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…

Brooklyn artist No Kill announces her debut album today, Gold Chorus. The shiny, bright noisy-rock album is illuminated by (real life name) Jamie Cogar’s silvery vocals and voluptuous lyrics. “Swooning” is the first single from the album, accompanied by a video centered on the concept of the female gaze – the protaginists peer into the camera defiantly, yet the space is flickering and awashed in colorful light, playing with the concept of radical softness. Of No Kill’s first single off Gold Chorus, “Swooning,” Cogar says, It’s a song about desire. It’s about vulnerability, irreverence, and the power games people play with…

Chicago’s V.V. Lightbody has released a new single, “Really Do Care,” a contemplative, groovy reflection on relationships. Really Do Care by V.V. Lightbody Lightbody’s acclaimed 2020 album Make a Shrine or Burn It (Acrophase Records) showcases the musician’s myriad multi-instrumental, vocal, and song-writing talents. “Really Do Care” is the lone B-side, featuring a burning thread of slide guitar from Nashville’s Juan Solorzano, Lightbody’s own flute playing, nouveau folk guitar strums, and lyrics dealing with facing one’s fear of commitment. “This song acted as a self-soothing mantra for when I knew I couldn’t be with someone while also wanting to keep…

Today, Tulsa, Oklahoma-based musician Jesse Aycock shares the video and single, “Sadder Than a Sunset,” from his upcoming self-titled album, out April 16th on Horton Records. Of the 13 tracks on the album, “Sadder Than a Sunset” felt the most cosmic. Sometimes songs feel like they come from another place in time. This is one of those songs to me. It kinda wrote itself. All of these images started flooding in, and it was just a matter of getting them down on paper. I was feeling some heavy things at the time, and this song seems to capture that in…

Salton Sea by Marjorine Nicholas Comaratta spent the last ten years playing in psych bands and experimenting with hardware-based electronic music. When the pandemic hit, he had to deeply re-think his creative approach and figure out a way to balance and marry the worlds he’d been liminally wavering between. On the anniversary of Sgt. Pepper last year, Nicholas spent the night reading about the record and its creation until the wee hours. This deep dive made him realize that “if the Beatles could make all of this incredible music melding guitars, keyboards and samples back in 1967 with tape loops,…