• 2012

    Stream / Download: The Intelligence- “Techno Tuesday” San Franciscan group the Intelligence play garage rock, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t know how to tone things down. With its first half driven largely by a lightly strummed acoustic guitar, “Techno Tuesday,” the second track to drop from the

  • 2012

    As part of a compilation that independent record label SOUNGS has just released, Hubble, solo guitarist Ben Greenberg of Pygmy Shrews and Zs, and Patrick Breiner, a Connecticut resident who triples as a saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer, have teamed up for a mind-bending new collaboration. Titled “Hubble Chase,” the song

  • On Neil Young’s latest release with longtime band Crazy Horse, these guys bring together a collection of songs important to the history of American music, filtering them through a series of fast and loose folk rock jams. WATCH THE REVIEW

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    Legendary proto-punk, art rocker, and musical eccentric Patti Smith has a new album out this week titled Banga, which is actually somewhat of a nonsensical tribute to a fictional dog who waited 2000 years on the edge of Heaven for his master who had ventured in to speak with Jesus

  • 2012

    A stellar music video for the single Detroit beast Danny Brown dropped back in March. The song itself comes off a bit serious, chronicling Brown’s younger days, but the video has fun with it by featuring this firecracker of a kid. He’s going crazy. He’s bringing the

  • A wonderfully eccentric music video from Body Parts for the track “Doing Things,” which comes from the band’s 2011 album, On Purpose. Listen here. Ups to director Mike Karnell. It’s an engaging watch from beginning to end.

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    Way In Way Out by Oddisee Oddisee has leaked a track from his new album People Hear What They See. On “Way In Way Out” this Maryland-born MC analyzes the segregation in America through tremendous amounts of wit and cunning in his wordplay. He does with a solid delivery that

  • 2012

    I was hoping for a Grizzly Bear album this year, and it seems like I’m gonna get it. After a handful of solo projects since the release of the band’s 2009 album, Veckatimest, the band is back with a new single titled “Sleeping Ute.” I’m actually very

  • On the band’s sophomore LP, Japandroids do a great job of eliciting very righteous, life-defining emotions, but don’t really surround them with anything that’s terribly engaging, musically. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • 2012

    New york punk trio Poor Lily has a new EP out titled Three Songs, and, yeah, it’s three songs long. There was a short run of physical copies, but the tracks are now available digitally through the band’s site. Currently, Lily is aiming for a summer release for