Gearing up for its new, self-titled album via Williams Street, Brooklyn’s Cerebral Ballzy has dropped more track from the LP on SoundCloud. Look out for high volumes, grimy guitars, and blistering speeds. You might also want to ready yourself for puking, skating, and drinking. Enjoy: Anthem by cerebralballzy Sk8
Flamingoh (Pink Bird Dawn) by Debo Band The Debo Band is Boston collective with an undying love for the vintage sounds of Ethiopian funk. The group’s latest EP is a series of live cuts recording during a tour through East Africa with another band. The four recordings on this
On the Cool Kids’ full-length debut, When Fish Ride Bicycles, the Chicago duo pulls together some impressive beats and features. The great beats are to be expected, but things really deteriorate in the rapping and lyricism departments. I know it’s band to simply get hung up over the lyricism
On the band’s sophomore album, Touche Amore generates some of the most empowering emotional hardcore I’ve heard in years. Yeah, the lyrics do make mountains out of emotional molehills, but the punk spirit powering the music is the same that made classics in this genre so, well, enjoyable.
Goodbye Brooklyn EP by Nemo Achida Hip Hop music’s tendency to be very personal has always been one of my major attractions to it. If you feel the same way, then Nemo Achida’s new EP is a short and sweet Tumblr post about a Southern boy’s newly
The good people at NPR Music have seen fit to put the new Little Dragon album up on their website. It’s streaming in full until what I imagine will be its release date on July 26th via Peacefrog Records. Ritual Union is the Swedish band’s third album. Click
MP3 It’s difficult for me to get into a lot of modern death metal albums, and it’s mostly because of the plastic and ultra-clean sounds that comes out of modern metal production. As much as people may beg me to review the new Black Dahlia Murder LP, I
On its latest album, Zombi throws guitars and bass to the wayside, and brings the focus back to the duo’s foundation: drums and synths. It might just be the direction longtime fans wanted after the extremely rock-oriented Spirit Animal. WATCH THE REVIEW
Glacial Glow by Noveller Coming down from her noisiest and most overwhelming peak yes with 2009’s Red Rainbows, New York sound sculptor Sarah Lipstate–a.k.a. Noveller–has landed in some very ambient territory on her latest album, Glacial Glow. The softer drones on this LP are something
From the LP Timez Are Weird These Days, here’s “I Stand Alone,” which serves as a closing track for the album. Timez Are Weird drops tomorrow, too! It’s a display of New York rapper Theophilus London’s poppier sensibilities. How this guy combines hip hop and pop attracted
