Quit Mumbling

I want to start off by apologizing to everyone on the east coast.  Right now in January, a time most would consider winter, we have the luxury of hiking in shorts, driving with the top down, surfing if able, and BBQ’ing like school’s out for the next 3 months.  Perhaps we can credit global warming [...]

It’s hard to tell if “Big Broom” is good or evil.  Opening with that biting bass line and smeared guitars followed by whimsically haunting vocals, one is quick to say “Big Broom” is up to no good.  However about half-way through comes the angelic group harmonies of the band, and the clouds open up- “Big Broom” is [...]

Had we been around for the time of Warhol’s Factory, I could easily see LA natives Mini Mansions, trading slots with The VU.  It’s a tough task to seamlessly merge psychedelia with dance-pop, but Mini Mansions do just that.  In fact, take one listen to “Monk” and imagine girls with bobs and mini-dresses, sipping martini’s and [...]

JeromeD.com’s new video for the Habits & Contradictions standout track “Hands On The Wheel” just convinced me that the greatest thing to ever come out of Kid Cudi’s “Pursuit of Happiness” is this party starting, trouble stirring, peer pressuring jam.

So, Lana Del Rey’s proclaimed fandom may not be the best cultural signifier to rap fans for a group heavily reliant on style with limited output. That’s not a controllable for Brooklyn’s Flatbush Zombies though. In the mean time, the group has released the video to their imminently catchy single “Thug Waffle”. Produced by ErickArcElliott, [...]

Last year, Seattle’s Nacho Picasso gave away his dark, funny and somewhat nerdy debut For The Glory. Haunted by his father’s passing and informed by his obsession with tattoos and comic books, For the Glory at its worst was a solid debut from a guy overly dependent on punchlines, and at its best it was [...]

Oxford’s Chad Valley brings a British perspective to the ‘chillwave’ sounds popularized by the likes of Ariel Pink, Neon Indian, and Washed Out. Coming off the heals of the the party starting “Now That I’m Real (How Does It Feel?),” director Sam Fournes and animator Jonathen Reynolds bring the drug drenched haze surrounding “Reach Lines” [...]

Black Mahogani present a grooving number complete with faux documentary style video that was even shot “on location!” This is the first music in 2012 from the head of the Black Mahogani collective, whose goliath reputation proceeds him.  Moodymann is often imitated, yet rarely surpassed.

Air does not usually spring to mind paranoid, schizophrenic music, but when battling aliens on the moon with umbrellas, what would sound more appropriate? Late last year, we found out that the famed, super chill French duo were soundtracking a new, color version of Georges Méliès’ 1902 silent film Le Voyage Dans La Lune (Journey [...]