new music

  • https://soundcloud.com/wearebigups/not-today The lovable noise rockers over at Big Ups are teaming up with fellow Brooklynites Washer for a split 7″, due out November 18 via Exploding in Sound. Last week we shared the first track from Big Ups’ side, “Rash,” and now you can hear their

  • Past 21 Beyond The Arctic Cell by Megaton Leviathan Megaton Leviathan is the Portland-based musical project of multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Andrew James Costa. Back in September, the act put out its sophomore full-length Past 21 Beyond the Arctic Cell, which consists of three lumbering pieces that smack of Godspeed You!

  • https://soundcloud.com/nnatapes/sets/guerilla-toss-smack-the-brick-cassette Everybody’s favorite funked-out, rock-out-with-your-pud-out, no-wave five-piece Guerilla Toss is back and funkier than ever with this new four track EP, Smack the Brick. The project finds the Allston act continuing to tighten their compositions, evoking something like a primeval Talking Heads with their

  • https://soundcloud.com/pinnaclesound/payforit For the second single of his yet-to-be-detailed second album, Top Dawg MC Jay Rock has recruited fellow TDE artist Kendrick Lamar – that name may or may not ring a bell. While K.Dot has certainly been garnering more attention than Jay Rock lately, the latter

  • This is not a drill. Famed Olympia, WA indie punk rock Sleater-Kinney are back! Returning with their first new record since 2005’s amazing The Woods. After the release of that record, the band went on “indefinite hiatus” and we all wept collectively as the prospects of their reunion appeared

  • Swedish experimental-bluesy-rock duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums, consisting of husband and wife Andreas Werliin on drums and Mariam Wallentin on vocals and extra percussion, are gearing up to release their fourth album, Rhythm. Their last release, 2010’s Rivers, found the band building on their core sound with the addition of