For me, Beirut’s new album is a small step back from the Flying Club Cup and the March of the Zapotec EP that preceded it. I was sure all this waiting would result in something bigger and better, but the ambition needed for that doesn’t surface on the
Indie rock songs seem to be soundtracking a lot of car commercials lately, and if you didn’t know better, you might think that’s exactly what this new Girls video is supposed to be. This new clip for “Vomit”, our first taste of the forthcoming Girls LP Father, Son,
Here’s one of the many reasons I love MJF. He turned me on to this ish, so listen up. This has got to be the most interesting video I’ve seen since Shad’s “Rose Garden,” which also used reverse techniques to subtly line up Shad’s lyrics with
This compilation features 15 cuts from a time span of several years in Nigeria’s musical history. It was a time when Phonodisk, a record label looking to engineer hits, started promoting Nigerian bands playing with some sounds that were big in the West at the time: disco and funk.
Lil B is one of the Internet’s most confusing personalities. When should you take him seriously? When shouldn’t you? Is he really that “terrible” of a rapper. I talked about him for over twenty freaking minutes, and I still have questions. Look, I’m curious. I can’t
MP3 Word and Number is a Chicago duo that’s been at it for four years, and its latest album is Hioea. That release and everything prior to it is up for streaming and downloading on this website. “Z” is one of ten songs to come off Hioea, and I
This video is a collaborative review with the good guys over at Dead End Hip Hop. Here’s the text they popped in the description box: “We couldn’t hook up with The Needle Drop and not do an album review. Brooklyn MC Theophilus London drops his debut album a
A video of young, Canadian jazz fusion trio BADBADNOTGOOD covering the Flying Lotus track “Camel,” which is a cut off my favorite Flying Lotus album, Los Angeles. I can’t wait ’til these guys start dropping s’more original material. BBNG also has a new EP out, featuring medleys of
While Hudson Mohawke’s new EP isn’t flashy, detailed, or technically impressive, I still have a lot of fun listening to it. For lack of a better word, I think what actually attracts me to the instrumentals on this thing is that they sound, well, dorky! WATCH THE VIDEO
A new video for “GBYE,” which comes from Machinedrum’s new album Room(s). Dig on a review of the album here, and pick it up via Planet Mu. I guess this is the best time to ask this: How many Rubik’s Cubes are too many?
