Cold Stone Music

In its name, in its lyrics, and in its music, Oropendola is very intentional. The brainchild of Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter, and musician Joanna Schubert, the project is named after a bird native to Central and South America whose moniker translates roughly to “golden pendulum.” On “Stillness,” the debut release from Oropendola, Schubert builds upon this idea of a pendulum as the …

Recorded in 2020 amongst the backdrop of the global pandemic, upcoming sophomore album Me And The Machine by Mimi Raver charts the highs and lows of the human condition in extraordinary circumstances. Written, performed and engineered in Raver’s home studio dubbed “Room 8”, the project was recorded reel to reel on analog tape to preserve the raw, unaltered state of …

Back in 2017, Hector Gachan made waves with his debut album, Untitled ’91. Then, he did what anybody with a burgeoning music career does: He packed up and traveled the world. After spending years abroad in Sarajevo and Sydney, Gachan settled in Edinburgh to sit down in his home studio and materialize his next masterpiece. “Asking For A Friend” is …

Kisskadee‘s raw and unfiltered combination of indie folk, psychedelia, and ambient music is everything but common. The best traits of Kasie Shahbaz‘s unique sound as well as her talents as a multi-instrumentalist and arranger are capitalized on her newest single “Brother”. This is the first song taken from Kisskadee‘s debut album, Black Hole Era, a conceptual record about …

Whimsy is at the heart of “Hysterical.” Pet Owner (with the help of mixing and mastering by Amadeus Fries) utilizes unique sonic tidbits to elevate the track, peppering in claps, computerized shrieks, and gang vocals to supplement the expansive synths and pulsating beats. The self-produced accompanying music video also leans into the strange and bizarre – a 3-D …

Anna Erhard is a Berlin-based singer-songwriter with a lot of stories to tell. A highly accomplished lyricist, Erhard writes indie-pop songs uncluttered in form yet knotty in content. Her music is fairly reminiscent of Courtney Barnett‘s early material, with a vocal delivery that, although heavily indebted to sprechgesang, never really renounces melody. Back in 2021, Erhard released her first studio album, Short …

One of the most exciting up-and-coming bands from Belgium, MAUGER make the kind of anthemic indie rock that you don’t see that often anymore. In a world where bedroom production techniques have taken over the mainstream, MAUGER are swimming against the tide. Their music is everything but intimate: the guitars bounce off thundering tom drums, while the vocals sit …

We’re premiering “Waves,” the second single off Plaster Cast‘s upcoming EP Control, due out August 12. For a group made up of people living hundreds of miles away from each other, Plaster Cast‘s music couldn’t be more intimate. The project nails the dreamy and melancholy sound of bedroom pop at its best while giving it a twist of …

Rabii Harnoune and V.B.Kühl‘s “Koyo Koyo” blends Moroccan Gnawa music with electronic elements to create a completely unique listening experience. The recent collaboration between Moroccan Gnawa-master Rabii Harnoune and Frankfurt electronic producer V.B.Kühl exemplifies what the future of music could be, if we’re lucky. Mixing Gnawa music (the Moroccan art form that combines songs, rhythms, music, and dancing) with modern club …

“heights” is taken from Credit Electric‘s upcoming album, out of love in the face of a shadow, due out October 14 via Royal Oakie Records. When listening to Credit Electric, it may come as a surprise that the band formed by songwriter Ryan LoPilato and guitarist Cameron Iturri-Carpenter is originally from the Bay Area. Of course, there is something cosmic and Californian about …