The official video for Devereaux’s “NYXT” off his Cacti Pace EP came out not too long ago, and in some way, the grainy VHS-style video is quite fitting. Interestingly, almost every cliche of 80s music videos […]
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Back in July, Ending People played “Beat of My Heart” as part of Audiovore’s “Don’t Look Down” series, a series of live performances on the MCA Denver rooftop. For such a hauntingly eerie song, the […]
Capital Cities, St. Lucia, and Big Black Delta at Brooklyn Bowl 8/12/12
Capital Cities, St. Lucia, and Big Black Delta Brooklyn Bowl August 12, 2012 Back in August, I was at Brooklyn Bowl, one of my favorite venues in town to catch live music for a late […]
Just the other day, singer/songwriter Solange (yes, Solange Knowles, Beyonce’s sister), released the video for her latest single “Losing You,” on Pitchfork, at the same time that Terrible Records released the single digitally worldwide through […]
Australian singer/songwriter Emma Louise is something of a wunderkind – at 16 she won two Q Awards for her songwriting. After high school, she moved from Cairn to Brisbane to further her music career and […]
“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 […]
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, […]
