I Played Maxo Kream for My Mom and Lived to Tell the Tale

I Played Maxo Kream for My Mom and Lived to Tell the Tale

By Kristopher Tondre Music Journalist Artist: Maxo Kream Album: The Persona Tape Label: Kream Clicc/TSO Music Group Release Date: June 29, 2016 Website: http://www.triggamaxo.com/ Maxo Kream is not for the faint of heart and those who aren’t truly trill. The Hoover Crip from Southwest Houston is an intimidating man who makes intimidating music. His first breakout single, “Lewinsky”, was an ode to home burglaries that held nothing back when he told […]

October 11, 2016 332

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Moon Hooch: Beautifully Weird Music

By Dallas Williams Music Journalist Artist: Moon Hooch Album: Red Sky Label: Hornblow Release Date: June 14, 2016 Website: www.moonhooch.com Moon Hooch is a chasm of sounds that can best be described as carefully architected dissonance. The trio is hard to pigeon-hole and even harder to describe. For the sake of trying; the band’s third album, Red Sky is explosive, mystical, jazz-influenced grooves. The album is nothing short of an experience. […]

October 11, 2016 115

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Black Foxxes: I’m Not Well Review

By Alisa Pierce Music Journalist Artist: Black Foxxes Album: I’m Not Well Release Date: August 19th, 2016 Website: http://blackfoxxes.com/ For a couple of weeks, I was in an unusual musical slump in which I didn’t really enjoy any music I listened to, old or new. I couldn’t find anything to jam to, no matter what genres I listened to or how many old songs I revisited. I started to blame […]

September 29, 2016 123

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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: In Summer Review

By Ché Salgado Music Journalist Artist: Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Album: In Summer Released: August 7th, 2016 Label: Geographic North Website: http://jefrecantu-ledesma.com/ There I was, basking in the last moments of my menial albeit very chill summer job at Menchie’s, thinking of some words to say for an equally menial record. Nothing was coming, and the review was due in eighteen hours, eight of which would be dedicated to sleep, another four dedicated […]

September 27, 2016 131

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Cherry Glazerr’s Video for New Track Screams Girl Power

By Ashley Galvan Music Journalist Since one of L.A.s youngest trios, Cherry Glazerr, dropped their first album, Haxel Princess, in 2014, they are now recognized by many different labels, including Secretly Canadian. The American independent record label has officially signed the female-fronted band with open arms. Not only did Cherry Glazerr immediately drop a new track, “Told You I’d Be With The Guys,” after signing with Secretly Canadian, they also released […]

September 20, 2016 223

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The Frights: You Are Going To Hate This Review

By Sawyer Stull Music Journalist Artist: The Frights Album: You Are Going To Hate This Release Date: February 12, 2016 Website: http://www.thefrights.com/home.html The Frights are a three-piece surf-punk, dirty doo-wop band from San Diego, California. The band was originally formed as a joke with the purpose of getting together and playing one 30-minute set and then breaking up. The so-called joke worked a little too well and the group of friends […]

September 15, 2016 227

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Nico Yaryan Delivers More Than A Tease With Debut Album

By Sawyer Stull Music Journalist Artist: Nico Yaryan Album: What A Tease Release Date: June 3, 2016 Website: http://nicoyaryan.com/ Nico Yaryan was born in northern California to two hippies. He experienced an upbringing that consisted of skateboarding and going to local record shops looking for cheap albums he could use to sample. Yaryan’s life took a turn when his high school friend Hanni El Khatib needed a drummer for his upcoming tour. […]

September 13, 2016 83

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Kapsize: Rationalize Review

By Ryan Lacerda Music Journalist Artist: Kapsize Album: Rationalize Label: Independently released Release Date: March 16, 2016 Website: https://www.facebook.com/kapsizereggae/ Kapsize was one of my most unexpected and exhilarating finds of the year. Their debut album Rationalize combines traditional reggae with ska, punk AND metal. That’s right, metal and reggae! It was only my second weekend living in San Marcos when I miraculously stumbled into KIVA’s Bar and Lounge. I had no […]

September 12, 2016 742

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Moonface and Siinai: My Best Human Face Review

By Clayton Kelley Music Journalist Artist: Moonface and Siinai Album: My Best Human Face Label: Jagjaguwar Release Date: June 3, 2016 Website: http://jagjaguwar.com/artist/moonface/ Sometimes, the most complex situations in life have simple and natural solutions that have always been right in front of your face the entire time. More often than not, people tend to fall prey to overthinking, causing a series of false events that were not even present […]

September 9, 2016 59

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