A DREAMER’S ALIBI FOR THE 9-TO-5!
Three years is a long time to stay quiet, but if Fia Nyxx’s return with “Dreamer’s Alibi” is any indication, the silence was worth the wait. Trading the soulful...
THE GAMBLE WE CALL LOVE..
There is an almost inevitable relationship between love and gambling: both ask us to invest without ever guaranteeing a return. On “NOTHING LEFT TO CALL,” Vegas Girls 74 take...
FORTY-EIGHT AND JUST GETTING STARTED!
Forty-eight is an unusual age to buy your first electric piano. It is an even more unusual age to begin building a musical identity around it. Yet that is...
THE DARK SIDE OF DEVOTION..
The most effective warnings are sometimes the ones you don't recognize as warnings. “Madreselvas” by Evil Maracastakes its time revealing what it is really doing, allowing beauty, melody, and...
A LITTLE FASTER THAN GROWING UP!
Freedom rarely arrives with the grandeur we expect. Sometimes it looks like two sets of keys, shaky hands on a steering wheel, someone in the backseat saying “please drive...
THE LONELINESS OF BEING CLOSE..
Nostalgia can make almost anything feel meaningful in retrospect. But LaCosta Tucker’s It Matters to Me does not need nostalgia to justify its return. Beneath its classic country sensibility...