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Picture Credit: The Cush Artwork: Winston Smith   The Cush - Riders in the Stardust Gold Release Date: August 06, 2021 Label: Mad Bunny Records Format: Vinyl / Digital Length: 33:19 Genre: Psychedelic Folk / Americana Origin: Fort Worth , TX , USA For more than twenty years, The Cush from Fort Worth, Texas stand for a unique mix of Space Rock, Psychedelic Rock, and Americana-influenced Folk. The band founded by Burette  and Gabrielle   Douglas has recently released their sixth full-length album. Not only has it been published two decades after their selftitled debut was born. Further, "Riders in the Stardust Gold" marks another milestone in the band's history since it is their first release on Ben Harper 's label Mad Bunny Records. "Riders in the Stardust Gold" is a mesmerizing sonic journey through a psychedelic kaleidoscope of heat, boppy colours, fuzzy images, and intense dreams. It is the idiosyncratic style that makes The Cush's sixth longplayer s...

Picture Credit: Tori Boltwood   Tori Boltwood - Fame Release Date: April 23, 2021 Length: 03:44 Genre: Indie Pop Origin: Fort Worth , Texas , USA The single "Fame" is Texan artist Tori Boltwood 's take on the music industry. The song is a call for artists to act in solidarity with each other, instead of playing the big players' game and concurring against each other for a place in the sun. The scholars amongst the readers might think of two things here: 1) according to Adorno , is it possible to criticize the music industry by producing a song? (I say, yes! Tori Boltwood  is an autochthonous Indie artist, Theodor !) 2) is that a Marxist idea? (well, if you really want to, you can interpret "Fame" in a Marxist discourse, but solidarity and unity work without Marx, too, don't they?). Enough with the theory... let's talk about music! Tori Boltwood 's "Fame" is a powerful Indie Pop song.  Atmospheric soundscapes carry the verses, while brid...