As Ramon Medina of the Linus Pauling Quartet told me in an Q&A which appeared on this site at the end of last year, “ … Charles Bradley! Fuck, that dude is amazing! I love old […]
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“Goin’ Places” is the first single from Derobert and the Half-Truths’ prospective full-length album, I’m Tryin’. As soon as you’ll hear the song, you’ll hear a simpler, almost atmospheric approach to the song which gives Derobert Adams’ […]
Emmett Kelly, who records and performs under the moniker of the Cairo Gang, is most famously known for his work alongside Bonnie “Prince” Billy in several different projects. As the Cairo Gang, Kelly will be […]
Last March, the Wellington, New Zealand-based duo of Calum Robb and Julia Catherine Parr perform and record as Black City Lights. And since the release of their critically well-received debut EP, Parallels, the duo have quickly been […]
“Philadelphia” is the first single from Canadian rock band Paper Lions’ sophomore effort, My Friends(which will see an August 20th release). As the folks at Filter Magazine says of the track, “Paper Lions manages to create a tune both […]
Brooklyn-based band Haerts’ first single “Wings,"which was produced by St. Lucia’s Jean-Philip Grobler has received a ton of love across the blogosphere, including this site; after all, perhaps thanks to Grobler, the track is a […]
Chris Kittrell records and performs under the moniker of Baby Alpaca, and his first single, the slow-burning but hauntingly beautiful “Sea of Dreams” had over 50,000 streams in it’s first three weeks available. And although sparsely […]
Released last year through Wax Poetics Records, New York-based singer/songwriter Kendra Morris’ debut effort, Banshee was critically well-received with Morris being compared favorably to the links of Adele, Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse and interestingly enough, the legendary […]
“Special” is the second single from the collaboration between DJs and producers Airbird and Napolian, and the track is a club banger with stuttering drums, a pasted collage of oddly pitched vocal samples, which buzzes […]
AM and Shawn Lee’s sophomore effort, La Musique Numerique (translated from French, it means “Digital Music”), was released earlier this month through Park the Van Records. And from the first few singles, including a cover of […]
San Diego-based band Crocodiles will be releasing their forthcoming new album, Crimes of Passion during the summer. And although the band has developed a reputation for an explosively loud, scuzzy sound, lead singer Brandon Welchez enlisted the […]
Vladimir Nabokov, one of my favorite novelists published a story back in 1936 about a fictionalized Mediterranean town by the name of Fialta, where an enigmatic protagonist explores and obsesses over themes of vacation and […]
http://cdn.topspin.net/widgets/email2/swf/TSEmailMediaWidget.swf?timestamp=1369096816 Daughn Gibson‘s Me Moan had received quite a bit of attention for it’s mixture of brooding, old school country with the use of modern recording techniques – samplers, effect pedals, synths and the like. All Hell is the […]
Rllrblll (formerly known as Rollerball) was enlisted to take part of Silber Records 5 in 5 EP series – a unique EP series in which bands have to make a full fleshed 5 song EP […]
Feel No Other is a unique collaboration between Claudia Gregory of Exhaust the Fox and Brian Lea McKenzie of Electric Bird Noise. The duo recently took part in Silber Records unique project – the 5 […]