Manjot Jawa
16 articles written by Manjot Jawa
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Music Hangout – The Wax Girl
Do you know what Anosmic means? It’s not a common word to read while browsing the web, but it surely caught my attention. Anosmic or Anosmia is the inability to perceive odor. I’d tell you how many people have...
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#MusicHangouts – Free Press Summer Festival
The summer heat and humidity has started settling in over Houston, schools are about to end for summer break, and college kids are back home for the summer. Know what those three things have in common? If you guessed...
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Music Hangout – HOWLS
Do you have a semi-annoying friend you that keeps nagging at you to listen to a band because they are “Totes Awesomesauce” or “Superb”? If you don’t, that’s about to change; today that band is HOWLS and I am...
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Music Hangout – Nate Jarrett
I wanted to start this by asking if you remembered those college days, and then I realized that I’m in no position to ask that since I’m still in those college days. Taking classes all day every week doesn’t...
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Music Hangout – Lowercase Noises
The thing about ambient music is that it takes patience. Not only to compose it, but also to listen to it. We are naturally drawn to narratives, well at least I and most of the people I know are,...
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Jordan Klassen speaks about his new album and the difficulties of touring
Americans, and especially some of the Texans I’ve met, have this weird illusion that Canada is completely the polar opposite of us. That everything there is just done completely differently and that everyone likes maple syrup the best. I...
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Kate Tucker & The Sons of Sweden “Hangover” Music Video Premiere
Music is a powerful visual and inspirational tool. From the way lyrics craft scenes to every last note that form an emotion. An album embodied a collection of those powerful emotions and it used to be that when an...
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Zak Smith on his music and what it means to him
New Jersey native Zak Smith is a character. There’s not much else you can say that would describe him. And trying to describe his music is even more of a challenge. Zak recently released his newest album, The Precambrian...
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The Retrospectives On Growing Up And Their Energetic Music
When I first read about the The Retrospectives, the one thing that popped out at me was their Twitter bio. “…determined to bring back real pop music…” An ambitious mission statement considering what pop music is considered now in...
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Holychild Shares The Inspirations Behind The Music
When I listen to a song from a electro-indie-pop band I normally wouldn’t think that it has such a profound message about our society, but when I thought about the lyrics in the song from Holychild, I got it....
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Caleb Ray – An Interesting Man With More Than Just An Interesting Project Name
We’ve been told that the most interesting man in the world can make orange juice out of apples, but that’s nothing compared how Caleb Ray can make beautiful music out of just a single thought. Music out of thoughts?...
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Paper Lights talks about their upcoming album and the beautiful journey of questioning
On a cool summer or fall night, somewhere in the world, there is a small candle being placed into a paper lantern, a match is struck and lights the candle. Almost magically, the power of such a small flame...
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Sara Masterson explains the inspiration behind her new album and growing up in the Midwest
There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of genres of music. Once in a while you find that rare song or album that can’t be defined into a genre without hurting another genre’s feeling. Singer-songwriter Sara Masterson’s new album Always the...
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Ryan Courtney shares what the band name Trenton means and where he recorded his latest EP
Music has a way of carrying a message that the artist truly believes in. In a highly commercialized music industry like ours, that message is sometimes lost or even left out. That’s why we’re constantly searching for the artists...
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MGMT – MGMT
I have strong opinions about the state of music today. Some people would object to them, I even object to them most of the time. But the fact is that for those honest to the art of creating music,...