Year: 2018

White Oak Music Hall was the place to be on December 27th. It was the scene of a Texas-style psychedelic celebration to send off the year and enter the new one with groovy performances all around.

There’s only one end of the year wrap up post you need in your life. This is it! Continue reading for the top songs, albums, and artists of 2018 according to Coog Radio. Top Songs of 2018  Start by listening to the Coog Radio End of Year Wrap playlist. Let the sounds of artists such […]

2018 was a year filled with countless ups and downs as well as tons of good music. Some songs happened to fall through the cracks and I’m here to make sure you didn’t forget them. Here are, Bops You Almost Missed in 2018.

Radric Davis, known better as Gucci Mane, is from Zone 6 Atlanta. Gucci has 13 studio albums and plenty of mixtapes out on the web from collab mixtapes from Young Thug to Migos. He recently reinvented his style after getting out of prison in 2015 and has not looked back since. Gucci is known as one […]

What came first? Oliver Tree or the meme? The 25 year old producer, vocalist, and artist leans into the culture of memes and embraces the humor and adopts it as a lifestyle. The Best Oliver Tree Memes [su_slider source=”media: 15602,15605,15606,15607,15608,15609″ target=”blank” title=”no”] Tree (whose full name is Oliver Tree Nickell) seems to have appeared from […]

Playboi Carti continues his reputation of being tardy but successfully compensates with a high energy performance. The night was young when we arrived at The Revention Music Center. My friend and I thought we were doing ourselves a favor by arriving an hour early; how naive we were. The waiting line wrapped around the venue […]

Breaking out onto the scene in 2009 with his hit song, “Feel it all Around” which is now the opening theme song of the hit show Portlandia, Washed Out along with Toro Y Moi, XXYYXX, and Neon Indian, are considered pioneers of the chillwave movement.

Ekali is a fresh and young electronic DJ/producer from Vancouver, Canada who has been making waves in the music industry over the past few years. He started out playing the violin and was exposed to music from an early age. However he never quite felt comfortable being an instrumental musician nor a vocalist. He then […]

Merry Christmas Eve! Get your holiday started off right with this Christmas edition of YA WOO NEW MUSIC! With holiday originals such as “Santa’s Coming Down the Chimney” by Confidence Man and twists on holiday classics like “All I Want for Christmas is You” by Walk Off the Earth, this playlist is the most interesting and […]

The Black Angels are coming back to Houston on December 27th for a “End of 2018 Winter Dance Party” that will definitely be as groovy as it sounds. If you are not familiar with The Black Angels, they are a psychedelic rock outfit from Austin that have exploded in popularity in recent years. Hailing from […]

Washington D.C. native singer/songwriter Ari Lennox was born a rebel child. She struggled in school with her behavior; always getting in trouble for rocking her own way. She constantly moved from school to school, where early on she realized that it wasn’t for her. Trying to find her path by filtering through different careers, she […]

Seattle may be the birthplace of hipster loving Starbucks, but this rainy city was once ground zero for several breakout grunge bands from the late 80s that exploded into the mainstream rock scene in the early 90s. The “rain city renaissance” was a wave of underground bands that were catapulted into the spotlight where even […]

JMSN performed a SOLD-OUT show at White Oak Music Hall Wednesday night with his opener August 08. August 08 had an interesting set as the crowd wasn’t feeling him until he played his track “‘Funeral.” That’s when people saw his full potential as a singer.  His side jokes in between tracks kept the energy of […]

Kalyn Aolani Oshiro-Wachi, better known as Aolani, is a 20-year-old R&B singer from Los Angeles. Not much is known about the fresh artist other than that Aolani released her first EP Aolani back in September. It’s an eight-song EP full of very intimate songs about her love life. Whoever is her muse for this EP […]

Banish your case of the Mondays with Coog Radio contributors’ favorite new releases from Friday, December 14th. With some fun holiday music and artists like Rezz, The Trangressors, and Martha, this playlist is the perfect remedy and motivation for a new week. The title of this sensational playlist is inspired by “YA WOO COUGAR FOOTBALL!” Stemming from a subreddit complaining about […]

Sofi Tukker is a dynamic and fierce duo from New York, composed of Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern. They create what they call 90’s house inspired jungle pop. The duo met in Rhode Island during their college days at Brown University, and since then have been creating hit after hit, gaining a global fanbase and even […]

Never heard of him? 22 year-old Jordan Carter, better known as “Playboi Carti,” is an Atlanta-based rapper currently signed with Interscope Records. Only just a few years ago, Carti began to acquire attention while working with established rappers Lil Yachty and Houston’s Maxo Kream. Collaborations with friend/mentor ASAP Rocky and even landing a feature on ASAP […]

Juan Gabriel is not dead, he’s just hiding in the Bahamas. Juan Gabriel is… Back? Declarations regarding one of Mexico’s greatest being back from the dead, allegedly, became public knowledge a few weeks ago. If you don’t keep up with Latin news or current events in general, then you may have missed the news that […]

Texas-born R&B singer Christian Berishaj, more known as JMSN is signed to an independent record label named White Room Records. He has been consistently releasing soulful albums since 2012 and continues to progress his style and make a name for himself. He has worked with the kinds of Kendrick Lamar, Game, J. Cole, and many […]

Banish your case of the Mondays with Coog Radio contributors’ favorite new releases from Friday, December 7th. With some fun holiday music and artists like Toro y Moi, Deerhunter, and Ice Cube, this playlist is the perfect remedy and motivation for a new week. The title of this sensational playlist is inspired by “YA WOO COUGAR FOOTBALL!” Stemming from […]


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