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CARV.R shifts a darker beat across a kaleidoscopic shadow on ‘Deflect’

Michael O'Connor Marotta — Thu, 11 May 2023 10:30:08 +0000

We last caught up CARV.R at the tail end of a lost 2021, when the Providence-based dark electronic-pop project of producer Cristian Carver teamed with Casey Desmond on the propulsive and visually engaging “Stuck.” CARV.R is adept at balancing the dark and light in their music, which often pairs heavy low-end industrial bass with glistening synth textures that glide across the surface for a sound that both pushes and pulls. And those elements dance in kaleidoscopic shadows on CARV.R’s dynamic […]

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Rafay Rashid finds a human connection through a trusted ‘Landline’

Michael O'Connor Marotta — Mon, 01 May 2023 10:37:41 +0000

Time has a funny way of adjusting our perspective. For many of a certain age, the house telephone was a significant means of communication whilst growing up, a lifeline stretched beyond our residential borders, a connection to those in seemingly far-away places. The evolution of mobile device gave us newfound freedom, and the telephones we grew up became instantly antiquated and outdated. But there was a certain charm to the landline phone, from our memorization of numbers manually dialed or […]

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This Show Is Tonight: Lainey Dionne and friends show off pop smarts

Michael O'Connor Marotta — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 11:13:35 +0000

Last we caught up with Lainey Dionne, the whipsmart New England pop artist was busy taking on toxic relationships through the screen of a “Video Game.” Tonight, however, she’s in a much more pleasant — and real-life — setting, hosting and performing at the third installment of her Songwriters Showcase at Galactic Theatre in Warren in her native Rhode Island. Dionne will be joined by nine other songwriters, each performing a handful of acoustic songs after her set, which is […]

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Lainey Dionne takes control of toxic relationships on ‘Video Game’

Michael O'Connor Marotta — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 13:27:49 +0000

Be warned: When you play Lainey Dionne, you’re only playing yourself. And when you press play on the Rhode Island native’s new single “Video Game,” you might finally realize you’ve been the villain all along. Fresh off last year’s wonderful Self Titled album (which included a fiery dose of pop wizardry in “Wake Up Call” that we highly recommend ICYMI), Dionne dropped her new single over the weekend (March 20), and it’s all about being trapped inside a game controlled […]

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Nova One covers a Robyn classic for a friend in need

Michael O'Connor Marotta — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 15:06:07 +0000

Nova One may be dancing on their own, but they are making sure their friend does not. This past Friday (February 4), the project of Providence artist Roz Raskin released a dreamy cosmic-pop rendition of Robyn’s electro classic “Dancing On My Own” via Bandcamp, and all money raised from the self-recorded and self-mixed cover will help out a friend in need. Raskin writes: “this cover is for my dear friend martha who is going through stage 3 ovarian cancer treatments. […]

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Here’s your chance to be cast as an extra in ‘Hocus Pocus 2’, you witch

Michael O'Connor Marotta — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:56:44 +0000

Hocus Pocus 2 will be casting a spell on Disney+ next year. In the meantime, it’s currently casting for extras, and seeking New Englanders to play the part. Kendall Cooper Casting has put out a call for extras to appear in the sequel to the 1993 Salem-set fantasy comedy film, a family-friendly flick that starred Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy as the wicked 17th-century Sanderson Sisters summoned back from the dead and to the present day. All three are returning for Hocus […]

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This Stream Is Tonight: Lainey Dionne dishes pop smarts on ‘Self Titled’

Michael O'Connor Marotta — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 20:15:43 +0000

Editor’s Note: We have tweaked our This Show Is Tonight series to reflect the recent phenomenon of live music livestreaming in the age of social distancing. *** And here on the final day of August, Lainey Dionne may have given us the pop album we needed all summer. It’s called Self Titled, it hit the streams today (August 31), and the Rhode Island artist takes to her Instagram page tonight at 8 p.m. EDT to tell us all about it. On first […]

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Newport Festivals Foundation creates Newport Festivals Musician Relief Fund

Michael O'Connor Marotta — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:17:44 +0000

It remains uncertain if there will be a Newport Folk Festival this summer, but the organization is making sure it continues to help out artists in need during the ongoing pandemic. On Monday morning (March 30), the Newport Festivals Foundation, which also includes the Newport Jazz Festival, established the Newport Festivals Musician Relief Fund, which aims “to provide financial relief to musicians in our Folk & Jazz communities experiencing lost income as a result of COVID-19 through rapid micro and […]

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Uniform cannonball Adult Swim’s Singles series with ‘Awakening’

Michael O'Connor Marotta — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:51:06 +0000

One of the absolute highlights of Summer 2018 arrived in late July, when a bonkers touring package of Deafheaven, Drab Majesty, and Uniform crashed Royale in the Theatre District. Each band surely endeared themselves to the others’ distinctive fanbases, and we came away perhaps most impressed with the pure noise fury of Uniform. Today (January 30), the Brooklyn industrial-metal group return with a menacing, mechanical thunder bomb called “Awakening.” The protest song is the latest offering from Adult Swim’s Singles […]

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On ‘Fire’, Waxahatchee addresses her ‘internal dialogue of shame’

Michael O'Connor Marotta — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 20:29:28 +0000

Add the always fantastic Waxahatchee to the arsenal of artists readying a new album for 2020. The indie-folk project from Katie Crutchfield has unveiled details of a new album, and it’s called Saint Cloud. The follow-up to 2017’s Out in the Storm is out March 27 via Merge, and begins to take shape with its lead song, out today (January 22), titled “Fire.” “The idea and melody for ‘Fire’ was dreamt up while driving over the Mississippi River from Memphis […]

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