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Music Like Coming Home: A Conversation with Valley Palace
How much do we really know ourselves? Valley Palace’s new EP, Pastel Mood, seeks the answer and inspires more questions along the way. Pure Nowhere’s Liv Bjorgum had the opportunity to chat with 26-year-old Nathan Taylor over Zoom about the EP, emotions, and taking the time to reconcile the person in the mirror with the thoughts in your head.
Maude Latour turns heartache into mythology on her new single, "Block Your Number"
Maude Latour is starting an emotional revolution. The 21-year-old New York-based pop star’s new single (and call to action) “Block Your Number” echoes the epic literature she alludes to in its verses by stringing together diary-like confessions and psychoanalysis into everyday mythology, and inspiring others to do the same.
WizTheMc on his Genre-Bending New Release: What About Now
WizTheMc’s latest EP, What About Now, is now streaming on all music services. As the 17 minute EP plays, rap and pop create a warm feeling that spreads throughout your body. Pure Nowhere was able to talk with WizTheMC about this EP and what influenced it.
Sabrina Song Makes a Director’s Cut of Her Life on 'How’s It Going To End?'
Filled with these temporal ruminations both lyrically and sonically, Sabrina Song’s new EP is a nuanced journey through perspective and self-doubt. The five-track EP out Oct. 23 is Sabrina’s way of “work[ing] through my thoughts about everything — my relationships, the future, my values. [It] gave me something to work towards when time felt like a black hole.”
Feeling, but out loud: Alayna on her songwriting process
This is how singer-songwriter Alayna would describe her music in three words. And her listeners would probably agree.
Moses Sumney - “Grae”
Sumney takes listeners on a 20-track trip, an exploration of one's inner self
Hometown Tunes: Lost And Found in Seattle's DIY Music Scene
In the newest chapter of Hometown Tunes, Laura muses on the impermanence of Seattle’s music scene and offers an ode to her local bands bands and their crowds.
Dreamer Boy Pens Love Letter to Kinship with New Release
Based in Nashville, bedroom-pop master Dreamer Boy has released the first taste of his new project All The Ways We Are Together, ‘Know You’. The tune serves as a joyous soundtrack to growing up. He is no stranger to ethereal tones that take aim at unexplored parts of the heart.
Chaotic Excitement in Sally Boy’s Latest Video - 'Sippy Cup'
The ‘Sippy Cup’ music video is quintessentially a mark of DIY creativity which reaps its rewards. The unapologetic, unadulterated message the video brings is to simply let go, and gives off a freeing sentiment.
Documenting Moments of Aloneness and Intimacy with Hong Kong Boyfriend’s Latest Release, ‘Tiramisu’
Neon-lit memories of romanticism, a smile washed with the blue-tinted glow of a projector. It’s always the small moments we don’t realize we miss until they’re over, right?
Elais Park Has ‘Been Busy’ - Unpacking His Latest Release
Reminiscent of a Brockhampton ‘Saturation’ era sound, the mix of provocative lyrics with experimental beats and playfully pitched vocals further enforces the, ‘fuck with me I dare you,’ vibe Park has perfectly curated.
“A Testimony to My Freedom” - Kyle Lux on His Latest Release, ‘Softly’
“I realized that my artistry is enough of a statement itself. The joy and the feelings that went into this project are a testimony to my freedom and ability to express myself. That to me is just as relevant: Black happiness, Black contemplation, Black feelings.”
Greer Returns with an Endearing new EP: Lullaby For You
The EP can be summed up in four words: “Rock n Roll, baby.” The whole release takes listeners through a painful breakup, without fear of crying.
Remi Wolf on Giving No Shits and Making Hits
We take a peek into Remi Wolf’s camera roll, and converse about pre-show rituals, making shit up, greenrooms, and drawing inspiration from chefs and jazz musicians.
Rodney Chrome Defines and Dismantles Queer Pressure
Up-and-coming rapper and singer-songwriter, Rodney Chrome, describes the title of his debut project, Queer Pressure, as “an acknowledgment of every societal pressure that queer individuals have most likely experienced.” Over twelve tracks, he dismantles these “queer pressures” over hard electronic beats produced by electronic musician underscores and himself.
Tom Verberne, wandering around LA and discussing his new album: “I’ll Watch You Do Anything”
Tom Verberne takes his self-described somber pop music to new heights with sophomore album I’ll Watch You Do Anything.
Skegss on Gardening, Chilling, and Making “Under The Thunder” in Isolation
Australia produces a lot of amazing music, but there are very few artists out there as beloved, as irresistible as Skegss. Since their 2014 debut, the Byron Bay trio have been spinning garage rock into laid-back storytelling, capturing adolescence like no other band has before them.
The Academic: Channeling Creativity in Quarantine
In preparation for their latest EP, Acting My Age, Pure Nowhere attends a Zoom press conference hosted by the 1824 press team. Through questions and live performance, we learned more about channeling their creativity and adjusting their vision in a changing social landscape.
Exploring Intersections of Blackness, Queerness, and Rural Identity — Evil on “A Child Shamed”
“I am black person from a rural community, I am a queer person in the age of the internet. I think to bridge the gaps, in any instance, it requires a human-lived experience to help it along — to make it tangible for those who are not aware. My identity is that intersection.”
Family Vacation: Post Animal In Europe
Marie Renaud shares a collection of film photos from Post Animal’s tour across europe last july, full of sleep-deprived, jet-lagged and pure-joy moments.