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“For me really, I just fell into music by accident. I was a gymnast first, which is where ‘Ariel’ came from, and then I wanted to be Avril Lavigne, so the guitar just fell into my lap,” says the exceptionally enthusiastic Ariel Bellvalaire during a recent phone chat. The...
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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...
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“Music turns my pain into a process. There is peace and healing to be found in the process,” says Emma Danner in her latest press release. Better known as Red Ribbon, Danner is referring to her second LP, Planet X, which drops this Friday, June 11th. The album, which comes courtesy...
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Although Chase Cohl isn’t exactly a household name, she has been in the art and entertainment industry for quite some time now and managed to put her name on numerous of its facets. With parents in the music industry, Cohl spent much of her youth on the road with...
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Had they gotten their start about 20 years ago, Livingmore would surely have been sharing the stages of the TLA and the Trocadero with the likes of Morningwood, Shiny Toy Guns, and Kill Hannah during my college years. The LA quartet kick out sassy and sparkly post-punk jams whose...
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Last week Southern California singer/songwriter Mara Connor released the Decades EP, a celebration of some of the greatest songs of the second half of the twentieth century and also some of Connor’s best musical friends, with whom she collaborated on the five-song EP. Connor covers songs by Fats Domino,...
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“My goal is just ‘to be seen,’ and I don’t mean that in some narcissistic way, but ‘to be seen’ just meaning to exist,” says BEVERLEE. BEVERLEE has been in the music industry for more than a decade now, although until recently, she’s primarily co-written for other artists and...
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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...
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2020 really does seem to be dominated by the young ladies so far… A few weeks ago 15-year-old Jayden Bartels provided one of the best sets we’ve seen in the year’s first quarter while opening for Echosmith, and one of our favorite releases, 5 A.M., comes courtesy of 19-year-old...
“For me really, I just fell into music by accident. I was a gymnast first, which is where ‘Ariel’ came from, and then I wanted to be Avril Lavigne, so the guitar just fell into my lap,” says the exceptionally enthusiastic Ariel Bellvalaire during a recent phone chat. The...
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...
