by Cameron Carr | May 27, 2021 | Industry News/Analysis
It was January 2018 when the question first appeared: is Clairo an industry plant? A Pitchfork article lauding the then 19-year-old musician’s millions of YouTube views for the song “Pretty Girl” seemed to coincide with a generous repositioning of her...
by Cameron Carr | Sep 12, 2020 | Album Reviews
It’s difficult to separate music from our current contexts, and that’s all the more true six months into a global pandemic. Fenne Lily’s Dead Oceans label debut Breach is written specifically for isolation, though it takes inspiration from a month of...
by Cameron Carr | Sep 4, 2020 | Album Reviews
For her fifth album as Lomelda, songwriter Hannah Read makes it a truly self-titled effort and her best album to date. Hannah embraces the range of musical and emotional ground that Lomelda has covered from folk confessionals to gnarled indie rock, diaristic...
by Cameron Carr | Sep 3, 2020 | Album Reviews
It’s a sign of a great band when each member’s part feel necessary to the whole, when it feels that each element has contributed something that deepens the impact of the music. That’s true on The Bascinets Social Music, an album that revels in the simplicity and...
by Cameron Carr | Aug 27, 2020 | Interviews
“One of my favorite things to do is to stay home but so many of you decided not to stay home tonight and I take that personally, in a good way, so thank you very much for coming out,” Sam Bodary, the songwriter behind Hello Emerson, tells the crowd at Ace of Cups in...
