INGRID, the new record label formed out of Swedish pop giants recently put out a compilation vinyl for Record Store Day. Among the crew is Lykke Li, whose contribution “Come Near” is a maze of a song, furiously turning corner after corner in a darkened funhouse lined with mirrors and mirages. Her distinct vocals are piercing as [...]
Raised in small-town Pennsylvania, Daughn Gibson grew up as a self-proclaimed fan of loud music before piquing an interest in the kind of storytelling found in country music during his many days on the open road while he worked as a truck driver, with radio as his only companion. Country music, a genre that gets [...]
Twin Shadow is the alter-ego of George Lewis Jr., who channels his inner Prince on the cover of his upcoming release, Confess. The first track off the album arrives in the dusty spotlight of fog-bombed, euphoric New Wave glory. Distorted guitars and glowing synths foster an exhilarating breeze beneath the anticipatory fireworks skyline that bed [...]
Usher released another track off his upcoming album, Looking For Myself, and nearly fifteen years after “Nice & Slow,” the falsetto of Bieber’s mentor still melts like creamy, salted European butter. The man who had us crooning things we had no knowledge of as overzealous tweens (“It’s 7 o’clock on the dot, I’m in my drop top [...]
Happy Birthday John Tejada! The L.A.-based deep house producer, DJ and tumultuous Taurus celebrated last Saturday with a special appearance at underground house series Bottomfloor. Because not every fan of Tejada’s long unfolding forays into ambient and abyssal rhythms could fit into the red-lit loft, the prolific producer dropped a new mixtape, Beacons. Custom cut with visuals by UK [...]
The music of St. Vincent always seems to find a way to walk the line between enchanted and menacing. However, on her newest Record Store Day track, “Krokodil” St. Vincent forgoes that whole “enchanted” thing and sets her sites towards straight-up ferocious sludge. And of course, the inundation of grime suits her (hell, what wouldn’t [...]
When I was a kid, I always hated mornings. I don’t envy my mother, who went through the same routine of dragging me out of bed for the better part of my former years, or my brothers, who took to watering me like a dying plant (I once remember a Super Soaker) in the days [...]
Ghostly choruses, snap beats, subdued and seductive vocals with low-pitch monster backing tracks? You guessed it, The Great White North’s finest “future pop” duo Purity Ring has come-a-callin’ again with the lead single off their full length debut Shrines. “Obedear” is the first offering from the July 24 release. If you enjoyed the Purity Ring of summer past this slinky [...]
Blackbird Blackbird is back with more of his trop-pop (that’s right) that’s pretty upfront with its intentions with a title like “Waikiki.” It’s glassy and warm, and over before you know it (there’s a joke here…), a modern-day sun dance that’s needed with the return of this rain here in Los Angeles. He’ll be out with [...]
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