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 […]
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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 […]
Multi-instrumentalist and producer Derrick Boyd and partner/vocalist Zoe Presnick comprise the San Francisco, CA-based techno act, Tone of Arc. Boyd has been around the global and domestic electronic dance music scene but after hooking up […]
In a previous post, I discussed the Brooklyn-based Afro-Dub act, Super Hi-Fi, and I mentioned the Josh Roseman Unit, and the reason why is pretty simple – the Josh Roseman Unit is one of the […]
New York-based artist Beca broke out big time with the release of her single “Let’s Run Wild,” which got praise from XLR8R and Stereogum. Her latest single, “Born to Fly," which is a bit of sexy […]
Jack Davey has developed a reputation for being one half of Los Angeles, CA-based neo-soul group J*Davey but after a period of artistic stagnation and the birth of her child, was desperate to express and […]