About a decade ago, fudging here and there for artistic license, I played tracks from an earlier album of Raf Rouco’s. A few months ago, his manager reached out to me via my academic website and mentioned that Rouco had released a new album in 2019.
RadioMike Interviews Raf Rouco
RadioMike Interviews In The Next Life
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This interview was a surprise to me when I took a secret trip up to New York City about a year ago to visit friends and see a band working out in a practice space.
Kyoto Lo Fi “It’s An O.K. Life”
The album starts and stops with cables plugged into an amp and a guitar abruptly stopping mid-jangle. The band begins subdued and between such uncomplicated beginnings and endings lies a complex array of jangled complexities and raucous rhythms…
The Lutras “Give It All Up for Christmas”
I seem to be lucky with the Christmas music this year, and that makes me just a little rebelliously happy when I turn the stereo up to maximum as I write and make attempts at dancing alone at a desk. It’s probably also really hard to screw up a Scots indie rock anthem over the holidays, and the Lutras are here, they don’t disappoint, and neither do their other tracks.
Gabrielle Metz “Christmas with You” Capsule Review
I receive a whole lot of Holiday music from November and for several weeks after. I am always on the lookout for something special, something with an undefinable edge that is almost impossible to describe for anyone to understand what I know and hear in my heart and soul when I listen to any music.