Electronica artist and producer, Derek Vincent Smith, writes, records and performs under the moniker of Pretty Lights, and as Pretty Lights, Smith has become one of the biggest electronica artists in the world: he’s played […]
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Public Service Broadcasting’s debut effort Inform – Educate – Entertain was released to critical praise from the likes of Time Out London, Mojoand GQ when the album was released in their native UK a few months ago. Aesthetically the […]
The Northern California-based band Sleepy Sun have been together six years, and in that time they’ve released three full-length records, and have toured with the likes of the Black Angels and the Arctic Monkeys. With the October 15th release of […]
Dutch production trio Kraak and Smaak have developed a reputation for creating dance music that usually seems to come from left field. However, one of their latest singles, “The Future Is Yours” is a piano-driven house […]
When I first learned that the Roots and the legendary Elvis Costello would be collaborating on an album, titled Wise Up Ghost my initial thought was — “Well that is a rather unlikely collaboration. How will that work?” From the tracks […]
We Are The Lucky Ones, the latest album from New York-based producer/rapper/DJ/vocalist TECLA was released by Mayimba Music earlier this year to critical praise, thanks to it’s deft blending of tropicalia, Caribbean, pop, electronica, soul […]
Released back in August by Brooklyn-based indie rock label Frenchkiss Records, Crimes of Passion is not only the follow up to the San Diego, CA-based band Crocodiles critically praised Endless Flowers, it may well be one of my […]
The present day Republic of Mail, was once part of three different African empires which controlled trans-Saharan trade – the Ghana Empire, the Mail Empire (for which the present day country takes it’s name) and […]
There are some bands whose sound makes such a forceful and immediate impression that you can remember the first time you had ever heard them – and will likely be able to remember it for […]
http://www.nbc.com/assets/video/widget/widget.html?vid=n41394 Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner is the latest in a long run of funky bass playing virtuosos, and earlier this year, he released his latest effort, Apocalypse, which was produced by Flying Lotus to critical praise as it offers listeners a […]
Sophia Exiner, who writes, performs and records under the moniker of Phia is a Australian-born and Berlin, Germany-based indie pop artist whose sound has been compared to the likes of Bjork, tUnE yArDs, Regina Spektor […]
Brooklyn-based duo the Mast consists of vocalist and instrumentalist Haleh Gafori and percussionist and producer Matt Kilmer. The act’s combination of slickly produced, bass-heavy beats, icy snytns and Gafori’s gorgeous voice. Sonically, their sound bears […]
“Sleepwalk With Me” is the album closer off of Young Galaxy’s recently released album, Ultramarine, and fittingly it’s a gorgeous dreamy, ethereal song – the sort of song that feels like waking dream. The official video […]
https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=374111986/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/notracklist=true/t=1/transparent=true/ Ariel, Sarah, Nora and Rose Parkington have grown up with music in their lives as they’re the daughters of a prog rock musician, and a classically trained guitarist and singer/songwriter. Raised in Cape Cod, […]
http://www.nbc.com/assets/video/widget/widget.html?vid=n41237 September 10th marked the release of the critically praised album Tales of Us, Goldfrapp’s first full-length in two years. And during that two year period, the band spent time writing and recording what may arguably […]