Betty Moon is a larger-than-life LA rock n roll survivor. After coming out big in Bambi at the end of the 80s, she was touted and lauded as the new big thing at the beginning of the 90s. Then her label was eaten by another label and she suffered the fate of so many....
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Moyka EP Spaces – This is Not Who We Thought We’d Be
Now 23, Moyka returns with a follow-up EP to 2019โs Colder, entitled Spaces. Apparently having spent the last year dealing with the death of a long-term relationship, this fact seems to have had quite an impact on the five pieces that make up the Spaces EP. The words...
Christopher Chaplin’s Sea Change is a ghostly and unusual work
Christopher Chaplin is not someone whose music you might put happily on the car stereo to hum along to on your morning commute. An avant-garde musician and composer with a long track record, Christopher Chaplin leads you slowly in to his music a little like a forest...
Review: Liam Mour – Ode to Youth: fantastical and engaging
Ode to Youth is the first single from the debut EP of the same name (Ode to Youth) by electronic music producer and multi-instrumentalist Liam Mour, coming out this July on his own label. All of the tracks on this upcoming EP were written, recorded, produced and mixed...
Realation pushes back with their single Isabella
Realation's latest single Isabella is a slow burn: the "concept grunge" band has been around long enough not to have to go straight for the jugular - their songwriting has matured enough to let things build piece by piece. A song about a young woman whose very...
Review: Cafe Ena’s ‘Make Room’: immediately arresting, ultimately rewarding
Austrian-born, Lisbon residing Verena Bachinger, who records as Cafe Ena, returns with her second EP โLocked Spacesโ and its lead single โMake Room.โ Western-tinged sepia groove https://youtu.be/3Sg2JRxJj7w "A variety of textures and styles - an immediately arresting...
Review: Neoclassic Lovers by LeBron Aggressive
Neoclassic Lovers the new single by Berlin based electronic pop duo Lebron Aggressive begins with the eerie warble of pre-dawn synthesized song birds in a virtual world. The late night bus rumbles by, while a full moon hangs above the two single matching beds of Peter...
Review: Moyka – RIDE – Both dangerous and blissful
RIDE the new single by Norwegian artist and producer MOYKA immediately puts you in the seat of some sort of confidential situation, both dangerous and blissful, as if driving away with someone you don't really know but you can't help but wanting to escape with. Made...
A surreal soundtrack for a surreal world- Ziggurat by Bollard
Melbourne-based Bollardโs new single, โZigguratโ is a psychedelic spoken-word ร la The Gift by the Velvet Underground-- but about 37 percent more aggressive. Lead singer Tom Walsh spits cooly over beats reminiscent of cheeky mid-nineties brit pop anthems. ...
Album Review: Lioness by Stony Sugarskull – personality, wit and sheer chutzpah out front and centre
Stony Sugarskull is the name of the punk/garage/shoegaze music project of one Dr. Monika Demmler, a woman who obtained a degree in biophilic healing functions of music in African-American literature, in London/New Orleans/Berlin....
Review: Waking Dreams debut album ‘Askew’ – Disco meets 90s grunge meets 80s Euro rock
โAskewโ is the debut project from Berlin-based American duo Waking Dreams. The duo consists of musician, vocalist and performance artist Angela Chambers and her musical partner Jason Letkiewicz, with whom they share a long artistic relationship. The album is at once...
Top UK guitarist Fabian Holland in exclusive interview as new album launches
Fabian Holland has been creating music and performing since a youngster. He grew up in an artistic household where performance and artistic expression were a part of everyday life, his mother was an artist and encouraged Fabianโs creativity. Fabian started playing...