How else do you tell someone you love them besides immortalizing them in song? You stick the landing by making a muppet in their likeness and then produce a music video that encapsulates both and ensures your love will live on forever and be shared with thousands of people on the internet. It’s hard to believe that this still needs to be explained to people in 2020 but it still needs to be said. Kermit the Frog released “Rainbow Connection” 41 years ago.
Fortunately, East Coast Roots/Soul artist Chris Kirby is fluent in this love language. His latest single—“Victoria”—exemplifies such grand gestures. Kirby explains that the acoustic-driven Roots/Soul number was musically-inspired by Bill Withers, lyrically-inspired by his wife Victoria, and the video, as you might have assumed, was inspired by the Muppets. Continue reading Music Video: Chris Kirby Shows That Muppets Can Be a Love Language With ‘Victoria’→
Jah’Mila’s “Chant Their Names” is a weapon. Its purpose is to dismantle, disrupt and destroy systemic oppression that has preyed on North American Black communities with increasing insidiousness in its violence. With its beauty, its groove and its powerful message, it gives no place to hide to those who would prop up status quo politics and perpetuate violence in thought and action against the black community. Continue reading Music Video: Jah’Mila’s ‘Chant Their Names’ is a Weapon→
In an exercise akin to a six-word short story, indie-pop rocker Loviet packs a massive narrative into her debut EP Everyone Knows The Thrill When It’s Over. It’s a pretty slick trick to pull off on a blink-and-you’ve-missed-it three-song release, but in just over 10 minutes Loviet exposes some universally experienced wounds for an insert-your-own-pain-here narrative. On the bright side, you can still dance to it.
Electric City Underground, AKA Paul Charron, Kirk Comstock and Jordi Comstock, AKA Air Traffic Control After Dark, have released a new video for “The Beat” from their ninth EP (the appropriately titled 9). Well into the territory of dance music, the song is a celebration unto itself and a self-actualized argument for escapism that needs no justification beyond its own existence, but the fact that we’re living in 2020 certainly helps. Continue reading Music Video: Electric City Underground Transcends Conscious Creation to Explore ‘The Beat’→
