In 1996, of Montreal released Cherry Peel, a delicate, sensitive, and heavily Beatles-indebted debut album that rivaled even the Fab Four in terms of simplistic pop songwriting. Ten albums later, Kevin Barnes and company have released a plenitude of fantastical concept albums, gotten married to glossy synths and dance beats,
Eternal Champ by Sweet Valley Sweet Valley is what you get when you take video game sounds and music mix them with hip-hop as well as a dash of dub just for kicks. That strange and original creation is brought to you by Nathan Williams (Wavves) and his brother Kynan
The mysterious, experimental electronic music project 3:33 has put its dark and ominous brand of music onto the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony track, E. 1999. What this atmospheric production does is for one thing give the lyrics and delivery a whole new feeling. Another thing it does is show how directly
Dinosaur Jr. continues to bring on their brand of indie rock without any signs of slowing down. Their sound featuring a lot of guitar feedback and distortion may not be so original anymore, but damn if they don’t do it well. Right from the beginning the song goes off
Canadian rock upstarts METZ are gearing up to release their self-titled full-length debut via none other than the long-standing Sub Pop Records in October. Following “Headache,” “Wet Blanket” is the second track to drop from the album, and is available to stream above. With plenty of emotion, dissonance, and distortion
Majeure, a.k.a. Pittsburgh artist and one half of synthesizer-worshiping rock band Zombi, has a new album on the way. Going by the name Solar Maximum, the record is looking at an October 16 release date via Temporary Residence. Check out the sprawling, eleven-and-a-half minute long title cut above.
In a way, Death Grips’ earth-shattering the Money Store from earlier this year was most notably a representation of the contributions of Andy Morin, a.k.a. Flatlander, to the project. Of course, vocalist Stefan Burnett and percussionist Zach Hill were most certainly providing quite a bit of weight themselves,
With Bend Beyond, Woods makes the most noticeable change of their past three records with a serious attitude adjustment, presenting more warm, bright, and inviting songs than ever. WATCH THE REVIEW
Cumbia supergroup Ondatrópica puts over forty musicians to work on what might be the most essential Latin music record of 2012. WATCH THE REVIEW
On their fourth album, New York black metal outfit delivers roughly the same sound they’ve been working with for the previous three. However, despite the lack of shockingly new ideas, the band proves to hold a lot of compositional power in the methodically fine-tuned progressive black metal style they’
