• The latest full-length from singer-songwriter Bill Callahan is a wonderful display of adventurous, tender folk instrumentation and poetic lyricism.

  • Aside from a few unnecessary tracks that could have been a lot better with some more fleshing out, the new Flatbush Zombies tape is incredibly solid, grimy, cunning, and hilarious. Instrumentally, vocally, and lyrically, these three Flatbush natives bring plenty of thrills and personality.

  • Though not as much of a bombardment as his previous album, Room(s), Vapor City is a pretty enjoyable and diverse album from electronic music producer Machinedrum. Plus, it features some of his best singles yet!

  • After ten years of being a band, Kayo Dot releases what might be it’s gaudiest album. However, I can’t help but be enamored with the strong playing, ambitious concept, and impressive mix of influences most of the time.

  • Neo-psych outfit MGMT returns with a fuzzy new album that’s got plenty of odd moments, but too few memorable ones.

  • British singer-songwriter Anna Calvi has shared the opening track from her upcoming sophomore album One Breath. “Suddenly” is the most dynamic of the project’s three singles, the other two being the electric art-rock stomp “Eliza” in August, and the simultaneously haunting and triumphant “Sing to Me” earlier this month.

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    Oneohtrix Point Never has made his remix of Nine Inch Nails’ “Find My Way” available to stream on his Soundcloud page. His take on the track is incredibly spacious and multi-phased, abruptly alternating between droning organ textures and skittering synth sequences. Judging also from past singles, “Problem Areas” and “Zebra,

  • For the fourth episode of their “Empty Space” series, La Blogothèque and Converse invited  Icelandic post-rock outfit Sigur Rós to perform a song in a cave “somewhere under Paris.” The trio was accompanied by a string, brass, and percussion ensemble and performed the soaring Kveikur cut “Hrafntinna.” The cave’s

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    Molly Drake by Molly Drake Turns out the legendary Nick Drake had a musical mother as well! Molly Drake is a collection of 19 songs, written and recorded at home in the 50s. Five of them are available for stream on her BandCamp page, and they consist solely of simple,

  • Check out the Rollo Jackson-directed music video for Danny Brown’s new song “Dip.” Like the RUFFMERCY-helmed video for “ODB,” this new video is a twisted and druggy onslaught of quick cuts, zany effects, and colorful scrawling, all of which wonderfully complement the MC’s brashness, as well as the