Dom Lepore

1 week ago | merrygoroundmagazine.com | Dom Lepore

Each listen to Ribbon Skirt completely enthralled me more. Formerly known as Love Language, the Montreal rock band is profoundly conscious, which shows in their impassioned musicianship. Made up of Anishinaabe singer Tashiina Buswa and guitarist Billy Riley, the band’s name change and the release of their debut album, BITE DOWN, led to a more expansive and ruminative set of songs.

2 weeks ago | beat.com.au | Dom Lepore

French electro titans Justice have been in the game for over 20 years and have cemented themselves as one of the world’s biggest electronic acts throughout their career. To the unsuspecting listener, Daft Punk they are not – while they were responsible for slick, club-centric music, Justice leaned into grit and a hard-hitting edge. Their 2007 debut, Cross, bridged rock aesthetics with electro house and remains a defining bloghouse record.

2 weeks ago | merrygoroundmagazine.com | Dom Lepore |Zac Djamoos

It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring Dead Bandit’s self-titled grayscale post-rock album, out now via Quindi Records, and Lisa Crawley’s introspective indie pop EP NEW GIRL SYNDROME!Dead Bandit – S/TGenre: Post-Rock, AmbientFavorite Tracks: “Half Smoked Cigarette,” “The Bug,” “Lucien’s Bitters” A grey sky, a dark forest, obscured by a thin fog—the cover of DEAD BANDIT, the self-titled third album from the transnational post-rock duo, is instructive as to what to expect.

3 weeks ago | merrygoroundmagazine.com | Dom Lepore |Louis Pelingen

It’s our Bandcamp Picks fo the Week, featuring pond 1000’s well studied indie rock debut DAFFODIL and saoirse dream’s emo twinged hyperpop self-titled album. pond 1000 – DAFFODILGenre: Indie RockFavorite Tracks: “sugar cube / small cloud,” “rivulet,” “that mall was mine,” “feed the dust”Maine’s pond 1000 have been around for a while.

1 month ago | beat.com.au | Dom Lepore

Words by Dom Lepore Darwin’s David Garnham discusses the initiative led by Indigenous singer-songwriter Stuart Joel Nuggett cultivating the survival of the endangered Jingulu language. Country musicians David and Stuart became friends by chance. “In 2020, we were going on a tour around the NT, and we got a call from CAAMA [Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association], a radio station in Alice Springs,” David says.