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Austin outfit Margaret Chavez spins behind Marcus William Striplin’s ambitious Latin “freak-folk rhythms” via singular songwriting on “Into an Atmosphere,” the breezy and aching first single from his forthcoming eponymous LP.
It’s safe to say that Laura Rabell is acquainted with the machinations of Momus, the personification of satire and mockery in Greek myth. For he surely had her marked down for an encounter with irony when she announced in 2019 that her debut album would be entitled ‘Immortal‘. But we’ll let her explain. She laughs darkly at the recollection: “I guess you shouldn’t call the Titanic unsinkable. I guess you shouldn’t call your first album ‘Immortal’. You’re just asking for it.” It, in this case, was the cancer diagnosis that Rabell received three weeks later. The album release was pushed back, but with Laura Rabell’s successful treatment it’s ready to go this year. READ MORE…
Am Taylor’s music is rich and contemplative, with intricate, dreamy guitar layers that mirror the lyrics’ multiple meanings. Formerly the lead singer of the Atlanta band Sexual Side Effects, Taylor recently took a hiatus to launch their solo project, and today, they’re releasing their second single, “Bright Yellow Sun.” READ MORE…
In the 2018 Coen Brothers’ film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, an aged gold prospector (played by Tom Waits) weathers the elements in search of “The Pocket,” a fabled mineral vein of limitless gold. He ultimately finds it, but not without incident. This scenario provides an easy metaphor of the music industry for Nashville’s Americana and indie folk band Lake & Lyndale whose new alternate video “Still Here – Live At the Cabin” premieres on American Songwriter. READ MORE…
Listen to this week’s State of the Art Spotify playlist featuring:
Lesibu Grand – Jennifer, My Girl
Run the Jewels – walking in the snow
The Savants of Soul – Old Ways
Pink Siifu, YUNGMORPHEUS – Bobby Seale
illiterates – White Privilege
Terrace Martin, Denzel Curry, Kamasi Washington, Daylyt, G Perico – Pig Feet
Cloquet (Paper Tiger, J.Gundersen) – Breathing
YG – FTP
SP’s – Shift Status
Conway the Machine – Front Lines
JAMS The Flava Child – NO COW
Freddie Gibbs/The Alchemist – Something To Rap About
Young Antiques – Euclid Creeper
Trey Songz – 2020 Riots: How Many Times
Sara Rachele – Dugan’s Doorstop
Thetan, Kool Keith – Accolades
Cousin Dan – Young Man
Half Waif – Ordinary Talk
The Beths – Dying to Believe
Pure X – Middle America
Joyce Manor – House Warning Party
Alex Lahey – Every Day’s The Weekend (Laundry version)
Fever Blush – Tangerine
Stay Inside – Ivy
NNAMDI – Semantics
Cut Worms – Castle in the Clouds
Amine – Riri
Retirement Party – Old Age
Ron Gallo – You Are Enough
The Garden – Clench to Stay Awake
Vundabar – Burned Off
Circa Waves – Sad Happy
ShrapKnel, Curly Castro, PremRock – Ghostface Targaryean
Demob Happy – Mother Machine
Stro – Uninspired
Eliza & The Delusionals – Swimming Pool
Moaning – Make It Stop
YG, Nipsey Hussle – FDT
Or check out the YouTube Playlist:
Vents Magazine interviews Nashville indie-folk/Americana group Lake and Lyndale. READ MORE…