Tody Castillo has been a performing songwriter for almost two decades. The material from two previous albums, his solid eponymous 2005 release and the superb Windhorse from 2008, covered traditional songwriter’s ground - love, loss, and struggle. With a storyteller’s nuance and a designer’s eye for detail, each song revealed depths of feeling and meaning.

With this year’s new album (Title TBD), Tody Castillo has sharpened his best weapon. Adding a decade of married fatherhood to his growing list of accomplishments, there’s undeniable weight to his vocals, new grit that before was only hinted at. The observations within Nightfall Seattle and Old Rodriguez - two of the new album's best cuts - have Castillo opening in a whispering tone that quickly changes as his voice rises, higher and stronger on the chorus, only to return grounded and confessional. Castillo is blessed with pipes that make the conversational sound anthemic, and this new album is awash with this wonderful counterbalance.

Since 2010, siblings and journalists Abby Martin and Robbie Martin have been doing Media Roots Radio, a political podcast with a critical eye on US foreign policy, political partisanship and what people can do to fight back. Conversational, controversial, passionate and explicit, Media Roots stands apart from the majority of podcasts coming from a similar point of view.

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I’ve been making music for over 30 years. Played in bands in the 90s-00s. Recently been making music in GarageBand on my phone for fun. Heavily influenced by 90s noise bands and industrial rock w some Aphex Twin and Future Sound of London.

Costa Rican singer/songwriter "James Catholic" influenced by Scott Walker, Julee Cruise, Roger Waters, Matt Johnson.

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Kensico is the brainchild of Montreal-based singer-songwriter Gaëlle Bellaunay whose new release represents the kismet collaboration of Bellaunay, producers & composers Daran, Mathias “Schneebi” Schneeberger (The Gutter Twins, The Afghan Whigs, Mark Lanegan, Joseph Arthur, Foo Fighters), Masters Of Reality frontman Chris Goss (Queens Of The Stone Age, Mark Lanegan, UNKLE, Desert Sessions, Sound City, Foo Fighters) and Alain Johannes (Mark Lanegan, Queens Of The Stone Age, PJ Harvey, Desert Session, Arctic Monkeys, Sound City, Foo Fighters, Brody Dalle).
Surrounded by such a team and along with drummer Cully Symington (The Afghan Whigs, Okkervil River, The Twilight Singers, Conor Oberst), Kensico naturally settled down at the legendary Rancho de la Luna studio, a Mecca of the latter-day rock set, in order to write some more and record Kensico’s first L.P. « White Sage ».

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From a dreamy childhood in a Parisian suburb, watching the endless ballet of the aircrafts in the sky above Orly, to a perpetual nomadic life along the North American roads, traveling by bus… From her great love of the desert to her wanderings through the Lakota territories, forever engraved in her flesh… From the rugged coastline of the Atlantic where her folks hail from, to the Sierra Madre jungle in Mexico… It’s finally in Montreal that Kensico lays down her suitcases, in order to open the pages of a travel book.
 
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Kensico was born between a long night of love making and a big slap in the face...it feels beautiful and it sadly hurts in the meantime...

Gaëlle / Kensico

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