Riley LePere: The Multi-Instrumentalist, Soothing, Saxophone Serenader
You’re reading the wrong article if you’re looking for a story about a young boy who picks up an instrument and becomes a prodigy.
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Staff Pix 3/28: Not on Streaming
No Spotify? No Apple Music? Easy. Bandcamp is cool though. Take it back to the days before streaming and into the days of endless YouTube doomlistening with some of our favorite deepcuts. “u had it coming” by addison rae Before the success of “Diet Pepsi,” Addison Rae spent two years coping with the backlash of…
The cataclysmic sound of now: YHWH Nailgun’s “45 Pounds”
Now is the time to emit a powerful message, crystalline in presentation, though unapologetically mad and emotional in its aftermath. The devil has returned to remind the public of its devastation and brilliance: This is YHWH Nailgun.
20 Years of “The Sunlandic Twins”
I feel a deep, personal connection to this project as I have also been a twin for twenty years. While me being born was less influential on the evolution of psychedelic music, there’s still time.
Staff Pix 3/21: New Releases
Here’s the new that the Milk Crate staff’s been listening to from the beaches of Miami. Happy Spring Break! “Unforgivable” by Alexandra Savior Doo wap sha blam sha boom! She’s back! “Unforgivable” officially breaks Savior’s five-year-long release drought. It’s a kind tune, notably less complex and heavy than hits from 2017’s Belladonna of Sadness and…
Lady Gaga is back with “MAYHEM”– Kind Of
“Is the old Gaga back?”
Staff Pix 3/7: Sample Crate
Your favorite artist’s favorite artist…literally. This week’s Staff Pix is in the interest of reduce, reusing, and recycling with samples and interpolations galore! “Your woman” by white town I cannot tell you the first time I consumed “Your Woman,” if anything, it was probably unconsciously as a small child, tumbling about on our swingset as…
Ichiko Aoba and “Luminescent Creatures”
Here, Aoba has managed to transcend the starkness of her previous work and transmit something much more primal, creating music that exists somewhere between the stratosphere and the pummeling ocean waves.
“Delete Ya” and the anatomy of a breakup
“Delete Ya” singles out that broken piece, calling out to anyone who has uttered the sentence: “I wish we never met.”