Category: Single

For the residents of Montecito, the night of 2018 split into before and after, when torrential rains hit the hillsides following wildfires, and the town was buried under a deadly mudslide. “Everyone who lived through that terrible night was changed by it,” explains Peter Melnick. “If before that you’d been lucky enough to go through…

If classic authors are to be believed, the best stories always rest on an alliance of four completely different characters. Remember at least the “Town Musicians of Bremen” or the foursome from “The Wizard of the Emerald City”. When on February 14, 2016 vocalist Paul Crisp, guitarist Josh Brice, drummer Dan Turtle and bass guitarist…

Someone once said that falling in love is the only war in which defeat feels like victory. It sounds lovely, but in essence it describes a state where just yesterday you were convincing yourself that “everything’s under control,” and today you catch yourself thinking about that person at the most inconvenient moment – in an…

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent,” Eleanor Roosevelt once said. A textbook phrase, the kind people hang on a wall instead of a motivational poster. But it was the first thing that came to mind when I put on “Flowers” – the new single from Nigerian-Canadian singer Rosabell. The main point…

Once upon a time there was a prince, locked inside a fragile castle of polished wood and metal gear-wheels. His world was flawless, but bounded by the edges of an antique music box, and his days passed in constant waiting for a miracle. One day a princess peered inside. She could have walked past, or…

“The Truman Show” clearly showed: if the world around you starts to look too strange, most likely, you are looking at sets. But what to do when a reality show unfolds in your feed, and sets become forums where adult men in all seriousness divide people into “alphas” and “sigmas”? The internet manosphere-an absurd world…

“In this city, you can only survive by becoming part of it – or burning down to the ground,” roughly this is how the classic formula of noir dystopias sounds, from “Blade Runner” to “Sin City.” It’s hard not to give in to this exhaustion in an environment that methodically grinds a person down. But…

When I sit down to write about a new album, single, or singer, I like to return to one thought: worshipping the classics is a noble and, let’s be honest, safe endeavor. But the most valuable thing begins where someone dares to take a step forward. You can remain a spectator on the sidelines of…

There’s a phrase that’s been haunting me for days now – ever since I first heard Bam Rigby’s new single. “Stop lurking in your own background and take a step forward. Life will pass you by if you’re just watching it from your seat,” the artist himself says about his new work. And you know,…

«Love is an attempt to rewrite the past while the future pretends not to notice.» I always thought that soundtrack composers were invisible. They conduct our emotions from the shadow of the movie screen. They know which note to mix into someone else’s tears. Which acoustic pause to place before someone else’s kiss. But what…