https://scache.vevo.com/m/html/embed.html?video=USUYG1041298&playerType=embedded Waajeed, a founding member of the famed Detroit-based act Slum Village met Dede Reynolds and Tim K, who were working together in a duo called Dede, in a bar beneath the J train in […]
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Starting his career in the 1990s dance music scene in Washington, DC, Thomas Blondet has developed a reputation for blurring genre lines by infusing just about any beat and funk oriented genre known to man including deep house, […]
Lenses, the latest album by the Los Angeles-based (by way of Portland, OR) duo of Soft Metals sonically owes a great debt to the legendary godfather of contemporary electronic music, Giorgio Moroder and to late […]
Afrofuturism is an emerging movement consists of an aesthetic look, feel and sound that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, Afrocentrism, magic realism and frequently non-Western cosmology to comment and critique the plight of […]
Although their first full-length effort was released in 2007, the Brooklyn-based trio of House of Blondes had only begun playing live shows together in 2012. in fact, I caught about half of the band’s second […]
Sylvan Esso is a unique collaboration between Ameila Meath of folk group Mountain Man and Nick Sanborn, the bassist in Megafaun. Sanborn uses synths and other electronics to create pulsating grooves and swirling electronic atmospherics for Heath’s gorgeous and […]
Matthew Young has gained notoriety among circles for his work as a keyboardist and vocalist with Body Language, one of this area’s countless electro pop outfits, and for his work as one half of Vacationer. Young has […]
Cascine Records will be releasing Yumi Zouma’s debut EP this week, and to celebrate that occasion, Yumi Zouma recruited Wild Nothing to remix “A Long Walk Home for Parted Lovers.” Unlike the original which has […]
The Brooklyn-based band Stone Cold Fox is comprised of members who are originally from both coasts with members claiming birthplaces from Maine to California. And naturally, the members of the quintet claim some rather diverse […]
Starting off with clinking drums, languid synths and vocals sung in a distracted, seemingly detached falsetto reminiscent of James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, “Echoes,” the latest single from Scott Reitherman’s latest project, Pillar Point is a bit of ethereal and […]
Sophia Exiner, writes, performs and records under the moniker of Phia and is an Australian-born and Berlin, Germany-based indie pop artist whose sound has been compared to the likes of Bjork,tUnE yArDs, Regina Spektor and others — and that’s not a bad […]
Swedish artist Mattias Friberg writes, records and performs under the moniker of Shadow Shadow, a project that Friberg started out of a small cottage in in the Southern Swedish countryside, furnished with flea market electronics […]
Post-Everything will be the forthcoming debut effort from the New York-based electro pop duo of Weeknight. Slated for a March 4th release through Artificial Records, an imprint of Hand Drawn Dracula Records, the duo just known […]
Brooklyn-based duo of Denetia and Sene have a sound that effortlessly meshes elements of electronica, hip hop, R&B and soul, and in many ways it sounds comfortable and warmly familiar – all while managing to be coolly […]
Originally formed in 1982 by Bremen, Germany-based DJ Ralph “von” Richoven, Saada Bonaire was a studio project based around two, young and very sultry German vocalists and a diverse backing band whose sound could be […]