Fearlessly sampling Lenny Kravitz, Shad’s latest single is a great tease toward the Canadian rapper’s next project is. The original song’s strings are incorporated tastefully into this beefy instrumental, and the music also sets the perfect tone for Shad’s nostalgic and personal musings about life and
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Talented Philadelphia-based MC Lushlife has a new video for “Magnolia,” the opening track of his Plateau Vision LP from this year. In it, chunky cardboard cutouts of the song’s lyrics are worn on the heads of people in the various scenarios the song references. Everyone from arsonists to choir
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New York rapper Ill Bill’s got a new album on the way titled the Grimy Awards, and the first track from it features a verse from El-P. The description box of the video embedded above revealed a pretty interesting guest list for the album, too: “[…] HR of Bad Brains,
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Philadelphia’s favorite shoegaze band, Bleeding Rainbow, have a new video for “Drift Away” that really exudes the fuzzy and fun aesthetic of the four piece. The video intermittently alternates between hazy, lo-fi footage of the band performing the song and delightfully creepy stop motion animation of a tortured mad
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Minneapolis rapper and Doomtree member Stefon Alexander, a.k.a. P.O.S, drops a new video for the track “Get Down,” which comes off his latest album, We Don’t Even Live Here. The album is out now on Rhymesayers.
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A new video from Canada-born singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright, which lays visuals to the track “Proserpina.” It’s a song that finds itself on Wainwright’s latest album, Come Home To Mama. From the sound of the track, she obviously takes a lot of influence from folk, chamber pop, and French
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A video from Los Angeles’ Fatal Jamz for the fast-rockin’ “Scorpion Chain,” which sounds like an interesting cross between the modern and messy punk energy of Jay Reatard with the over-the-top presentation of glam. Jamz has a debut album coming out on Burger Records and Gnar Tapes in November. Also,
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Hardcore punk outfit Code Orange Kids have what’s probably going to be a heavy, punishing debut full-length coming out on Deathwith Inc. very soon. I’m assuming it’ll be out this year, but Deathwish doesn’t exactly have the release date explicitly posted on its site, so… The
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With more than twenty years under its belt, Massachusetts hardcore act Converge is still going strong on its latest album, All We Love We Leave Behind. WATCH THE REVIEW
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With its first album in 10 years, Canadian post-rock giants Godspeed You! Black Emperor manage to bring the same intensity, grit, melodic sensibilities, and ambition that has made the band’s previous material so great. WATCH THE REVIEW
