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PREMIERENisa Meets Anxiety With Understanding on "Turn Me Down"

For New York City born and bred singer-songwriter Nisa, who releases her forthcoming debut EP Guilt Trip on March 26, that sound more specifically borrows elements from the varying subgenres...

Mandy Brownholtz

Anna Fox Rochinski Champions the Effervescence of Pop Music with Debut Solo Single "Cherry"

Such serendipity is at play with Anna Fox Rochinski’s upcoming solo debut Cherry (out March 26 on Don Giovanni Records), of which she shared the title track and...

Mandy Brownholtz

PREMIERETender Creature Filter Loss and Identity Through Queer Lens on Debut EP 'An Offering'

But members Steph Bishop and Robert Maril tell...

Annie White

Abir Melds Moroccan and American Cultures on 'Heat' EP

Moroccan-American singer Abir challenges common notions of what it means to be a woman of Arab descent, and her latest EP Heat embodies this defiance. The EP, a followup to 2018's Mint, was born from Abir's simultaneous interest in mainstream pop, R and B, and hip-hop as well as traditional Moroccan...

Annie White

PREMIERERazor Braids Promote Pastel-Hued Positivity with "Nashville" Video

When life gives Hollye Bynum lemons, she makes lemonade. Her tart-yet-sweet rock band Razor Braids is all the proof you need; it didn't really come together until a minor head injury sidelined the operatically-trained singer, forcing a recovery slow enough she had time to teach herself to play...

Lindsey Rhoades

PREMIERESatellite Mode Navigates Technological Dystopia in "Click Now"

We're living in strange times, where the internet age has taken on an entirely new meaning, thanks to the coronavirus and social distancing. This makes the latest single from NYC electro-rock duo Satellite Mode, consisting of Jessica Carvo and Alex Marko, especially timely. "Click Now," off the...

Annie White

PREMIEREPETRA "Just Stay"

Credit: Andrew Bordeaux NYC-based alt-pop artist PETRA started playing piano before she could walk and got her first electric guitar when she was six, after she complained to her mother that she wanted to be her "own kind of musician." Today, this philosophy of independence is still in her music,...

Annie White

VIDEO PREMIEREKYOSi "Boo Radley"

In Fritz Lang's classic film Metropolis, the main character is jolted out of his privileged life and given a glimpse of the underbelly of the city, its workers struggling to survive while the bourgeois eat on plates of gold. New York-based experimental pop artist/female producer Dani DiCiaccio, aka...

Ashley Prillaman

PREMIEREPleasure Prince, "Entry" EP

In the not-so-distant future, when the earth is covered in red sand dunes and everyone is finally wearing floor length metal space dresses, humans will need some sick jams to make love to. Brooklyn's own Pleasure Prince is eager to provide the musical backdrop. Musicians Lilly Scott and William...

Ashley Prillaman

PREMIERELexi Todd "Complacent"

Have you noticed a sudden trend of "blacked out" Facebook profile pictures? You may have received a few messages about this one, encouraging you to show followers a "world without women." October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month and already there's some confusion on how people can...

Ashley Prillaman

TRACK PREMIEREAnna Morsett of The Still Tide Walks the "High Wire"

Anna Morsett picked up the guitar at an early age; her lyrics capture the melancholy of long nights alone. We talked about...

Ashley Prillaman

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ONLY NOISESummer In The City

What does summer sound like? For those of you living in respectable locales, it may sound like the buzz of John Deer lawnmowers, or a nighttime orchestra of cicadas. Summer anywhere but New York might hum along to the tune of unfurling picnic blankets and jet skis zipping across lakes. But for New...

Madison Bloom