These are the days of digital music, iTunes, iPods, mp3 players, etc. etc. etc. So what happens with the hundreds and thousands of compact discs we no longer need? UK artist Bruce Munro has one idea. On the weekend of June 19th and 20th, Munro and team of 140 helpers laid out 600,000 CDs on [...]
Rich, textured and layered with big Duran Duran style synths pretty much sums up Beautiful Swimmers single ‘Big Coast’. Sprinkled into the mix are a sample of short lyrical bursts, half-remembered horns and a pulsing bass line that combine to create a smooth sonic landscape. the video by Aurora Halal is just as slick; a [...]
Big Boi’s long awaited solo album Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty is finally here and it does not disappoint, even the weakest track of this Cadillac cultured, southern-fried grindhouse of bumpin’ tracks is better than a lot of what passes for hip hop in the past year. Here’s track ‘General Patton’ from [...]
The kids love the rave music, and with catchy dance floor electro-dubstep-pop music like Hold On who can blame them? Amber Coffman’s vocals remind me of something that should have been released in the early 90s… Oh, wait… So do the rest od the noises in Rusko‘s newest video release. The only thing updated about [...]
Remember Digable Planets? How could you not, especially with Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) reaching the generational milestone of being used in a commercial recently? Well, while Mary Ann “Ladybug Mecca” Vieira is spending time being a talking head on VH-1 ”Best Of…” retrospectives and Doodlebug is no where to be found, their former partner in rhyme, Butterfly, [...]
So Levi’s, that company that’s been making jeans for a billion blog years, has teamed up with a slew of artists to bring the adoring consumer masses a series of high profile covers by influential musicians called the Levi’s Pioneer Sessions. The latest addition is from synthed-out dance rockers Passion Pit doing Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight”, [...]
MGMT – It’s Working (Air Remix) by TheRoundTable With album artwork and video by So Me and a remix by Air it seems the MGMT boys have become quiet the Francophiles with the release of their second “single”, or maybe they just like working with talented cats no matter their country of origin. Either way, [...]
School of Seven Bells – Babelonia by VagrantRecords The School Of Seven Bells follow up their (Secret Machines’ Benjamin Curtis and On!Air!Library!’s Alejandra and Claudia Deheza) 2008 debut, Albanism, with Disconnect From Desire. If the first leak off the record is any indication of what’s to come, the trio have added up-beat and dancing to [...]
First off, where has Pharell BEEN? Now he drops a track with Nelly Furtado? Did I fall in the hot tub time machine again? Is it really 2003 again? This is “stadium music”? Apparently to Pharell rehashes of sweaty club tracks now constitutes full blown, Gigawatt sound system, groupie seducing “stadium music”. I don’t really [...]
WAVVES is back with more noisy, fuzzy, chaotic and just plain AWESOME surf rock to buzz around in your ear cans this holiday weekend. The whole album is available for streaming, and if you’re so inclined we’ve included King of the Beach for your immediate gratification. Because isn’t that what surf rock is all about? [...]
