, sonically, conceptually, the electric guitar is a riot in your hands, capable of beauty and destruction, chaos and structure. But if you go looking for reading on the instrument itself rather than on its most iconic wielders, you’ll soon be buried in dry […]
Greg Lake was Distinctly of His Era and That Deserves to be Celebrated
There are a few things we need to acknowledge now that Greg Lake and Keith Emerson have passed away, in this same year in which we lost Bowie, in which we lost Prince and Phife Dawg and Merle Haggard and Leonard Cohen. You don’t care about the first two guys at all, much less as […]
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