Cultural identity in music does not only mean using traditional sounds, but it is the ability to integrate some individual history into the common phenomenon. San Francisco-based artist Michellar accomplishes just this with her debut EP My Alma Latina, a five-song adventure that pays homage to her Spanish and Filipino heritage, but at the same time makes something entirely her […]
Pop/Review Exzenya – Regulator or My Dopamine
It is so gratifying to find an artist who will not be afraid to merge neuroscience and raw emotion and Exzenya is such an artist. Her most recent single, Regulator of My Dopamine, is a lesson in how to transform scientific ideas into emotional human ones and that smart pop music need not be soulless. The main metaphor of the […]
Pop/Review Exzenya– Intermittent Love
There is this weird thing about music that makes us face the truths that we would prefer not to see, and in this case Exzenya in her song called Intermittent Love does precisely that with a style of precision that is as striking as it is correct. It is not your average pop song about a breakup; it is a […]
ROCK/Review Exzenya– Scansion
There is something mesmerizing about an artist that does not conform to labels and Exzenya is no stranger to this non-conformist approach to her music with her new single, Scansion. At 55, this genre-fluid storyteller demonstrates that artistic authenticity cuts across age and produces a track that hums with technical proficiency and raw emotive power. Even the title of the […]
METAL/Review Daniel Bohn– Bonfire
It is very cathartic to see something burning and knowing it is supposed to. That is the precise feeling that Daniel Bohn, in his song Bonfire, captures: the destruction that is an intentional precursor of a new beginning, the chaos that is controlled and turns suffering into strength. The St. Louis artist has created something which is both ancient and […]