the needle drop

  • album

    Via AOL Spinner, the Cool Kids‘ new album, When Fish Ride Bicycles, is streaming like a fresh water, uh, stream! It’ll be available exclusively through iTunes tomorrow. Listen to all eleven tracks by clicking right over here.

  • Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar doesn’t follow the usual tough and hardened stereotypes that come with repping the California city. The guy isn’t a wimp, but he’s more interested in saying something thought-provoking than violent. Backed by some fantastic beats, that’s what every track on this new

  • Idiana’s Sleeping Bag is gearing up to drop its first LP in August. In the meantime, the band has dropped two tracks, and “Ben” is one of them. Here, the band shoots for a tight and close sound that gets in the listener’s face, but still executes the

  • On “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me,” the characters Big Sean paints in this cheap love story are pretty tacky, flat, and annoying. They’re about as senseless as characters in a daytime soap opera, but manage to be even more annoying. What do you think of this track?

  • Limp Bizkit’s new album is VEGAN SHAKE, HUMMUS, CHIPS, CARROTS, PEANUT BUTTER, RAISINS, SALAD, ITALIAN DRESSING, POMEGRANATE JUICE, CHOCOLATE ALMOND MILK. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • Sonically, Valentin Stip has a lot in common with Nicolas Jaar’s latest album, Space Is Only Noise. But I’m not connecting or comparing these two for the sake of calling one a ripoff. I’d actually like to argue these two–and many other artists as well–are

  • This is a rare and secret review most people will never understand. If you guys start a flame war in the comments, you really have learned nothing. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • On Sam Baker’s Album, Samiyam pulls together some pretty great grooves and sounds. My problem is not much of it moves or develops into anything interesting. This release is more like a sampler of various atmospheres this L.A. producer can create, and that’s fine. Maybe it’ll

  • bon iver

    1. SBTRKT- Wildfire (feat. Little Dragon) (Objekt RMX) 2. “Sleep Rules Everything Around Me” (Fugazi / Wu-Tang Mash) 3. Bon Iver- “Perth” (Blow Oh Bootleg Remix) 4. Deerhunter- “Cool” (Pylon cover) 5. Washed Out- “Belong” (The Pillars of Creation RMX) Belong (The Pillars of Creation Remix) by The Pillars Of Creation

  • avant

    On the first track to drop from Bjork’s forthcoming album, Biophilia, the Icelandic singer-songwriter just doesn’t do a lot for me, honestly. I was pretty excited about this track, too. It’s certainly got all the makings of a great Bjork track–some strong vocals and personality, ear-grabbing