The brainchild of Meghan Rose and Jake Ripp-Dieter, NYC alt rockers Loud Soft Loud inhale different music styles and breath out something that’s both accessible and edgy. Bringing to mind a blend of Queens of the Stone Age’s heavy riffs and Joan Jett swagger, their new song/video combo ‘Date With Myself’ is an ode to self-love which perfectly demonstrates the band’s searing distorted sound and Meghan’s powerful voice. They’ll be performing next at the Footlight on Sunday 10.28. – Evan Zwisler
Nashville
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Taco Mouth releases “A Deafening Silence” EP on 10.26 at The 5 Spot
The world needs bands with brilliant names, so thank goodness for Taco Mouth, who will release their new EP A Deafening Silence on October 26th at The 5 Spot. Taco Mouth formed in late 2017 as the brainchild of Erica Sellers and Angie Lese, two friends who started playing music together as CatFight in Louisville in the early 2010s. Nashville indie vets may know Sellers and Lese from The Dead Deads, the spiritual predecessor to Taco Mouth. Their music still sears eardrums with its punk inspiration; they seek to create songs that would’ve captivated audiences at CBGB or the Troubadour back in the underground’s first golden age. Watch the video for Taco Mouth’s first single "You Say" below, and catch the release party for A Deafening Silence on October 26th. – Will Sisskind
Philadelphia
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New Track: “Song of Sweetness” – Potential Gospel
The trio of Kelsey Stewart, Andy Staszkiw, and Zack Sternwalker, a.k.a. Potential Gospel, recently shared a new single. "Song of Sweetness" emerges from the chill of morning with an enchanting folk-surf feel. It serves as an invitation to connect on a personal level with a dream-like/mythical ambiance. Take an affectionate stroll, and let the peripheral world temporarily wash away.
Chicago
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Jamila Woods “Giovanni”
Jamila Woods has released an amazing video for her new single “Giovanni” which was released today, October 16th, via Jagjaguwar in partnership with Closed Sessions.
This is Jamila’s first release since her acclaimed 2017 debut album HEAVN.
You can catch Jamila Woods on November 3rd at Concord Music Hall with Gallant, and at Harold Washington Cultural Center on Nov. 30th for her final performance of HEAVN.
Chicago
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Ashen Swan “Circadian”
Ashen Swan (aka Nathan Kwon) is preparing to release a new album called Circadian on October 25th. As with Kwon’s other project’s (A Veiled Frame In Amber, Crawl Across The Sky) this is meditative ambient music. You can currently preorder the album and stream three of the tracks below.
Toronto
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Dilly Dally – New Single “Doom”, Lee’s Palace 12.06
Dilly Dally exploded a couple years back with their hit tune “Desire” from the album “Sore”. They toured the world for a long time off that record then got quiet for a bit. Luckily it was a productive quiet and they have just released their follow up record “Heaven” which features this tune “Doom”. It begins with a dark, slow pace and a heartbeat like drum beat. The track ends up blending those eerie vibes along with catchy grunge driven melodies. If anything could be a mix of Nirvana and Alice in Chains this would be it. Dilly Dally comes home to Toronto to play Lee’s Palace on December 6th. – Kris Gies
Austin
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Pastel Ghost Releases New Single “3NDL3SS”
A hidden gem interwoven in the fabric of Austin’s eclectic music scene, Pastel Ghost is throttling her presence with the exceptional release of her sophomore album, Ethereality. Pastel Ghost brings blissful electro-soundscapes to surface with a few barbs of introspective darkness that gives her music a haunting mystique. Her first single, "3NDL3SS", has tropical synths floating over house-beats that are pulsing and unreachable at the same time. Pastel Ghost’s vocals are sultry and seductive, like a chanteuse luring you to her room down the hall. The result is that Pastel Ghost creates an alternative world where reality gets put in the rearview, and the listener becomes immersed in a fantasy-like trance. While her music is neither light or dark, this dreamraver creates a nuanced perspective of love and loss that is not easily forgotten.
Chicago
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Cold Beaches
Cold Beaches is the gritty rock n’ roll project of Sophia Nadia. This Virginia native, now based in Chicago, has recruited a group of talented musicians including Chilly Tracheae, Brandon Salazar, and Eric Novak since finding her way to our city.
Earlier this month she released her latest EP, “Stay Here”. This is the band’s second EP of 2018, following April’s “Stay Hungry”.
NYC
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Emily Brown transcends genre with ‘Bee Eater’
Oakland singer-songwriter Emily Brown’s LP Bee Eater is larger than life, featuring baroque arrangements and her own powerhouse voice. Wide in scope, the album moves from the vibrato-filled opener “That’s Not Me” reminiscent of the quirky vocal stylings of Regina Spektor to the heartbreaking “Beautiful Baby” (streaming below,) where Brown’s vocals swell over perceptive lyrics like “I was not your manifold lover / I was your miracled world / You and I weren’t made for each other / I’m not that beautiful girl.” Bee Eater is triumphant in its honesty and transcendent in its genre, showing there’s a lot more to the singer-songwriter than meets the eye. – Lilly Milman
NYC
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The Cradle brings orchestral memories to The Glove 11.19
Paco Cathcart lets his evocative storytelling ride backseat on his 2018 release, Bag of Holding, his illustrious world-building a secondary component to the lush instrumentation that characterizes each defiantly quiet track. That’s not to say that Cathcart, who records under project name The Cradle, doesn’t have something to say – rather, the sparse anecdotes of past people and places are shared in a way that feels dreamily distant, accented best by a swell of chamber pop orchestration that embeds the entirety of Holding with a sense of pleasant nostalgia and good times. Memories of last year’s New Years Eve, of driving along the eastern seaboard, the long strange trip that lead Cathcart to the present-tense, are presented in a way that feels hazy and bright, the sonic equivalent of looking at an aged photograph of old friends – to speak those memories into the present too aggressively does a disservice to the contemporary, albeit slightly faded context that gives them meaning.
You can catch The Cradle speak truth to memory at The Glove on 11.19, performing alongside Floury, Privacy Issues, and No One & The Somebodies – in the meantime, stream Bag of Holding below. -Connor Beckett McInerney (@b_ck_tt), Photo by Craig Zirpolo
Chicago
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Kweku Collins “Sisko and Kasidy” Video
Kweku Collins has released a video for his latest single “Sisko and Kasidy” which features a contribution from Ajani Jones. The video was directed by Jon Levert and features Collins and Jones on a Sci-fi adventure.
You can catch Kweku Collins at Lincoln Hall on October 26th with Joseph Chilliams and Christian Jalon.
Chicago
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Elk Walking “Walk Away”
Elk Walking released a new single last week called “Walk Away" b/w “Molly”. This is the band’s second single of 2018 coming on the heels of “Ride The Tide” which dropped back in June.
You can catch Elk Walking at Artifact Events (4325 N. Ravenswood) on October 31st with Blue Dream, Pooky, Inho, and Town Criers.