Posted on July 19, 2018
It is summertime in New York City, which means that for these short two months, those in the Big Apple can finally partake in one of California’s favorite pastime: music festivals. While the New York City landscape cannot quite compete with that of Coachella Valley or Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, the diverse inhabitants…
Posted on July 17, 2018
1. Bad Weather – Rotana Saudi Arabian pop singer Rotana is giving off so much energy in her demo “bad weather.” Her voice is multi-dimensional, and her lyrics have us singing along after only hearing this track once. 2. Normal – Sasha Sloan Sasha Sloan, aka sad girl Sloan, is making waves in the industry right now,…
Posted on July 11, 2018
Diary 001 – Clairo Claire Cottrill began to make music at the young age of 13, recording herself making covers of (sometimes) cliché and quintessential teenage anthems. In 2017, Cottrill uploaded her video for “Pretty Girl” onto Youtube, and Claire quickly transformed into Clairo as her video and song went viral, garnering millions of views. Clairo,…
Posted on July 9, 2018
Often dubbed the queen of of Jersey club music, producer-meets-DJ-meets-vocalist Uniiqu3 put New Jersey on the map for hip-hop and dance music culture. Once the nation realized the distinctive creativity of Jersey club music, Uniiqu3 was well-known within the genre, and she received her long overdue recognition. She has mastered producing and mixing almost every type of…
Posted on June 28, 2018
Nashville native Anne Dereaux teamed up with New Zealand producer Soraya LaPread on her dazzling song “Lil Baby.” This track made it onto Dereaux’s Book of Lolita EP, released last summer. If this summer beat sounds familiar, it’s probably because you have heard its bones before. Made famous by its inclusion in the soundtrack for the film O Brother,…
Posted on June 27, 2018
Welcome to Part I of Gender Amplified’s series BLOCKCHAIN AND MUSIC, a series inspired by Tolli, Inc.’s event “Blockchain X Music,” on blockchain technology and its implications for the music industry! Over the next couple of weeks, we will be diving into what blockchain technology is, for whom it is useful, how it can be…
Posted on June 25, 2018
Image Source: FactMag Formerly known as Kate Wax, the Swiss-Nepalese-Tibetan producer Aïsha Devi turns electronic music production on its head. Through her magical, hypnotic electronic concoctions, Aïsha Devi loses herself in spiritual practice. She weaves together her meditation tradition with her experimental production compositions, creating a final product that embraces the abstract, the unknown, and…
Posted on June 22, 2018
This guest post is written by Juliana Clark. She attended the FeM Synth Lab Workshop, which is, according to the group’s website, “a low-cost recurring monthly night for womxn and non-binary folx to learn how to use hardware for electronic music production, meet others, and make music together.” On May 24th, I attended a FeM Synth…
Posted on June 18, 2018
Image Source: Billboard On the cover of Fader magazine’s Summer 2018 issue, you will find a 25-year old, Korean-American, bilingual producer, DJ, vocalist, rapper, visual artist, and fashion designer. Her name is Yaeji, born Kathy Yaeji Lee, and she released her first original production piece only in 2016. How exactly did Yaeji catapult herself from an…
Posted on June 14, 2018
Image Source: Gwen Bunn Twitter Grammy-nominated producer, singer, and songwriter Gwen Bunn had no clue what would be in store for her when she left Berklee College of Music in Boston after only a year. A Decatur, Georgia native, Bunn felt as though school was weighing down her musical creative potential, so she left school…