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  • Anika: “I’m a different artist and a different person.”

    This July Berlin-based musician Anika (Annika Henderson) released Change, her first album since her 2010 debut, Anika.  Although, despite this decade+ gap between LPs, the British ex-pat certainly never left the music world, taking up DJing, forming Exploded View, and collaborating with the likes of Shackleton, Dave Clarke, Tricky,...
  • AZRA Talks “Substance Pop” (Headlining Koreatown 3.0 documentary tonight in LA)

    “I actually created the word.  I created my own genre,” says AZRA, founder and ambassador of “substance pop.”  Last month I got a chance to chat with the LA-based Korean-American artist (who actually lived in Queen Village in 2016 and 2017), who tells me, “I always have to have...
  • Halloween Party Tonight with Guerilla Toss at Johnny Brenda’s

    New York-based, Boston-bred, outfit Guerilla Toss have always been charmingly-hard-to-pin-down genre-wise, so their amalgam of noise rock, punk rock, no wave, and even pop, being categorized most frequently as art rock really feels like the most comfortable designation.  Although the band has been around for less than a decade,...
  • “The songwriting remains the same”: Catching up with Madi Diaz

    About three and half years ago I was falling in love hard with the music of Madi Diaz, a singer/songwriter — who grew up in Bucks County and went on to be a star pupil of Paul Green’s School of Rock – who had recently shifted her aesthetic from...