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Ashley Prillaman

Ashley Prillaman is a writer living in Los Angeles, California. When she's not getting punched in the neck by a toddler, you can find her walking her dogs, listening to This American Life, or chowing down on street tacos. Follow @AshleyPrillaman on Twitter and Instagram for kid pics, memes, and portrait shots of garden gnomes.

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Humans Unearth Unreleased Track "Let Go" Like a Polaroid From Their Past

Peter Ricq and Robbie Slade, the Canadians behind indie-electronic act Humans, are back. The band's latest single "Let Go," a previously unreleased song from the sessions that produced their 2018 LP Going Late, features their signature mix of electronic soundscapes and Slade's tactile, chill-wave...

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Time Keeps Moving on for Lilan Kane in Her Mellow Visual for "Tkmo”

For the last year, most of us have been stuck at homes, unable or afraid to venture outside due to COVID-19; looking back, the stagnant nature of the past twelve months creates a kind of time warp - a fuzzy, murky glass through which we remember the year. Oakland-based musician Lilan Kane turned...

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Experimental Folk Meets West African Polyrhythms on Latest Kidi Band LP so Good

California-based experimental folk quartet Kidi Band doesn't pull punches on their sophomore album So Good. Coming off the heels of 2016's Gimme Gimme, the band's new record takes their West African-inspired indie sound and cranks the volume up a notch. Right from the first single "Mary (Merry),"...

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Mary Akpa Offers Love Letter to the African Diaspora With "a Hurum Gi N'anya"

" Those unfamiliar with Akpa's native Nigerian language Igbo may...

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Shannon Clark and the Sugar Triumph Over Loss on “Let It Ride”

Shannon Clark and the Sugar hail from Greenville, Ohio, home of the American sharpshooter Annie Oakley. It's a connection that feels natural when listening to their upcoming album Marks on the Wall, a collection of what lead singer Shannon Clark often calls "Midwest Americana Soul." The record (out...

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Paulina Vo Premieres Video Valentine for "Sweetie"

They say that home is where the heart is, and after a year of sheltering in place, singer-songwriter Paulina Vo is starting 2021 with a fresh-faced ode to her partner of 10 years. Her new single "Sweetie," premiering today via Audiofemme, follows her 2020 EP Call You After; it continues Vo's...

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Anya Marina Preps Live Album and Premieres Video Loveletter to Leaving NYC With "Pretty Vacant"

Anya Marina is an accomplished singer-songwriter, known for an expansive catalogue, including "Satellite Heart" (from the platinum-selling soundtrack to Twilight: New Moon) and her...

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CF Watkins Finds Beauty in Longing With "Come Around" Video Premiere

She left New York, where she'd lived for nine years, to ride out the pandemic in her North Carolina hometown with her parents. Six months into the ordeal, her relationship...

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Dani Darling Becomes a Guiding Light With Premiere of "All Stars"

A pandemic sweeping through the world. Fires burning out of control. Sometimes it can feel hard to catch one's breath amid so much chaos and pain. Singer-songwriter Dani Darling felt herself pushing against her own anxiety, searching for the words,...

Musician Rachel Kiel crouches in a powerful stance, surrounded by trees and wearing an orange pantsuit

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Rachel Kiel Employs Dream Logic to Create "Late Night Drive" Video

They linger in the same old spots as memories, not frozen but reverberating in time. The public pool you learned to swim in. The spot on the corner where you parked with your first boyfriend, necking into the wee...

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Veteran San Francisco Songwriter Floyd Finally Embraces Pop With "Sorry Sorry Boy"

Her latest single "Sorry Sorry Boy" has the playful, upbeat attitude of her...

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Lasse Passage Captures Rich, Tender Details of Nomadic Life on Sunwards LP

On a daily basis, they climb aboard a boat and head out to sea, fishing for crabs and mackerel amide the fresh salt air. It's a routine that runs in...

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Torii Wolf Collaborates With Cellist Rumori on Hymn-Like Single "Wash Away"

Torii Wolf isn't sure if that's the way the saying goes, or who exactly said it, but its meaning resonates with their latest single release "Wash Away," as well as their debut album, 2017's Flow Riiot. The song easily brings...

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Byland Reflects on Decade-Long Soul-Searching Journey With "Believe"

Alie Renee, the singer-songwriter behind the music project Byland, had been away from Albuquerque, New Mexico for ten years. In that time, she went to school for music in Seattle, got...

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Foonyap Finds Sweet Epiphany With "Free and Easy Wandering"

The themes discussed in those poems directly influenced her latest single "Free and Easy Wandering," a song built around the exploration of self. The music is as fast-fast paced and beautiful...

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Z Berg Populates Solo Debut Get Z to a Nunnery With Wintry Baroque-Pop Gems

Most of the country is in its fifth month of COVID-19 quarantine. Businesses are shuttering left and right, and beaches are left empty, with nary a sun-soaked...

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Neia Jane Falls in Long-Distance Love on New Single "Break Ur Heart"

In 2019, singer-songwriter Chloe Jane, aka Neia Jane, found herself anxiety-ridden, hoping that her boyfriend would be able to...

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How Dane Erik Forst Created Alter-Ego Baron Minker for His Solo Debut

Egos uploading to an alien cloud server. Psychedelic dreams being analyzed by a droid. Don't worry, it's not a new 2020 news headline - these are the themes that populate the self-titled debut from Baron Minker, a trench coat wearing, solar system exploring vagrant, detailing the chaos he sees...

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Bloods "Girls Are Just Fucking Cool Like That"

In the '90s, you could find her dressed in regulation plaid, with Nirvana on blast in the background. It was her neighborhood's diverse immigrant population, however,...

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Cate Von Csoke Celebrates Beauty and Danger With "Dream Around"

With COVID-19 on the mind, it's imagery that might conjure up thoughts of Mad Max or Cormac McCarthy's The Road. But when Australian-native, Brooklyn-based songwriter Cate Von Csoke wrote her...

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Weiwu "Ya Wei"

Vishnu Dass, aka Michael Gungor Names are a strange thing. As a musician, a band name can become a costume of sorts, something you put on, but ultimately disregard as a caricature of yourself. It can become something one fights with their label about, a la Prince, or something one must ultimately...

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Chaos Chaos Chart New Territory With "Many Roads"

Back then, the sisters were exploring jamming out on the upright piano in their parent's Seattle home. It was...

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"Starting Over" Sees Dc's the North Country Doing Just That

As the talking heads on national news programs remind us daily: we're in the midst of a pandemic that is calling into question the very foundation of our state. Releasing new music during this time (especially music that had been...

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Bizou Premieres Stilllifeburning EP for a World on Fire

The sun is bright, but the news is bad and everyone's eyes are on the clouds, peering from the windows of our hermetically-sealed homes, perfectly composed as if to somehow stave off chaos. On the surface, things almost seem normal, even as a...

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Nashville's Friendship Commanders Make Space for Trauma Survivors With EP Premiere

But Nashville-based melodic metal duo Friendship Commanders seeks to rewrite that narrative with their latest EP Hold On To Yourself, in which the band confronts abuse, abusers, and familial...

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Stefan T Premieres Party Anthem "All Night"

"Growing up in Vegas taught me how to throw a good party," Stefan T says, and his new single "All Night" certainly has the swagger of the strip: lights, dirt, a sideways smile. From his upcoming album NightShift, due out April 24th, "All Night" is a departure from the album's previously-released...

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Parlor Walls Juxtapose Beauty and Horror With Video for "Game"

Parlor Walls photo by Michelle LoBianco. Post-punk darlings Parlor Walls weave a deadly spell in their latest music video for "Game." The initial drone, followed by an unnerving pulse of a beep, reminiscent to a heartbeat on a hospital monitor, is almost as unnerving as the video itself. It comes...

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Cannibal Kids "Voicemail"

Cannibal Kids Labeling yourself as a band is always a tricky situation, fraught with the peril of being compared and contrasted to many great bands (and many more terrible ones). Though Cannibal Kids' Spotify bio cites "Japanese City Pop" and references Kero Kero Bonito, Rex Orange County, and...

Live Review

Magic City Hippies @ the Regent

Magic City Hippies at The Regent (photo by Ashley Prillaman) "What kind of music was that?" my husband asked as we left The Regent on a Saturday night. We had just finished watching Magic City Hippies perform for the second time (the first at the That Tent during Bonnaroo 2019). I scrolled over to...

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Austin Synthpop Duo Moonray Document Marital Bliss With Honeymoon EP

Indie Pop duo Jonray and Barbara Higginbotham may be living the ultimate millennial dream: they live in Austin, Texas and are making sweet, synth-infused music together. Their latest EP Honeymoon is mellifluous without being saccharine, tonally reminiscent of early Matt and Kim or Mates Of State. The...

Ac Sapphire Press Shot 1 photo credit Carly Valentine

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AC Sapphire Hightails It Out of the Desert With Latest Single "Mini Tour"

AC Sapphire Photo by Carly Valentine. The Mojave is a rain-shadow desert, which means that the mountains block rain weather systems, casting a "shadow" behind them. In the arid heat, one can find the kind of solitude needed to write music, sheltered from the sun by the summit's back....

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The Endangered Species "a Thousand Years Away"

Global warming, nationalism, consumerism, addiction... the human race is having to address its own greed head on. Brothers Wade and Robin Divver formed The Endangered Species as an act of activism, the music becoming a pathway to speak their minds and encourage others to fight back. It's also, in...

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Fay Kueen "Atmospheric Zebra"

Experimental pop artist Fay Kueen enjoys blurring the lines between classical music and indie rock. The video for her latest song "Atmospheric Zebra" bends space and time, following Kueen around New York City as the city morphs and twists around her. The song was written in 2013, during a time when...

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Stimmerman "Dentist vs Pharmacist"

Parental expectations can be fraught with peril. Some parents expect their kids to take over the family business, some envision their children as doctors or lawyers, and in some circles dwell Alex P. Keaton types whose hippie parents shudder at the thought of white collar work. "Dentist Vs...

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Renee Holiday Covers Patti Smith's "People Have the Power"

Patti Smith's voice is a hammer striking an anvil, her songs often come across as poetry set to a tune. In the era of fake news, Smith's work has come into the spotlight: she has been nominated for induction into The Songwriters Hall of Fame, performed at Pathway To Paris (a nonprofit trying to...

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The Brilliance "Facebook"

Something's brewing in the water over in Marshfield, Wisconsin. It's the home town of David Gungor and John Arndt, aka The Brilliance, a liturgical (read: Christian) band who has taken a turn for the secular, with political anthems that explore the human condition. The band's latest single...

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Sondra Sun-Odeon “Roses in the Snow”

It's been seven years since her debut album Ætherea, and with her newest offering she steps firmly back into the musical...

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Marinho "I Give up and It's Ok"

Against this colorful backdrop, her delicate brand of snark was born. Marinho's new single "I Give Up and It's...

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Anna Vogelzang "Beacon"

It's a breathtaking metropolis surrounded by mountains, hugged by the ocean on one side and the desert on the other. Originally from Madison, Wisconsin,...

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Colleen D'agostino on Motherhood, the Material, and New Sleepwalk EP

Colleen D'Agostino has been in the game for a few years now, first as the lead singer of The Material, then as a collaborator with deadmau5, a relationship that spawned the platinum-certified single, “Seeya." On her second solo EP Sleepwalk, D'Agostino collaborated with producer EEKKOO, honing a...

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Kae Astra "Medicate"

Its verses describe the quest to heal inner pain, and the agony of empty...

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Kyosi "Boo Radley"

In Fritz Lang's classic film Metropolis, the main character is jolted out of his privileged life and given a glimpse of the underbelly of the city, its workers struggling to survive while the bourgeois eat on plates of gold. New York-based experimental pop artist/female producer Dani DiCiaccio, aka...

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Nora Rothman "Dear / David"

In the era of #MeToo, a variety of voices have risen up to tell their stories of abuse. Seattle-based singer-songwriter Nora Rothman featured 26 womxn from around the world in the new video for her single "dear / david." The image of each womxn speaking into their phone, leaving a visual message to...

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Harlequin Gold "Take Me Home"

It's a trope used often in ABC family dramas, yet we all know the skin-tingling realities of romance, illness, or freak accidents. Elle and Avery O'Brien were living on opposite ends of the earth when their brother was involved in...

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Babers "Something I Can Give"

Every city has its own unique brand of loneliness. In New York, loneliness is embodied by long subway rides surrounded by strangers listening to sad music, avoiding eye contact. In Los Angeles, you don't have to brush shoulders with strangers; you're able to move from one part of town to the next...

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Kalen "Lighter"

But with maturity comes perspective, and sometimes letting go of baggage too heavy to bear...

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Ume "the Center"

Ume by Chad Kamenshine In the modern world, women are often pitted against one another for a few spots on the proverbial hamster wheel. Ume's latest video for "The Center" explores the relationship women have to each other, how they can reject the current system and build a whole new order. With...

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The Y Axes "Moon"

press photo by Dave McMahon San Francisco's The Y Axes latest album No Waves addresses anxiety - both personal and existential - with humor, nostalgic synths, and the kind of emo spirit any '90s kid can respect. The band has a strong a visual component to its live performances, and we get to see...

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Jamie Drake "Redwood Tree"

Singer-songwriter Jamie Drake utilizes many of the old Hollywood musical tropes on her latest single "Redwood...

Festival Review

Highlights From Bonnaroo 2019

The average weather at Bonnaroo varies from an intense dust-bowl heat to a chilly, rain-infused swamp mess. Your days are spent trekking...

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