STAFF PICKS kimber – made of oak lindsay – tracey thorn dario – magnetic fields jeff – courtney barnett THIS WEEK’S NEW RELEASES 9th Wonder & Talib Kweli – Indie 500 CD/2xLP (It’s Wonderful A World Music Group) 9th Wonder has established himself as hip-hop’s top educator, working as a professor at Harvard, Duke […]
STAFF PICKS kimber – cheatahs lindsay – video, martin courtney, sharon jones dario – sun city girls jeff – sun club, beach slang, ugly casanova THIS WEEK’S NEW RELEASES Alberta Cross – Alberta Cross CD/LP (Dine Alone) “For the better part of a decade, Alberta Cross was the creative outlet for friends Petter […]
STAFF PICKS kimber – joanna newsom lindsay – fuzz dario – joanna newsom jeff – gza, fuzz THIS WEEK’S NEW RELEASES Beat Connection – Product 3 CD/LP+MP3 (ANTI-) What began as a party-starting DJ duo at the University of Washington, has since blossomed into a four-piece that brings the beats with an incandescent, sample-heavy sound that […]
STAFF PICKS kimber – here we go magic, twilight sad lindsay – wilco, holly golightly dario – here we go magic jeff – deerhunter, here we go magic THIS WEEK’S NEW RELEASES !!! – As If CD/2xLP+MP3 (Warp) Combining punk abandon and tightly-coiled dance music has always been bonded into !!!’s DNA. It’s this […]
Beach House has been a busy band this year, having released their critically acclaimed Depression Cherry not even two months ago, only to spring another release on us, seemingly created from thin air. Thank Your Lucky Stars is the newest full length from this Baltimore duo, and their 6th release since 2006. And, like Depression […]
Often scoffed at and regarded as one of the lesser forms of music media, it would seem the Cassette tape has long since gone the way of the slide rule or the home telephone. However, there is one factor that can save almost anyone or anything from permanent obsolescence…Music! This is apparent when you look at […]
STAFF PICKS kimber – beirut lindsay – dungen, protomartyr dario – dungen jeff – alex g, el ten eleven THIS WEEK’S NEW RELEASES Alex G. – Beach Music CD/LP+MP3 (Domino) “Alex Giannascoli, more commonly known as Alex G, is a lo-fi bedroom pop artist from Pennsylvania. Although he has tons of albums currently on Bandcamp, Beach […]
STAFF PICKS kimber – editors lindsay – helvetia dario – helvetia jeff – helvetia, kamasi washington THIS WEEK’S NEW RELEASES Bixiga 70 – III CD/LP (Glitterbeat) There is no doubt that Bixiga 70 is one of the guiding voices of Brazil’s contemporary instrumental music scene and their new album III clearly demonstrates why. Blitzen Trapper – All […]
STAFF PICKS kimber – youth lagoon, bikini kill lindsay – kurt vile, youth lagoon dario – julia holter jeff – kurt vile THIS WEEK’S NEW RELEASES Bikini Kill – Revolution Girl Style Now [1991] CD/LP+MP3 (Bikini Kill) Bikini Kill’s first collection of work (previously cassette-only) has been expanded with three previously unreleased tracks: “Ocean Song,” […]
STAFF PICKS kimber – telekinesis lindsay – dave rawlings machine, ought, destruction unit dario – ought, battles jeff – homeshake, hibou, battles, ought THIS WEEK’S NEW RELEASES Air Waves – Parting Glances CD/LP (Western Vinyl) In 2010 Nicole Schneit aka Air Waves released Dungeon Dots, an album Aquarius Records called “…pretty much perfect […]