A musician playing to near-empty venues can sometimes feel like being the last kid chosen for kickball in a school where the kids are bigger than you and they won’t hesitate to laugh when you fall down. But like the kid that triumphantly rises from the ashes and kicks the winning goal to tumultuous applause [...]
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Just one of them would be enough energy to light up Los Angeles. But even better, there’s two. Sisters Jewel & Blaire Restaneo stand as the front-women of Pixkill, claiming the hybrid style of electro pop grunge as their playground and joining fellow females like Avril Lavigne, The Veronicas, and Hayley Williams of Paramore at [...]
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How could you be so blind? You haven’t heard of JP Corwyn? You haven’t seen him live? You haven’t heard his music? How embarrassing for you. Really, though. It’s ok. You’re in the right place. For JP, the rationale for the blind jokes is, well, reasonable. He is legally blind. Born with a degenerative condition, [...]
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“Can you crack the code?” This is the mantra of JJ Brine, the force behind the iconoclastic one-man band CodeCracker. Brine’s distinctive style evokes shades of Joy Division and Nico – his primary influences – while amounting to a future-retro brand of electronica all his own. Brine cites his “frantic” experiences in world travel as [...]
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