Written By Chloé Sautereau It’s an emotional state of mellow and melodic trance that Richie Quake invites his listener to experience with his song “That’s Not Love!.” Re-released on June 29th as part of his latest body of work – his debut album I Want Some! – the track is a deep dive into the artist’s musical universe. From a first track released in 2018 to his second EP, Voyager in 2021, the essence of Quake’s sound was clear from early on: taking his audience on a journey, not through things, but through states of being. The singer-songwriter producer’s latest…
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Written By Chloé Sautereau “I miss myself. I miss myself. I miss myself.” Don’t you? There’s something chillingly soul-gripping in the way renforshort, aka Lauren Isenberg, lets us float and ponder in between the chorus lines of her most recent single “i miss myself.” The single is the intro track to her debut album dear amelia which was released July 8th. “i miss myself” is a true letter to the self or rather to “somebody out there,” as the 20 year old singer-songwriter explains to her fans on social media. She recently created a p.o. box for her listeners to…
Written By Zoe Kallenekos Some of the best art is pure escapism, something that takes us directly into the moment someplace else. With his new atmospheric dance track “Blur,” dhruv accomplishes just that. Upon first listen, one might not be able to tell how different this song is compared to dhruv’s previous efforts. Earlier this year, he released his debut EP, “rapunzel,” chock full of soft, lo-fi, bedroom pop meets r&b music. Essentially, these previously released songs were better suited for the speakers of a coffee shop rather than the dancefloor. Listening through “rapunzel”, one might be compelled to compare…
Written By Kelly Holm One night, NYC-based singer-songwriter Julia Wolf dreamed about a trend where girls painted the words “Hot Killer” on the front pockets of their blue jeans. Some might turn that into an opportunity to craft a viral Tweet— but Wolf spun this bit of nocturnal inspiration into a verifiable earworm. “I thought for sure, that’s a song title right there… what we came up with was a fierce anthem for my shy girls,” Wolf said. “Lots of people think we’ll automatically put them on a pedestal, or that we aren’t capable of being the heartbreakers because we’re…
Music is Art is proud to present: Good Neighbors (Vol. 2), a seventeen-person co-write album presented as part of our WNY Music Industry Alliance and our coinciding Songwriter Peer Group. The first volume (available on streaming services) was a pandemic-born “song swap” project among twelve of our members, and we are so proud of how this endeavor has grown in the midst of our world’s challenges. These seventeen supremely talented songwriters, along with a collection of Buffalo’s top-tier musicians and industry pros, have crafted a powerful collaborative work of art, proving once again that Buffalo is indeed the City of…