This album is AMAZING. Everyone and their HBOMax password leeches know that Wrap Around Joy is my significant other, and this gives me some major Wrap Around Joy vibes. With, in Pearl Charles fashion, a breezy twang to boot. I may be stepping on our resident twang expert Amber’s toes here but this album deserves
I am a bit partial to Ruben Zarate (the human behind Dante Elephante) since we share the same hometown, but don’t let my bias fool you, Mid-Century Modern Romance is a must listen no matter where you’re from. The title of the album heavily prepares you for what you’re about to hear and experience, everything
Hello and welcome! Here we are two weeks into 2021 (even though it feels like it’s already been several months) with a new entry of the Tuesday Time Machine: January of 2013. For those reading my column for the first time, these monthly playlists which I’m re-visiting came about as a result of an idea
Hello and welcome! It’s a SPECIAL EDITION this week, folks!!! Know why? Because we have good news… Mates showed mercy!!! And I still have a job. It all went down, the day after new years… It was about 3PM when I got called into Mates’ SPRAWLING office, adorned with pre-Elon Musk, Grimes ephemera. A desperate
More than almost anything in a hellish year that we’ve all just had, music has been the glue keeping me together. No matter what mood I’m in, there’s a variety of great new tunes that can either help me feel better or conquer whatever problem is in front of me. I found that this year
Hello and welcome! Alright, here we are for the FINAL Tuesday Time Machine of 2020! Also, as the headline says– I’m trying to save my job here. Seriously, I’m on thin ice, folks… Two beef columns in as many weeks earlier in the month? A habit of including several decidedly non-indie tracks selections for Time
There was a huge pile of gold to listen to this past year. It seems that these trying times have motivated musical artists to unearth substance and soar into our desperate ears. There were already a plethora of good albums that came out in March, so you could only imagine how many more sad girl
Finally the Top 10, I know always mention that this 100 countdown is not necessarily in order from 100 to 1 but in the end, we all love the Top10 isn’t it? And No.1 always is going to be the cherry on the cake. In a recent meeting with the Indie Pong staff we’re talking
The world of Americana and Roots music is vast and encompasses folk to blues, bluegrass to rock. What does Americana even mean? Is it country music? (a question I get a lot) Well sure, kind of, but not really if you listen to “country radio” (which is a very different sound nowadays)…but these are details
December 19, 2020. This time I want to share with you an artist that I mentioned before but as MadZen and now under his other moniker MDZN (almost the same right… but without vowels) this is for his electronic techno/ambient project. Last week he debuts with this single called MAZE a “mesmerizing tune easy to
