On its third full-length, New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus goes a bit simpler, but still maintains the life-affirming energy that made past releases so good. WATCH THE REVIEW
Is the new Bug single featuring Miss Red completely obnoxious? Yes, but that’s part of why it’s so awesome. The speedy and shuffling snare drums, distorted synth bass, and dancehall beat create a pretty exciting racket. Miss Red’s got a pretty sharp personality as well, coming off
Fearlessly sampling Lenny Kravitz, Shad’s latest single is a great tease toward the Canadian rapper’s next project is. The original song’s strings are incorporated tastefully into this beefy instrumental, and the music also sets the perfect tone for Shad’s nostalgic and personal musings about life and
Download: Hot Sugar- Midimurder I was wondering when this guy was gonna get some significant notice! Beatmusic producer Nick Koenig, a.k.a. Hot Sugar, has been putting together some pretty colorful, vibrant, and hyper-sweet instrumentals for a while now. However, most of what I’ve heard from him hasn’
Some loose, dissonant post-punk from Silver Arm on the track “Man the Falcons,” which hits the ears with a pretty wild groove right from the get-go. Clearly noise and psych rock are influences in addition to danceable punk grooves, and the performance the band gives in the track ain’t
A menagerie of precisely placed sounds dance in divine sequence on Mesita’s new single, “XYXY.” A creature of constant flux, the song opens with a beautiful string and horn passage before locking into a tight groove of punchy drums and bass synth stabs. It’s in this section where
What an interesting track we have here. Operating out of Copenhagen, MØ is the sophisticated electro-pop endeavor of Karen Marie Ørsted who distinguishes herself from the legions of female-lead electro-pop projects out on the blogosphere with compositions that, despite their frigid origins, exhibit warmth, emotion, and even fun. Incorporating steel
It’s been quite the productive year for Geoff Barrow. While he hasn’t been working on the fourth Portishead album that music nerds everywhere would sell their souls to see realized, 2012 did see the release of Quakers, the debut album of his mercurial hip hop endeavor, and >
With Honor Found In Decay, Neurosis releases one of its most straightforward albums yet, forgoing some of the more ambitious instrumentation that’s made it onto past albums in favor of a sound that blends the heavy sounds of sludge with a bit of folk simplicity. WATCH THE REVIEW
Talented Philadelphia-based MC Lushlife has a new video for “Magnolia,” the opening track of his Plateau Vision LP from this year. In it, chunky cardboard cutouts of the song’s lyrics are worn on the heads of people in the various scenarios the song references. Everyone from arsonists to choir
