Spotlighting Twin Cities' Music from the Basement Up.
Have You Tried Being Happy surpasses the size of the emcee’s last two projects in the first-days-of-lockdown experiment of The Social Distance and the chilly, late 2019 release of Winter Tape Vol. 1. Oknice’s effort to make a feel-good record falls short on this album, but that goes without saying it’s not filled with heavy doses of dopamine.
Read MoreThis song and music video are both seemingly minimal, but have a lot of depth as they open up, and as you open up to them. The video is all one shot. We start with a close up of lead singer Corey and her guitar as she opens the song, singing over a two chord guitar line.
Read MoreAs vaccine rates continue to increase around the Twin Cities, more and more people are crawling out of quarantine wanting to do the things they’ve missed since the start of the pandemic.
7th St. Block Party was held and hosted by the Midwest American Shaman CBD Store located at 729 E 7th St, St Paul.
Airship Caravan is back with a catchy song and video “Coffee Beans.” Taking place at Caydence Records & Coffee, one of my favorite record stores and favorite coffee shops, this video feels like a caffeinated jam session with friends that just keeps getting more energetic.
Read MoreTraveling truly feels like a trailblazer in both native sampling and creative instrumentation. The duo’s incorporation of vocal melodies, intimate recordings, and unique rhythm patterns makes the project feel both curated and sequential when listened to in its entirety. Clocking in at five tracks totaling 15 minutes in length, the personalities behind the EP, Ash Wood and Miles Irwin, leave no room for filler as they swiftly bend the sounds of our world to create their own.
Read MoreNumbers is an artistic expression of Haeeah’s experiences with life, love, emotions, and relationships of all types along her journey thus far. Haeeah’s style is slow and methodic, bouncing back and forth between traditional singing and rapping. She lyrically illustrates a journey from a gray sense of hopelessness into rediscovering her sense of purpose and appreciation for all the wonderful things and people in her life.
Read MoreWith more than 3 separate decades in the game, Dave Capaciti is opening the vault and adding another LP to the stack. One-half of the group earlybirds and member of HECATOMBS, Capaciti serves an LP with smooth synthetic bangers while mixing his high octave, gravelly vocal inflection in Mannequins. Being at such a ripe age, you would assume fatigue would set in for the emcee, but it’s the contrary.
Read MorePray For Nothing clearly captures a moment that is fraught with conflict and distrust. Born from a time and place of massive upheaval and civil unrest, this album is the embodiment of rage that many have felt boiling deep in their souls.
Read MoreOne of the busiest artists in the Twin Cities recently added to his growing number of EPs. Reed Benjamin released “RXB” on February 22. Initially set to drop on Valentine’s day, Reed chose to forgo the February 14th release date in favor of an 8-day delay in order to fine-tune the final mixes and tracklist.
Read MoreLanue manifests feelings of simple delights and triumphs and also warns about overcomplicating things that we truly cherish.
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