2015
Jaga Jazzist Records ‘Starfire’
Jaga Jazzist is a prog-rock band, a jam band, a jazz ensemble and an electronic outfit all in one. The eight-piece Swedish group records...
Lily Moayeri has been a music journalist since 1992. She has contributed to numerous publications over the years including NPR, Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone. Currently, in addition to Mix Magazine, Lily's writing can be found in Variety, Spin, Grammy, Billboard, DJ Mag, Flood Magazine, Under the Radar Magazine, among others. Lily is also a contributing editor to the textbook, The Guerilla Guide to the Music Business and the upcoming anthology, The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Record Store: A Global History. Lily hosts and co-produces the Pictures of Lily Podcast, a music commentary podcast about her experiences interviewing musicians and music-related people. She has been both a panelist and a moderator at a number of music conferences, including NAMM, and guest speaker at Grammy Camp. She has also served as a teacher librarian since 2004 focusing on guiding students in navigating the intersection of technology and education.
2015
Cool Spin: Foals, ‘What Went Down’
For What Went Down (Warner Music), the follow-up to Foals’ career-defining album, Holy Fire, the Oxford, UK quintet decamped to Saint-Remy-de-Provence in the South...
2015
Corsica Arts Club Releases Self-Titled Debut
What you hear is not what you see with Corsica Arts Club. The Los Angeles-based duo of Arash Parsee and Brendan Thompson (expanded to...
2015
Leon Bridges, ‘Coming Home’
“The clothes make the man,” the saying goes. In the case of 25-year-old Forth Worth, Texas native Leon Bridges, clothes kicked off his career....
2015
Cool Spin: Penguin Prison, ‘Lost in New York’
In the four years since Penguin Prison’s self-titled debut, New York-sprung dance-pop has become all the more established by the likes of MGMT and...
2015
Cool Spin: Hot Chip, ‘Why Make Sense?’
With each passing year, the public’s collective ears are better prepped for sounds like the experimental ones of Hot Chip. In turn, Hot Chip...
2015
Boxed In Debut
Oli Bayston works well amongst clutter. For his latest one-man project, Boxed In, clutter helped streamline his entire recording process, and his sound. Bayston...
2015
Avid Dancer, ‘1st Bath’
For Jacob Summers, the solo artist behind the entity Avid Dancer, it always comes back to drums. Picking up the drums as a high...
2015
The Very Best, ‘Makes A King’
While many producers might toy with the romantic notion of setting up a portable studio in the African bush, few actually do it. To...
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Cool Spin: Turbo Fruits, ‘No Control’
Turbo Fruits’ fourth album, No Control (Melvin Records/Thirty Tigers), starts in a psychedelic haze with the sweet-smelling ’60s West Coast throwback, “Show Me Something...
2015
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, ‘The Third’
For their latest album, The Third, Durham siblings Kitty, Daisy & Lewis moved their home studio from the two tiny back rooms of their...
2015
Cool Spin: Noel Gallagher, ‘Chasing Yesterday’
On his second solo album, Chasing Yesterday (Sour Mash Records), one time Oasis main man Noel Gallagher has progressed more than he did over...
2015
A Place to Bury Strangers, ‘Transfixiation’
You would be well advised to bring your most effective earplugs to a A Place to Bury Strangers show. The New York-based nu-gazer trio,...
2015
Tuxedo’s Debut
A few years prior to Mayer Hawthorne breaking hearts and taking names with his debut, he and hip-hop producer Jake One were trading mixtapes....
2014
Mix Regional New York City: Scott Jacoby at Eusonia Studios
Scott Jacoby was halfway through medical school before he was able to accept that choosing to make music his career was not a selfish...
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