You may have noticed that my interest in electronic, ambient and new age is growing, and Nashville Ambient Ensemble is partially to blame for that. In my conversation with Michael Hix and Luke Schneider a few weeks back, Luke mentioned that *all* he listens to is private issue new age music. As my interest in the genre grows, and considering my fondness for Luke’s solo work as well as my daily habit of waking up to NAE’s Cereulean, I thought, who better to ask for recommendations? I asked Luke to make a mix of new age essentials and he totally…

Today, Highland Park’s wake up releases the video for “i gotta get away” from their album tigers can’t be choosers released via Paul Is Dead records in February. The video features the band’s frontman’s fiancé Kathryn Grace as a young woman fed up and frustrated with city life, who decides it’s time to flew the coop and live the cowboy life. wake up is the recording project of multidisciplinary artist Evan Mui and a rotating cast of friends. the band’s original lineup recorded tigers can’t be choosers in 2014. however, relocations, lineup changes, and the band’s new lineup focused on new material, and so the…

Songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and video director Charlotte Ercoli Coe, aka Charles, has released a new single from her brilliantly weird upcoming album, Let’s Start a Family Tonight (out 5/21 on Babe City). I wrote this wonderfully bitter song on the second darkest day of my life. I felt like Quasimodo / permanently marked territory that no one would ever come near again. It’s about feeling imprisoned and capitulating to the idea of completely giving up on having a decent life. The day I recorded it is also the day I went to a birthday party and met the person who spurred…

Today LA-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emma Danner, aka Red Ribbon, shares the haunting single and video for “High” off upcoming Planet X out June 11 via Danger Collective Records. It could just be about drugs, or it can be about whatever in your life makes you high. I lost my first love to an opioid addiction and I was a user of opiates in my youth. My whole life I’ve been trying to figure out what one can do to expand their consciousness outside of drug use. There’s a little bit of fear around feeling good in this song as well.…

Fiver is the alias of the enigmatic musician Simone Schmidt, a masterful songwriter and storycrafter, a legend in Canada, who today releases their final single prior to the release of their self-titled album on Friday, May 7th via You’ve Changed. Throughout 2017-2018, Toronto-based Simone Schmidt (Fiver) arranged the music in a small white house in Scotch Village in unceded Mi’kma’ki, along with the Bianca Palmer (drums, percussion), Nick Dourado (lap steel, piano, vibes, sax), and Jeremy Costello (synths, bass, voice); rightly dubbed “The Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition” based on their improvisational style and geographic location. Schmidt’s voice is powerful…

My favorite NYC blues-rocker is back with a new single, “Just Made Rent,” a song for everyone who has: A) Just made rentB) Drinks too much C) Is in a little bit of debt D) All of the above Option B is how I came across Cancion’s music. Up until the pandemic, he had a monthly residency at 11th Street Bar, the best pub in New York City, where he electrified audiences with his energetic, animated stage presence and his deep grooves. Originally from the Southwest, it’s rare to find a fellow New Yorker adorned in turquoise rings and a…

Sedona’s musical mystic decker. invites you to enter the vortex with the latest video for his new single, “In Outer Space & DNA” exploring the cosmic symbiosis between the macro and the micro, sacred geometry, and more. It’s no wonder this dweller atop electromagnetic and leyline convergences considers his music “psychedelic desert rock.” “Here we are in this great unveiling,” says Brandon Decker. “It’s like terminal velocity in so many ways. The world is in chaos and we are all feeling it; the division brought on by politics, the pandemic and its many implications, these systems and structures are so…