San Francisco-based electronic artist Mikey Maramag has been releasing music under the moniker Blackbird Blackbird since 2010 and yesterday announced his signing with Lavish Habits Records Under his new label, Maramag plans to release a new EP entitled Boracay Planet. The record will act as a follow-up to his lauded 2010 debut full length, Summer
Heartless Bastards have released a new music video for single “Only For You,” off their acclaimed 2012 record, Arrow (Partisan Records). It’s completely adorable and joyful…especially if you like watching little kids falling in love, driving cars, smoking cigarettes, drinking wine, picnicking, and swimming with their clothes on. The video was shot in Dripping Springs,
Flying Lotus will be releasing Until The Quiet Comes, the long-awaited follow-up to 2010′s Cosmogramma on October 2 on Warp Records. Composed, according to the rapper, as “a collage of mystical states, dreams, sleep and lullabies”, the new album has the distinct feel of a nighttime voyage. The sound is an unhinged, yet elegant evolution
It’s been a quiet few years for Portland, Oregon-based duo The Helio Sequence. The two-piece, comprised of singer/guitarist Brandon Summers and drummer Benjamin Weikel, have released four studio LPs, the last being 2008’s Keep Your Eyes Ahead. In the four years since the electro-folk-pop outfit’s last album, the guys have kept a low profile, but
After releasing their third album “Worship” on Dead Oceans, A Place To Bury Strangers have announced they will be bringing their ear-splitting, mind-blowing show back to the U.K.. Full dates are: SEPT 12 – BRIGHTON, KOMEDIA SEPT 13 – CAMBRIDGE, JUNCTION 2 SEPT 14 – SHEFFIELD, QUEEN’S SOCIAL CLUB SEPT 16 – MANCHESTER, RUBY LOUNGE
Canto comes to The Mint on July 16th. A family affair, the band consists of three brothers. Their music is heavily influenced by the 60’s and 70’s and takes you back to the psychedelic undertones of Led Zepplin and The Who, while exhibiting a refreshing originality in their writing. Here’s a video of their first
Following a short, yet successful jaunt in June, Michael Kiwanuka announces his first lengthy coast to coast U.S. tour for the fall, kicking off in New York City at Webster Hall on September 18. Michael will be returning to New York for a third time, where he’s garnered rave notices from the New York Times, NY Daily
It is safe to say that Frank Ocean is the man of the moment. In the midst of creeping into stardom, selling out shows during a nationwide tour, and gearing up to release his debut LP, the 24-year-old R&B singer took to his Tumblr blog last week and wrote an open letter revealing that the
IO ECHO is Ioanna Gika and Leopold Ross. Currently putting the finishing touches on their debut album which combines grand songs with unique textures such as Japanese koto harps and Chinese violins, the band have created towering tracks with a distinctive sound early listeners have been calling “the leaders of Grunge Goth” and “New Orientalism.”
Since its lauded 2009 release, Bit Orca, Dirty Projectors have left its fans nervously twiddling their thumbs in anticipation for a follow-up. After announcing that they were, in fact, working on their sixth album, the Brooklyn-based experimental indie rockers have been gradually releasing tracks to keep up the hype around one of the summer’s most