• ambient

    Soundsmith James Ferarro offers this single off of his upcoming project with a terrifying name, NYC, Hell 3:00. The song begins with what sounds like a lo-fi version of something off of Zomby’s newest LP, combining dark dread with rolling trap high-hats. Ferraro’s vocals enter, sounding more

  • hip hop

    Mac Miller, the world’s most unlikely rap-critic’s pet, has released a fittingly psychedelic video for this cut off of his recent LP Watching Movies With the Sound Off. The video cycles between images of Mac rapping in a room of mirrors filled with lightbulbs and of a pretty

  • Elusive Liverpool-based experimental artist Matthew Barnes–a.k.a. Forest Swords–is set to release his debut full-length, Engravings, on August 26th via Tri Angle Records.  Barnes has shared the track, “The Weight of Gold,” in which he offers a slightly more refined blend of the soothing lo-fi dub electronics

  • live

    This week, The Flaming Lips shared the official music video for The Terror track, “Turning Violent.” The audio and footage are taken from a particularly dynamic live rendition of the late-album cut. Here, the spacious intro and first verse are subdued to the point of nearly being inaudible, but give

  • Alternative hip hop artist Hopsin is scheduled to release his third studio full-length Knock Madness on November 26th via his label Funk Volume. This week, he shared a new song from the project, “Ill Mind of Hopsin 6,” in which the rapper ruminates in the loss of a close friend

  • album

    Syrian musician Omar Souleyman has announced that he has a new album titled Wenu Wenu due out on October 22nd via Ribbon Music. Souleyman made this new LP with the help of his right-hand man, Rizan Sa’id, but unlike previous efforts; it was recorded primarily in the studio. Excitingly,

  • 2013

    Electronic music producer RL Grime has a new EP titled High Beams that’s out now via Fool’s Gold. You can stream this track and others via the Fool’s Gold YouTube channel, and lemme tell you that all you need to expect here are some niiiiiiiiiiiiiice bangers. Enjoy!

  • 2013

    One of New York’s trippiest, strangest, and most surreal garage rock acts has announced a new album–title: Nature Noir–and you can stream the first track to drop from it via the embed above. While I wouldn’t exactly call it a “hit,” the band does manage deliver

  • 2013

    Multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer-songwriter John Frusciante has a new EP on the way titled Outsides, and this teaser track from it has got me pretty excited. I know, if you’ve been watching the videos diligently for a while, you’re probably getting ready to remind me that I really disliked

  • abstract

    Scottish experimental hip hop outfit Young Fathers drop some visuals for the TAPE TWO track “Queen Is Dead,” and the gritty, black and white closeups that comprise this vid match the sounds presented perfectly. The urgent lyrics, blaring synths, and exited shouts of “WOO” all have an in-your-face attitude to