Fusing their Middle Eastern heritage with prog sensibilities, the Canadian band is reaching out and affecting new audiences. The image of a pair of teenager pals bonding over music and aspiring to form a band to take on the world has never lost any of its romantic potency, but few are the bands that have […]
At just 24 years old, Leoni Jane Kennedy already has some seriously impressive achievements under her belt. Music has always been in her life, and despite not having a particularly musical family, she was exposed to the guitar from an early age. “I was initially invested because I was just a kid and intrigued by […]
The French sextet introducing post-rock to their hometown via Washington and Norway Every year KEXP, the radio station and YouTube channel based out of the University Of Washington in the US, crosses the Atlantic to visit the Trans Musicales festival in Rennes, Brittany, on the hunt for new talent to showcase. At the December 2023 […]
Chatting from her home in Copenhagen via Zoom, Clarissa Connelly often returns to the theme of artistic bravery. It’s a quality she admires in artists such as Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell – and one which informs her own most recent LP, 2024’s //World Of Work//. On opener //Into This, Called Loneliness//, Connelly’s voice segues […]
Even if your tolerance to metal means you’d rather spend seasons in the Abyss than listen to Slayer, the sultry, experimental dark-pop undertow of Venamoris might just pull you in. The duo consists of vocalist and songwriter Paula Lombardo and multi-instrumentalist husband Dave who, despite his protestations, is undoubtedly still best known as the original […]