electropop

We’re nearly halfway through Pride Month and we’ve already attended some fabulous events.  However, there are still several musical celebrations of queerness that we’re eagerly anticipating, including June 22nd at Theatre of Living Arts.  The evening will be headlined by Lynn Gunn electropop outfit PVRIS, with opening duties being...

Darkroom has the distinction of being our favorite album of the year by an artist that we’ve never actually met.  The LP, which dropped May 17th, is the sophomore full-length from French-Canadian duo Ghostly Kisses (comprised of Margaux Sauvé and Louis-Étienne Santais), the follow-up to 2022’s Heaven, Wait, both...

“With the EPs I’ve released, the music has been more related to a concept or a theme and not a sound,” says Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Nisa Lumaj, better known simply as Nisa, who describes her songs as, “genre-less music, leaning on pop, but not being tied to a genre.” (She...

This coming Sunday, October 2nd, the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection will once again have possibly their last chance to see an emerging pop icon from the intimacy of The Foundry when buzzyworthy alt-pop chanteuse Maude Latour brings her what is this feeling? tour to the 450-capacity...

Having released their third LP, WOMB, in April of 2020, “future pop” connoisseurs Purity Ring never got a chance to properly tour the album’s songs, which each serve as a coming-of-age tale of a female protagonist as they are forced to face the deepest-cutting traumas of modernism, which Pitchfork...

Although MØ’s recent stop at Union Transfer last Wednesday (April 13th) didn’t leave quite the impression on the city as a whole that Waxahatchee’s two sold-out shows at the venue did earlier that week, for the modest crowd in attendance, the hour-long performance seemed to pack a profoundly satisfying...

“Fucking Kathleen Hanna Tweeted about my record and I literally shat my pants!  I’m literally thinking of getting that Tweet printed on a fucking shirt!” Madi Diaz tells me during a recent phone chat.  The last time I talked to the Nashville-based artist was last August, just prior to...

Last Wednesday, 1/26, Kacey Musgraves gave the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection everything they’d been needing, an arena spectacle complete with pyro, laser lights, and a country diva commanding a mega stage in a skintight jumpsuit as she belted out anthemic breakup ballads (largely from last year’s...

Last week UK pop phenom Griff and Norwegian electropop chanteuse Sigrid released the most uplifting jam 2022 has had yet, “Head on Fire.”  The collaboration began when the two shared a pizza at the Reuben Selby show at Fashion Week in London and quickly started bonding over life as...