This is the 4th single off Cheat Codes, the collaborative album of Danger Mouse and the Roots emcee Black Thought, which will be released on August 12. It also features a couple of hip-hop heavy hitters with A$AP Rocky and Run The Jewels. The potent tune does feature several social critiques ranging from climate change and racism (such as Killer […]
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The indie rock trio recently released their sophomore album Too Much to Ask, which blends catchy melodies with witty and scathing social critiques. Singer-guitarist Greg Katz comments on the motivation behind the album: “I think the last year or so has drawn a big circle around a lot of things we all already knew, but maybe didn’t know we knew. […]
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This was previously exclusive to my now defunct Patreon and was private. I’ve decided to make this public. This is the video footage of my Episode 14 podcast interview with Elise Okusami who performs under the name Oceanator. We discuss her full-length debut album Things I Never Said (she has since released the follow-up album (Nothing’s Ever Fine) which was released on […]
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This was previously exclusive to my now defunct Patreon and was private. I’ve decided to make this public. This is the video footage of my Episode 15 podcast interview with Karl Evangelista, one-half of the experimental music duo Grex (with Rei Scampavia). We discuss the duo’s then upcoming album Everything You Said Was Wrong which was released on September 5, 2020. Evangelista […]
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This was previously exclusive to my now defunct Patreon and was private. I’ve decided to make this public. This is the video footage of my Episode 17 podcast interview with Stuart Markus, Hillary Foxsong, and Gerry McKeveny of the folk-rock harmony trio Gathering Time who at the time just released a new album entitled Old Friends, which is a cover album that […]
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This hard-hitting tune is off Hostile Architecture, the sophomore album by the Scottish Red and Anarchist Black Metal (RABM) band. According to the Bandcamp description, the album “is a sonic exploration of the ways that subjects under late capitalism are constrained and set in motion via the various structures that uphold stratification and oppression in urban contexts.” Those themes are […]
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This was previously exclusive to my now defunct Patreon and was private. I’ve decided to make this public. This is the video footage of my Episode 20 podcast interview with Kaston Guffey of the Americana duo My Politic. He discusses their then recently released political concept EP Short-Sighted People In Power. We discussed the motivation behind the tunes, the possibility of backlash, […]
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This was previously exclusive to my now defunct Patreon and was private. I’ve decided to make this public. This is the video footage of my Episode 21 podcast interview with activist, journalist, and rapper Awkword. We discuss his new tune “Ten Demands (featuring Jesse Jett)’ and his work with the Ten Demands for Justice initiative which provides a roadmap towards abolition. We […]
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This was previously exclusive to my now defunct Patreon and was private. I’ve decided to make this public. This is the video footage of my Episode 22 podcast interview with Portland-based singer-songwriter and activist David Rovics, who released four albums in 2020. We discuss what inspires him to be so prolific. We also discuss his then most recent album, Say Their Names, the […]
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Ezra Furman recently released a potent new single and companion video, “Lilac and Black”, from her forthcoming album, All of Us Flames, out on August 26. The album is part of a trilogy that includes 2018’s Transangelic Exodus and 2019’s Twelve Nudes. Furman describes the album as “a queer album for the stage of life when you start to understand that you […]
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