Yesterday Kabir Kumar, who plays guitar in Guppy and has a solo project Sun Kin (I interviewed him about it for The Alternative), announced a new project called Left Tracks. It's a collaboration with his friend DI LEO and the first song, "Colorways," has awakened my
As soon as I saw "Running around on all fours biting people" linked in the Sighswoon Portal discord music channel, I knew I needed to get into it. Receiving a sliver of someone's mindset through playlist curation is one of my favorite bits of contemporary music
An Alternative Discord rec ("Don't sleep on this"). In 2023 you will not catch me sleeping on anything. I will be up all night with my eyelids held open with chip clips. "Crash!!!!!!!!! Burn!!!!!!!!" (nine exclamation points for the Crash, eight for the Burn)
My rawest musical mode just might be Shazam mode. My husband will stealthily raise his phone, shark-like, at the dance club to try to "id" a song a DJ is playing so he can pilfer it for his own collection. I will Shazam songs I don't
Doubtfull's YouTube bio says "'90s pop/rock in the 2020s" — and I think the pop is just as important as the rock here. The harmonies on the chorus specifically remind me of THE WALLFLOWERS, or even a little bit of COUNTING CROWS. The kind of