• 2012

    Soundway Records shares a bid of oddball salsa from Meridian Brothers. You can catch a really lengthy bio on ’em here. The whole project is spearheaded by multi-instrumentalist and musical eccentric Eblis Álvarez, who Soundway Records credits as being a pretty notable figure in Bogotá’s experimental music scene. From

  • 2012

    Attached to the grainy, 29-minute video embedded above, you’ll find an audio track that features the new Deerhoof album in its entirety. The title, Breakup Song, which, when I first heard of the title, I thought it was the band’s swan song or something. Thankfully, it’s not.

  • 2012

    California’s WHY? comes strong on this new track from the indie pop/hip hop hybrid’s forthcoming album, Mumps, etc. The song starts off with a really cool, breezy choir, and gives way to some precious piano chords, too. Once the beat kicks, the mood changed instantly, shifting into

  • 2012

    While I wouldn’t say I buy into the the Underachievers theory of gold souls, I do dig on this track a lot. It comes from the outfit’s upcoming mixtape, INDIGOI.S.M., which will be pretty boss if the rest of the tracks feature flows this tight and

  • Chomp

    Stream: Chomp- “Fresh Wounds” Cloud Nothings members Joe Boyer and Jayson Gerycz have a new side project in the works called Chomp, and are set to release their debut full length Buddha Jabba Momma next month. They dropped a single called “Throw Out Your Wish List” last month, and now

  • Chomp

    Stream: Chomp- “Fresh Wounds” Cloud Nothings members Joe Boyer and Jayson Gerycz have a new side project in the works called Chomp, and are set to release their debut full length Buddha Jabba Momma next month. They dropped a single called “Throw Out Your Wish List” last month, and now

  • Stream: Cat Power- Sun It appears that the moody indie folk songstress Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, has seen the light of day. Her new album Sun is a glimmering, effervescent, and thoroughly enjoyable album with an inspired sound that breaches aesthetic boundaries Marshall had never even dared to approach

  • California death metal outfit the Faceless move in a slightly softer direction on their their album, including plenty of melodic guitar passages and cleanly sung vocals. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • 2012

    Converge drops a new track and video for the album they’re about to release on October 9th, All We Love We Leave Behind. Am I wrong in saying the band is taking a surprisingly melodic and post-hardcore-esque approach this time around? Yeah, it’s still fast and overpowering, but

  • On Matthew Dear’s fifth full-length album, the singer-producer improves his grooves and lyrics while making his definitive, dark-as-hell sound a bit more colorful than usual. WATCH THE REVIEW