pop

Little Reader: Speed of Light

“It’s an accidental love child,” says Nashville-based singer-songwriter Kate Tucker of Little Reader, her new and unexpected pop music collaboration with fellow songwriter and guitarist, Ross Flournoy, late of Merge Records bands The Broken West and Apex Manor. The duo’s…

The Sorted: Summer Makes Us So High

Martyn Zub is the talented force behind THE SORTED, an electro-pop musician via Los Angeles who released his debut three-track “Summer High EP” this past October [2016]. “Summer Makes Us High” is the lead-off track from the effort, which starts…

Ghost Cousin: Breakfast and Tea

The album “Scotland” is the first full-length effort that Canadian psychedelic art-pop band GHOST COUSIN recorded themselves in 2013, predominately at the McDougall United Church in downtown Edmonton. The arrangements are quite thoughtfully assembled in today’s featured opening track, “Breakfast…

Sakawa Boys: There’s No Harm in Trying

Cape Town South Africa’s SAKAWA BOYS released their debut LP in 2016 entitled, “2014 Anxiety“, which the band describes as being influenced by shoegaze and modern alt-pop music. We first heard their quality 2014 single “Lazy Eys” followed by the…

Peonies: Marmalade

Landscape is the mid-2016 debut album from PEONIES, an indie pop trio from Jakarta, Indonesia. This is a wonderful and very promising first effort with several standout favorites here, including “Summer“, “Whispering” and the fun track featured on the Dose…