New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
Air Credits (SHOWYOUSUCK and The Hood Internet) have released their latest EP, Wasteland Radio New Archives (Grey/429).
This four track effort features contributions from Joe Carsello, Fyodor Sakhnovski (Radiant Devices), and Sen Moritimoto.
The duel will be releasing a video for the EP’s lead single, “Push”, in the coming weeks.
15 year old signer/songwriter Queeva announced last week that her debut album, How Do You Know, on July 12th. The album will include the three singles she released in 2018 along with six new songs.
Below is the full tracklist along with the recently released video for the album’s title track.
1. How Do You Know (QUEEVA, Shaye Smith, Jamie O’Neal)
2. Stand Out (QUEEVA, Minnie Murphy Jamie ONeal)
3. Live Like A Song (QUEEVA, Minnie Murphy, Jamie ONeal)
4. Who You Really Are (QUEEVA, Minnie Murphy, Jamie ONeal )
5. Young Wild and Free (QUEEVA, Stephanie Bentley, Rob Crosby, Jamie ONeal)
6. Going Back (QUEEVA, Minnie Murphy, Jamie ONeal)
7. Dream Big (QUEEVA, Stephanie Bentley, Rob Crosby, Jamie ONeal)
8. Close To You (QUEEVA, Minnie Murphy, Jamie ONeal)
9. You’re Still Here (QUEEVA, Lisa Drew, Jimmy Murphy, Jamie ONeal)
Will Bennett & The Tells have released a third single, “In Nashville”, from their forthcoming album, All Your Favorite Songs.
This is the back of the barroom Americana of Will Bennett along with Daniel Martinson, Ethan Kenvarg, and Wilson Brehmer.
You can help Will Bennett & The Tells celebrate the released the their album at Schubas on July 29th with Baby Money and The Down Payments, St. Marlboro, and The Long Lost.
Don’t let the sugary pop hooks fool you, the lyrical flow of Boston’s Oompa is murderous truth from a street poet, educator, and rising New England star. The rapper’s latest single "Feel Like Cole" flashes rumbling beats, slick production, and the same vocal intensity that Oompa is known for, all glazed with a vintage ’80s hip-hop vibe. Much like that storied time in hip-hop lore when born-poets could be found on street corners, spitting agile verses for the sake of keeping their neighborhood vibrantly colored, Oompa’s latest track feels genuinely born from the Boston-annexed neighborhood of Roxbury she hails from. The cultural spirit of Roxbury lives in the music but also in the lyrics of Oompa which address her and her community’s struggles, triumphs, and unresolved questions of a social matter. Oompa will be taking the Bank of NH Stage for a ride on July 20th, bringing important issues to the forefront with rhythm to spare. The brand new single is streaming below. – Rene Cobar
“See Without Light” is featured on Persephone, the new EP from the trio of Etheric Felines. After a crunchy, granular beginning, a clear vision emerges. Relentless rhymes describe an ever-evolving personal trajectory. In contrast to that fast-paced intensity, the subtle, softness of sung interludes provides a peaceful acceptance of the nonlinear path and the way the world shapes you.
Blow Wind Blow has released their debut EP, “The Wake”, digitally and are preparing for an official vinyl release on August 30th. The band, consisting of Ryan Suzuka (Vocals/Ukulele/Harmonica), Rami Atassi (Guitar/Vocals), Aaron Ervin -(Guitar/Fender Rhodes/Keyboards, Conner Hollingsworth (Bass/Piano), and Paul Newmann (Drums), have been working on this project since 2015s and it is great to finally see it getting a release.
Brooklyn’s Operator Music Band pull no punches on new single “Slim Spin,” launching right into a three minute vamp of spring clock percussion, synth jazz chord progressions, and start-stop guitar solos of no wave origins. It’s hard to render the wide-breadth of influences OMB have channeled into this premiere track from their forthcoming album Duo Duo, but the New York quartet has an ear for understanding what distinct genre influences blend mellifluously. This is best demonstrated by the song’s second half, wherein over a repeated, hypnotic vocal line by singer and multi-instrumentalist Dara Hirsch, the group shifts keys seamlessly (and sometimes chromatically), building tension that coalesces in a melodic explosion of wurlitzer synths and sunburnt Fender riffs. It’s but a snippet of Operator Music Band’s penchant for the experimental, and it bodes well for the rest of the outfit’s sophomore record, out September 20th. Stream it below. -Connor Beckett McInerney
