Radiohead are no strangers to the idea that music is something the modern fan sees as less of a commodity and more of a basic human right guaranteed by the United States of Bit Torrent. Back when In Rainbows was released, the band decided to buck the label system (middle finger to The Man!) and [...]
The Arcade Fire have teamed up with, of all partners, Google to release an official video for “We Used to Wait” off their new album The Suburbs. The tech savvy video uses the emerging web standards of HTML5 to deliver a complex and highly interactive experience to help personalize the sense of nostalgia inherent in [...]
Detroit duo Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. (Joshua Epstein and Daniel Zott) come out of left field with a sound that’s closer to Sufjan Steven’s than anything a typical NASCAR fan would probably be caught listening to. On their debut four song EP “Horse Power” they tread a fair bit of ground including noisy folk and [...]
London’s Still Corners is the kind of musical ephemera that is almost too painfully beautiful to listen to casually. From the fetching lead singer’s (think Rachel Goswell ) breathless delivery to the simple and dreamy melodies the band is nothing but pure pop sugar cut with enough melancholy and nostalgia that it doesn’t come across [...]
What would you get if Peter Gabriel sang hard-rock? Virginia Beach based rockers The Influence seem a likely candidate. The best way to describe their sound is crunchy, tight, 90′s style hard rock. Anyone who can shred a wicked rock solo is a welcome relief from the sometimes monotonous lo-fi aesthetic currently strangling pop music [...]
When we last heard from Sufjan, the cipher of indie rock dropped a symphonic look at the BQE on us, a kind of love note indie symphony of precious melodies and delicately soaring brass that expounded on the virtues of a New York freeway. A man after Robert Moses’ heart if I ever saw one. [...]
New Jersey’s pysch/surf pop group Real Estate are back with a sparkling diamond of a new single, “Out of Tune”. Weaving, reverb laden guitars and a swaying bass-line complete the picture of a late summer day of melancholy. Out Of Tune by truepanther
Yes, we would all like Justin Bieber to fall into a Black Hole, but someone has finally made that dream a reality. Well…they made his music fall into the singularity, anyway. Apparently if you take the annoying little munchkin’s “U Smile” and slow it down 800% (courtesy of Florida artist Shamantis) you get something akin [...]
In case you haven’t heard Best Coast (Bethany Cosentino) is the hottest thing other than the Sun this summer. Her debut album Crazy For You with partner Bob Brunno made quite the surf-pop splash after it’s release last month and now gets a fun, quirky video to go along with single “When I’m With You”. [...]
What do you get when you mix 2 parts Baroque retro-hop beats with an equal measure of Ghostface Killah’s legendary flow? Two minutes and six seconds of unadulterated jams. Enjoy. Mark Ronson – , Lose It (In The End) (ft. Ghostface Killah) by jassahota
