Sometimes it takes a highway for a song to find its way back into your heart. Daniela Bojorges-Giraldo is St. Panther, one of the world’s most exciting new producers and vocalists. She released this track Highway last year and it has been a slow build, now listed as influential radio station KCRW’s favourite artist. Not bad for a diminutive, bespectacled artist cooking up music in … Continue reading St. Panther – “Highway”
The voice of Pakistan-born, New York-based musician Arooj Aftab, seduces and confounds. She articulates her singular sound by blending elements of Pakistani classical music with folk-acoustic and trance. “Mohabbat,” the lead single from her forthcoming album Vulture Prince, is her take on a famous lyric poem. In it, she strips back the instrumentation and elongates her words, beautifully drawing out the consuming sadness of separation … Continue reading Arooj Aftab
ARTIST OF THE WEEK: THE WEATHER STATION This artist has been prodding persistently at my conscious for a month. I was introduced to The Weather Station, aka Tamara Lindeman, by a colleague at work, and at first, her morose quality pushed me away. But I kept on watching and listening and slowly, like when you discover you are friends with someone you didn’t like at … Continue reading This Week In Music: 25th February 2021
A weekly update on all things music, advertising, and technology coming straight to you from Anthony Vanger at MassiveMusic. #TWIM ARTIST OF THE WEEK – HARUKA SALT & W.Y. HUANG This week we go deep underground. Brooklyn DJ Haruka Salt and New York artist W.Y. Huang have released a music video for their collaboration ‘OG Gong’. The video shows a dystopian future (or present) where … Continue reading This Week In Music – 8th October 2020
A weekly update on all things music, advertising, and technology coming straight to you from Anthony Vanger at MassiveMusic. #TWIM ARTIST OF THE WEEK: ARLO PARKS South London poet and singer breaks through From the first dry beat, Arlo Parks’ newest song Eugene, demands attention like a natty dresser strutting into a crowded room. The track, with confessional break up lyrics, reminds me of Lily Allen … Continue reading This Week In Music – 27th February 2020
