Aaron Maine of Porches. sat down with Out of Town Films to play a couple of cuts from his group’s latest LP Slow Dance in the Cosmos, a sad-rock project with a lot of wit. These solo performances certainly loan each of the tracks a new emotional dynamic – first
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New Haven rap outfit Political Animals has a new video for their song “Ultra Violence,” and it is no less kinetic than the one they made for “Man the Mic” last October. Moreover, this new single is just as punchy as their last. “Ultra Violence” deviates in that it has
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Earlier today, indie electropop artist iamamiwhoami has come out with a gorgeous new video and song called “Fountain.” iamamiwhoami is still wearing her influences – like Björk and The Knife – on her sleeve, but the glimmering synth and her voice add up to something too majestic to be denied. Enjoy! Catch
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Casey Dienel’s White Hinterland project has been extremely quiet since the release of their last LP, the great Kairos. Now, four years later, Dienel is ready to release the project’s third album, Baby. The first track to drop from it, “Ring the Bell”, sounds like a natural progression
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Electronic music experimentalist Holly Herndon has a new 12″ that’s dropping this week via RVNG Intl. titled “Chorus.” As to be expected, this track is loaded with some adventurous vocal manipulations bustling percussion. It’s hard to put this track into words, it’s hard to make sense of
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Designer clothing retailer SSENSE presents another formless composition from experimental electronic artist Arca that will leave you scratching your head. Set to some equally amorphous, “WTF”-inducing visuals from Jesse Kanda, “Fluid Silhouettes” is a real trip, nobly blurring gender lines, but coming off just a bit creepy all the
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Hellfyre Club drops a video for one of the biggest bangers on the rap collective’s new mixtape Dorner vs. Tookie. Listen in for clever verses from Open Mike Eagle, VerBS, Nocando, KAIL, Busdriver and Rheteric Ramirez. Enjoy! Also check a review for this Dorner/Tookie compilation below:
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Open Mike Eagle has put out a new video for his song “Password,” which landed on his Sir Rockabye. mixtape this past July. The candid videography complements the track’s lyrical themes dealing with the lack of internet privacy but also the oversharing of people in the modern age as
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Check out this new music video Killer Mike made for R.A.P. Music cut “Ghetto Gospel.” Seeing a Bible-wielding, glasses-clad Killer Mike in his best Church clothes was something I really would’ve appreciated back in 2012, but better late than never! A gentle reminder that R.A.P.
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A generational war is waged in the new video for Savages’ “Strife,” which comes off the band’s great full-length debut, Silence Yourself. This is the second video the band has released that’s been inspired by a moment in a novel. In this particular instance, it’s Albert Camus’
