The Spanish based trio the Parrots have been an underground sensation i their native Madrid. With only one demo, which has been only been quietly released in the underground scene, without major promotion, the official […]
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The folks at Lyricist Lounge in concert with Summerstage hosted their now annual show featuring two of hip hop’s legendary DJs and producers — DJ Premier and Pete Rock. Last year, they had a power outage that cut the show short […]
The folks at Lyricist Lounge in concert with Summerstage hosted their now annual show featuring two of hip hop’s legendary DJs and producers – DJ Premier and Pete Rock. Last year, they had a power […]
Born in Birmingham, AL as the seventh of 27 children, Lonnie Holley has had the sort of life that should inspire a biopic – from an early age, Holley worked all kinds off odd jobs: picking […]
http://www.relix.com/video/artist-exclusives/2013/08/21/premiere-superhuman-happiness-walk-the-line?embed Earlier this summer, the folks at Red Bull hosted their annual Creation Competition in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. And the theme of this year’s competition was “Signal to Noise: Create a Musical Instrument.” Six teams were […]
Over the winter months of late 2012 and early 2013, Chicago, IL-based band Disappears were holed up in Electrical Audio Studio writing and recording the material that wound up becoming both their impressive Kone EP, which was released earlier this year, and […]
“The River” is the first single from Warring, the Darcys third and final installation in a trilogy released by the renowned Canadian indie rock label, Arts and Crafts Records on September 17. The slow burning single is indicative of the […]
Dent May, a Mississippi-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist recently had his third full-length effort, Warm Blanket released through Paw Tracks. Although May had recorded most of the album’s instruments by himself, in a fairly DIY fashion, he enlisted some local […]
Trouble Will Find Me, the sixth and latest full-length effort from Brooklyn based quintet the National was released back in May to critical praise among major publications and the blogosphere, and to commercial success, as […]
Washed Out‘s Within Without landed at number 24 on this site’s Best of 2011 List thanks to Ernest Greene’s cooed vocals over icy synths played through gently, swirling reverb and delay pedals. Sonically, the tracks on that album struck me as […]
The Brooklyn-based quartet of Lucius has received quite a bit of love and praise from the blogosphere and from publications such as Rolling Stone (who had named them a “Band to Watch”), and Time for their impeccably tight harmonies, […]
As many of you know, last weekend was a busy weekend as I was covering the 10th annual Afro-Punk Festival in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn. With their being a continuing examination of what […]
As much as one can love their own hometown, there’s occasionally a brief flicking moment in which you’d honestly want to see it all burn in a gigantic conflagration. Don’t lie, folks; thought has crossed […]
Australian singer/songwriter Orly is one of a number of extremely talented singer/songwriters who relocated to New York. And it’s an incredibly talented group that include the likes of Elin Ruth, Shelley Bhushan and many others. […]
Public Enemy was another band that was particularly important to me as a child – in fact, i had begged my folks to buy me a copy of Public Enemy’s Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black which […]