Planet Rox is a bi-monthly music industry networking event and showcase of up-and-coming local talent. This time it was at the Highline Ballroom and naturally, I was there. Photographic evidence is below: herMajesty The Stereo […]
http://deadleafechonyc.com/widgets/Memorytraces/widget.php Dead Leaf Echo will be releasing their long awaited debut-full length, Thoughts and Language on March 5th through Neon Sigh Records, and the album is a concept album that follows a child from his conception, through birth, until […]
New York-baesd producer and artist Richard Spitzer has been around for a minute – he’s released music under the monikers of Nite Club, Vinyl Life, and Little Star Dweller. With the addition of Harlem-based rapper […]
All Good Funk Alliance‘s Jacks of All Trades was 37th on this site’s Best of 2012 list, and it’s a great bit of early 1980s inspired funk. “Go Go Bananas” is the last single from the the […]
The Ocean Blue’s debut effort, released through Sire Records in 1989 was not only well-received by critics and fans, it got a ton of airplay on radio and on MTV. The band released two more […]
The Brooklyn-based due of Tamara Jafar and Joe Durniak, a.k,a, Cultfever, recently released their first 7" “Animals”/“Chicken” and it’s a buzzing bit of funky and angular electro pop. It bears a similarity to borough counterparts, […]
Ah, coming just in time for Valentine’s Day, is the official video for Triple Hex’s “Love Song,” shot in Mon Amie Records’ foudner Mona Dehghan’s birthplace of Reno, NV. Shot in a grainy super 8 […]
a Q&A with Steven A. Clark
Ranking fourth on this site’s Best of 2012 list, behind the co-number ones, Cody ChesnuTT’s certain classic, Landing on a Hundred and Lee “Scratch” Perry and the Orb’s trippy, mind-bending The ORBSERVER in the star […]
Latin Grammy-winning band Bajofondo’s sound is heavily informed and influenced by the sound of the Rio de la Plata, the river that forms the border between Uruguay and Argentina – in other words you’ll hear […]
The legendary (and shamefully only two time Grammy-winning) LL Cool J will be releasing his 14th full length album, Authentic through 429 Records/The Savoy Music Group/Fontana North Distribution on April 30th. if you watched this year’s Grammies, […]
Vocalist Anika spent her professional career as a political journalist living between Berlin and Bristol, UK when she had met producer Geoff Barrow. At the time, Barrow was seeking a vocalist to work with his […]
Selebrities teamed up with friends Erika Spring and Lissy Truille to record this slickly produced, Cut Copy-like cover to Fleetwood Mac’s “Everywhere.” (And by Cut Copy, it really seems to have an 80s New Wave […]
http://www.audiomack.com/embed2/nycmultimedia/grimey-ways?btn=ff8a00&bg=34342e&bbg=121212&vbg=4d4b42&vol=ff8a00&dbg=ff8a00 DJ Modesty teams up with Willie Stubz, Rap-P, and Mikey D for this raw, street hip hop “Grimey Ways.” Listening to the track reminded me quite a bit of the hip hop we used […]
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/track=1966899556/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/ In their three previous albums Mop Mop have a reputation for their unique sound which borrows and mixes elements of jazz, funk, Latin music and Italian post-modern music. And because of that sound, the […]
Rhythm Monks, the Berlin-based electronic act are a theatrically orientated group that primarily use the drum and rhythm to find the connection between ancient rituals of rhythm and dance. Sonically, the track “Candomble” has an […]