LCD Soundsystem American Dream DFA Records Back from a 2011 emotional breakup,, LCD Soundsytem has now released another record which pokes fun at music, combines 80s beats with modern edge and tackles big topics on the backdrop of upbeat sounds. [...]
Kobi Onyame Gold Independent Gold is Kobi Onyame’s third album and his first since 2013’s Glory. Onyame is a Ghanaian artist who is currently based in the U.K. All of his music has been released independently and yet he has built up a sizeable [...]
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart The Echo Of Pleasure Painbow Records The fourth album by Kip Berman’s The Pains of Being Pure at Heart is called The Echo of Pleasure. The album has been out for a while and many initial opinions jumped onto the [...]
OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark) The Punishment Of Luxury White Noise Records Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark (OMD) are not a retro act. This band may have started close to forty years ago, but they continue to produce relevant, [...]
Elovet B-Sides Vol. 1 Independent Elovet is a new artist from Georgia. B-Sides Vol 1 is his most recent EP and features songs that did not make his previous releases (two previous albums, and one EP). Elovet is really a one man show, Ajaye [...]
Tera Melos Trash Generator Sargent House Suffice to say that after 10 years as a band and the release of their 7th studio album, Trash Generator, Tera Melos is simply at their prime. The band is a three-piece melting pot of post-hardcore and [...]
The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding Atlantic Records It has been three years since The War On Drugs last album (Lost in The Dream), and since that time it would seem that frontman and writer for the band, Adam Granduciel, has been listening [...]
Aron D’Alesio Aron D’Alesio Paper Bag Records Taking a moment out of his decade-long stint fronting indie rock band Young Rivals, Aron D’Alesio has released his debut solo album. Simply self titled, this record reflects a creative outburst for [...]
A$AP Mob Cozy Tapes Vol. 2 – Too Cozy A$AP Worlwide/RCA A lot of people have been waiting eagerly for this, the second studio album from A$AP Mob, and although it might not quite always hit the heights, they won’t be too disappointed. A$AP [...]
Queens Of The Stone Age Villains Matador Records Queens of the Stone Age fans rejoice; the boys are back in tow! It has been nearly a four year musical drought for the Palm Desert band and rock n’ roll has become restless in their absence. After [...]
Dan Deacon Spiderman Of The Rings Carpark Records The best way to describe the music of 2007 is that emo rock was at its peak in popularity and sound, and hip-hop was as ever present as it is today. Dan Deacon’s Spiderman of the Rings [...]
Betty Moon Chrome Evolver Music Betty Moon returns with her eighth album and she continues to do what she does best, produce danceable, melodic pop music. Chrome is a well put together album full of beats, rhythms and strong vocals from Moon [...]
Tobacco Ripe & Majestic Rad Cult To narrow down exactly what Tobacco’s latest record, Ripe & Majestic, sounds like would be to say it’s a good combination of merging the old and the new. What I mean by that is in his songs [...]
Angelo De Augustine Swim Inside The Moon Asthmatic Kitty Perhaps it is the move to Asthmatic Kitty, or perhaps it is his own growth, but on this album,his second, Angelo De ugustine has delivered a deeply personal album and incredibly strong [...]
Kacy & Clayton The Siren’s Song New West Records Second cousins Kacy Anderson and Clayton Linthicum seem like they’re part of a bygone era. It’s not just their retro cover art, the disco-ball cuts in music videos, or their dreamy [...]
Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins RCA It’s been five years since Grizzly Bear has released a record. In that time, we’ve lost Obama, gained ebola, and upgraded our iPhone five times. It’s definitely been a while. After Shields, the group went [...]
Android Lust Berlin//Crater Vol 2 Synthellec Music From the second the needle drops, you know you are in new and uncharted territory. It says Berlin, but this is Android Lust’s Berlin, not the city you know. From the opening sound until the [...]
Frankie Rose Cage Tropical Slumberland Records What do Dum Dum Girls, Crystal Stilts, and Beverly all have in common? Each one of them played host to the talented drummer/vocalist Frankie Rose, before she struck out on her own as a solo artist [...]
Slow Leaves Enough About Me Independent Imagine it’s June and you’ve taken a vacation to Newfoundland and you walk into a pub with fairy lights and wood furnishings. A band is playing and it’s probably going to sound like Slow [...]
Maker Girl Quit Your Crying Kidda Records These guys just keep getting better and better. Girl Quit Your Crying is Maker’s second five track EP (their first, Move Your Feet was released earlier this year) and it not only picks up where Move Your [...]
The Isley Brothers & Santana Power Of Peace Legacy Recordings/Sony Music Carlos Santana collaborating with other artists is not news. He has had an entire career where he has collaborated with many different artists, usually to great [...]
Niteshifters Huge Disco Deli Music Disco is back! Niteshifters follow the success of their debut single “Show Me What You’ve Got” with the release of their album Huge Disco (Deli Music) on August 4, 2017. The full-length album recalls the [...]
Moon King Hamtramck ’16 Arbutus Records Moon King’s new EP Hamtramck ‘16 steps a million miles away from his previous eclectic dream pop sound into new territory: disco. The moniker of producer, singer and songwriter Daniel Benjamin, Moon [...]
Blancmange (Box Set) The Blanc Tapes Edsel Recording In 1981 I bought a sampler album called Some Bizzare Album. There were a lot of incredible bands on the album, The The, Soft Cell and Depeche Mode. But there was one song by a new band named [...]
