• Here we have some pretty charming alternative folk music brought to you from Portland based group Thao & The Get Down Stay Down. The track is cut down to its bare minimum in terms of musicianship making the primary focus vocal harmony between Thao Nguyen and Joanna Newsom. It’s

  • Mike Patton and company make Oddfellows a step back toward their experimental and alternative rock sound, abandoning the Native American music influences that made Anonymous such a strangely spicy album. However, it’s still a pretty odd, catchy collection of tracks–with a few undeniable potholes, unfortunately. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • On California X’s debut album, the band brings blaring guitar riffs and thunderous drums, but sometimes it can feel like there’s some flavor missing in the songwriting department. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • The Strokes drop a surprising new single that takes the band’s typically tight sound, and covers itwith rigid synths and a questionable falsetto. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • 2013

    It seems two of the larger figures in underground hip hop are at it right now, and trading shots in new tracks in an age where most hip hop stars are just content to keep most confrontations on Twitter. I’m surprised it went as far as these two cuts,

  • 2013

    We’re premiering a new track from Italian psych pop project Dumbo Gets Mad titled “American Day.” It’s one of many weird, psychedelic, experimental, and bubbly cuts from the DGM’s upcoming album, Quantum Leap, which is gonna be released toward the beginning of February on Band Panda Records.

  • 2013

    Canadian electronic music duo Zeds Dead have a new EP coming out via Mad Decent on Jan. 29th, and “Rave” is one of the most driving tracks on the album. It’s got a beat that really make the track live up to is name, and clashes that with hard

  • Stream: Intronaut – “Milk Leg” Aside from heaviness, L.A.’s Intronaut is an extremely difficult to describe and pigeonhole. While many bands are busy focusing on catering their songs to niche audiences in extreme music, Intronaut is constantly busy exploring new creative avenues while still retaining their core sound of

  • Nails are probably one of the most vicious acts in underground American music right now, and their new song “God’s Cold Hand” shows that if anything, they’ve gotten more pissed off. Sandwiching the grind mentalities of bands like Rotten Sound and Gaza with the fuzzy distortion of classic

  • 2013

    On its second full-length album, Local Natives still sits in the shadow of bands like Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear, which is something even the band’s most hardcore fans are willing to admit. I guess the issue is that I personally feel the group doesn’t take its very