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SONG OF THE WEEK: Jessica Pratt– Moon Dude

28Mar

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SONG OF THE WEEK: Jessica Pratt– Moon Dude

LA-based musician Jessica Pratt’s music is often characterized as freak folk and beckons associations with folksy psychedelia of the 60s, namely The Byrd’s Fifth Dimension and the work of Vashti Bunyan. It is miraculous to me that “Moon Dude” achieves such an expansive, out-of-this-world sound given Pratt limiting herself to mostly just acoustic guitar and vocals. Her alien-like, gorgeous voice, her psychedelic inflection, carries this song so far beyond the sounds someone expects from a singer-songwriter playing an acoustic guitar. Take a listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/0OmB7OmY3dYTcsDj2ygAF8?si=yB6Ku4dbTBatVjEiuESuoQ

13Mar

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BLOCK 6 PLAYLIST

Kick off your spring break with an... eclectic! playlist from the SoCC writing staff! Featuring Leikeli47, John Maus, Patti Smith, Cardi & more !!!!! https://open.spotify.com/user/thesoundsofcc/playlist/3Dd2ulk9IhWvejvWbZ0Eqy?si=qkbMRPehR4yGxoCoCS0dyg Every block we shall be compiling a blockly playlist, so stay tuned for more! (photo credits: https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/6575635/leikeli47-diplo-skrillex-cosign-interview-edc)

Concert Review: Mick Jenkins At The Bluebird Theater 1/15

14Feb

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Concert Review: Mick Jenkins At The Bluebird Theater 1/15

If you are a music fan from the suburbs, the way you initially encountered music is ugly and quotidian. Instead of encountering a music scene in proximity to where you live or some wise man running a cool record shop, your taste is formed by Guitar Hero, the radio, and copying your siblings. My brother’s taste in music was centered around rap. He became obsessive about it, delving into more obscure rappers through the internet, embarrassingly blaring his mix CDs in the car as we rolled into our high school parking lot. At first I elicited the classic younger sibling response by pretending to hate his music, but this is where the art of copying your older sibling formed an important part of my music taste and maybe even my personal growth. I seemed to gain something from his music that the ...

19Dec

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Best Albums of 2018

Here are some of the SoCC writers' favorite albums this year in no particular order: Be The Cowboy – Mitski https://open.spotify.com/album/653wRjqO0GOZPQPcXpeAXD?si=KzlcpkDuSZiN_TeKctZiAQ If you can believe it, I didn’t like Mitski (of Bury Me at Makeout Creek era) at first. I thought her sound was too rough, too grating, somehow a little too angsty. Fast-forward two or three years, and songs from Be The Cowboy occupy at least a quarter of my weekly music rotation. I can’t give Mitski all the credit for that transformation; I’ve grown enough to learn to love Bury Me at Makeout Creek and Puberty 2. Still, Mitski’s own artistic development is crystal clear to everyone engaged with her art–– for proof, google Be The Cowboy and count the number of “Best of 2018” lists the album’s incl...

SONG REVIEW: Roky Erickson’s Cryptic “I Think of Demons”

9Oct

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SONG REVIEW: Roky Erickson’s Cryptic “I Think of Demons”

Roky Erickson is considered an undeniable pioneer of psychedelic rock. He's mostly known for fronting The 13thFloor Elevators, a group out of Texas that many argue to be the first psychedelic band. More than ever, The Elevators’ sound can be heard in modern psychedelic garage rock like Oh Sees, The Black Angels, and Ty Segall. “I Think of Demons,” however, is less psychedelic sonically than it is psychedelic in its strange, surreal lyrics. Put out in 1980 under Roky's solo project, the song is more similar to a stereotypical hard rock song; the melody itself isn’t that innovative and it's more so a feel-good, familiar classic rock groove. The simple melody lets Roky’s lyrics shine. I, I, I think of demons They never kill I, I, I think of demons They never will They don't need to ...