Firdaus Dawood
Firdaus Dawood
Investor Relations specialist by day, Photographer, Painter, Music Enthusiast and most importantly, Expert in the Art of Sarcasm - When she grows up, Firdaus aspires to be writing, playing music and eating macarons for breakfast in the south of France with her two corgis, Rexington and Meatball.
My articles
January 11, 2016 @ 11:19pm
Canadian duo Strange & Primitive ’s self-titled debut album is a cerebral journey through sound and space. Synth-infused melodies, dissonant beats, off-kilter riffs and emotive vocals fuse together, creating unique and intricate circuitry. Strange & Primitive is an album "that feels like a...
December 8, 2014 @ 10:16am
Empathy tests are questionnaires designed to quantify the ability to relate to another human being’s feelings…yes that’s right, we’ve even managed to simplify your ability to show you can care about another person’s life to a Buzzfeed quiz. Ironic social commentary aside, Empathy Test’s latest EP,...
November 25, 2014 @ 10:19am
Ruane Maurice , whose single ‘Nomenclature’ dropped in August, debuted a simple but relentlessly effective music video for the track yesterday morning and all I could think of as I played it over and over today was this: When I was 12, my sisters left for the summer to backpack through France...
November 14, 2014 @ 10:13am
If you’ve never heard of LA-based band Street Joy , let me describe the feeling: Do you ever wish that your life were a little more Almost Famous -esque? Your mom lets you leave home with a whistle and follow some alt-rock folk band where you somehow lose your virginity, meet all the most...
November 7, 2014 @ 10:43am
Everything about Featherface , who recently released their new track “Make U Mine” with Culture Collide , reminds me of that scene in Freaks & Geeks at the high school dance when Sam Weir finally gets the nerve to ask cheerleader Cindy to dance with him only to realize that Styx’s “Come Sail...
October 27, 2014 @ 11:42am
What do you get when you mix dinosaurs, some smooth 90s house and a flood of sharp-as-a-knife wordflow? Just ask Tkay Maidza , whose debut mixtape, Switch Tape, dropped just last week. The talented Zimbabwe-born 18-year-old hails from Adelaide, Australia and has taken the dance world by storm,...
October 20, 2014 @ 9:31am
The Los Angeles music scene has been hell bent in years past on showcasing local music and the result has been big buzz around some Echo Park bands with a lot of the same indie sounds and a lot of the same super-tight skinny jeans, grandpa sweaters, black-rimmed glasses and indifferent stares...
October 6, 2014 @ 10:42am
It wasn’t all that long ago when you’d find yourself in the basement of a dingy bar in the Lower East Side fighting your way through bony elbows, grunts, mass amounts of leather and whatever grimy wetness covered the floors to see anything reminiscent of that oh-so-perfect late 1970s punk rock. On...
October 2, 2014 @ 10:45am
The duo behind Empathy Test just released “Throwing Stones” , the latest single from their forthcoming EP of the same name on Stars and Letters Records , and though they take their name from Philip K. Dick’s idea that machines of any caliber lack emotion or compassion, I’m not sure I’ll take my...
September 29, 2014 @ 11:39am
If you’re indie enough, you collect one of two things: records (including the ironically classical LPs that once belonged to your parents) or cassettes. Though you’ll come across hundreds of people who espouse that cassettes are a dying breed, Impossible Colors, a record label out of Chicago...
September 25, 2014 @ 11:54am
South City Sushi Cop is probably less likely to make you think of ominous, psychadelic music and more befitting a slapstick tv series a la 30 Rock's Tracy Jordan. So, luckily, Bad Blocks decided to change their name to something definitively more fitting of the shadowy, tenuous sounds from their...
September 18, 2014 @ 10:52am
Man Hands kicked off their latest tour on September 5th and the best way to describe these guys is to go straight to the horses’ mouth (or facebook page): “They tore down the rainbows and shit on the stars.” Though they’re young and everyone seems to want to be the first to say “Punk rock is dead”...