Category: New Discoveries

New artists, new CDs, new stuff I like.

Discovery :: Sandie Shaw

So for the last few months, every Wednesday and Saturday nights we make cocktails and watch Transmission on Twitch.If you don’t know, Transmission is a show produced by DJ Jake Rudh who has been a DJ in Minneapolis for over…

Artist Rec :: Gracie and Rachel

Today’s Artist Recommendation is Gracie and Rachel. They’re a fantastic “baroque pop” duo. They’re on Ani DiFranco’s label, Righteous Babe Records. Pianist-vocalist Gracie Coates and violinist Rachel Ruggles met as high schoolers in a modern dance class at their public…

Discovery :: Gordi

Gordi is a pop-folk singer and producer based in Australia. Sophie Payten (her given name) according to Wikipedia “worked at Prince of Wales Hospital as a doctor, after completing her medical studies at The University of New South Wales in…

Discovery :: King Princess

Mikaela Mullaney Straus, better known by her stage name King Princess, is an American singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, and producer from Brooklyn, New York. She is signed to Mark Ronson’s label Zelig Records. In 2018 she released a few singles that…

Discovery :: Overcoats

Overcoats is a New York-based electronic-pop duo consisting of singer-songwriters Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell. They met on their first day of freshman year at Wesleyan University where they sat next to each other in an ‘Intro to Anthropology’ class.…

Lotte Kestner

This is by no means a new artist. You might remember a band called Trespassers William from way back in the late 90s-early 00s. I was obsessed with their 2002 release, Different Stars. It was so beautiful and calming. I went…

Discovery :: Aldous Harding

Have you ever gone down a rabbit hole on YouTube? You know, when you go there to watch just one video in particular and then it automatically plays another one right after that, that it thinks you will like and…

Discovery :: Wyvern Lingo

Wyvern Lingo is an Irish band from Bray, Ireland in County Wicklow. It consists of Caoimhe Barry on vocals and drums, Karen Cowley on vocals, synth, and bass, and Saoirse Duane on vocals and guitar.   From their website: Wyvern…

Discovery :: Cannelle

Cannelle is cinnamon in French. It’s also the name of a great musician. I’ve known Melissa Oliveri personally for a few years now. But recently she started sharing her musical abilities with the world and I wanted to make sure…

New music from Liza Anne

Liza Anne has a new song out! New album coming July 24th. But for now, watch and listen to “I Wanna Be There”. She says: This song is about feeling the weight of someone else’s sadness and feeling it, inevitably,…