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It was just over a week ago that former Microphones frontman Phil Elverum announced the release of two new albums this year under his Mount Eerie project, but the prolific singer-songwriter hasn’t stopped there. Elverum has also revealed a new single entitled “To the Ground” that will precede the
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A new video from up-and-coming hip hop outfit Smoke Screen. To me, just about everything with this track seems to be on fire. The drum beat on this beat, the dense flows, and the hook. Actually, I can’t say my fire analogy really makes sense considering the title of
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Here’s a track, “DTV,” from the forthcoming Natural Child album, For the Love of the Game. I did an audio review of the album the band released last year on Infinity Cat, 1971. The 7″ they reissued last year was pretty boss, too. With this new track, like usual,
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Projection by biblo Combining ambient textures and mind-numbing drones with dub rhythms, the new Biblo album, Falls Silent, creates a pretty vast soundscape. If it weren’t for the percussion, it might even sound like standing in the middle of the desert at night with no signs of civilization for
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Dirty Projectors release a new single, teasing toward the release of the band’s latest album, Swing Lo Magellan. It’ll be out on July 10th via Domino. While Dirty Projectors has had its accessible moments in the past–and the group’s albums have definitely been foreshadowing a move
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Above is a new track from Virginia Band’s latest cassette single, “Divination.” The band features ex-members of Lets Wrestle, The Proper Ornaments and La La Vasquez, and has a moody atmosphere that has chilled me to the bone. Though the band is not the first to revive this type
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After the stellar “Cartoons & Cereal,” Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar drops a new single, and land’s a feature from none other than Dr. Dre. Of course, this special occasion needs a special instrumental. The beat here sounds bit more refined than the instrumentals Kendrick usually spits over, featuring loads
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XXYYXX by XXYYXX Stream the self-titled mixtape from up-and-coming electronic music producer, XXYYXX, though the widget above. The guy hails from Florida, and his music is an amalgamation of nearly every new sound sprouting up in electronic music right now. There are loads of chopped, looped, and pitch-shifted vocal samples,
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[audio:http://theneedledrop.com/mp3/off- king kong brigade.mp3] Unlike most revivalist hardcore groups, the members of LA’s punk supergroup OFF! were actually around in the 80s to make the kind of music that they’re now emulating. Also unlike many revivalist groups, they don’t try to
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On the fourth track Death Grips has released from its forthcoming album, the Money Store, MC Ride and company continue to build a musical empire on the morbid and abrasive noise hop foundation laid out on last year’s Exmilitary. Drummer Zach Hill’s beats hit hard, featuring some subtle
