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    Here’s a video playlist of segments listing out my favorite albums, singles, eps, and music videos of 2013! You can watch beyond my 2013 and check out what my favorites were from the past several years as well! Happy viewing, and here’s to hoping 2014 is just as

  • It’s hard to believe the three tracks on this Rival Dealer EP are actually Burial tracks, because they bring the UK-based producer’s sound in a such a different direction. We’re not getting moody, skeletal dubstep tunes on this one, people. Get ready for some auto-tuned synth pop

  • With rap cliques being all the rage these days, Hellfyre Club comes together with a new compilation of clever, eccentric hip hop tracks that proves they can’t go uncounted.

  • If you like your rock music to have catchy hooks, wordy verses, and lots of smart-ass remarks, then I see no reason why you won’t dig the new Future of the Left album.

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    West Coast hip hop vet Del The Funky Homosapien–uh, a.k.a. Zartan Drednaught COBRA–recently dropped a new album on SoundCloud that’s about thirty minutes in length, and features some pretty progressive instrumentals. The overall presentation of the beats and rhymes here is a little more abstract

  • NOT O.K. by KOOL A.D. Ex-Das Racist MC Kool A.D. drops his umpteenth project with Not O.K., which I’m finding a bit more enjoyable than his other recent releases. His delivery is still pretty absurd and laid back, but this project is sounding a bit

  • ALBUMS / EPS Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (2025 Redux) Baroness - Purple SOPHIE - Product Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete Panopticon - Autumn Eternal Iglooghost - Chinese Nü Yr EP Joanna Newsom - Divers The Game - The Documentary 2.5 milo - so the flies don&

  • BEST OF Top-50 Albums of 2014 Top-50 Singles of 2014 Top-15 EPs of 2014 Top-20 music videos of 2014 ALBUMS / EPS D’Angelo and The Vanguard – Black Messiah The Wytches – Annabel Dream Reader Full of Hell – Full of Hell & Merzbow Ariel Pink – Pom Pom Dean Blunt – Black Metal Wildbirds

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    Check out this glorious hour-long mix that Nicolas Jaar made in honor of John Lennon for the 33rd anniversary of his death. There are many standout phases Jaar goes through here, opening with an interview with Lennon; going on to string together various clips of drones, film scores, and experimental

  • Organized Konfusion MC Prince Po and West Coast producer Oh No have teamed up for the collaborative album Animal Serum, due out February 4 via Brooklyn’s Nature Sounds label. Check out the dirty cut “Bearz” above, featuring some hardhitting bars from Roc C. Check it!