Sara Barron

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Sara Barron plays and writes about music in Detroit, Michigan. Her work has been featured in the Detroit Metro Times, Audiofemme, Interview Magazine and The Face Magazine.

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Taiwainese R and B Artist 9m88 Releases Cathartic Jazz-Influenced Sophomore LP 9m88 Radio

On her sophomore record, 9m88 (Joanne Tang) does just this. 9m88 (pronounced “Jo-m-baba”) is a Taiwanese artist who translates...

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Chelsea Jade - Soft Spot - cover artwork

Chelsea Jade Makes Enigmatic Pop Music for Outsiders with Soft Spot LP

Chelsea Jade has always felt like an outsider in the music industry. Even after making the voyage to Los Angeles from her isolating home country of New Zealand, Jade’s journey in music has always seemed like something that happened despite her plan, not because of it. She went to art school and...

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mBtheLight Let Intuition Guide Her Solo Debut, How to Dress Well in the Dark

It seems that Monica Blaire exists in the realm of the blessed few that experience the latter – acting as a vessel for the words, melodies and rhythms that seems...

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Zilched Rekindles Love for Stevie Nicks with "Stand Back" Cover on New EP

Growing up with a love for the classics and then rejecting them in the name of riot grrrl, Drallos has since found her happy medium in a cover of Nicks’ classic “Stand...

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ANA Premieres Down-to-Earth Video for New Single "Vertical"

We hear it all the time: Protect your energy. Especially in the last year of crisis after crisis, mastering the art of shielding your heart and mind has been a frequent topic of conversation. But what does that really mean? For Ana Gomulka, a.k.a ANA, this means honoring her artistic output, giving...

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Detroit R and B Duo Aint Afraid Showcase Latest Singles With Cradle to the Grave Short Film

Even through a Zoom screen, the identical twins light up the room with their magnetic personalities, speaking confidently and swiftly and...

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Wing Vilma Lets Nature Guide Self-Discovery on Spirit Practice LP

Instead, from early on in their life, they found themselves tuning into the complex and ever-present rhythms that nature has to offer - branches of a tree tapping a window, waves crashing to shore, their...

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Babehoven Keeps Going When the Going is Tough on Nastavi, Calliope

How do we mourn the living? Maya Bon of Babehoven unpacks this strange, but not uncommon, phenomenon on her new EP, Nastavi, Calliope, out today. The record strings together Bon’s meandering streams of consciousness, connecting moments of apathy to deep swells of emotion. She navigates deeply...

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Dick Texas Processes Grief with Debut Single "Flies"

Losing someone you love is one of the hardest parts of moving through life, and it often alters the way we see the world and ourselves. Valerie Salerno’s new solo project, Dick Texas, was formed out of a need to process her own grief...

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Summer Like The Season Makes a Timely Return with Premiere of "Root Mean Square" Video

Summer Like The Season - a.k.a Summer Krinsky, Scott Murphy and Liam McNitt - has a way of creating its own little world. Krinsky, who explains that texture and rhythm serve as the guiding forces of her songwriting, meticulously builds this world, brick by brick, using field recordings she’s...

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How a Woodsy Retreat Led to Debut EP from Detroit Indie Pop Outfit Lady

Some of the best music happens when you least expect it. Detroit indie pop outfit, Lady (Indira Edwards, Paris from Tokyo, Brian Castillo, Jacob Waymaster, Jojo Diaz-Orsi, Armand Boisvenue IV a.k.a Sleepyboiiii) found this to be true when they went to the woods together with no expectations and...

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New Chance Blurs Lines Between Digital and Physical Realms with "Two Pictures" Premiere

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