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Nosaj Thing’s debut album Drift is now almost three years old and we’re still eagerly waiting for new music. Thankfully, the electronic producer will finally answer our needs this year. 2012 will the see the light of more material from Jason Chung, so if you are in Los Angeles on Thursday, be sure to catch [...]

Falling under the spell of Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, and Nicolas Jaar as of late should lead one to the obvious conclusion of how much I am digging Gabriel Bruce’s single “Sleep Paralysis”.  Like each of the aforementioned artists, Bruce is a bass-heavy crooner that falls somewhere between overly dramatic and just plain evil.  ”Sleep [...]

Most music fans will know Detroit for Motown, but never forget the city’s importance to American punk music. Iggy & the Stooges abandoned the 60′s colorful, flower power pop for cutthroat, unforgiving rock. At the same time, the R&B infused MC5 (Motor City 5) finally gave protest music a threatening voice, leaving the acoustic guitars [...]

In today’s music scene, we are constantly assessing how genuine an artist is. If we feel that the musical statement and image of the artist cannot hold up to the reality of their intentions and who they really are, we feel (understandably) disappointed and betrayed. Upon first listen, Willis Earl Beal’s “Take Me Away” immediately [...]

I was listening to LCD Soundsystem the other day and got really stuck on how much I love the line, “Sound of silver talk to me / makes you want to feel like a teenager / until you remember the feelings of / a real life emotional teenager / then you think again.  There’s a duality [...]

As thorough as we try to be with daily content and our end of year recaps, with so much good music readily available, there are bound to be the ones that we miss. Instead of being shy about it, we’ll come right out and say it – we kind of dropped the ball on these [...]

Mingus Murray is a singer-songwriter who’ll be performing at SXSW this March. The son of avant-garde jazz musician David Murray, the Harlem-based Murray released his debut album, Mingus, in September (available here). Rather than taking cues from his father’s peers, Murray’s debut is heavily informed by the soul inflected sounds of the Soulquarians, as well [...]

Breathe Owl Breathe‘s latest release is a 7” held between the pages of a children’s story book.  The book is split up into two stories, one for night and one for day , each flowing seamlessly into the next.  This is the world of the Michigan trio.  An innocently fantastical planet made up of dragon/princess [...]

The mysterious Los Angeles-based duo Rhye released their EP Open last week, and the title track will sink itself just inside of your chest. There is an earnestness to the hushed vocal that reveals both newfound attachment and longing affection. Its bedsheet intimacy is paired with amazingly plain, yet candid sweet nothings like “I’m a [...]