You may know Arca, one of the producers who helped with Kanye’s banger, Yeezus. You may know Young Turks, the avant-garde label home to the xx and Chairlift. Who you may not know (yet) is FKA Twigs, the newest addition to the Young Turks family who collaborated with Arca on EP2, the second of two EPs showcasing
It was only a matter of time before Glasgow based CHVRCHES broke through into the consciousness of mainstream radio listeners. The three-piece consisting of Laura Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty met in 2011 after the latter pair asked Mayberry to provide vocals on demos on which they’d been working. Just a year later, CHVRCHES
Mountains Beaches Cities is the latest album from Nashville darlings, Moon Taxi. They are one of the most buzzed about bands around town, probably because the five members started playing together while attending local college Belmont University. Many twenty-somethings in Nashville know somebody who knows somebody in the band, thus earning them underground rock star
In our last interview with Hannah of Grouplove, she briefly spoke about the new album as being one that the band was asking a lot of deep questions on. They’ve been together constantly for the past couple years, getting to know each other as friends and bandmates, and they are still working toward finding
The Orwells’ Who Needs You, a follow-up to their Other Voices EP which they released earlier this year, is barely 12 minutes long. It’s a very, very fun 12 minutes and wholly deserving of a track-by-track analysis. 1. Who Needs You This song! Seriously, this song. From the solitary few drumbeats that kick it off
Jonathan Rado, the co-founder and backbone of his emerging main music vehicle Foxygen, offers his first solo LP “Law and Order” on the heels of what’s been a breakout year for Foxygen after the west coast psychedelic pop vibes from their second studio album “We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic”.
If you don’t yet know about BASECAMP, listen and learn. The mysterious electronica group boasted nearly 90,000 Soundcloud plays on their very first track posted only one month ago. “Emmanuel” teased us for the duration of August. Now the trio of producers that make up BASECAMP has released a four-song, self-titled EP. It’s gathered attention
While I was on the train this morning, I listened to LA-based We Are Twin’s self-titled debut EP for the first time. My feet were tapping along to the beat, I couldn’t stop smiling and I was thinking of doing something I’d never do when I’m alone in a public space – breaking into a
The rise of King Krule, aka Archy Marshall (or Zoo Kid up until a few years ago) has been a steady build that left those in awe wondering if the scrawny UK teen could reach the full potential expected by Internet blogging types. His haunting bedroom-recorded confessionals, as well as his unique image (he is
Volcano Choir is a collaboration between Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon and members of Collections of Colonies of Bees, a fellow Wisconsin outfit. When the collaboration began in 2009, it existed indirectly. What would become Volcano Choir started trading sounds and built on the trades. These sounds and loops eventually became Unmap which gave it