Author: Anthony Mclaude
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Raging, Dark Pop Princess with a Rebellious Spirit: Allie X Summoned ‘Girl With No Face’ Tour at Racket NYC on June 12, 2024
BE CAREFUL WHO you summon: a nightmare beyond compare can consume your very soul. It’s evening, fifty minutes past eight o’clock to be exact, the hour when the night X creatures emerge from their hiding places and darkness descends on a stifling, yet cool Wednesday evenfall in June. The summoned figure devoid of facial features…
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Album Review: MammaBear Feat. Gas Hound — ‘The Mad Lads‘
In the often maddening fray of an arduous road-trip through the vast heart of the merciless American wilderness, music, in all its unimaginable variations and unprecedented subgenres, there lies an anomaly, an album—unapologetic in its vigor and ruthless in its audacity. The Mad Lads, brought to you live into existence in an unexpected twist, in the…
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LE JUNK Dabbles in Some ‘Bad Stuff’
Le Junk’s glamorous childlike rubbish ‘Bad Stuff’ via Naked Superstar Recordings — currently in its 8th week since being released on July 29th, 2021 — started off as inspiration for himself in his own music video for ‘Rich Romance’ where he wore the exact same festooned ‘80s vintage suit to flash his status. Sitting in an upscale directors chair…
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Hickeys ‘Motherlode’ is Wild and Intimate, a Debuting Tour De Force
On their anticipated debut, Motherlode, Hickeys (the nascent grunge foursome in Madrid) let it all hang out in a miasma of confessional heartache that’s been locked in a compelling generational heart-shaped box. It is a surreal, experimental, avant-garde album: moody, poetic and fraught with intense conflict. Gestures of grieving and mourning over false and withheld…
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Elizabeth Woolf’s ‘Til It’s Dark Outside’ is a Coming-Of-Age Soul-Funk Masterpiece
Reintroducing the late ‘70s into the 21st century. ‘Til It’s Dark Outside,’ independently released on October 16, 2020, is the story-based debut studio album from Elizabeth Woolf, a budding Los Angeles, California grown singer-songwriter. Wise beyond her years and at the peak of her songstress game, Woolf grew up singing along to early Frank Sinatra records in…
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NuSoul Bares His Soul in a Monumental Hip-Hop Defined Portraiture, ‘Formidable’
It’s one-forty ante meridiem in the SouthEast region of Beaumont, Texas, and NuSoul the Poet — the mantle of a young, black lyrical genius; hip-hop’s most studious and innovative artist of this generation has just finished a confidential phone conversation with a close female confidant. He has a lot going on at the moment, musically, with being the…
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Hear Steve Lacy: He’s Something New
In the unique, double-sided tradition of Stevie Wonder’s classical prowess of soul; Rick James’s nasty and raw, rump-shaking smash hits, and the sex-tousled maximalism throne of Prince, check out the remarkable, creative, 10-song, tight sophomore studio album Gemini Rights, which was released July 15, 2022 by 24-year-old, Compton-born, R&B bad boy Steve Lacy. Striking his own path…
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Didi J Seeks to Slay the Music & Fashion Scene on ‘Cover Girl.’
Hailing from Serbia and singing the praises of America, an international dance-pop singer and fashion entrepreneur who emigrated then ventured to find herself through the United States runway is Didi J, supported by the guidance of legendary music and fashion icon Lady Gaga. On December 24, she released her stylized, front-and-center, debut studio album Cover Girl. On a…
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Revisiting ANTIBOY’s Posthumous ‘Insanity’
Two years after exiting Earth, ANTIBOY, a transcendent, godlike androgyny and genderfluid moniker he’d compose as binary-shattering musical personae of the late Harry Haines. While he is no longer here, he still lives on and leaves behind an unfinished legacy of a label-less world through family, friends and kindred spirits, including his mother, actress and…
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M.A.G.S. Sparks a Drag and Bangs Out on ‘Say Things That Matter’
Buffalo-bred with a Los Angeles base, 30-year-old Elliot Douglas, otherwise known as his mononymous initialed “shock value” moniker M.A.G.S., Marijuana and Good Sex, has lit a spliff, unzipped and whipped out his first full-length pop-punk album, ‘Say Things That Matter.’ As an alternative born rock-savant who’s a bit rough around the edges, life on the…