The Jonathan Scales Fourchestra were recently invited by Hype Mag to do a live session of “Jam We Did,” off their fantastic 2011 release, Character Farm and Other Stories, an album which was on this blog’s […]
Videos
If you’re familiar with contemporary electronic dance music, Kim Ann Foxman’s name should be pretty familiar as she’s a producer, DJ and former member of Hercules and Love Affair. She’s finally releasing her debut solo […]
Slim Twig recently released his latest album, A Hound at the Hem through his label and Toronto’s Pleasance Records. Paying tribute to Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson the album is reportedly a surreal album […]
Beach Day’s latest single, “Walking on the Streets,” came out the other day as part of a 7" single that Kanine Records released on November 14th. I spent this morning listening to this track and it fit […]
The Sword released their latest album, Apocryphon their first on Razor and Tie Records to critical acclaim not that long ago. The great folks at Brooklyn Vegan premiered the official video for Apocryphon’s opening track, ‘Veil of […]
As a rapper, Homeboy Sandman is probably the most talented and inventive rapper out there. Often rhyming over complex beats no one else has considered, he makes references that are hyper-literature, and use complex rhyme […]
The Minneapolis, MN-based Solid Gold just recently released their latest effort, Eat Your Young through Totally Gross National Product Records, and it comes after a pretty busy year for some of the band – as members of […]
Moon King, the collaboration between Doldrums’ Daniel Benjamin and Maddy Wilde, released their debut EP, Obsessions I earlier this summer on One Big Silence, the label founded by Fucked Up’s Mike Haliechuk, and the label home […]
Suicide Squeeze Records recently released The World Is Too Much With Us, the latest EP from Vancouver, BC-based band Peace. The band is finishing up a North American tour with fellow Vancouverites Nu Sensae, which included […]
I saw Hercules and Love Affair during the first day of the Catalpa Festival, and I have to admit that I was quite impressed. Their sound reminded me a lot of the gigantic, cavernous room-filling […]
https://scache.vevo.com/m/html/embed.html?video=USSM21201157&playerType=embedded Rolling Stone premiered the official video for Wild Belle’s latest single, “Keep You.” Directed by Melinda Matsoukas in Kingston, Jamaica, the video features the band’s lead singer Natalie Bergman as a caretaker for a rather […]
“Good Fortune,” is one of my favorite PJ Harvey songs, off one of my favorite PJ Harvey albums, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea – part of what I love about the album is […]
Balcony TV shot this live footage of my man Derobert and the Half-Truths performing “I Got Burned” on a Brooklyn rooftop. These boys can play themselves some soul, and every time I listen to them, […]
I got a hold of “This Generation” by Stones Throw Records artist, the Lions, and the riddims really made me feel so very good. Check it out because it’s reminiscent of old school reggae and dub. […]
Diamond Version is the collaborative project of German-based label, Raster-Noton heads Byetone and Alva Noto. And as solo artists and as members of Diamond Version, both Noto and Byetone have developed a reputation for releasing […]