Boys Noize teams up with Snoop Dogg – er, Snoop Lion – on Boys Noize’s newest album, Out of the Black on one of the hottest songs to date this year. With that in mind, Boys […]
Author: William Ruben Helms
William Ruben Helms is a Corona, Queens, NYC-born and-based African American music journalist, freelance writer, editor, photographer and founder of the DIY, independent music and photography site, The Joy of Violent Movement. Over the course of the past two decades, Helms’ writing and photography has been published in Downbeat, Premier Guitar Magazine (photography), Consequence, The Inventory, Glide Magazine.com (words and photography), Publisher’s Weekly, Sheckys.com, Shecky’s Bar and Nightlife Guide 2004, New York Press, Ins&Outs Magazine, Dish Du Jour Magazine, Aussie music publication Musicology.xyz (photography) and countless others, including his own site.
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Empresarios have developed a reputation for their unique blend of Cumbia, Salsa, Dub, House and Reggae into what is known as Tropicaliente. The band is releasing their second album, El Sonido Magico tomorrow – but to give […]
Balcony TV shot this live footage of my man Derobert and the Half-Truths performing “I Got Burned” on a Brooklyn rooftop. These boys can play themselves some soul, and every time I listen to them, […]
Hailing from the hotbed of indie rock, Austin, TX, Black Forest Fire is one of several psychedelic rock/shoegazer rock from that city. Transit of Venus is the band’s forthcoming album, which Sedimental Records will release on November […]
I got a hold of “This Generation” by Stones Throw Records artist, the Lions, and the riddims really made me feel so very good. Check it out because it’s reminiscent of old school reggae and dub. […]
Occasionally, I’ve come across something so stunningly beautiful that it stops me in my tracks – such was the case with Silvana Kane’s “Cruces” off her debut solo effort, La Jardinera. Born in Lima, Peru, Kane’s […]
YACHT remixed the Stepkids’ “Sweet Salvation,” and turned it to a slickly produced, 80s-sounding electro jam – the remix reminds me a lot of the Tom Tom Club and of the Talking Heads. Yeah, it’s […]
Lady from Shanghai which Fire Records will be releasing in January 2013, marks two important milestones for the legendary Pere Ubu – it’s the first full-length album from the band, and 2013 marks the 35th […]
San Francisco-based band Maus Haus recently released their latest EP, Light Noise through Lavish Habits Records. The band’s sound has been compared to Krafwerk, Beach Boys, and Sonic Youth – in other words expect glitchy, swirling, […]
New York-based trio, Pearl and the Beard have received a ton of praise from the Wall Street Journal, NYLON and others, and once you hear their charming and unique blend of pop, folk and soul, you’ll see […]
My Radio started through a certain level serendipity – the serendipity that seems to behind the formation of most bands. While in Southwest Virginia, singer/songwriter JP Powell (formerly of Boston-area bands Chauncey, Bleu, and My […]
Hailing from Adelaide, Australia and now based in New York, Craig Dermody who performs under the moniker Scott and Charlene’s Wedding, writes songs that deal with things a lot of us can be familiar with […]
a Q&A with Irata
Back in 2010, the Greensboro, NC-based trio Irata released their impressive self-titled full-length debut, which landed on this site’s best of list that year. The band released the follow-up to the effort, Vultures, earlier this […]
Producer Rafael Fauria, singer/songwriter Honey Owens, and dance Ryan Boyle formed the Miracles Club back in 2008 and since their formation, the Miracles Club have a reputation for creating a sound that harkens back to […]
Diamond Version is the collaborative project of German-based label, Raster-Noton heads Byetone and Alva Noto. And as solo artists and as members of Diamond Version, both Noto and Byetone have developed a reputation for releasing […]