When it comes to generating earworms, New York’s Das Racist works with a special recipe. The mistake most artists make is in trying to be meaningful or melodic. Nah, all you really need is an equal mixture of repetition and outlandishness. Throw “Michael Jackson, a million dollars, ya feel
Oddly enough, out of all the tracks on their new album Circuital, My Morning Jacket’s joke-ish “Holdin On To Black Metal” is the first to get the music video treatment. The clip unrolls like some sort of strange acid trip, featuring a number of strangely smiling people in a
Yeah, So by Make Wave Believe it or not, it’s already August. Aside from signaling the impending end of the summer season, this fact means that some people out there are probably getting a little tired of catchy, summery pop music–the kind that gets played on road trips
Despite a bit of genre-hopping, Machinedrum’s latest album, Room(s), comes together quite nicely. There are moments tracks influenced by the world of glitchy, which this guy has always had a soft spot for. But Machinedrum is very good about appealing to the winds of change whenever they’re
Brooklyn punks Cerebral Ballzy have a new video out for “Junky For Her,” a song from the band’s new self-titled album. Like the song itself, the “Junky For Her” video wastes no time with introductions. A group of girls is having a sleepover when the pizza guy arrives, presumably
MP3 On Sept 6th via Western Vinyl, Here We Go Magic frontman Luke Temple will be dropping his third album under his own name: Don’t Act Like You Don’t Care. A lot of this material is years old–take a look at “More Than Muscle”–and was somewhat
The ILLZ is Dominican-born rapper Delgis Jose Mustafa Rodriguez. The guy’s output since his ’09 debut, the Pursuit LP, hasn’t been plentiful, but it has been ambitious. Two of his most recent projects to drop is a compilation of his best material thus far, and a video mixtape.
A new video for the War On Drugs track “Come To the City,” which will be on the project’s forthcoming album, Slave Ambient. Look for it on Secretly Canadian on August 16th. If you’re interested, you can stream the entire album in full via the Urban Outfitters website.
A new video from Little Dragon for the track “When I Go Out,” which is off the band’s new album, Ritual Union. Watch a review of the album right here. /via/
A 12-track sampler of the best stuff Slumberland Records has had to offer in 2011, stretching from the new Brilliant Colors album to the LP Crystal Stilts dropped back in April. Enjoy!
