grimes

The last time I spoke to Mica Tenenbaum, one-half of electro-based, experimental indie-pop duo Magdalena Bay (whose biggest influences include Gwen Stefani, Britney Spears, Charli XCX, and Grimes), was in March of 2020, when the band was just about to kick off sold-out tours supporting Yumi Zouma and Kero...

Last March, just before sold-out tours supporting Kero Kero Bonito and Yumi Zouma were cancelled due to the pandemic, Mica Tenenbaum of LA-based electro indie-pop duo Magdalena Bay told me, “We really love pop music and it’s obvious and we hope that that shows through.  I mean, we’re solidly...

Upon seeing Jenna Kyle’s recent video for “Tell Me,” any former goth teen won’t be able to help conjuring comparisons to Depeche Mode’s Anton Corbijn collaborations.  The hyper-moody banger is equally suitable for midnight epiphanies and moderately-irresponsible nightclubbing.  And the accompanying music video, directed by Jay Harwood, has the...

Ironically, lùisa’s third LP, New Woman, actually has the German singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist exploring a bevvy of vintage sounds.  The album, which deals with female-oppression-turned-empowerment on both a personal level and a sociopolitical level, borrows sonic sentiments from a lot of the best intellectual pop of the 1980s, making...

In an age when it’s become okay for punks and hipsters to listen to Carly Rae Jepsen and Miley Cyrus, there may not be a more unabashedly and unashamedly “pop” artist worth listening to than Magdalena Bay…  The LA-duo, comprised of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin, churn out something...

If you have not heard of Grimes, you have literally been living under a rock.  Claire Boucher exploded into the electronic music scene back in 2010 with her releases on Arbutus Records.  She graced the covers of The FADER, Nylon, Dazed and Confused, NME, Flare and more. Ever since her emergence, she has released albums...