MP3s & Streams
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Philly post-hardcore outfit mewithoutYou has a new album on the way in May titled Ten Stories. It’ll be the band’s first full-length in three years, and this first track from it, “February, 1878,” has me excited for the release. At the start, Aaron Weiss’ intense vocal delivery keeps
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California MC and Black Hippie affiliate Ab-Soul drops a new track featuring Jhene Aiko and Detroit madman Danny Brown. Though I’ve loved hearing Ab on the material of other MCs, including Kendrick Lamar and Jay Rock, his debut album, Longterm Mentality, just didn’t come off that exciting to
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Produced by Just Blaze, Jay Electronica drops a new track titled “Dear Molskine.” Whether or not it’s a taste of a full-length album to come, I’m not sure. Though I’m sort of confused why the beat fades out suddenly, starts, and then repeats itself over again, I
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MP3 Singers Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White make up THEESatisfaction, which is an underground R&B and soul project dropping an album in March on Sub Pop. The title: awE naturaLE. You probably caught the project’s two members on the Shabazz Palaces album, Black Up, that dropped last
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MP3 Royal Headache is an Australian rock outfit with a self-titled album made of the stuff that makes guitarists smash their six strings into into splinters–even if they’re playing to a generous estimate of 25 people in a smelly old basement. ON the track “Girl,” a single guitar
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Spritualized drops a new track from its forthcoming album, Sweet Heart Sweet Light. Currently, the album is looking at an April 16th release date on Double Six Records. As it’s to be expected, this English band has pulled together another mint piece of psych rock opus. The track starts
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As a part of the collaborative music series Converse throws together each year, we’ve got a new track featuring the minds of Andre 3000, James Murphy, and Gorillaz. Not every spot in this series has been a bright one, but the usual blend of genres these 3 artist, 1
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Summery, fun, catchy, and lo-fi is a sound a lot of new acts shoot for, but few of them actually achieve it on the level of Vermont singer-songwriter Kyle Thomas. Whether you’re listening to some of his solo stuff under the name “King Tuff,” or some tracks from his
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“Mercy” is a collaborative track from two of contemporary underground electronic music’s most creative producers, Joy Orbison and Boddika. It’s not the first time they’ve put a track together, and I’m hoping it won’t be the last after getting exposed to the mutated bass and
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MP3 Pallbearer is one of doom metal’s newest faces, and was recently turned onto them by NPR Music. You can actually stream the band’s debut studio album, Sorrow and Extinction, right here. Though I continually catch flak for enjoying metal–from both fans and haters of the genre–
