new music

  • London-based singer-songwriter/producer FKA twigs came out with a short, but pretty awesome, EP last year entitled EP 2, the follow up to her debut EP (whose name you can probably guess). And now she is finally gearing up to release her highly anticipated debut full-length, fittingly titled LP 1.

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    Prototype by Courageous Endeavors Courageous Endeavors is a modern jazz quartet from Minneapolis whose members fancy themselves “the Twin Cities’ answer to the relevance of jazz in the 21st century.” I’d say with this debut album of theirs, Prototype, they live up to that. If you’re looking for

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI0nmal8VRg Right around the start of this year, I wrote a little something about Crashing Diseases and Incurable Airplanes, the latest album from Montreal experimental rock outfit USA out of Vietnam. So, the project has been out there for a while now, but I’

  • Super Pony Perv Plus EP by Kiddy Pool I’m certain this debut EP of New York experimental rock trio Kiddy Pool contains the most batshit song title of the year: “I Guh Guh Got A$$bergers from a Toilet Seat.” Let that be some indication of what the band’

  • https://soundcloud.com/cakesdakilla/sets/hunger-pangs Cakes Da Killa‘s Hunger Pangs mixtape has arrived! Described as sounding like a fighting game and as being the “ugly older sister” of last year’s phenomenal Eulogy, this new project finds Cakes at, well, his hungriest. His flow continues to be fast,

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    Matteah Baim- Dude from Dream Drive on Vimeo. New York-based folk singer-songwriter Matteah Baim is releasing her third full-length record, Falling Theater, this week, and with it comes this video for one of its songs, “Dude.” A series of screen-tests of various dudes – both men and women – inspired by the

  • Hash Money by #$ Previously mentioned hip hop duo #$ has just put out its first project on Smokers Cough Records, the eight-track-long mini-album Hash Money. It’s a breezy listen, clocking in a little short of the half hour mark, but it showcases everything that makes its two members so great.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNqgeV1s6-o&feature=youtu.be My Fictions is a loud rock four-piece from Lowell, Massachusetts apparently hellbent on pushing hardcore to its limit. They’ll be making their full-length studio debut next month with Stranger Songs. Above, you can check out the opening track

  • Girl Sense(소녀감성) by OOHYO(우효) OOHYO is a 21-year-old Seoul-based musician, and apparently a quite humble one at that. In the description of her first release Girl Sense, she admits she’s only beginning to discover her own potential as a musician, but I’d say she’s off

  • 2014

    Stream: Matteah Baim – Falling Theater Pitchfork is premiering the new album by under-the-radar singer-songwriter Matteah Baim, Falling Theater. This is her third record, following her lovely debut Death of the Sun and Laughing Boy, both of which have gone criminally under-appreciated. Previously, Baim collaborated with CocoRosie’s Sierra Cassidy on