Hannah Thiem is a producer and violinist whose music is influenced by a deep appreciation of electronic and ambient soundscapes, as well as Eastern European, Nordic and Middle Eastern music. “Phavet”(pronounced Fa-vey) is the first single […]
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As the co-founder of Monotonix, guitarist (and composer) Yonatan Gat was part of a band that was once hailed as being one of most intense rock bands in the world. But after five years of recording and touring, […]
The Denver, CO/Fort Collins, CO-based, Euforquestra (pronounced yoo—four-keh-struh) — by way of Iowa City, IA — have developed a reputation for a sound that bends and blurs genres and expectations, and for a relentless touring schedule. Fire, the band’s first […]
The Brooklyn-based collective of Underground System formed back in 2010, and when they originally formed their primary influences were the legendary Fela Kutii and the Western Africa/Afrobeat aesthetic. However, thanks to residing in one of […]
As the co-founder of Monotonix, guitarist and composer Yonatan Gat was part of a band that was once hailed as being one of most intense rock bands in the world. But after five years of […]
Legend has it that a traveling witch doctor and her disciples were led to an extremely tiny and remote Northern Swedish village by an unknown Sami traveller. The reason the traveller lead the witch doctor […]
As an artist, the Buenos Aires-based Juana Molina has developed a reputation for a restless experimentalism. In fact, her latest effort, Wed 21 which Crammed Discs Records released a few months ago was written and conceived in Molina’s studio – and […]
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A couple of weeks ago, I went on a date (a rare date these days, it seems) with a lovely young woman that I had met while covering the Your Skull My Closet/Radkey show at […]
With the World Cup in Brazil in a few months, it seems both fitting and prescient that there have been a number of albums from Brazilian artists or heavily-inspired by Brazilian music being released over […]
The Denver, CO/Fort Collins, CO-based, Euforquestra (pronounced yoo–four-keh-struh) – by way of Iowa City, IA – have developed a reputation for a sound that bends and blurs genres and expectations, and for a relentless touring schedule. […]
La Femme’s debut EP, Le Podium #1 landed on the Honorary Mentions portion of the Best of 2011 List for their unique take on surfer rock – after all, for most people, surfer rock is something that’s […]
Rodrigo Amarante is better known for his work as a member of Little Joy and Los Hermanos will be releasing his debut solo effort, Cavalo on May 6 through Easy Sound Records. “Hourglass,” the album’s first single, […]
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, […]
A Q&A with Butcher Knives’ Nikko Matiz
As a native New Yorker, some of my experiences are likely uncommon to most of the country, but what I managed to cherish was the diversity that was just considered a daily part of life. […]
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=544075005/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/ Formed over a decade ago, the Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars have had one of the more incredible and inspiring stories you’ll likely hear of any act in recent memory. Starting out as refugees […]