TOMAT – “1984” Music Video (w/ Director Gabriele Ottino & Musician Davide Tomat Interview)
"The denser the number of events a second, the more we lose the facts itself, gaining objectivity but losing humanity." -- Gabriele Ottino
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Top Pops! Shmu, Sacred Caves MP3 Downloads & Streams
“Pop music shouldn’t always get a bad rap,” says Top Pops!, a recurring selection of pop music highlights across a selection of styles. All we need this time is two acts: Austin’s Shmu (1/2 of Zorch) and California’s Sacred Caves (member of Film School). Shmu Shmu is the new solo project of Sam Chown, one...Read...
Geist & The Sacred Ensemble Live Show Review
When others introduced Geist & The Sacred Ensemble to me as “weird folk-psych,” I knew immediately that I would find in them a welcome change from more common interpretations of modern psychedelic music. To my surprise, though, what I soon found within the gritty confines of Seattle’s Black Lodge was a cinematic musical achievement, from...Read...
CocoRosie – “We Are On Fire” Music Video, “Tearz For Animals” Featuring Antony Hegarty MP3
CocoRosie’s latest release, a 7″ featuring “We Are On Fire” and “Tearz For Animals”, is the duo’s first release in two years, taking their hip-hop-influenced vibes into an epic realm of movement, smoke, and costume in this slow-motion music video for “We Are On Fire”, directed by Emma Freeman. More cutesy is their collaboration with...Read...
Remix City: Shadowbox, Stalker, Grimes, :PAPERCUTZ MP3 Downloads & Streams
Remix City Sifting through mountains of remix trash so you don’t have to, in an attempt to find the ones that actually build on the originals in meaningful ways. :PAPERCUTZ & Stalker Portugal’s :PAPERCUTZ have a new album dropping July 10th, entitled The Blur Between Us on Sounds Of A Playground. It comes with two...Read...
Top Pops! Magic Trick (Tim Cohen of The Fresh & Onlys), Money, Psychic Twin MP3 Downloads & Streams
“Pop music shouldn’t always get a bad rap,” says Top Pops!, a recurring selection of pop music highlights across a selection of styles. Psychic Twin This adorable single from Illinois pop duo Psychic Twin comes as a part of Lefse Records’ upcoming 7″ series, which begins June 26th. Psychic Twin are kicking off the series...Read...
Extended Listen: Musique Fragile Mixtape + dälek’s Music For ASM MP3 Download & Stream
In this post, diversity in musical form rules, as Constellation Records offers samples from their killer upcoming 3-disc vinyl collection, Musique Fragile Volume 02, and dälek of Anti-Social Music shares “Music For ASM”. dälek dälek’s “Music For ASM” splices together bits of classical, drone, and jazz into a slowly building and just minorly unsettling...Read...
Lazerbeak – “Lift Every Voice” Music Video (Interview w/ Director Matt Scharenbroich)
"There is a certain freedom and release associated with this transformational and transcendent state. That release from the boredom and restraints of life can be incredibly uplifting." -- Matt Scharenbroich
Madness! Starring, SFV Acid, Anywhere MP3 Downloads & Streams
MADNESS! is a recurring series of audio WTFs and head-twitching, spine-tingling experimental or chaotic fun (k-k+st-s)icks. Starring “Kraut-punk, you say?” my ears perking up. “Whatever could that madness be?” That madness is Starring. And at the risk of being lazy, I’m going to go ahead and copy and paste a clip from SPIN, as it...Read...
Shaun Kardinal & Erin Frost Joint Artist Interview: Entangled In Embroidery
"Every artist has the occasional fit over a project, reaching moments of doubtful frustration, but having the other near, offering words of encouragement and logic, can be even more fruitful." -- Shaun Kardinal