Portugal. The Man have enlisted hip hop producer Jake One to helm a remix of their latest LP’s title track, “Evil Friends.” Danny Brown jumps aboard, delivering a fast, hard-hitting, and surprisingly leery verse about the second-hander mindset running rampant around him. Give it a listen above! Portugal. The
Kurt Vile covers Nine Inch Nails Watch Kurt Vile’s hazy take on Nine Inch Nails’ very first single, “Down in It,” for The A.V. Club‘s “A.V. Undercover” series. Kurt brings his easygoing charm to the track’s “white rap” vocals, and receives able backing from bandmate
Willis Earl Beal has shared another cut from his upcoming sophomore album Nobody knows. “Coming Through” is a passionate, relatively ebullient blues tune featuring an understated vocal contribution from Chan Marshall, a.k.a. Cat Power. Nobody knows. is scheduled for release on September 10 on HXC Recordings.
Singer-songwriter and one half of Wildbirds & Peacedrums Mariam The Believer drops a new music video for one of my favorite tracks from her newest record, Blood Donation. Watch above and enjoy! Also, catch a review for Blood Donation below:
Orthodox by Native Some pretty invigorating and melodic post-hardcore from the guys in Native on their latest release, Orthodox. I’m loving the raw presentation of the instrumentation, and some of the guitar tones these guys are conjuring as well. I could see this band appealing to those who like
Rock ‘n’ roll, a touch of punk, and a weird ocarina solo–if that’s what it is…–come together on the latest track from Parquet Courts. The band has a new EP dropping via What’s Your Rupture in October, and I’m pretty psyched considering the potential I
Messe I.X-VI.X by Ulver Commissioned for Tromsø Kulturhus, Messe I.X-VI.X is an epic and eclectic collaboration between Norwegian black metal outfit Ulver, the Tromsø Chamber Orchestra, and the Arctic Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra. Give the whole piece a listen above!
English singer-songwriter Anna Calvi has shared the lead single from her upcoming sophomore LP One Breath. An electric art-rock stomp, “Eliza” is certainly an auspicious first taste of her new album. Enjoy! One Breath is scheduled for release on October 7 through Domino Records.
A chilling music video accompanies the new single from Brooklyn rapper Donny Oh, “GSVR.” The video depicts a young man who is gagged, bound to a chair, and threatened by Donny and two cohorts with a baseball bat and shears. This is set against a hard, nocturnal instrumental, over which
Mu Gadu hasn’t given Quelle Chris’ “Old Friend” the typical music video treatment. Rather, he’s crafted a minimalist short film titled Billion Dollar Question that symbolically follows the “death, rebirth, and rites of passage” of a young man in Uganda. The 7-minute-long flick is scored to a mashup
