Author Archives: Amelia Parreira
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Tuesday Tracks: Your Weekly New Music Discovery – Jan. 5
Clockwise from top left: Mitchell Tenpenny, The New Mastersounds, Matt Jaffe, Aly and AJ, Amanda Shires and Another Sky. Every week brings a plethora of new music to our ears. Artists on platforms like Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles,…
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Interview: San Francisco’s Rachel Garlin brings activism to the forefront
Rachel Garlin, courtesy: Irene Young. After growing up in Berkeley, singer-songwriter Rachel Garlin ventured off to New York in pursuit of the big city life. But even after finding it, her Bay Area roots kept pulling her back. After years in the Big Apple, Garlin and her wife moved…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your Weekly New Music Discovery – Nov. 17
Clockwise from top left: Jimi Somewhere, Joan of Arc, The Lighthouse and the Whaler, The Dirty Nil, Little Hurt, Justice Carradine and Jayla Darden. Every week brings a plethora of new music to our ears. Artists on platforms like Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your Weekly New Music Discovery – Oct. 13
Clockwise from top left: PREP, Yola, Spencer Burton, Tank and the Bangas, Kacey Johansing, Drew Citron and Porches. Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms like Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but…
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Q&A: Argentinean Nicki Nicole crashes through ‘Mala Vida’ waiting out the world’s longest quarantine
Nicki Nicole, Courtesy: Pull&Bear. Rising Argentine R&B and pop artist Nicki Nicole has taken the world by storm with her electrifying dance anthems. She broke out with debut single “Music Sessions #13,” with producer Bizarrap, which carried her to the stage of the first-ever Spotify Awards. Now she continues to…
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Q&A: Gaidaa on self-discovery, accepting pandemic ‘Overture’
Gaidaa, Courtesy: Segraphy. Just two years ago, Sudanese-born and Netherlands-based R&B singer-songwriter Gaidaa caught the attention of Dutch producer Full Crate with a cover of a Kehlani record. Full Crate would go one to work with her and launch the artist’s career. The 20-year-old is coming off the release of…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your Weekly New Music Discovery – Sept. 8
Clockwise from top left: Diana DeMuth, Kurt Baker, Blake Rose, Birdy, The Inoculated Canaries and Chloe Flower. Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms like Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who…
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Dayglow: From the bedroom studio to the ‘sold-out tour that never existed’
Dayglow, Courtesy: Nick Wong. Austin artist Sloan Struble, who writes and performs as Dayglow, isn’t one to let conventions forge his direction. WIN a Dayglow vinyl & T-shirt! We’re giving away Fuzzybrain. To win: Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter or Instagram. Share this story. Take a…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your Weekly New Music Discovery – Aug. 4, 2020
Clockwise from top left: VINCINT, cehryl, Curtis Waters, Goody Grace, Heartless Bastards and Izzy Bizu. Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms like Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who has time…
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INTERVIEW: Sweden’s Pauline Skott on nearly getting stuck in Mexico, her pandemic debut
Pauline Skott. Courtesy: Peter St. James. From the time Swedish singer-songwriter and producer Pauline Skott, who performs as Skott, was just a kid, music always drew her deepest fascination. By the time she was 13, she was already experimenting with production, one day hoping to compose tracks for video game. “Then…