Floating through the reverb-drenched dream that is Old Bricks' City Lights is like watching someone die, but not in a sad or morbid way. It's more the happiness you feel when knowing the person has accepted that they are going on to a better place and it becomes a wonderful thing instead of a bad one. A smile on a wrinkled face, light shooting out of their eyes and mouth. Old Bricks could be the soundtrack for this moment, or they could be the moment itself, encapsulated in a glistening bubble...
Chapter 1: EBONY & IVORY
I used to have bands play at this house I lived at with some crust freaks a couple of years ago. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes garbage, these shows attracted randoms from all over. I first met Tre when his friends gave me their band's demo at one of these parties and I checked it out. The production was incredible. I started hanging out with Tre and he soon became a fixture around our house shows, always stealing my booze and falling asleep in really awkward places/positions. He...
Juan Huevos, known to his fans and friends as J Waves, is a young buck dumb fuck. A CEO of the bedroom rap scene, an untalented white guy of the synth production scene, an underwear model of the music scene. Drunk off a fantasy world that mimics reality, the kid J Waves is crying one moment, flying high the next, charming his way into young hearts and not knowing what to do once he gets there.
Lo-fi beats when made by hand, hi-fi raps about things you can relate to.
Hi-fi beats when fucking with French electro producers or...
Logan Pate grew up on 2nd street - the most common street name in America. What was uncommon about Logan as a child was his undying affection for Ariel, the ginger from Little Mermaid, as well as his knack for rocking really awesome plaid shirts and questionably short shorts simultaneously.
He writes and records all of his own music and it usually comes out as a hybrid of white boy soul, melancholy singer/songwriter, with a bit of swing-era jazz sensibility.
Libraries is the collective faults of Tommy Kitrick and Justin Chillington, 2 young bros who can Bruce Willis a beat and use it to blow the roof off a skyscraper. Their shared music tastes resulted in them forming a duo as they partied and bullshitted their way through 2010. Almost 2 years later, Libraries are wired to smash like global-warming fueled Wilmington waves. Their talents run the full gamut for modern electronic musicians: producing and recording original tracks, remixing other artists, and banging out powerful live performances. Hustling hard as possible, but still finding time for what really matters in...
There are many musicians riding the wave of psychedelia these days. But most seem caught in the net of authenticity, trying to reproduce a sound that has already been, whether stylistically or through the recording process. Others take the approach of genre mating and bending, blending their influences with more modern sounds or a danceable driving force behind it. There will always be a difference between just doing something and doing something well. With so much music at our disposal now, "well" requires more than just a proficiency for songwriting - it needs to be new,...
There used to be a bio for The Grapes. But it's gone now. It was funny. Long story.
Autumn Ehinger was in a band. Then it broke up. Everyone moved and Autumn fancied that she would, too. She didn't know where, or even what she would do when she got there, but she knew it was time. Fast forward 2 years later. Autumn reflected on her journey that had taken her from North Carolina to Virginia to Arizona, and even to Japan. She had even gone as far as to move back in with her parents. But our story had already begun.
Even though she longed...
Andy Black and Michael Kilpatrick began collaborating during a shared semester on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Returning to their homes in North Carolina and California, the two continued to write and record individually, sharing tracks on the internet. In 2010, they moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where they dubbed their collaboration, "Doctor", and developed the immersive sound heard on their latest EP, Magic Genie Chords.
The band uses an array of analog synthesizers, drum machines, toy keyboards, and acoustic recording techniques. Black developed as a singer and keyboardist through an upbringing of classical study and church music. Kilpatrick, a self-taught...
Veelee are the music of stress, and changes in temperature; the music of birds that love to fly but don't always want to. Veelee are strings that are wound just tight, or loose, enough to hit whatever relevant notes. Matthew Park and Ginger Wagg are Veelee. They might be your neighbors. When you listen to them it feels like they could be there, in that house you can just make out through the trees, with awkwardly beautiful sounds sneaking out.
Veelee are minimalism maximized. Curious and wide-eyed, they intuitively and randomly explore different...
