Category: Outside the Lines

06 Jun

Serving Up A Stiffed One

Inspired by dreams, spontaneity, impulse, energy and interaction, Santi has the essentials to write a song. “I don’t normally open my journal to create a song; writing doesn’t have to be premeditated.” Come to think about it, neither is life in the eyes of Santi White.
At sixteen, Santi interned for Philadelphia International record label. After [...]

01 Jan

Afro-Punk: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Nigger Experience

Imagine walking into a dark, cramped club at midnight to see your favorite band. Excited, you head to the bar and order a beer. As you look around to see if you know anyone within the large crowd of revelers, you notice that there are a number of people staring at you. Is it my [...]

21 Dec

San Ilya: Skipping the Pain and Misery for Beauty

‘Singing about being miserable doesn’t interest me. What I’m interested in is passion.’ – Jo Swan
Slinky, sexy and slightly mysterious, Ilya have pioneered a new genre of epic easy listening they like to call desert noir – a place where Ennio Morricone meets film noir, where Nino Rota’s Godfather soundtracks mingle with polkas and waltzes, [...]

27 Oct

A Breath of Fresh Air

“Lizz Fields is one of the brightest shining stars we have on the horizon.” – DJ Jazzy Jeff/ A Touch of Jazz
When who you are meets who you want to be, the occasion is sometimes unexpected. The journey to this point may elude you but when you think about it for a moment, it all [...]

07 Sep

Something A Little Different

Her sound is deep, rich in the myriad traditions that she mixes so confidently. She is a storyteller who paints word-pictures that give her tales of hardship, survival and love a vivid sense of reality. A dynamic musician, Maya Azucena bravely disrupts the popular metaphors of wealth and glorified sexuality, forcing us to rethink artificial [...]

27 Aug

Where She’s Going: An Interview with Melanie Durrant

Though her unique and infectious sounds have repeatedly saturated the airwaves
of Toronto urban radio, people easily recognize her sound, but not yet her
name. With attention-getting songs as “Housework” and “Where
I’m Goin’”, her pervasive sound has been known to provoke
the [...]