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PARKE
“It felt like a fresh start, felt like a new era. Same with this music; I didn't put a single out, it was just the album went straight to it because I think I'm just an album person. I think it's more interesting, but it just felt nice and literally like a refresh, like I just showered and just came out.”
Read Above: Parke, the rapper and producer formerly of the name Dominsquis, has broken ground with his new album, Zombie, compounding the dynamic blend hip-hop, rock, and punk influences that he began exploring under his old alias into a thrilling blend of tracks that not only amp up the sonic pressure from his previous projects but also serve, in a way, as their ultimate fruition,
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Star’s Revenge, the budding side project of Emily Green (Geese) and Olive Faber (Sunflower Bean), has served not only as an outlet to but also an additional expression of the expanding creative thatcheries of its founders in the years since its creation, but, now, with their decision to expand the project into a full-band context, it has taken on a markedly different sonic outlook, all while maintaining the central mission of exploration and ongoing creative activity that led to its birth.
Star’s Revenge
MELT Live: r1ver
Live DJ set recorded with St. Louis native r1ver. Recorded at Overtime Studio STL. A MELT FM Production.
10 Questions w/ odelet
Odelet, the Detroit-born producer and multi-instrumentalist, has been experimenting between genres for multiple years now, and, with the release of their newest album, Angels (Revived), the experiment has reached new heights.
A dynamic blend of soul, funk, jazz, reggae, and other musical roots, the album encapsulates perfectly the genre-agnosticism that permeates Odelet’s creative output.
Currently based on the West Coast, their work in visual art has slowly become intertwined with their musical ventures, and the ultimate result, which is in part represented in Angels (Revived), has blossomed into a transformation of their creative process and manifestation of sound.
Artist profiles
If you exist outside of the hyper-intertwined Houston music scene, there’s a good chance you haven’t heard the name diptera yet. If that’s the case, it’s probably best you familiarize yourself with them, at least before their genre-bending, improvisationally-rooted sound comes knocking on your door of its own accord.
Diptera
Chico Romano, the genre-bending band led by former Professor Caveman frontman Rob Romano, was born Ship of Theseus-style from the ashes of the infamous New Jersey indie band and, since its inception, has served as a unique creative vehicle for Romano’s sonic whims, carving out a unique lane with each individual addition to its slowly growing catalog. It is a distinct project from Professor Caveman, yet, for fans of the band, it also serves as an interesting continuation of the musical ideas that Romano injected into the original group.
Chico Romano
Local Weatherman
Local Weatherman, the Brooklyn-based alternative rock band, first began as the solo, dormitory-born passion project of frontman Fritz Ortman, spurred by a desire to send his first true musical ramblings into the world as quickly as possible. As it has blossomed however, Local Weatherman has transformed into a complex and living sonic creature, with their newest EP, Right One, serving as distinct evidence of that fact.
Blackwater Holylight
Blackwater Holylight, the doom metal band formed in Portland, Oregon, has broken new ground with the release of their newest album Not Here Not Gone, commemorating their recent relocation to Los Angeles and crafting a culmination of the years they have spent together as a band with the intentional new sonic direction they have undertaken.
Big Scary Indian, the noise rock project fronted and helmed by Roshan Reddy, has served as an experimental ground for its creator in the years since its inception, allowing him to bridge and put into conversation the dichotomy of sounds he has loved since he was a teenager. The result has been a glistening, complex, and distinctly euphonious catalogue, bursting out in moments of beauty through the dissonance that the genre is typically known for.