Category: Pop

Live Music Coverage

Dazed in the City of Roses: Melody’s Echo Chamber in Portland, OR [Photos]

Psychedelic pop songstress Melody’s Echo Chamber brought her celestial production to Portlands’ Revolution Hall on Monday evening, flanked with a band of talented musicians to bring her songs to the stage. The Parisian artist recently made two announcements, one being the recovery of a previously lost album called Unfold, and the other being an official album […]

Oct 12, 2023 Read →

East Coast

Festival Season 2023: The Top Fests To Set Your Sights On

With the essence of spring coming to full bloom in the northern hemisphere, the days have continued to grow increasingly brighter, longer, and warmer. These are just some of our favorite signs that awaken us to festival season distinctively striking at our door. For those who fill their live music cups and soul necessities in […]

Apr 12, 2023 Read →

Electronic

Shooting Stars in the City of Roses: Cannons and The Knocks at the Roseland Theater in Portland, OR | Oct 29, 2022

Last night, the City of Roses welcomed electronic duo The Knocks and disco-house band Cannons with a sold-out room for their co-headlining Roseland Theater stop. As the second to last show date on tour, both acts delivered a flood of infectious energy that provided fuel for a bouncing crowd all night long.  Cannons, an electronic […]

Oct 31, 2022 Read →

Electronic

Primavera Sound LA 2022 Leaves Its Mark in the United States [Review + Photo]

The first-ever US edition of Primavera Sound took over sunny Los Angeles last weekend, marking a successful milestone for the international event. Featuring a clever and eclectic lineup containing heavyweights from across the spectrum, Primavera Sound welcomed thousands of fans to LA Historic Park for the three-day festival. We might’ve been obsessing over these five […]

Sep 27, 2022 Read →

Electronic

May #BandcampFriday Buys

It’s Bandcamp Friday once again, and that means I have spent the month combing through Bandcamp’s search engines to find new artists and hidden gems to bring to you to purchase! Today if you pick up these albums, %100 of the profits goes to them! A reminder that searching for “BNDCMPR” on various sites like […]

May 7, 2021 Read →

Electronic

#BANDCAMPFRIDAY FINDS

Well, it’s the first Friday of April and you know what that means: Bandcamp is waiving their income from music downloads and giving %100 of profits to musicians! As has become a staple for the last year, #BandcampFriday has become a way for the music hosting website to give back to the music community that […]

Apr 2, 2021 Read →

New Music

How Luna Li’s new single, “Cherry Pit”, makes me question everything I once thought I knew about pop

I used to denounce anything pop. For a long time, I skirted noisily around the term, diving deep into the antithesis of the genre – covering my ears with indie rock, psychedelia, stoner metal, and a particular flavor of neo-soul that my friends would chuckle to themselves that “of course you listen to this kind […]

Mar 15, 2021 Read →

Hip-Hop

#BandcampFriday: What Did I Buy?

All too often which musician gets written about involves a big game of “Who Do You Know?” Does a band know an editor who runs a publication? Did an artist land a gig with someone who writes a weekly “Up and Coming” column? As someone who has written about music for the past ten years, […]

Mar 5, 2021 Read →

Electronic

The Billie Eilish Experience: An immersive album release art exhibition [March 31, 2019]

It had been less than 24 hours in LA and I was already kicking off the day’s activities by signing a waiver. In order to join the Billie Eilish Experience, I’d need to complete a waiver with Spotify to reserve my attendance. The waiver asked commonplace things, like if I had any sensitivity to lights […]

Mar 31, 2019 Read →