I caught an amazing show from A Place to Bury Strangers and Iceage that almost cracked my bones. (Sidenote about APTBS’s soundcloud soundwave for “I Lost You:” maybe it’s my dirty mind me, but it’s quite phallic, like a…solid shooting rocket of sound. Totally why I chose that song for the mix. Whoops.) Bambara opened
In the wake of the impending SXSW tidal wave, we’ve been inundated with a musical deluge of all varieties. While treading water just enough to be able to breathe, this mixtape was created with the standout tracks that have floated by the past week. Many of which are by artists who will be at SXSW,
, In this past week’s musical news roundup otherwise known as BestNewBands.com Mixtape #14, Capital Cities were our most recent featured artist; an eclectic electronic duo who found their sound by experimenting for their day job of creating music for commercials. One of those experiments includes this very danceable re-make of “Nothing Compares 2 U.”
The web has been blowing up over Dropxlife’s new mixtape, Furthur, and the hype is well deserved. The Weeknd affiliate’s mixtape is an easy-walking, slow-talking slice of instrumental R&B. The sound is slow motion with heavily treated vocal snippets bouncing off walls of bass jelly. Dropxlife is a member of the XO crew along with
From his humble beginnings in the mid-aughts as a rising rapper from Washington, I’ve been on the Wale bandwagon and for full disclosure (and an interesting piece of history for those of you who care about these things), I did my first artist interview him just as he was on the precipice of breaking through,