• dublino

    Fine Before You Came is in Italian rock outfit, taking influences from the worlds of emo and post-hardcore to create its energetic and passionate songs. The group’s latest LP, Ormai, is out now via La Tempesta. Stream one of its tracks, “Dublino” above.

  • hip hop

    Not only is “Shazam” a fantastic track, showcasing a colorful beat and witty rhymes, but it also doubles as a Shaq diss track. If you don’t remember, Shaquille O’Neal actually used to have a rap career going. Don’t believe me? The song here weaves as tangled web,

  • 26

    26 rappers on one 22-minute track. Sounds insane, and it is, but Mishka curated it like it was nothin’. They tagged it with the title “Hyperbolic Chamber Music,” too. The song’s got a smooth instrumental that calls out to the g-funk beats the West Coast was pushin’ in the

  • On the new Goatwhore album–it’s the fifth in the band’s discography–the New Orleans outfit delivers a tighter, catchier style of its usual blend of thrash, black metal, and death metal. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • Extra Patience (After Sebald) by The Caretaker A new, free mini-album from one of ambient music’s most interesting producers right now, the Caretaker. It seems to be a collection of odds and ends from the project’s latest collection of songs, Patience (After Sebald), but still makes for an

  • beat

    I’m not single. I actually haven’t been single for around three years now. Still, this new beat from xxyyxx still brings out those “forever alone” feelings everybody’s had at one point or another. A beautiful and pitch-shifted vocal sample loops against a beat that’s interesting for

  • Nearly everything about this Bishop Morocco track, “Old Boys,” feels familiar and done before. However, there’s just a certain charm to it that keeps it playing softly in the back of my head, making me excited for the band’s forthcoming EP on Arts & Crafts. Title: Old Boys.

  • black

    Another track drops from the new Goatwhore album, which came out this week on Metal Blade Records. “When Steel and Bone Meet” has some strong thrash riffage, and vocals that cut like the steel mentioned in the song’s title. While it doesn’t contain a whole lot of detail

  • banished

    Last year, my favorite metal-faced MC, DOOM, was set to release a collaborative album with the one and only Ghostface Killah. Sadly, it didn’t pan out. Now, DOOM is teasing us with a new track from a different project. It’s being titled JJ DOOM, which is due to

  • airing

    New England noise artist Derek Piotr has a new record on the way in may titled Airing. The track streaming above, “Colossus,” is the first to drop from it. Derek’s music has a bit of a love-hate relationship with accessibility. His tracks consciously avoid melody and tone as if