The Spring Up by Shad + Skratch Bastid Shad drops a handful of new tracks with fellow Canadian hip hop artist Skratch Bastid. Shad is on lyrics, and Bastid is bringing the beats, and it’s an incredibly solid effort, which you can grab on Bandcamp for whatever price you’d
Dark ambient kingpin Lustmord will be dropping a new full-length LP this July. I highly doubt the album will be labeled as a “summer record,” though. Still, the excerpt this longtime producer has released is pretty chilling. Stream it via the widget above, and look for The World As Power
2013 XXL Freshman and Beast Coast MC Joey Bada$$ drops another track from his anticipated Summer Knights mixtape, which has been pushed back for a July 1st release. With all of these huge rap releases around the corner–Kanye, Cole, Miller–I’m not surprised, honestly. Producer Lee Bannon pulls
Ghostly International producer Shigeto has announced the release of a new album, and you can stream a track from it via the widget above. The LP’s title is No Better Time Than Now, and “Detroit Part 1” has me pretty psyched to hear the rest of this thing. The
Stream: Power Trip – Manifest Decimation It’s all-out thrash warfare on this new Power Trip album, Manifest Decimation. The LP is out now, and it’s the band’s first album. It certainly feels like it, too; every track on here is relentless and punk-infused. It really sounds like the
After about eight years of silence, Boards of Canada return with Tomorrow’s Harvest, which might be their saddest and most desolate record to date; directly emulating much of the progressive synth and soundtrack music that has always informed the duo’s style. WATCH THE REVIEW
Really enjoying this sweet, melodic, and jangly tracks from the new Smith Westerns album, Soft Will. It’s the pop rock trio’s third full-length record, and will be dropping on the 25th via Mom + Pop Records. Enjoy!
Sigur Ros is really showing how diverse of a group they can be as the band takes a dark, moody approach to their newest songs. “Kveikur” features some huge, distorted riffs that art matched with Jón Þór Birgisson’s vocals being twisted for a poltergeist-like effect. It says a lot
Australia’s World’s End Press delivers a new song and video that seems to just fill the room with pulsating, synthetic sounds. Part of that feeling certainly has to do with the rigid synthesizers and ethereal vocal harmonies–especially on the hook. Follow the band on SoundCloud here, and
Caged Animals are bringing out a quirky and infectious pop sound with “Cindy + Me,” and it’s hitting all the right notes. The synth and bass grooves definitely add a lot to the already infectious aspects of this song–like the constantly ascending and descending guitar leads. The quirky vocals