West Coast rapper Blu seems to have fully recovered from the label drama that surrounded his last commercial release, No York. It’s no secret that his output has been a little rocky since then, but he seems to be back in full form on this new track from his
Off a dusty piano sample and a generous Jay-Z vocal cut, Connecticut’s Apathy spits a series of bars dealing with the Kennedy family. He muses on various follies and conspiracies that have been following the family for decades, and does it with his usual level of focus and vivid
Black Pus, a.k.a. Brian Chippendale, is dropping a new, vinyl-only split LP with Oozing Wound, which is aptly titled Split LP. From what I understand, “Blood Will Run” is the first song to be dropped from it, and it’s absolutely nuts. It’s not quite as noisy
Plaguewielder Full EP by Plaguewielder Really digging the heavy riffs, primal drums, freakish vocals, and dismal guitar leads on this new Plaguewielder EP, which you can stream via the widget above. These guys clearly aren’t working with the best production in the world, but they seem to be doing
Singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten and her band hammer out a loud but patient ballad on “Your Love Is Killing Me.” Without doing it intentionally–I don’t think–the instrumentation on this one works more like a drone than it does indie or folk rock. Sharon kicks things off with
The Black Keys drop their most bloated and tame album to date with Turn Blue.
With fellow reviewer Elliot Quinn, I talk about the fifth full-length album from Portland blackened folk outfit Agalloch.
Mac Miller comes through with an almost 90-minute project with Faces.
https://soundcloud.com/otherpeoplerecords/sets/dave-harrington-before-this You probably know Dave Harrington best as the guitarist of Darkside, his collaboration with Nicolas Jaar that yielded the brilliant album Psychic last year. Dave has since put out a couple of tracks through Jaar’s Other People label, appearing in issues 38 and
https://soundcloud.com/season-of-mist/mayhem-vi-sec Next month, previously mentioned Norwegian black metal titan Mayhem will return with its first album in seven years, Esoteric Warfare. And as their label observes, they are indeed “back with a vengeance!” This latest track “VI.Sec.” goes through a number of brutal phases, whether
