• Forward-thinking electronic music producer Luke Abbott is about to release his second EP this year on Gold Panda’s Notown label. While his last one didn’t do much for me outside of a few tracks, I’m hoping this next EP will appeal to me a bit more. I

  • Tame Impala delivers what looks like a set of painstakingly hand-animated visuals for their Lonerism track “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards.” Tame Impala’s latest album is out now via Modular, and props to directors Joe Pelling and Becky Sloan on the great video!

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    Yeah, I wasn’t that huge on Jessie Ware’s new album. So sue me! However, I do love this stellar cover Ware executes with the help of BenZel right here. The track was originally performed by Brownstone, which is a musical act I haven’t thought about in years,

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    Enigmatic singer-songwriter and former baroque pop crooner Scott Walker grows stranger and stranger with each release–or at least that’s what the two tracks embedded above illustrate. On December 4th, he’ll be putting out Bish Bosch, which will be his first record in five years, making the the

  • 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

  • 2012

    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

  • 2012

    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’

  • 2012

    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