new music
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Set for a 2012 release on Metal Blade Records, here’s a track from the forthcoming debut album of Pilgrim, Misery Wizard. Though “Astaroth” showcases the riffage and heaviness you’d expect from just about any doom metal tune, the band does a great job of layering some murky harmonies
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MP3 A new track from Athens, Georgia band Of Montreal. If y’all watch my reviews, you know how I feel about the band’s trajectory, but this song is an obvious trek backwards into older sounds. Well, sort of. I’d say this album is an attempt to recapture
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Nick Zammuto, one half of the experimental music duo the Books, is releasing some solo material this December via a new single on Make Mine. The Books’ late album, which was one of my favorite albums of 2010, was a surprising turn for the duo considering the increased use in
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The Burial of the Dead by Axel Thesleff On his debut album, Axel Thesleff is doing a lot with a little. The music’s self-produced sound didn’t exactly stun my ears, but the creativity and ambition shown in tracks like the one above did. The 12-minute “the Burial of
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A new track from hip hop mystic Gonjasufi. It’s titled “Nickel and Dimes,” and it’s set to appear on the dude’s forthcoming album, MU.ZZ.LE. It’ll be out on Warp Records on January 24th. This release will surely be a change of pace from his
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A new track from New Haven, Connecticut’s own the Mountain Mover’s. It’s to be released via 7″ this year along with two other tracks on the Car Crash Avoiders label. Two more 7″s will follow in 2012 on the same label. The music pulled together in
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Considering this article I just saw in Spin, I’m pretty confident that the internet age has ushered in a healthy hip hop underground that isn’t going anywhere. There have been plenty of independent artists making noise this year, and even though I’m not in love with every
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Wildflowers (Exhale Efreet) by ::M∆DE:IN:HEIGHTS:: One trend in online music that I’ll never understand is using triangles and other various symbols in band names and song titles. I’m afraid that blogging about the music from one of these artists may mean inadvertently endorsing some kind
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Back in May, I blogged about a bit of music from the electronic solo project Beat Culture. In the time since, he’s been prolifically releasing material, and the track above, “If Only,” is the first to drop from his next ablum, Tokyo Dreamer. The opening piano phrase on this
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MP3 On her debut EP, singer-songwriter and experimentalist Izes brings an eerie atmosphere; plus, she backs it up with elements of improvisational drums and trumpet on the track streaming above, “No Future.” The song builds really evenly, and grows into its eventual chaos in a kinda beautiful way. I wasn’
