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KXMas 2018: Nancy Wilson Keeps Rock Alive
December 19, 2018
Just before the chorus of “These Dreams,” Nancy Wilson turned to look at Liv Warfield, shaking a tambourine with her eyes closed, and smiled. She then closed her own eyes and sang the words that took the song to every top chart back in 1986: “These dreams go on when I close my eyes/Every second […]
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g.a.t. – Puzzle ft. Ms. Boogie
December 18, 2018
“g.a.t.” is the latest single from Fletcher Shears’s solo endeavor as Puzzle. Featuring Brooklyn-based rapper, Ms. Boogie, the track is the first taste of Puzzle’s upcoming album, X Hail, set for release on Jan. 1, 2019. A prolific musician in both his work for Puzzle and as one half of The Garden, Shears’s evolution as […]
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Moving to the Farm – Distractor
December 12, 2018
For a band that doesn’t leave their garage much, post-punk/synth-pop band, Distractor, is ready to leave the city behind for a simple life on the farm. Hailing from Costa Mesa, the band’s new single, “Moving to the Farm,” is a rejection of modern life and a wish to get away from it all. It’s a […]
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Brockhampton: A New Generation of Boyband
December 7, 2018
Brockhampton’s opening song on their i’ll be there tour wasn’t any from their discography, but instead, We Are the Champions by Queen. As the song played, Freddie Mercury’s face shone proudly into the crowd. The color faded from the screen when DJ Romil Hemnani effortlessly transitioned the track to New Orleans, the opener on Brockhampton’s […]
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Nancy Wilson chats Rock ’n’ Roll, Female Empowerment and KXMas
December 3, 2018
It’s been four long decades of rock ’n’ roll for Nancy Wilson, the iconic guitar virtuoso who formed the multi-platinum rock band, Heart, with her sister, Ann Wilson, in the late ‘60s, and has managed to keep the music pumping. Though Nancy’s still creating music for Heart (2016’s studio LP, Beautiful Broken), she stumbled across another […]
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Isolation – Ty Segall
November 29, 2018
2018 has been Ty Segall’s year. The prolific rocker has released four full-length albums from January’s Freedom Goblin to October’s Fudge Sandwich, a covers album. Featuring renditions of “The Loner” by Neil Young and “Hit It and Quit It” by Funkadelic, Fudge Sandwich brings a new energy to classic rock songs everybody knows and loves, […]
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Hey Kids – Molina
November 18, 2018
Released last spring, “Hey Kids” is the latest dreamy single from art pop producer and musician, Molina. Based in Copenhagen, the 25-year-old otherwise known as Rebecca Maria Molina worked with Swedish artist and co-writer, Late Verlane, whose vocals can be heard in the track’s hypnotizing second verse. With experimental synth and a steady backbeat, the […]
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Slowing Down and Chilling Out with Wild Nothing
November 18, 2018
“You wanna know me, well, what’s to know?” asked Jack Tatum, otherwise know as Wild Nothing, the indie pop musical project he started recording under in 2009, releasing promising demos which turned into EPs and then albums, the most recent of which, Indigo, attempts to answer Tatum’s question. It’s a question Tatum first asked himself […]
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Kids Really Did See Ghosts at 7th Annual Camp Flog Gnaw Festival
November 15, 2018
Rap duo Kids See Ghosts, made up of longtime collaborators Kanye West and Kid Cudi, headlined the main stage at this year’s Camp Flog Gnaw music festival. They reunited onstage for their first untelevised live show in over two years. Their performance wasn’t just a run through of their new self-titled album, but a reunion […]
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