by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Guided By Voices @ Irving Plaza, 07/11/2014
I’m sure that Guided By Voices’ fans can fill up stadiums. Or any other location you give ’em. They will know pretty much every song out of the 22 albums the indie rock titans from Dayton, Ohio issued since 1983.…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Clap Your Hands Say Yeah @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg
Philadelphia indie-rock heroes Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, or as it’s fashionable to shorten the long band names – CYHSY, played a sold out show at probably the most perfect location possible – right in the center of the hipster…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Lana Del Rey @ Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin
“Come on, baby, let’s ride, we can escape to the great sunshine. I know your wife and she wouldn’t mind.” I love Lana Del Rey’s music for lines like this that give her songs a dark twist. She constantly evokes the secret…
by Noreña • • Comments Off on Fou De Toi – Island /song review/
Island is Fou De Toi’s attempt to write a happy song in contrast to their otherwise meloncholic repertoire. I think they succeeded. From the first guitar chord, Island chimes in like…well…chimes – bright and clean and warm. The singer’s voice resembles Chris Martin’s…
This song is light – in the cold, through the clouds, reflected off of snow – but ideally in the summer, and always near water. Or maybe it’s slipping into the warm ocean and dissolving into a thin film that…
Do you remember what did you do for your 16th birthday? May be you threw a party with all your friends, got drunk, went on an amazing vacation, spent it with family or may be something else? Well, talented Parisian singer/songwriter…
Lykke Li played a sold out show at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, NY on April 15th. The show sold out shortly after the tickets went on sale and there is a good reason for this: Lykke Li is amazing,…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Playing to Vapors
When you hear an artist on the radio or a studio track first, you always have a just a little bit of doubt about whether you really heard “them”, or a DJ Frankenstein breathing life into something that would have…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on The Library Is On Fire’s new song leaked!
The brand new song of Brooklyn-based indie rockers The Library Is On Fire just leaked through Flowers In A Gun! “Labyrinths of February” is a standout track from The Library is On Fire’s new album “Halcyon & Surrounding Areas”, which…
Arlanna is a singer & songwriter based in Boston, MA. She often writes songs for other artists and sometimes for herself. At very early age she taught herself to play the piano by ear and began writing poetry and melodies…