Stream: Cough – “Athame” This is just filthy, absolutely dirty, 18 minutes of rolling around in sludge and now I need a shower, desperately. As you can imagine the song builds at an incredibly slow pace, but when the guitars start swirling and the vocals repeating about black altars and sacrifice
Alphabets Heaven – Birthday from diplodok493 on Vimeo. I think I just had a bit of brain melt listening to this track from Alphabets Heaven. A large part of this odd sensation that I am experiencing is due to the visuals, this is very much an audio/visual experience make no
The new Yeah Yeah Yeahs video is an awesomely emotional experience, filled with dirty secrets, hypocrisy, and murder. Kudos to Megaforce for the direction on this thing, and look out for the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, Mosquito, which is dropping in the middle of April. Enjoy!
West Coast rapper SPEAK! has a new track and video out, and he continues to be one of the more charismatic faces in the underground. While his rhymes and flow may be too blunt for those who like their hip hop technical, he seems to make up for it pretty
Atlanta rock outfit the Coathangers have a new video and single out for the track “Merry Go Round.” It’s got a sharp, post-punky sound to it complete with a danceable drum beat and some stringy guitar leads. Enjoy!
SLOW WARM DEATH by Slow Warm Death Combining the sounds of blues, garage rock, and lo-fi music, Slow Warm Death’s music is as catchy as they do badass. Stream the band’s self-titled full-length via the widget above.
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and Ty Segall collaborator Mikal Cronin drops a new track from this forthcoming album MCII, which is dropping in May via Merge Records. It’s a sweet, sentimental tune that’ll relentlessly tug as those heart strings.
On its fifth record Canada’s KEN mode continues to translate the sounds of post-hardcore and noise rock with some sludge metal chic. WATCH THE REVIEW
Justin Timberlake continues to show more ambition than the average pop artist with song lengths and structures, but longer tracks hardly make up for thin production and even thinner lyrics. WATCH THE REVIEW
A bunch of quick, cursory reviews of some songs and albums I wanted to touch down on, featuring a slew of different artists. WATCH THE REVIEWS