Beatmusic producer Gold Panda has digitally released a brand new single fro Ghostly International, which will be available physically on July 11th. The dude’s 2010 album Lucky Shiner wasn’t one of my favorites of that year, but there’s still a lotta production chops there I can’t
A lot like the band Torche with its latest album, Harmonicraft, sludgesters Baroness seem to be moving their heavy rock sound into more accessible territory. “Take My Bones Away” is the first track to drop from the band’s forthcoming Yellow & Green album, which will be out on Relapse
Texas garage rock eccentrics Fergus & Geronimo have a new track out, and it doesn’t disappoint. Not at all. Nope. Well, maybe it’s a bit short, but the duo makes up for it with an extremely catchy hook and personality. The track opens up with a miss “Heather
A track written by Jack Dishel, a.k.a. Only Son, that features Regina Spektor was released on the 2011 Only Son album Searchlight. This re-recorded version will appear on Spektor’s forthcoming album, What We Saw From the Cheap Seats, as a bonus track for the deluxe version. Spektor’
Tour Sampler CD-R by Cerce This is the first time I’m hearing Boston’s Cerce, and it’s an almost abusive experience. The band’s heavy, fist-clenching riffs are thick, distorted, and mix-punching. The drums are fast and relentless. They break into the occasional blast beat as well, making
Electronic music producer Luke Abbott–creator of one of my favorite 2010 albums, Holkham Drones–has a new track out titled “Modern Driveway.” The track’s hypnotic repetition executed by subtle beats and analog synths is to be expected, but the chord progression on this track feels pretty uplifting to
The Magnetic Fields have always had an unconventional approach to love songs so it’s only fitting that their videos follow suit. In their new video for “Quick!”–which is a track fromo their most recent studio effort Love at the Bottom of the Sea–a strange woman who shares
In describing his band’s forthcoming album Heaven, Walkmen frontman Hamilton Leithauser has promised a record documenting the band’s maturation and a “bigger, more generous statement.” With “We Can’t Be Beat” the band seems to be delivering just that. The song begins with a mesmerizing and soothing fingerpicked
This is cool. “Calmer than You” is the first track that Trash Kids have released off of the forthcoming debut album “Get Lost.” Its an instrumental psychedelic song, but what it really gets correctly is the groove. This is an excellent example of how to do a bare song, no
On Bloom, Beach House does what they do best and continues to pen some of the best dream pop tunes out there today. WATCH THE REVIVEW