It’s an uphill battle for new acts from small-to-medium sized agencies, requiring most to deliver eye-raising material that seizes the K-pop conversation. Rather than focus on legitimately great music, many of these smaller acts opt for gimmicks or — more recently — bold statements designed… Read More »Song Review: KIIRAS – Kill Ma Bo$$
It’s been roughly half a decade since Völur‘s last album, Death Cult. The band, however, has been steadily working much of that time, kicking around ideas for their new album, a collaboration with Cares called Breathless Spirit. Breathless Spirit draws inspiration from Icelandic myth. It’s… Read More »Track Premiere and QA: Völur/Cares: “Breathless Spirit”
Boston. Chicago. Nazareth. Berlin. Asia. Miami Sound Machine. All bands that have drawn their names from locations on a map. Add Nottingham’s Tigguo Cobauc to the list. According to Wikipedia, “Nottingham was described as ‘Tig Guocobauc’ in Old Brythonic, meaning ‘place of caves’, by the Welsh Bishop of Sherborne Asser in his The Life… Read More »Video Premiere: Nottingham Cave Dwellers Tigguo Cobauc Unearth “Ascended Deliverance”
Twenty-five years ago, Los Angeles alternative metal band A Perfect Circle introduced themselves to audiences with the scathing lead single […] The post It Holds Up: A Perfect Circle – ‘Mer de Noms’ appeared first on The Alternative.
Indie K-pop artists are a dime a dozen, but the vast majority make music that sounds indie. Small ambition, subdued energy, etc. You know… coffeehouse vibes. Every once and awhile someone comes along with a bigger vision — often emerging from unexpected places. That’s happened… Read More »Song Review: Fairy Mai – Light Please