Nathan Young: "Für Andrea"
The population crossed into 7 billion last week, so inevitably there will be two Youngs sharing a first name out there. Earlier today, we briefly, mistakenly posted this track from Nathan Young as a...
View ArticleFuture Shuttle: "Opal Star"
Following Water's Edge, their softly percolating, Zoned In debut, Brooklyn's Future Shuttle is prepping a tape for the Netherland's Samling Recordings, masterminded by Keimpe Koldijk of Eklin and Bebe...
View ArticleZoned In: Quilt: Quilt
Boston's Quilt really couldn't have come up with a better name for themselves; the patchwork approach seems a fitting explanation for their electric and eclectic brand of Americana. In quilt-making,...
View ArticleBlackout Beach: "Be Forewarned, The Night Has Come"
Blackout Beach's Carey Mercer describes his forthcoming LP, Fuck Death as a focus in abandonment-- a deserter's album. On "Be Forewarned, The Night Has Come," we find Mercer floating aimlessly in a...
View ArticleFord & Lopatin Collab with Tamaryn, Light Asylum's Shannon Funchess
In celebration of Mexican Summer's 100th release, the three-year old label is releasing a special split single produced by the leaders of their electronic imprint-in-residence, Ford & Lopatin. The...
View ArticleNo Pain in Pop Revives Blog
Update your RSS feeds folks, No Pain in Pop have revived their blog! After being hacked about a year ago and losing hundreds of posts (dating back to 2008), the UK-based collective spent nearly four...
View ArticleJonas Reinhardt: "Only Pharoah"
New York-based synthesist Jesse Reiner, the founding third of Jonas Reinhardt, just sent in this Isabel Salvado-directed video for The Primer Revealer, a 12" follow-up to this year's excellent Music...
View ArticleGiant Claw: "Little Science"
Keith Rankin hails from Dayton, OH, a place known more for its Air Force base than for the musical endeavors of its populace. In his early 20s, he played in the synth-prog outfit Yakuza Heart Attack,...
View ArticleThe Barreracudas: "Don't Roll Your Eyes"
There's something about 2011 that just seems perfectly aligned for a massive influx of garage punk with a heavy dose of power-pop glitter and plenty of glam swagger. Sitting on the shelf next to your...
View ArticleCo La: "Vanity Plate"
Matt Papich served up a new Co La cut from his latest, Daydream Repeater, which dropped just yesterday on Vermont's NNA Tapes label. Sink your teeth into this sputtering song, "Vanity Plate," and keep...
View ArticlePictureplane: "Black Nails"
Denver's very own gothstar, Pictureplane, made this video for "Black Nails," taken from his sophomore LP for Lovepump United that was released earlier this year. Pictureplane gathered some film footage...
View ArticleSteve Hauschildt: "Already Replaced"
The Emeralds synth man's last song, "Batteries May Drain" might've made you worry about the mortality of your everyday portable electrochemical cells, but with this new MP3, you don't have to live your...
View ArticleGalapagos: "Feel Things Inside"
18-year-old Phoenician Jacob McNaughton, aka Galapagos, posted a chopped and chipmunked rework of Jennifer Hudson's "No One Gonna Love You" that has enough hiccuping pitch-shifted vocal stabs and...
View ArticleKeep Shelly In Athens: "Campus Martius"
Greece's Keep Shelly in Athens just dropped the title track from their forthcoming EP for Planet Mu. "Campus Martius" thickens as its layers of synth melodies envelop this appropriately autumnal...
View ArticleGrabbel and the Final Cut: "The Finest Thing"
Out of feedback squalls and a rushed drum count-off comes a massive guitar banger, "The Finest Thing," the newest of Captured Tracks' 7" shoegaze reissues, this one from German noiseists Grabbel and...
View ArticleBoy Friend: "Egyptian Wrinkle"
Between their known history and stylistic similarities, Christa Palazzolo and Sarah Brown's current project, Boy Friend, is destined to be compared to their former band-turned-solo-project, Sleep ∞...
View ArticleMaria Minerva, d'Eon Remix Peaking Lights
Maria Minerva and d'Eon just dropped their own versions of "Birds of Paradise" and "Hey Sparrow," adding to Peaking Lights' ever-expanding roster of top notch remixers that includes the likes of...
View ArticleStream Co La's Daydream Repeater
Since its debut earlier this year, Matthew Papich's Co La project has always exuded the exotic and the luxurious. Papich indirectly admits this, but his forays into the "New Anything" sound are all the...
View ArticleFourth World Magazine: "StarChild's Birth"
Former Skaters, Monopoly Child Star Searchers, Vodka Soap, and Pacific City Nightlife Vision Band member Spencer Clark is now going by Fourth World Magazine. "StarChild's Birth" is yet another track...
View ArticleSuishou No Fune: "Cherry"
Pirako Kurenai and Kageo have been making minimalist guitar pieces together as Suishou No Fune since 1999, and with their latest live album, Bonsai No Ie, the duo's showing no signs of slowing down....
View ArticleArtist Profile: John Zorn
By Dale W. EisingerJohn Zorn: "Christmas Song (Ft. Mike Patton)"John Zorn is a complicated figure in the history of the American avant-garde. His performances are at times alienating, and on the whole...
View ArticleAZ Submitted A Song-Poem
A couple of weeks ago, we reported that Mike Collins' label Culture Dealer is accepting song-poem submissions for a new, limited cassette series. We couldn't resist, so we submitted our own that will...
View ArticleAngus Maclise: Dreamweapon II
Finding success this year with two sold-out pressings from Angus Maclise-- the boho lifer who called John Cale a chump-- Boo-Hooray is issuing a third Maclise LP, Dreamweapon II, as well as limited...
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Artist Profile: Prince Rama
[photos by Coley Brown]By Ric LeichtungMP3: Prince Rama: "Portaling"MP3: Prince Rama: "Rest In Peace"Prince Rama is a band that's widely respected in the underground for their high energy performances...
View Article20 Tracks You Might've Missed
With 2,175 posts in 16 months, you're bound to miss something. We've gone ahead and gathered some of our favorite tracks from now and yesteryear that didn't get much play, but deserved it.20 Tracks You...
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