Out of the Black, Boys Noize’s latest effort, released in 2012 was ranked #8 on the site’s Best of 2012 list, thanks in part to two of the most inventive and sonically challenging electronica singles i […]
Millionyoung just released the second single and album title track for his sophomore effort, Variable which Old Flame/Rix Records will release on February 12th. “Variable” is a slick bit of electro pop that owes a debt to 80s new […]
Austin, TX-based act Feathers will be releasing their debut effort, If All Here Now on February 15th and after the release of the album’s first single, “Land of the Innocent,” the band released an equally eerie […]
Canal + TV series, Les Revenants is adapted from the eponymous Robin Campillo-directed film of the same name. The series like the movie is set in an isolated, French mountain village where the locals have been disturbed after children […]
Back in 2011, Grave Babies released the Pleasures 7" EP with it’s densely layered, decibel pushing, murky dissonance was one of the strangest and most interesting recordings I had heard that year. In fact, their 7" […]
Washington, DC’s Empresarios have developed a reputation for getting asses on dance floors with infectious pan-Latin world grooves, mixed with dub and a super slick production style. As their latest single, Empresarios remixed Los Hermanos […]
Rene Lopez at Rockwood Music Hall 2/2/13
Rene Lopez‘s E.L.S. was ranked number 12 on this site’s Best of 2011 list, and it’s an album that has found its way in my regular rotation. And I suspect that it’s because E.L.S.’s sound reminds me of […]
The Portland, OR-based quartet of Paradise took over the Eagle’s Lodge to shoot the official video for “Humans and Stars,”“the second single off their debut full-length album, Diary of an Old Soul. As you can see, […]
Mute Records released Liars’ latest effort, WIXIW back in June, and it’s an album that manages to continue the band’s reputation for being challenging and defying expectations at every single turn. As an album, the material at […]
Leech is the side project of disco-house producer and artist Brian Foote, and as Leech, he’ll be releasing a 12" by the name of “Tusks” through the Los Angeles-based label, 100% Silk Records on February […]
I recently got an email from Brooklyn-based producer and artist Mic Raygun regarding the video for his latest single, “Try Me.” And after playing the video, i have to admit I really dug it – […]
Matthew Park founded Airstrip after the demise of his previous band, Veelee, and he enlisted the help of members of fellow North Carolina-based bands, Caltrop, Monsonia and Gross Ghost to flesh out a sound that […]
https://scache.vevo.com/m/html/embed.html?video=USCJ81290964&playerType=embedded Chet Faker released his Thinking in Textures EP last year through Downtown Records and Fontana North. And on the the album, the award-winning artist released a smooth as hell, sexy and slowed cover of Blackstreet’s gigantic […]
Majical Cloudz, is the Montreal-based collaboration between Devon Walsh and Matthew Otto. The duo have developed a reputation for a introspective brand of electronica that balances minimalism with emotional honesty. The folks at Yours Tru.ly […]
“Wanderlust” is the latest single off Polly Scattergood’s forthcoming sophomore effort, Arrows which Mute Records will release this summer. With the album written between stays in Norfolk, UK and Berlin, Germany, the material on the album manages […]