• 2012

    Canadian indie electronic duo Crystal Castles have a new track out titled “Plague.” Stream or download it via the widget above. While I’m not completely in love with the track, I do like it more than the first song the project dropped from its last album. I wonder if

  • 2012

    Hooray! The Mountain Goats has dropped a new track from the longstanding singer-songwriter project’s next album: Transcendental Youth. It’s no secret that John Darnielle and co. have been incorporating more and more instrumentation into the Mountain Goats’ sound, and they’re really acting like it by releasing a

  • 2012

    Some extremely hypnotic and epic visuals coming from this new Om Unit music video for the track “Ulysses.” The track comes from Om Unit’s new EP, which you can stream in full by liking this page on Facebook. That easy! /via/

  • 2012

    A newly released visual accompanying the Daphni (a.k.a. Caribou) track “Ye Ye,” which isn’t entirely new since it was released last year, I believe, along with a new Four Tet track; however, this video release is nonetheless important because it comes with an album announcement for the

  • Compelled by Mediocrity by Murder Construct With a new album coming out in August on Relapse Records, here’s a track from the soon-to-make-waves deathgrind outfit Murder Construct. The band may be making a debut, but its members aren’t. The group’s lineup features musicians coming in from Exhumed,

  • Swiss sludge metal outfit Zatokrev has a new album on the way titled the Bat, the Wheel and a Long Road to Nowhere, which is slated for a release later this year on Candlelight Records. When it comes to the heavy, crushing sounds of sludge metal, Zatokrev definitely meets the

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    Split w/ KYOTY by Host On this new Split with Kyoty, metallic hardcore outfit Host is sounding sludgier and crustier than ever. A lot of hard-hitting breakdowns and beautifully dark guitar harmonies all over these tracks. Take a listen above, or grab a digital copy of the split for whatever

  • 2012

    Hyperkinesis EP by Rav Upstart rapper Rav is a 20-year-old white kid from the UK, and although that description might already be putting some readers off from listening to his music, it’s worth mentioning that he probably wouldn’t care. Rather than trying to mask his whiteness and his

  • 2012

    Massachusetts MC Reks drops a new music video from the second album he’s released this year, REBELutionary, which you can grab a copy of here or here. If the intro to this video didn’t make the subject matter of this song obvious enough, Reks and NiCS trade one

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    Ceremony covers Violent Femmes As a part of the A.V. Club’s ongoing Undercover series, Ceremony covers the classic Volent Femmes track “Kiss Off.” Watch above for good times. Ceremony’s latest album is titled Zoo, and it’s out now on Matador Records. It’s got some nice,