Tanager’s New Album ‘HZ Donut’: Premiering New Single “Tiny Galaxies”
November 8, 2018The beautiful thing about the kinds of songs that Tanager make are how layered they are… These are guitars that envelop you, drums that pull you, melodic phrases that levitate you (and no, I’m not on drugs as I write this)… Those ethereal traits have always distinguished a Tanager song, a hybrid of coarse distortion
Dani Darling—Artist To Watch in 2019
October 31, 2018Dani Darling rescues light from darkness. With her band’s blend of soul, indie-rock, dream-pop and trip-hop, this Ann Arbor-based singer/songwriter creates mesmerizing and tender ballads with her diaphanous voice.
Louis Picasso’s latest: Behind The Paintings 2
October 31, 2018Louis Picasso continues his prolific output with his latest, Behind The Paintings pt 2. The emcee, lyricist, producer entrepreneur, and proponent of collective cultural initiatives (see his label: Hiiiger Minds), has been hard at work these last five years, with a slew of releases and, now, some international tour dates’ logged. Most local audiences first heard Picasso on his 2016
Appleseed Collective (INTERVIEW) – New Single: ‘Bad Habit’
October 30, 2018Appleseed Collective Sat. Nov 4th Kerrytown Concert House 6pm-8pm 415 N. 4th Ave., Ann Arbor INFO You can stream it right here… Bad Habit The fine strands that the Appleseed Collective thread together would involve defying expectations while also delivering sonic baskets of surefire charms. Just as I can’t corral any contemporary indie-rock, punk, psych or
Zzvava Album Release – Nov 3 @ Ziggy’s
October 24, 2018Zzvava is releasing their first album within just 10 months of existence. Their new album is a high-energy smorgasbord of boogie-ready surf-rock, jangly psychedelia, riffy power-pop and snappy indie-punk. If it feels like things change-up after every song, it’s because each track rotates in a different author, that is–the songwriting–is split four ways. Not only
JUNGLEFOWL’S New EP ‘Secret Society’ (INTERVIEW)
October 22, 2018The first time I heard JUNGLEFOWL, they knocked me out of my chair. It was 2015 and Melissa Coppola had sent me the tracks that would eventually be released as the debut EP for her new band with guitarist Stefan Carr–a power duo! But a power duo that I couldn’t place, in the best way–it