The magical monthly segment where I briefly touch down on a gauntlet of albums I didn’t get a chance to review this past month. These are just my short, straightforward, passionate, biased opinions. Braid – No Coast Jungle – Self-Titled White Lung – Deep Fantasy Strand of Oaks – Heal Matthewdavid – In My
New York MC Joey Bada$$ brings the first single from his highly-anticipated commercial debut, B4DA$$. A lot like a song or two from his last tape, Joey is coming off aggressive on this new single, “Big Dusty.” Very aggressive! I’d go as far as to say there are moments
Experimental artpopper Julia Holter released one of the 2013’s finest records in Loud City Song. And now she has done a gorgeously recorded Boiler Room performance of beautiful renditions of her work. It’s certainly worth checking out if you have been a fan of Holter’s and are
TEKLIFE TILL THA NEXT LIFE VOL.1 by TASO Teklife producer TASO has produced one of my favorite tracks of 2014 right here, and it comes off a compilation he dropped with fellow DJs Rashad, Spinn, and Manny back in March. The hooky vocal samples and rattling trap rhythms are
Neil Cicierega doesn’t just put out one of the most insane mashup albums of all time, but two of the most insane mashup albums of all time.
https://soundcloud.com/alt-j/story-4-sleeplessly-embracing-a-remix-by-clipping “Hunger of the Pine,” the lead single off alt-J’s forthcoming LP This is All Yours, was already a plenty fierce song – from its progressive, horn-adorned composition, to its prominent Miley Cyrus vocal sample, to its Hunger Games-esque music video. However, the song just got
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1406688160&x-yt-cl=72201704&v=uHaZiV8Ns6c Last month, Houston-based avant-garde rapper and musician B L A C K I E announced a new studio full-length titled IMAGINE YOURSELF IN A FREE AND NATURAL WORLD. No release date yet, but this lead single “None
Legendary Chicago rapper Common drops a hit-or-miss album.
Edit Architect by i.o Get ready for a challenging listen on this one! This i.o album titled Edit Architect is a dense, tangled web of multi-tracked guitars, relentless drums, and whatever other glitches this Victoria-based bedroom recording project manages to throw into the works. It’s like a
Thereafter by Save Us From The Archon INSTRUMENTAL ROCK TIME!!! Pittsburgh’s Save Us From The Archon delivers some of the most intense and frighteningly tight math rock I’ve heard in a long time. The guitars and drums are absolutely dizzying on a lot of these tracks from their
