15 Minute Live Performances
15 Minute Live Performances: Nick Waterhouse
This week’s edition of 15 Minute Live Performances (watch previous sets from UPSAHL, KANDLE, Cha Wa and Rozzi) features one of the best talents to emerge from Orange County, California in the past decade or so, Nick Waterhouse. Earlier this year, Waterhouse gave us a peek into his daily routine in our A Day in the Life feature, and released his fifth studio album, Promenade Blue, on Innovative Leisure, co-produced by Paul Butler. If you’re unfamiliar with Waterhouse’s swirling nostalgic sound, consider this your introduction. He has long been dazzling crowds in the Southland with his blend of rockabilly, R&B, soul, garage and blues. And if that seems like a difficult fusion, well Waterho...
15 Minute Live Performances: Rozzi
This week’s edition of 15 Minute Live Performances (watch previous Performances from UPSAHL, KANDLE and our favorite New Orleans-based collective Cha Wa) features one of our favorite rising artists: Rozzi. Earlier this year, Rozzi gave us a peek into her daily routine in our A Day in the Life of… feature, and it’s easy to see why she’s on the brink of big things. So far, her song “Orange Sky” was played on Simon Le Bon’s WHOOOSH! Podcast, her podcast Ugh! You’re So Good! is great in its own right, and she was a musical guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as well. She’s also a great writer too, read her odes to Beyoncé and Christine McVie as proof of that. Her new EP, Hymn For Tomorrow, is out on July 16, and if Rozzi’s new single “I Can’t Go To The Party” is...
15 Minute Live Performances: Cha Wa
This week’s edition of 15 Minute Live Performances (watch our previous 15 Minute Live Performances set from rising stars UPSAHL and KANDLE) features New Orleans-based collective Cha Wa. Fronted by Joseph Boudreaux Jr. a lifelong member of the city’s Mardi Gras Indian community, the group also features members Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs and Second Line brass bands. This group Black New Orleanians pay respect to Native American tribes with their wardrobe, music and dialect. Boudreaux’s father, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, was deeply entrenched in Mardi Gras Indians, which in turn introduced Boudreaux Jr. to the New Orleans cultural phenomenon at a very young age. If you’re not familiar beyond that, you should be. Since the group was formed in 2014, group has been nominated for Best Regiona...
15 Minute Live Performances: KANDLE
This week’s edition of 15 Minute Live Performances (watch our previous 15 Minute Live Performances set from rising star UPSAHL here) features Canadian singer-songwriter and a nominee for the prestigious JUNO Awards (Canada’s biggest music prize), KANDLE. We previously featured KANDLE as part of our ongoing A Day in The Life Of… feature and today, to coincide with the release of her new album, we’re happy to bring to you this 15-minute live performance. KANDLE, the daughter of musician Neil Osbourne, has really impressed us in recent months, especially on songs like “Honey Trap,” “When It Hurts” and “Lock and Load.” If being nominated for the JUNOs wasn’t enough, KANDLE was also a nominee for a 2021 Prism Prize for “Lock and Load.” Her further accolades include a&nb...
15 Minute Live Performances
Welcome to SPIN’s newest element, an intimate, self-filmed, 15 minute set by some of the greatest new musical artists surfacing, and some of the more interesting folks who’ve been around for a while. It’s not a livestream, a mini concert or a “session”. It’s not an Insta Story or a Tik Tok moment. It’s something else. It’s stripped down, unfussed, definitely, deliberately unproduced. It’s just the artist(s) and us. In their bedroom, living room, a park or (next episode) literally on the back of a truck. It could be at a bus stop. I really hope someone does it at a bus stop! I’ve asked several new musicians and some more established to do this, play a few songs they like, their own and other people’s, new and old. I asked them not to worry about lighting, or setting, or getting particularly...
