2012
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With good kid, m.A.A.d. city, Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar drops what’s easily hip hop’s most cinematic album of 2012.
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While not as focused as 2007’s Below the Heavens, what Blu & Exile do on this new and remastered collection of tracks is nonetheless interesting, smooth, and entertaining. WATCH THE REVIEW
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As Daphni, electronic music veteran Daniel Snaith–if you’ll allow me to call him that–assembles a series of straightforward and colorful tech house tracks. WATCH THE REVIEW
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On record, Nicolas Jaar, to put it frankly, strikes me as one of the most interesting figures in electronic music to emerge throughout the past few years. His blend of elements of spacious house music, vivid sample collages, and sultry atmosphere, topped off with his own baritone vocals, hit home
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Hailing from Lawrence, Massachusetts, underground rapper REKS made a bit of a splash last year with his album, Rhymatic Eternal King Supreme. Pairing Reks’ seasoned flow with the album’s boom bap and piano-reliant production won the emcee a lot of fans and on “Devils Clutches,” the first track to
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Daniel Snaith, best known for his Polaris Music Prize-winning electronic project Caribou, has a new record out under the monicker of Daphni entitled JIAOLONG. Citing long nights of club DJing while supporting Radiohead on their most recent tour, it’s evident on JIAOLONG that Snaith has fallen in love with
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Meowtain by Meowtain <a href=”http://meowtain.bandcamp.com/album/meowtain”>Meowtain by Meowtain</a> Lo-fi pop and rock outfit Meowtain has some pretty noisy and eccentric tunes on their new, self-titled Bandcamp release, and “Species” is one of my favorite tracks from it. Over some
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The vile, putrid, and ultra-distorted Massachusetts hardcore punk band Hoax has a handful of badass EPs out that should definitely be checked out by those who like their punk abrasive. The track above, “Discipline,” is from the group’s third EP. The track comes off so tortured and lo-fi, it
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Bowler Hat Soup by Kiran Leonard Kiran Leonard is a self-recording multi-instrumentalist of much versatility. A trip though the several releases on his Bandcamp page will reveal the young songwriter feels comfortable toying with the sounds of pop, rock, jazz, prog, and electronica. Bowler Hat Soup is easily one of
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Hardcore punk outfit Code Orange Kids have what’s probably going to be a heavy, punishing debut full-length coming out on Deathwith Inc. very soon. I’m assuming it’ll be out this year, but Deathwish doesn’t exactly have the release date explicitly posted on its site, so… The
