“Is it okay if I finish putting on my makeup?” is the first thing I hear inside Brooklyn Made’s swanky greenroom (indeed, walls painted forest green). On a couch hugging the wall, sporting a blood red “Juliet Ivy” tee and cuffed jean shorts, the singer sat facing a large mirror, holding a black liquid eyeliner […]
“There is always something… FUCK!” It takes only 30 seconds into Kenneth Takanami’s MOLT EP for it to immediately transport you back to the early 2000s, a time when Linkin Park was on every adolescent’s Facebook/Myspace page and American Idiot was still on the charts. On the New York City-based artist’s latest project, Takanami revives […]
As we’ve written on the site over and over again, SXSW consistently brings the chaos. There are interviews where things can go awry, but then there are SXSW interviews, which really are in their own category of crazy. My chat with the Taiwanese American folk-pop singer-songwriter Chance Emerson started out with me being 40 minutes […]
One of the greatest things about being able to cover SXSW over multiple years is seeing which artists come back with material. I met one such artist, Chi Thai, at an Asian networking event in 2022 who had helped develop an AR project, Prototype: Acorn. And while we didn’t meet in person in 2023, the […]
Two years ago, I received an email from an artist that I’d only casually heard about through word-of-mouth – gig posters would show her playing with artists like Raavi and FIG, seemingly suggesting another exciting artist to watch out for in the bustling New York music scene. Spotify’s algorithm, as tired as it is, had […]