The origin story for this one is specific enough to be genuinely interesting. Hansen watched a documentary about Randy Newman, sat down at the piano immediately after, and had most of the...
The reference points SLAPPER name-drops for "Disco Decoder" are not modest ones - Giorgio Moroder, Kraftwerk, Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Juan Atkins, Frankie Knuckles. That's basically the entire founding pantheon of electronic music...
There's a specific kind of creative restlessness that makes an artist go back and take apart their own work. Sheila Simmenes released her debut album "Love Was Easy" back in 2021 as...
"Hard Times (Come Again No More)" was written by Stephen Foster in 1854 as a direct response to the damage 19th-century industrial capitalism was doing to the poor, compounded by a recent...
Los Angeles-based independent artist Milyam (pronounced "me-lee-AHM") operates under her own label, MILYAM EMPIRE, and has been building a catalog at the intersection of atmospheric alt-pop and cinematic production. Her latest single,...
There's a specific type of cultural osmosis that happens when you spend enough time in a place that isn't yours. You pick things up without trying. A melody sticks. A rhythm starts...
Austrian electronic project EGGER has been building a very specific kind of world across his first three singles. Wolfgang Egger's debut, "Strange Behaviour", drew on Kraftwerk and early John Foxx to explore...
There's a version of this song most people already have lodged somewhere in their memory, and it belongs to Bette Midler. Her 1989 Grammy-winning recording of "Wind Beneath My Wings" - written...
