Review: Daft Punk – Random Access Memories (2013)
Review by Jeff Thompson In the world of electronic dance music, one is very likely to hear heavily synthesized keyboards, pounding four-to-the-floor beats and, in recent years, aggressive, “drops”. On Daft Punk’s new album “Random Access Memories” listeners will hear absolutely none of these. In fact, upon first listen, “Random Access Memories” seems to come...
Review: Lindsey Stirling – Lindsey Stirling (2012)
Given the uptick in popularity of genre bending artists, it is basically a travesty that violinist Lindsey Stirling hasn’t been featured on here yet. You might know the story – a Mormon violinist in her early twenties decided to try out on America’s Got Talent as a “hip hop violinist.” After achieving moderate success on...
“Next Big Sound” chart – week of 10/25/2012
The folks over at NextBigSound have released this week’s list of the top 15 fastest rising artists online, according to chatter and new fans on various social media outlets. Here’s the list! Zifou [Rapper based in France] Rone [electronic] Zezé Di Carmango and Luciano [Brazilian pop music] Ben Gibbard [singer/songwriter and frontman of Death Cab for Cutie] Mister Lies...
“Next Big Sound” chart – week of 10/11/2012
The folks over at NextBigSound have released this week’s list of the top 15 fastest rising artists online, according to chatter and new fans on various social media outlets. Here’s the list! Heavy on the house and electronic this week, but not without its share of usual randomness! Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano [house] Veela [producer/vocalist] Flume [electronic] Splashh [alt/dream]...
“Next Big Sound” chart – week of 9/27/2012
The folks over at NextBigSound have released this week’s list of the top 15 fastest rising artists online, according to chatter and new fans on various social media outlets. Here’s the list! Lots of stuff from across the pond this week, including top dogs Dog is Dead from the UK. Dog is Dead [indie pop] Blende [EDM] Clicks and...
Trending Single Reviews: Linkin Park, Matt and Toby, Liam Shachar
Linkin Park – “Lost in the Echo”: The follow up to smash single “Burn It Down” from Living Things has been released and is starting to impact alternative rock radio. This is everything we love about classic Linkin Park with a tad of freshness thrown in. Positivity reigns here, and I would venture that this...
“Next Big Sound” chart – week of 9/20/2012
The folks over at NextBigSound have released this week’s list of the top 15 fastest rising artists online, according to chatter and new fans on various social media outlets. Here’s the list! Some interesting stuff this week, including a “post-folk” band. Wonder what that is? Check them out! With luck, maybe there will be a feature someday…...
“Next Big Sound” chart – week of 9/13/2012
The folks over at NextBigSound have released this week’s list of the top 15 fastest rising artists online, according to chatter and new fans on various social media outlets. Here’s the list! Not much diversity this week – must be indicative of all the EDM heavy partying happening on college campuses the beginning of this new school...
New subcultures: Christian Raves?
Raves have a reputation for being places of debauchery, seizure inducing lights, ecstasy tripping, and pounding bass drops. The mainstream acceptance of EDM is resulting in the rise of what might have been inevitable – Christian Raves. Christians making electronic music is nothing new. Andy Hunter, The Echoing Green, Sheltershed, and Transform DJs have all...
“Next Big Sound” chart – week of 9/6/2012
The folks over at NextBigSound have released this week’s list of the top 15 fastest rising artists online, according to chatter and new fans on various social media outlets. Here’s the list! Not much EDM this week, although one of that community still tops the list! DJ Enferno [EDM/live remix] Megan Nicole [pop] Theme Park [alternative] Vazquez Sounds [pop/rock] Alex Goot [pop]...
“Next Big Sound” chart – week of 8/30/2012
The folks over at NextBigSound have released this week’s list of the top 15 fastest rising artists online, according to chatter and new fans on various social media outlets. Here’s the list! Very, very EDM heavy this week. Firebeatz [EDM] Break Science [EDM/hip hop] Ryan O’Shaughnessy [singer/songwriter] Hunter Valentine [indie] Loon Lake [rock/garage] Robotic Pirate Monkey [EDM] Stealing Sheep [indie pop/"folktronica"] Beat Culture [EDM] Mowgli [EDM]...
“Next Big Sound” chart – week of 8/23/2012
Sorry this is a day late…anyway, congrats to the 15 artists whom the guys over at NextBigSound decided were the fastest rising on the internet, due to their complicated algorithm (it has something to do with social media…). Congrats to Twenty One Pilots for making it on this week! We told you they’d blow up!...
