After a series of mixtapes I casually enjoyed, Mac Miller’s sound gets sweeter on his full-length debut, Blue Slide Park. WATCH THE REVIEW
While Wale’s latest album doesn’t feature anything terrible on its hour of material, I couldn’t help but feel a little underwhelmed. WATCH THE REVIEW
A music video for a track from California MC Blu’s forthcoming album, NoYork!. The LP leaked toward the end of the summer, but it’s still yet to receive an official release. I guess that doesn’t matter since you can find it just about anywhere on the net,
Nick Zammuto, one half of the experimental music duo the Books, is releasing some solo material this December via a new single on Make Mine. The Books’ late album, which was one of my favorite albums of 2010, was a surprising turn for the duo considering the increased use in
Tomorrow, Kate Bush will be releasing the album 50 Words For Snow. Of course, she already had an album release earlier this year, but this album will be the first LP of completely new studio material since 2005’s Aerial. “Wild Man” is the first track to drop from the
The Burial of the Dead by Axel Thesleff On his debut album, Axel Thesleff is doing a lot with a little. The music’s self-produced sound didn’t exactly stun my ears, but the creativity and ambition shown in tracks like the one above did. The 12-minute “the Burial of
Elder is a Massachusetts rock band, and 2011 saw the release of its sophomore album, Dead Roots Stirring. It’s out now via MeteorCity, and the song above comes from it. Even though this track, “Gemini,” feeds into a few stereotypes for this genre, I can’t help but find
A video for the track “Fridge Note,” which comes off the new Dimlite album, Grimm Reality. It’s out now via Now-Again. Yeah, the track is a bit weird, but that’s what makes it so attractive to me. The manipulated vocals and noisy, bouncing synths stick in my head
A music video for a track from the new Black Lips album, Arabia Mountain, which I actually handed a copy of to Mick Jagger for the lulz. This video seems like it’s for the lulz, too. Check my review of Arabia Mountain here.
A new track from hip hop mystic Gonjasufi. It’s titled “Nickel and Dimes,” and it’s set to appear on the dude’s forthcoming album, MU.ZZ.LE. It’ll be out on Warp Records on January 24th. This release will surely be a change of pace from his
