When Lorde released Pure Heroine in 2013, listeners were awestruck by the then-unknown 16-year-old’s vocal talent, unique arrangements, and ability to construct a set of songs woven together by threads of several different pockets of pop. Four years later, Lorde released one of the year’s most anticipated...
Derek Zanetti is walking the streets of Los Angeles hours before a show at the Roxy. His project, The Homeless Gospel Choir, seems engineered to be at odds with the gig headliner, ‘68, at face value — his folk-punk would be followed by frenetic, meaty rock n’ roll. Like most artists faced with...
Nostalgia, to Andy Othling, otherwise known as rising ambient outlet Lowercase Noises, is an expansion of loss, of losing “things both large and small, both incredibly heavy and largely inconsequential.” His new record, The Swiss Illness, isn’t just an intriguing title (although it does...
Winnipeg, Manitoba’s Mulligrub describes themselves as “bittersweet but mostly bitter,” a sentiment that’s all too familiar to the many twenty-somethings out in the world. Being soft is hard, being vulnerable is hard; so we get angry and bitter — and Mulligrub knows this. The very title of their...
All hail Soundcloud autoplay. There’s no other way I’d have traveled from the newest Topshelf Records signing — Us and Us Only, a band worthy of their own, separate MV Recommends column — to Tess Roby, a Montreal-based musician listing “surround sound” as her designated Facebook...
As the warm weather approaches, we’re often bombarded with the “songs of summer,” but what really makes a song relatable to the weather? Is it the upbeat nature; perhaps the content of the lyrics? It’s hard to make any firm designations, but weather and the elements are central to Real Life...
