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Plus Kneecap, Thundercat, GUV, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jan 30, 2026
By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)
Welcome to the fourth Songs of the Week of 2026. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide the list. We considered over 30 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 12. It was a good week for protest songs. More
Announces New Album Song Room, Out on April 24th
Jan 27, 2026
By Caleb Campbell
Brooklyn-based indie singer/songwriter Nicole Rodriguez makes folk pop that feels tremulous, intimate, and mystical under the moniker Pearla. Rodriguez first debuted with her 2019 EP, Quilting & Other Activities, before following with the transportive songwriting and delicate storybook sensibility of her 2023 full-length album, Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming. Today, following last year’s singles, “You Didn’t Do Anything Wrong, You Just Broke My Heart” and “To Love Something,” Rodriguez is sharing news of her forthcoming sophomore album, Song Room, out on April 24th. More
Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime is Coming Due Out February 10 via Spacebomb
Jan 26, 2023
By Mark Redfern
Brooklyn’s Pearla (aka Nicole Rodriguez) is releasing her debut album, Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming, on February 10 via Spacebomb. Now she has shared the album’s final pre-release single, “Unglow The.” More
New LP Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming Out February 10th on Spacebomb Records
Nov 16, 2022
By Caleb Campbell
Pearla is the indie pop project of Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Nicole Rodriguez, first debuting in 2019 with the exploratory awe and consciously offbeat indie pop of her EP, Quilting and Other Activities. More
Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime is Coming Due Out February 10, 2023
Aug 15, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Pearla (aka Nicole Rodriguez) has shared a new single, “Ming the Clam.” It is the latest release from her forthcoming debut album, Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming, which will be out on February 10, 2023 via Spacebomb. More
Interviews
Feb 10, 2023
By Mark Moody
It is apparent after an initial listen through Pearla’s debut album, Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming (out today on Spacebomb), that the project’s alter ego, Nicole Rodriguez, is no stranger to the melding of words, melodies, and arrangements into intricately woven miniatures to be marveled at. Though her first album—the follow-up to the 2019 EP Quilting & Other Activities (released on EggHunt)—there is a depth of exploration of herself and the world around her that make it evident there is a much longer ramp to today than the typical “I started a band in college” crowd. More
