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A detailed, winding track from the new Between the Buried and Me album, the Parallax II: Future Sequence, which is coming out next week on Metal Blade. The band really knows how to pen a metal track with some interesting progressions. Typically, stuff like this is a little too pristine
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With some wild, stringy guitars combined with some faux English vocals and a heavy atmosphere, China’s Stalin Gardens have a pretty impenetrable and tortured post-punk album on their hands with Shanghai Void. The band rips through the nine tracks on this new album with the dissonant, narrated swagger of
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On Dark Time Sunshine’s latest LP, the abstract hip hop duo takes its Aesop Rock-inspired style and adds some blissful production into the equation. It kinda like the Postal Service of hip hop albums. Maybe you’ll like it! Check it out, my son. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Sacramento’s experimental hip hop heroes Death Grips finally release the second album they promised this year, NO LOVE DEEP WEB; however, it doesn’t seem to be according to the original plan, which was to have their new record label, Epic, put out the album sometime in the fall
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Dexter Strangeways is a London singer-songwriter with a promising album of demos uploaded to his SoundCloud page. He’s got a strong, confident swagger to his vocals and songwriting, which is rare for a lot of self-uploaded these days. Though he’s clearly young and just starting out, he’s
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Brainfeeder’s Gaslamp Killer embarks on his most ambitious project yet, delivering an album worth of tracks that features an array of glitchy and textured hip hop instrumentals that feature an array of sounds, styles, and musical guests. WATCH THE REVIEW
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On Title Fight’s latest album, there’s no doubt the band has matured with its mix of pop punk, post-hardcore, and emo as well. However, they don’t exactly have the most definitive take on these genres. WATCH THE REVIEW
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With the third full-length LP since their reunion in ’05, underground rock icons Dinosaur Jr. is doing what they usually do with the quality fans have come to expect. It’s a bit more mellow than 2009’s Farm, which has its ups and downs, but still very enjoyable to
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Fling Lotus drops some new visuals for a track off his forthcoming album, Until the Quiet Comes. Grab it via Warp Records on the first of October.
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With Shields, the New York psych folk outfit Grizzly Bear makes a move toward subtlety, toning down some of the bright, poppy moments that made 2009’s Veckatimest such a powerhouse. WATCH THE REVIEW
