This might be one of our more chaotic roundups yet? Check out the wide variation of genres in this week’s column! As always, some ground rules: Xinxin – “Red Flags” C: The video’s hazy aesthetic and instrumental recall laid-back dream pop and indie acts like Crumb or No Vacation. However, Janize Ablaza’s vocals sway up […]
What’s the logical thing to do after headlining sold out concerts around the world and racking up over 3 billion streams from your music? Answer: make the edgiest album of your entire discography of course. I’m always a big fan when an artist says, “Fuck it, I’m gonna do something different.” Based on my own […]
NIKI just dropped girlies. PAY ATTENTION! In a double announcement for her upcoming third album, Buzz, out August 9th, NIKI whets our appetites with the single “Too Much Of a Good Thing” and its accompanying music video. NIKI’s take on Steely Dan with angular bass and hula hooping vocals offers a stylistic and generational departure […]
Did you think that we would still be at this point, one year later? For us here at From the Intercom, we certainly didn’t think so. The continued feelings that we kept bottled up inside all year – the angst, the uncontrollable need to dance, the urge to feel something – are mutual feelings that […]
In many ways, 2021 felt like quite a tame year compared to the one that preceded it. The shock and the cultural anxieties of life during a pandemic became commonplace. There wasn’t another world changing virus permeating the world (though different variants are still making their rounds). Hope felt imminent. Things were looking up. But […]