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Video: Smoke DZA, “New Jack” (Prod. by Harry Fraud)
One of the hugest reasons the music internet is a double-edged sword is that we end up watching some dude grow into an artist as he’s growing. It leads to some awkward moments and less-than-stellar … read more »
Pond, “Tears of a Clown” MP3
It’s always kinda weird when artists do entire cover albums. Like, yeah they can be good and interesting and fun to listen to, but it sometimes feels like they’re designed as a placeholder until something … read more »
Video: Modeselektor and Thom Yorke, “This”
Did you ever watch all those claymation/stop motion/whatever Tool videos and wish that the characters in them would just quit attaching themselves to tubes and pulling pieces of their flesh off their own bodies and … read more »
Video: Canyons, “When I See You Again”
There is approximately one VHS home video that I am featured in, and it’s from sometime in the late ’80s. I’m not 100% sure why my dad rented that video camera, other than that it … read more »
Stream: TNGHT (Hudson Mohawke and Lunice), “Bugg’n”
Legend has it (we just made up this legend) that both Lunice and Hudson Mohawke were hatched from an egg in Polow da Don’s studio right as he finished the beat for Young Buck’s “Get … read more »
Download That Chromatics Album, Minus The Drums
Smack in the middle of an
Stream: SURVIVE’s Self-Titled Album
Listening to SURVIVE, you’d think they came from some ’70s vision of the future, replete with glittering monoliths and plenty of dome-based structures, but instead they’re from present-day Austin, Texas. Drifting between devastating tracks like … read more »
Family Band, “Night Song” MP3
Last summer, smack in the middle of a bummer month of sweaty evenings and those weird emotionally flat days where you just kind of sit around and think about sad stuff and also how it’s … read more »
Download Young L’s Enigma Theory Mixtape
Another week, another Young L mixtape. Considering the dude spends most of his time making beats that sound like they’ve been beamed from another planet, you’d think his mental reserve of weird sounds would have … read more »
Hear Two New Animal Collective Songs, “Honeycomb” and “Gotham”
It’s always felt kinda ridiculous incorporating Animal Collective into the daily blog news cycle. Like, sure, “My Girls” was instantly and obviously a hit, but what about “Fireworks?” Where were you when you realized that … read more »
