2012

  • California death metal outfit the Faceless move in a slightly softer direction on their their album, including plenty of melodic guitar passages and cleanly sung vocals. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • 2012

    Converge drops a new track and video for the album they’re about to release on October 9th, All We Love We Leave Behind. Am I wrong in saying the band is taking a surprisingly melodic and post-hardcore-esque approach this time around? Yeah, it’s still fast and overpowering, but

  • On Matthew Dear’s fifth full-length album, the singer-producer improves his grooves and lyrics while making his definitive, dark-as-hell sound a bit more colorful than usual. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • Bloc Party returns after a self-imposed hiatus with a true blue rock album. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • 2012

    Columbia’s Ondatrópica is nothing short of a musical supergroup, featuring both seasoned vets and young up-and-comers in Columbian music. The whole project has been spearheaded by musician Mario Galeano and producer Will ‘Quantic’ Holland, and the group’s self-titled LP is out now viar Soundway Records. Anyway, how to

  • 2012

    The Kaleidoscope by Lemolo Some chilly, emotive, soft piano tunes from Lemolo on this new album, the Kaleidoscope. There are some pretty moving points on this LP–especially the patient opener, “Knives.” Things do pick up with tracks like “Move Me,” which features a pretty tight rhythm, but there’s

  • 2012

    Straight out of Dublin, Ireland, KaraKara is a producer specializing in instrumental hip hop beats with a prominent old school video game aesthetic. The artist took to his Bandcamp last weekend to release Bully, a collection of sixteen old and new tracks recorded in one sitting on his 22nd birthday,

  • 2012

    Coming out soon on Deathwish, here’s a new track and video from Birds In Row. These guys are a French post-hardcore outfit who had an EP release last year that turned quite a few heads. This new video and track should be turning even more, though. Like that Loma

  • 2012

    Just got tipped on this track by the 405, and it’s a deadly little banger from Falcons. The dude is a Canadian producer, and he’s got plenty of sub bass hits and weird, breathy vocal samples that make this beat a fun experience. Lots of fun sounds bubbling

  • On her full-length debut, UK singer-songwriter Jessie Ware brings a somewhat modern approach to embracing the kinds of contemporary R&B sounds that were pretty hot in the 80s. WATCH THE REVIEW