• 2013

    On Foals’ third full-length album, the UK rock band continues down the path they set for themselves on 2010’s Total Life Forever, favoring newfound maturity over the raw energy that made the band so exciting in the first place.   WATCH THE REVIEW

  • Lightning Bolt’s more percussive half, Brian Chippendale, has a new album on the way via his solo pseudonym, Black Pus. “1000 Years” is the first track to drop from this forthcoming album, which is titled All My Relations and looking at a March release date on Thrill Jockey. It’

  • 2013

    Thanks to the good people at Suicide Squeeze, two up-and-comers in the rough and wild world of garage and noise rock have a new split on the way. The 7″ single features new tracks from Vancouver’s Nü Sensae and Atlanta’s the Coathangers. Give a listen to both tracks

  • 2013

    Wu-Tang’s very own Ghostface Killah is gearing up for another full-length LP. The title: Twelve Reasons To Die, and it’s dropping on RZA’s Soul Temple Music in the middle of April. The song is inconspicuous once it gets past the dramatic, narrative intro; however, the beat here

  • Pearl and the End of Days by Grayceon San Francisco-based doom/progressive/noise outfit Grayceon just released a new EP yesterday for free on Flenser Record’s bandcamp page. This is certainly one of the most exciting pieces of progressive metal I’ve heard this year. If you’re a

  • 2013

    The Woods by OXYxMORON OXYxMORON is a smooth, Southern hip hop trio from South Carolina, and the Woods is its latest project. The tracks here have a lot of sweet, jazzy beats that have some tight 808-style drums backing them up. A lot of the heartfelt, honest lyricism reminds me

  • 2013

    Download: Gobby – Lantern EP Electronic music producer Gobby has never been afraid to get indulgent, and his latest set of tracks on the Lantern EP show him going down the juke and footwork route with loads of sporadic samples and dense rhythms. He seems to embrace the most obnoxious qualities

  • 2013

    New York’s swankiest rock band, the Strokes, have dropped another single from their forthcoming LP, Comedown Machine. The album currently looking at a March 26th release date, but I’m not so sure I’m excited to get there after this listening experience. As you may know, I dug

  • 2013

    A few days ago, I told you guys about up-and-coming hip hop outfit clipping, and their debut mixtape midcity. The be blunt, the tracks on this thing are noisy and hedonistic, and that’s all there is to it. The project now has a new video about, and it’s

  • 2013

    On this new, sophomore album, Jangle pop outfit Veronica falls works to homogenize their sound, but the issue is that it wasn’t really that diverse in the first place. WATCH THE REVIEW