New Music: Half Dream – “Too Much”
This song is bigger than Half Dream seemed to have in them. It might not be dancy but on the slide-scale of their sound, it might as well be disco. What a jam. No one is surprised. This being the first song to feature the new lineup with Jake Ames, Bryan Dalle Molle, and Vanessa Jollay could factor into that.
New Single: Half Dream – “Strange Lover”
As if experiencing intimacy were not already a heavy confusing mess of emotions, "Strange Lover"—the new single from Half Dream—is a humble crying out to the wilderness of introspection. Where sadness and nostalgia is often reserved solely for the looking back while optimism and positivity come in looking forward, there is that moment which lies at the very center of it all, time suspended in bated silence, all spinning madly around us; at that moment we taste Plato's agalma being pushed against by our own sense of individuality speaking in contrast of our experience as we try to understand the why; this is the place in which "Strange Lover" exists.
Album Review – Half Dream – Monsters of Needing
Monsters of Needing comes in voicing an introspective grasping of one's own anchored soul by the weighted center of life whose ever-presence has always been known but never embraced and, at best, vaguely named.
Mixtape Monday: Dream Baby, Dream
Mixtape Monday: Dream Baby, Dream from anonmagazine on 8tracks Radio. Hotel Tell – The Sea and Cake My Dreams – Black Forest Fire Husbands – Savages Found You – Sense Field I’m Waiting Here – David Lynch & Lykke Li Odessa – Caribou Charmer – Aimee Mann Got Her Runnin’ – Round Eye Wake Up – Ozma
Half Waif Takeover!
It seems that everything Half Waif encompasses, they do so wholeheartedly and with utmost intimacy. Brooklyn-based project Half Waif, the musical vision of Nandi Rose Plunkett, released her debut LP KOTEKAN in 2014, followed by her sophomore release Probable Depths this past May via DZ Tapes. Plunkett’s heritage stems from a conglomeration of Indian/Irish/Swiss/American background, thus drawing inspiration for the choice of her band’s name – “it was that fractured feeling of belonging to everywhere and nowhere all at once”. While recording Probable Depths, Plunkett and her producer Zubin Hensler visited her childhood house in Williamstown, MA, to sample the creaks and clanks inherent within the rooms and the…
Amber’s Diary: Livin’ The Dream
Let me introduce myself: my name is Amber, I take photos, my cat is my soul mate, and I am the coolest person you will ever meet. That is, until you meet Beyonce. Right now you may be thinking, “Amber, why are you introducing yourself?” Well, that is because I want you to know a little about myself. “What are you going to be writing about?” Well pumpkin, I am here to tell you the story of a small town girl going to New York to live out her dreams! Cliché? Yes, I know. So let’s get to the dream. The dream is to be front row, sitting next to…
Burnt Copper Day Dream
Photography: Cassidy Koranek Model: Kendra Ballantyne
Mixtape Monday: Clams on the Half Shell & Roller Skates by Cat Tassini
CHIC – Good Times Marvin Gaye – Got to Give It Up (Part 1) Mariah Carey, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Diddy – Fantasy Diana Ross – I’m Coming Out Kendrick Lamar – i Neon Indian – Techno Clique Phantogram – Don’t Move Amazing Baby – Supreme Being Roxy Music – Prairie Rose Games – Shadows in Bloom Sebastian – Love in Motion Donna Summer – Hot Stuff Charli XCX & Uffie – Babygirl Glass Candy – Beautiful Object Part Time – Night Drive Stereolab – Miss Modular KC & the Sunshine Band – Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong Theophilus London feat. Devonte Hynes & Solange – Flying Overseas
Hot and Bothered: Smooch give us a wet dream sort of first kiss
If you put on your scratchiest ill-fitting black t-shirt and close your eyes with Smooch's "Pucker Up" playing, you can actually smell the late eighties.
Artist Appreciation: Brooklynd Turner
“Self” “Dream” “Einstein” “Fruit” All artwork by Brooklynd Turner
