Superhuman Happiness’s long-anticipated debut full-length effort, Hands was released to critical praise earlier this year – and there are several reasons why: the album manages to capture the energy of the band’s live set and perhaps more […]
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Although A Million Billion Dying Suns formed earlier this year, frontman Nate Mercereau and the rest of the band have been around for a while, as they’ve all collaborated with the likes of Richard Ashcroft, Lauryn Hill and the legendary Chaka […]
Escort is a 17 member — yes, 17 — member disco act founded by producers Eugene Cho and Dan Balis, and fronted by the incredible Adeline Michèle, and features a cast of musicians who have played […]
Lazyboy consists of the duo of Rob da Bank (who’s worked at Bestival, Sunday Best, BBC Radio 1 and LEAF), and Dan Carey, a London, UK-based producer who’s worked with the likes of Bat for […]
De Lux is a “post-disco/post-dance punk” duo of Sean Guerin and Issaac Franco. Both Guerin and Franco have been making music heavily influenced by old school boogie, as well as classic and obscure disco. Both […]
Vibration Animal Sex Music, the sophomore full-length album from the Wellington, New Zealand-based band Orchestra of Spheres. Recorded last September in Italy, the album cements the band’s reputation for a sound that manages to be […]
Myron and E, along with their backing band, the Soul Investigators had a number of 45s released through Timmion Records, and those early recordings won the attention of Stones Throw Records who then signed them, and […]
This year looks to be the year that Stones Throw Records‘s Dam Funk blows up on the national scene. This past summer saw the release of Dam Funk’s incredible collaboration with Slave’s Steve Arrington. However, December marks what may be […]
Howard Ivans, the lead singer of the Rosebuds and Gayngs is stepping out to do the solo thing with the release of the Red Face Boy/Pillows 7 inch which Spacebomb Records will release on November 19th. And […]
Daptone Records Super Soul Revue at Williamsburg Park feat. Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens, Budos Band and Charles Bradley 9/19/13
Daptone Records Super Soul Revue feat. Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens, Budos Band and Charles Bradley Wiliamsburg Park September 19, 2013 Back on an early autumnal, mid September evening, I was in the converted […]
I recently got a hold of the latest single from Turkish producer and artist Alpman. Titled, “Augustus,” the new single is full of wah wah pedal, sinuous organs and handclap. In some way, the track […]
Congo Sanchez, Hydroponics and Groove Status are teaming up to form a new label, Herb Records. And the first order of business for the new label is to proudly make it’s arrival known – with […]
Snoop Dogg and Dam Funk are collaborating together in a project they’ve dubbed 7 Days of Funk – and of course, the project’s sound owes a great debt to the G Funk era, and to […]
2013 may well be a huge year for Stones Throw Records‘s Dam Funk. The summer saw the release of Dam Funk’s incredible collaboration with Slave’s Steve Arrington. However, December marks what may be his biggest collaboration with — […]
2013 may well be a huge year for Stones Throw Records’s Dam Funk. The summer saw the release of Dam Funk’s incredible collaboration with Slave’s Steve Arrington. However, December marks what may be his biggest […]