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 […]
Siblings Reid and Blaze Bateh, and their childhood friend William Brookshire formed Bambara back in 2008, although the trio has been writing, recording and playing music since they were all 7th graders back in Athens, […]
Emerging from Toronto, ON’s indie scene back in 1995 with his debut solo effort, Everything I Long For, singer/songwriter Hayden has won over fans and critics for his introspective lyrics and his independence – he plays almost […]
A Q&A with VYIE
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