NORTHERN TRANSMISSIONS: Lyrics Born Takes Collaboration To New Level
Lyrics Born Takes Collaboration To New Level With ‘Mobile Homies Season 1’ Not many artists in hip hop push the boundaries of the art form quite like Lyrics Born. The Japanese native started his music career in the California college city of Berkeley during the mid-90s and since then he’s had an incredibly prolific output. […]
buzzbands.la: Ears Wide Open: Tombstones in Their Eyes
Tombstones in Their Eyes yields the acronym TITE, so besides the band’s majestically swirling, sumptuously stoned shoegaze music, they have that going for them. The Los Angeles rockers today released a new EP, “A Higher Place,” via Josie Cotton’s Kitten Robot Records. It’s the follow-up to last year’s album “Looking for a Light” and, incrementally, a move toward the […]
UNDER THE RADAR: Eliza & The Delusionals Share New Single “Bed Song”
Debut Album Now And Then Out May 20 Via Cooking Vinyl Next month, rising Australian indie rock outfit Eliza & The Delusionals are set to share their debut album Now And Then. Despite the COVID setbacks, the band have spent the last two years hard at work on the follow-up to their 2020 EP, A State Of Living In a Objective […]
HIPHOPDX: LYRICS BORN drops ‘MOBILE HOMIES’ album with BLACKALICIOUS, DAN THE AUTOMATOR, GROUCH & ELIGH + more
EXCLUSIVE – Bay Area Hip Hop staple Lyrics Born has resurfaced with a new compilation album called Mobile Homies: Season 1. Boasting features from artists such as Blackalicious, Dan The Automator, Dilated Peoples’ Rakaa, The Grouch & Eligh, Lateef The Truthspeaker, Galactic and Cutso, the 12-track project was inspired by Lyrics Born’s Mobile Homies podcast, which he created during the initial COVID-19 lockdown in […]
QUEEN KWONG Finds trouble in Paradise in new “On The Run” video
A twisted comedic “Bachelor In Paradise” spoof New Album Couples Only Out July 12th via Sonic Ritual After the release of her latest single “On The Run” featuring keys and synths by close friend Roger O’Donnell (The Cure), Queen Kwong, (a.k.a. Carré Kwong Callaway) has shared her new visual for the song. “On The Run” is the second single off of her upcoming album Couples Only, out July 12 via Sonic […]
WBUR: For Ukrainian American artists, music made in the U.S. can benefit a country under attack
The long-running, self-described “gypsy punk” band Gogol Bordello had just finished recording its first new album in five years in February. Days later, Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, where the band’s frontman Eugene Hütz was born and raised. “We realized we had to get more Ukrainian voices involved,” says Hütz. “So we’re adding collaborations with […]
BLACKBOOK MAGAZINE: Datarock’s Frederick Saroea’s Chamber Performance of ‘Heaven Knows Those Songs Weren’t Heaven Sent’
Published: April 19, 2022 With film and television productions halted, and art galleries essentially shut down, music artists took a particularly exigent position at the forefront of our cultural survival in the early months of the coronavirus crisis. Frederick Saroea, frontman of Norwegian indie stalwarts Datarock, in particular wrote and recorded the album Rona Diaries, which came out […]
NEW YORK TIMES on AEON STATION: The 18-Year Wait for New Wrens Music Is Over. Sort Of.
By Hugo Lindgren Sept. 20, 2021 The New Jersey indie rockers promised a final album. Their day jobs and families have expanded, but the band’s two creative forces kept writing — separately. How do you know it’s time to pull the plug on the band you started as a teenager? Is it when you get married […]
JAZZTIMES: Archival Jazz Clips from The Ed Sullivan Show Featured in April
The show’s YouTube channel to feature historic appearances by Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Billy Eckstine, and more PUBLISHED APRIL 11, 2022 Remembered most for world-changing appearances by Elvis Presley and the Beatles, The Ed Sullivan Show, which aired in primetime from 1948 to 1971, featured artists and celebrities across just about every […]
FLOOD Magazine: Lyrics Born Walks Us Through Each Collaboration on His New LP Mobile Homies Season 1
You may know the story by now: Global pandemic prevents artist from performing for the indefinite future, artist—with little better to do—turns to having meaningful conversations with other artists which get live streamed to audiences who also have little better to do, bonds between artists grow stronger. Yet in the case of rapper/actor Lyrics Born, this story is […]