June 3, 2014 at 10:30 am
Listen: Drake “0 to 100 / The Catch Up”
I realize people’s opinions on Drake are mixed, but there is one thing you can’t deny: when he is feeling confidant, ...
June 3, 2014 at 10:00 am
Review: Fucked Up ‘Glass Boys’
Let’s get this out of the way now: Fucked Up is a band that really shouldn’t exist anymore. Their sound evolved beyond hardcore ...
June 2, 2014 at 4:19 pm
Watch: Disclosure and Friend Within “The Mechanism”
The brothers in Disclosure collaborated a little while back with the quietly mysterious producer Friend Within on a stellar UK garage ...
June 2, 2014 at 4:17 pm
A Few Of Our Favorite Things: PUJOL
PUJOL fuses the ferocity of punk rock with tender yet gritty lyricism and sonic traces of Americana, garage, and rock and roll. His ...
June 2, 2014 at 10:00 am
Watch: Miguel “Simplethings”
Whether you’ve heard Miguel’s heart-stopping song “Simplethings” ’cause you’re a fan of HBO’s Girls (he wrote it ...
May 30, 2014 at 4:49 pm
Interview: Behind the Scenes of ASTR’s “Blue Hawaii”
ASTR are a two person dance party that fuses together electro, pop, and soul into grinding, moody jams. They’ve amassed a ...
May 30, 2014 at 3:36 pm
Listen: FaltyDL “Do Me”
FaltyDL is back with a subtle yet wildly infectious track titled “Do Me,” coming straight off of his upcoming summer ...
May 30, 2014 at 1:42 pm
Watch: Mykki Blanco “She Gutta”
Mykki Blanco just dropped a new EP entitled Spring/Summer 2014, along with a video for its single “She Gutta.” Set in a ...
May 29, 2014 at 2:31 pm
Listen: Woods “Tambourine Light”
Brooklyn psych-folk outfit Woods recently released their excellent seventh full-length With Light and With Love — their first ...
May 29, 2014 at 10:00 am
Listen: Bishop Allen “Start Again”
Not to make this post about me, but (BUT) Bishop Allen was one of the first bands I really got into as a younger person when I was ...
May 28, 2014 at 4:05 pm
Watch: Weeknight “Honey”
Coming to you straight from our beloved little borough, self-proclaimed dark pop duo Weeknight have just shared a video for ...
May 27, 2014 at 10:00 am
Review: Sharon Van Etten ‘Are We There’
Sharon Van Etten is not new to writing about relationships. In fact, songs around that theme have made up the majority of her ...
May 23, 2014 at 11:52 am
Listen: Circulatory System “Stars And Molecules”
For those of you who only know Elephant 6 through Jeff Mangum, allow me to introduce you to Will Cullen Hart, the main force behind ...
May 22, 2014 at 4:09 pm
Watch: Die Antwoord-“Pitbull Terrier”
If you’re not familiar with South African rap group, Die Antwoord then you are in for a treat with this one. The video ...
May 22, 2014 at 12:26 pm
Watch: The Front Bottoms “Jim Bogart”
Jersey locals The Front Bottoms have just released a lyric video for “Jim Bogart,” a track from their upcoming EP Rose. ...
May 22, 2014 at 9:36 am
Listen: Lust For Youth “Armida”
This isn’t your grandparent’s Lust For Youth. No, this is something completely new. Hannes Norrvide, who was originally ...
May 21, 2014 at 10:00 am
Listen: Banks “Drowning”
Banks is on a serious trend of going at the male gender. Similar to her song “Brain,” which mocked the intelligence of ...
May 20, 2014 at 4:13 pm
Watch: M.I.A. “Double Bubble Trouble”
“1984 is now” seems to be the prevailing sentiment throughout M.I.A.’s self-directed video for “Double Bubble ...
May 20, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Watch: Röyksopp & Robyn “Sayit”
It mostly goes without saying that electronic producers Röyksopp and pop queen Robyn are amazing artists in their own right. So ...
May 20, 2014 at 11:47 am
Listen: Parquet Courts “Instant Disassembly”
The unmistakable one-two punch of a Parquet Courts‘ riff has the ability to transcend genre. The skittish punk of last ...
May 19, 2014 at 10:00 am
Watch: Cam’ron and A-Trak “Dipshits”
Remember when Fat Joe threw an epic house party in the Bronx for “Lean Back?” When Jay-Z showed us how kids lived in Bed-Stuy ...
May 16, 2014 at 12:29 pm
Watch: Le1f “Sup”
If it wasn’t clear enough from the video for his last single, “Boom,” it’s worth explicitly noting how little ...
May 16, 2014 at 10:00 am
Listen: The Fresh & Onlys ‘Who Let the Devil’
“Who let the devil walk into my house?” is not exactly the opening line you’d expect from this airy, upbeat single ...
May 15, 2014 at 1:45 pm
Interview: Amen Dunes is Punk in ‘Love’
Amen Dunes has a knack for music that forces trancelike introspection or solipsism, though the psychedelic tag attached to the sound ...
May 15, 2014 at 10:30 am
Listen: Sharon Van Etten “Your Love Is Killing Me”
Sharon Van Etten has grown in virtually every aspect as an artist with each successive album. Are We There, her upcoming album on ...
May 15, 2014 at 10:00 am
Watch: Dead Stars “Someone Else”
Dead Stars practically take you on a walking tour of Brooklyn in their newest video for “Someone Else,” a single off of ...
May 14, 2014 at 2:33 pm
Watch: First Aid Kit “My Silver Lining”
Back in 2008, Swedish sister act, First Aid Kit, caused a mild ruckus after covering Fleet Foxes’ “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song” ...
May 14, 2014 at 10:00 am
Watch: Fucked Up “Sun Glass”
Fucked Up’s new album, Glass Boys, is quickly approaching release. Each successive song we’ve heard from the album has ...
May 13, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Review: Amen Dunes ‘Love’
It’s hard to describe the feeling of a late night or early morning, especially during the summer months. On the East Coast, ...
May 12, 2014 at 11:00 am
Throwback Review: Weezer ‘Blue Album’
It was middle school, and I was fat and in and out of phases minute to minute. Vaguely punk, vaguely gothic, vaguely skater, vaguely ...
May 12, 2014 at 10:00 am
Watch: How To Dress Well “Repeat Pleasure”
Tom Krell, the man behind the lo-fi R&B project How To Dress Well, just released a devastatingly beautiful video for the first ...
May 12, 2014 at 8:00 am
Watch: Sharon Van Etten “Every Time the Sun Comes Up”
Sharon Van Etten knows that it’s hard to be yourself these days. When everyone relishes irony, what happens to authenticity? As ...
May 9, 2014 at 2:12 pm
A Few of Our Favorite Things: HIGH WAISTED
High Waisted is a wildly fun quartet of locals, bringing sunny, lo-fi surf rock to the not-so-beachy streets of NYC. Reverb-layered ...
May 9, 2014 at 10:00 am
Listen: Shabazz Palaces “They Come in Gold”
Ishmael Butler and Tendai Maraire, aka Shabazz Palaces, have released the first track off their upcoming sophomore album, Lese ...
May 8, 2014 at 1:24 pm
Listen: Guided by Voices ‘Table at Fool’s Tooth’
You’re going to want to turn up the volume on this one. Once you do, bask in the qualities that mark a vintage GBV song – scuzzy, ...
May 8, 2014 at 10:00 am
Watch: Sia “Chandelier”
I’ve been convinced ever since the time of its release that Sia’s “Chandelier” would be one of the hits of ...
May 7, 2014 at 12:37 pm
Listen: BANKS “Goddess”
Every time Banks drops another track she reveals a little more about herself. The latest offering, “Goddess” (produced by Lil ...
May 6, 2014 at 4:29 pm
Watch: Garbage “Girls Talk” Feat. Brody Dalle
Garbage was just one of many artists getting in on Record Store Day’s vinyl love fest, which sadly comes but one day a year. The ...
May 6, 2014 at 2:52 pm
Listen: The Antlers “Hotel”
The Antlers‘ lush, grandiose, all-encompassing soundscapes seem, at this point, almost meticulously constructed to encourage ...
May 6, 2014 at 10:00 am
Listen: Ought “Habit”
Constellation is one of my favorite record labels in the world. It’s home to such luminaries as Godspeed You! Black Emporer and ...
May 2, 2014 at 11:30 am
Listen: Hooray For Earth “Keys”
Brooklyn’s Hooray for Earth have built quite a nice niche for themselves since their debut album in 2008. They play a similar ...
May 1, 2014 at 2:05 pm
Throwback Album Review: Hasil Adkins ‘Chicken Walk/ She’s Mine’
Hasil Adkins (Pronounced ‘Hassle’ sort of like those dudes who try and sell their hip hop album to you on Broadway) is a now ...
May 1, 2014 at 12:49 pm
Listen: Baths “Ocean Death”
Will Wiesenfeld has come a long way from the starchy pop of Cerulean, his debut album as Baths, released on Anticon in 2010. The ...
May 1, 2014 at 10:00 am
Listen: Fucked Up “Led By Hand”
We’ve got a red alert Reese’s Cup scenario here.Not only did we get a new song from punk elites Fucked Up this week, but ...
April 30, 2014 at 3:37 pm
Watch: David Lynch “The Big Dream (Moby Reversion Feat. Mindy Jones)”
Surrealist film guru David Lynch has teamed up with Moby for a reversion of his song “The Big Dream,” the opening track ...
April 30, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Watch: Habibi “I Got the Moves”
The one time (two times? three times?) I got detention in high school I had to come in on Saturday morning and spend the whole day ...
April 30, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Listen: Big K.R.I.T. “Mt. Olympus”
Mississippi emcee Justin Scott, a.k.a. Big K.R.I.T., has had a productive year so far. Earlier in the year he gave us a whole week of ...
April 30, 2014 at 10:00 am
A Few Of Our Favorite Things: TEEN
TEEN, the Brooklyn by way of Nova Scotia trio of sisters, and Boshra AlSaadi, captured our attention with the psychedelic harmonies ...
April 25, 2014 at 2:21 pm
A Few of Our Favorite Things: Little Racer
Little Racer is a quartet out of Brooklyn making poppy surf tunes that are ready to take you to the dance floor or the beach, ...
April 21, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Between Sleep and Agony: An Interview with Fear of Men
Fear of Men, hailing from the beach town of Brighton, England create dark, guitar-based pop that shouldn’t be described as ...