50’s by House of Wolves When I was first introduced to House of Wolves, I was confused. According to his facebook page, House of Wolves is a solo project of Rey Villalobos, a singer-songwriter from California. Although he’s a man, I could have sworn that the vocals I
While it certainly doesn’t seem as official as John Maus’ video for “Head for the Country,” the eerie and sci-fi movie footage strung together in this video seems pretty appropriate for the track “Cop Killer”–admittedly, one of my favs from Maus’ latest LP, which we’ve got an
BADBADNOTGOOD by BADBADNOTGOOD Last month, I talked up some live videos from Canada’s Bad Bad Not Good, which is a young jazz trio of sorts. I’d call them “jazz fusion,” but that hardly addresses what they’re fusing together. Rather than welding jazz with some rock or funk,
Though the Horrors’ new album Skying doesn’t officially come out until July 11th, the British indie rock band has followed the established trend of internet streaming and and made the LP available to hear in advance. Skying is streaming in its entirety at the band’s website, which has
Via NPR Music, it’s a live video of the Body performing its crushing brand of sludge metal with the Assembly Of Light Choir In Concert, which made an appearance on the duo’s 2010 album All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood. Last year, the album had
I heard about Toxic Holocuast’s new LP, Conjure and Command, from one of my most trusted sources on all that is metal: JGC Sound. If it wasn’t an easy guess from the album cover and band name, this is a thrash metal album. And it’s nice to
The highlight track from the French duo Herman Dune’s recently-reviewed new album Strange Moosic has an interesting music video. In the clip, Mad Men‘s Jon Hamm stars alongside a furry blue creature as they take a drive into the city to see the folk band perform at a
France’s Herman Dune has come correct with another batch of light, breezy indie folk tunes that make for a perfect summer listen. Like always, the band’s frontman, David, brings these songs to live with his approachable voice and personality. To me, some songs really do pale in comparison
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On Sam Baker’s Album, Samiyam pulls together some pretty great grooves and sounds. My problem is not much of it moves or develops into anything interesting. This release is more like a sampler of various atmospheres this L.A. producer can create, and that’s fine. Maybe it’ll
