Tag Archives: Poetry

The solo project of electric/folk musician Sam Genders (Tunng, the Accidental), employing a revolving cast of music artists for the heady mixture of psychedelia, electronica, and folk. Before Diagrams had become, Genders was most widely known being a founding person in folktronica music group Tunng, but from then on project …

A dynamic and well-regarded slam poet and a rapper, George Watsky is from SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, California. From the mid-2000s, he previously won many slam competitions, like the 2006 Daring New Voices Country wide Poetry Slam. In 2007, while in his 1st year of going to Boston’s Emerson University, …

When an artist lists both Wu-Tang Clan and Samuel Beckett mainly because its influences, it is the stuff of hipster fluff, but U.K. poet and rapper Kate Tempest backs those name-drops up with a large Dada recording agreement and a Ted Hughes Prize for invention in poetry. Delivered in Brockley, …

Following the 2007 split of R&B duo Floetry, spoken phrase artist and whisper-voiced vocalist Natalie Stewart — aka the Floacist — produced a small number of guest appearances on recordings by other musicians, including Brian Culbertson’s XII. She agreed upon being a single artist towards the Shanachie label, which released …

Most modern-day garage area rock bands try to audio as really difficult and frantic as is possible, however the Young Sinclairs, a combo from Roanoke, Virginia, certainly are a ’60s-influenced group who’ve sworn allegiance towards the jangly audio of common folk-rock and the first stirrings of what would become psychedelia. …

Using a gentle, lilting voice and melancholic demeanor to her songwriting, singer/songwriter/guitarist Johanna Warren loaded all three of these jobs for the Brooklyn indie folk band sTickLipS, which also highlighted Jonathan Nocera on guitar, Chris St. Hillaire on bass, and Jim Bertini on drums. The group released IT REALLY IS …

Vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist Sidi Touré is somewhat popular in his local Mali as very much for his family’s name and royal lineage for his music. Touré, very much like fellow countryman Ali Farka Touré (though he’s from Gao, not really Bamako), plays a genuine droning sort of songhai blues. …

In past due 2015, Grimes released her fourth album, Artwork Angels. On the 3rd track, her tone of voice gave method to a hyper-speed rap torrent — in Mandarin. Enter Taiwanese femcee Aristophanes. For an intro to a European audience, this is a fortuitous begin. Overnight, she was a preferred …

When Michigan singer/songwriter Joseph Scott’s main band, Canada, went into a protracted (ultimately permanent) hiatus at the start of 2009, Scott relocated from Michigan to Brooklyn and began focusing on solo recordings within a makeshift real estate studio room. Adapting the name Light Pines from a likewise titled 1900s North …

Chicago-based singer/songwriter Andrew Belle worked well tirelessly before the 2010 release of his debut album The Ladder, doing performances and songwriting work in his field to the idea that he was known using a John Lennon Songwriting award in ’09 2009, a season before he sometimes had an album away. …