Remember 2007? Wiz Khalifa could’ve been the name of a magician for all most people knew, Kid Cudi really was a lonely stoner, and you still checked your MySpace. If you’d been friends on there with Brooklyn rapper Saigon, you’d know that his debut album, The Greatest Story Never Told, has been ready since the
When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with making mix tapes (weren’t we all?). My best friend had one that her parents had made. The A side was titled Irretrievable Youth. It was full of fun, upbeat songs, like “Bitchin’ Camaro” by The Dead Milkmen, basically songs about living life to the fullest and
People get antsy, if not downright angry, when they can’t easily categorize an artist. Gilbere Forte’ has those people close to crawling out of their skins. The Philadelphia-based rapper (singer, songwriter, producer) realizes this, devoting a post on his blog to the questions surrounding him. “Who am I? Where did I come from? What lane
Classic Italian dishes are often limited to just a few simple, yet crucial, ingredients: hand-pressed olive oil, fresh pasta and a secret-family-recipe tomato sauce. Similarly, music doesn’t need a million bells and whistles (figuratively and literally) to be good – if an artist is talented, their skills will shine. In the case of Thurlow’s
Bedroom-crafted tracks meet otherworldly vocals in an exciting new noise pop duo from England, Echo Lake. Echo Lake’s debut EP, Young Silence, is a dreamlike trip through strange worlds. One track can sound like you’re floating through the air on a cloud, while the next feels like floating through a vast undersea landscape. I’m not
Genre: Electronic/Rock Sounds like: part Of Montreal, a bit of Franz Ferdinand maybe, and a whole lot of originality I enter Moving Units’ new EP, Tension War, with a somewhat tabula rasa mindset. I know nothing of Moving Units outside of seeing them on the Coachella 2011 line-up (they play Friday, April 15th. Add that
Indie-electronica pop is en vogue and that’s can be partially attributed to the innovative sounds of STRFKR. The Portland, Oregon-based outfit, which formed in 2007, has been one of the standard-bearers for the electro-pop wave that has grown in the years since the band’s beginnings. The band’s latest release, , is the band’s first LP
Stalley is from Massillon, Ohio. If you know what to listen for, you can hear the small town talking in Lincoln Way Nights (Intelligent Trunk Music), his latest mixtape: There’s the hollow clanging of the wooden wind chimes on the front porch in “Assassin,” the bittersweet letter to his hometown/girlfriend in “Milq n’ Honey,” and
Getting a stamp of approval from music snob ?uestlove, who has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of rare and radio-friendly cuts, is like getting a gold star. Bay Area rapper and producer Trackademicks, who’s part of a collective known as the “Honor Roll,” was heralded by The Roots’ drummer as being one of his favorite producers. Even
The expanse between a freshman and sophomore album is perhaps the hardest distance for an artist to travel. The product of such a journey can delight or betray fans, and oftentimes does both. As it seems almost impossible to avoid comparing a band’s first and second bodies of work, I approached the follow up to