New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
Hobbyist has released a heartbreaking video for the latest single, "Neon", from their latest album, Side Fx, which was released back in May. The video finds one half of the duo, Holly Prindle, masked up and slowly exploring the shut down spaces around the city.
The video is an effort to bring awareness to the Save Our Stages movement and support small music venues affected by Covid-19.
Rapper Will Is Chillin’ has released his second mixtape of 2020, "86". This collection features production from the likes of Josh Grant, Tommy Bazooka, Defmute, and Loupo.
He also dropped a video last week for the track "Skeletons" from the EP, "Loitering", which was released back in May.
Joseph Chilliams has released a new single and video called "Wishlist". The track features contributions from Sen Morimoto and Adam Ness, and it is a festive, humous take on classic ’90’s R&B/Boy Band track.
The B-Side to "Wishlist" is a fantastic, and much more serious, new song called "Azura" featuring an outstanding chorus from New York’s FIG. The song is filled the guilt and what if’s that come after to losing a friend to drugs.
Chilliams is a member of Pivot Gang, but has shown with these songs and his previous EP, "The Plastics", that he can absolutely stand tall on his own.
Soulful vocalist Soh Darling has released her latest EP, "Twin Bed", which comes after spending the last few year touring with Noname and her own group idesia. This is the pairing of two outstanding singles, “Where to,” and “Stargazer”, and is accompanied by the Kelsey Boncato animated video below.
We are proud to be premiering the video for the debut single, "Orange Explosion", from Reality Anonymous. The single comes from the group’s debut album The Ghost Host, Vol. 1, which will be released by the DC label Night World Records on Tuesday, Jan 5.
This is latest project from the now Chicago-based musician Lyn Vaus who has spent time in Boston, DC, and L.A. over the years. This first album from Reality Anonymous features contributions from Rob Myers (Thievery Corporation), Alex Rowney (Soft Candy), and Kenthany Redmond (Kenthany Redmond’s Infrared Quintet).
Young Man in a Hurry has released a video for the fifth single, "A Blue and Red Taxi and Bernie", from their debut album, Jarvis.
Lead singer and songwriter Matt Baron co-wrote this song with Grandmother, Dee, near the end of her life about his Grandfather.
Baron has this to say about the song and video; "The lyrics are about what it might be like to reconvene with a long-lost love on the other side, either physical or astral. The video subtly explores the idea of how we’re always trying to go somewhere new, and when we get there, we’re just there".
Avery Springer of Retirement Party has released a new solo single called "Earlybird". This is Springer’s second single of 2020 following up "Jackson", which was released back in October.
The single is accompanied by the fun self-directed video below.
Coupler has released a new EP via Nashville’s YK Records called "The Forgotten Openness of the Closed World". This primarily the ambient journey of Ryan Norris, but he is joined by Michael Hilger on pedal steel and Matt Glassmeyer on tenor saxophone and buzzaphone. The EP explores time and it interacts with and distorts our inner world.
This is Coupler’s second EP of 2020, follow-up September’s "The Rhythm Method", which featured the opening banger "The Technocrat".
Asantewaa has released visuals for her latest single "Taste". This is the R&B singer’s third single of 2020, and the video was directed by Drewski.
Tamar Berk has released the lead single, "Shadow Clues", from her forthcoming debut full-length album, The Restless Dreams of Youth.
Berk is mostly known locally for her work in the band Starball, but has played in bands like Sweet Heat, The Pynnacles, Paradise, and The Countdown over the years in both Chicago and Portland.
Psych Rock group Secret Colours has returned with their first new music since 2017 in the form of a single called "Oblivion". The b-side to the single is a fantastically hazy instrumental cover of Donna Summer’s classic "I Feel Love", and the two songs together provide a great little escape into a colorful psychedelic world beyond our own.
