“Summer Madness S.A.” is the latest single off Karriem Riggins’ Stones Throw Records release, Alone Together which will drop later this month. Full of swooning strings, slinky bass and brief punctuations of keyboard, followed by vocals […]
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I recently posted the mp3 version of the exceptionally talented Simon Spire’s “Uncomfortable,” the first single off the New Zealand-born and now, Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter’s forthcoming album, Four-Letter Words which will see an October 22nd release. The song […]
Now, check out “Just For One Moment,” the first single of my man Ralph “Soul” Jackson’s long overdue national debut, The Alabama Love Man. We all need some soul in our lives, and this cat brings […]
Yesterday (yeah, technically yesterday) the Audible Doctor released a free mashup mixtape Pre-Med to celebrate the release of a full-length instrumental Doctorin’ which will drop on October 30th – and it serves as a bit of […]
A Q&A with maticulous
The Confluence EP, which was released by Fat Beats Records on September 26th, is the Brooklyn-based (by way of the Pittsburgh, PA area) producer maticulous’s latest album, and the follow up to his debut effort, […]
October 22nd will see the release of the Sword’s forth album, Apocryphon, the band’s first on Razor and Tie Records. Spin Magazine premiered the first single from the album, “Veil of Isis,” and I understand that the band […]
The Brooklyn-based duo of Beacon have developed a reputation for their sound which manages to mix electronica and R&B. The band just released an EP, through Ghostly International titled, For You, and the second single from […]
Album Review: Pretty Good Dance Moves’ LIMO
Pretty Good Dance Moves LIMO MAD Dragon Records/Township Records Release Date: February 7, 2012 Track Listing 1st Movement 2nd Movement (1000 Sasa) 3rd Movement 4th Movement 5th Movement 6th Movement 7th Movement 8th Movement (I […]
As a blogger, I receive a ton of emails from PR folks, labels and even artists themselves. Professionally, it’s almost expected for us to be – well, jaded. But occasionally, you get an email and […]
Jacob Dilβner a.k.a Wankelmut is a 24 year old producer who moved to Berlin last year to study philosophy and political science. One night, he was playing around with one of his favorite songs on Ableton […]
Finders Keepers Records/B-Music will be releasing Man Chest Hair, a collection of previously unreleased and unissued studio demos and rare tracks of hard rock, funk, and prog rock from some of the baddest (and in some […]
W. Heyward Sims, better known as Devereaux is Columbia, South Carolina based musician, producer and DJ whose sound draws heavily from Kraftwerk, Battles, and Daft Punk. And in some way it comfortably bridges the gap […]
My Radio can trace their origin to when singer/songwriter JP Powell (of Chauncey, Bleu and My Favorite Relative) left Boston for Roanoke, VA and ran into his future drummer, Hunter Johnson (of Justin Jones) at […]
I saw the Vancouver-based indie rock act, Yukon Blonde play a live set with Alcoholic Faith Mission some time ago, and I was quite impressed. The band released their latest effort, Tiger Talk earlier this year to […]
JAN is the solo project of Eagle and Talon’s Kim Talon. And Enclave Music will release JAN’s self-titled debut on November 13th. “How to Beast,” is the second single from the album and as you’re […]