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Beyoncé – Grown Woman Live Performance (MV of the Week) + Chime For Change Non-Profit Profile

"I have always felt strongly about equal opportunity for women. Girls have to be taught from early on that they are strong and capable of being anything they want to be. It's up to us to change the statistics for women around the world. I'm honored to be in the company of women who live...

Jul 11

by Vivian Hua

Efterklang Band Interview: The Ghost of Piramida

"You can for sure say that the context directs the music in a certain direction. Songs written on guitars come out different than songs written on pianos. A ghost town is quiet and a perfect place to make recordings. It is a brilliant setting for recording sound." - Rasmus Stolbreg of Efterklang

Jul 9

by Maria Schettino

High Wolf – Kairos: Chronos Album Review (Not Not Fun Records)

High Wolf is obviously no stranger to complicated instrumental composition. On his most recent release, Kairos: Chronos, he creates a work that is at times elusive, consistently impressive, and stimulating enough to provide ample room for contemplation amidst its contoured layers, contrasting soundscapes, and subtle chord progressions.

Jul 8

by Elizabeth Perry

Strangefruit – Sea of Fog Music Video (MV of the Week) + Director / Musician Interviews

"The original concept was that the music video would become almost like an art film. Something powerful, dramatic and theatrical, drawing on my research into psychoanalytical theories revolving around the origins of desire, sexuality and power. Exploring gender roles, the uncanny, the macabre, and Freudian theories of death and sex." Laura Clarke, Director

Jul 2

by Vivian Hua

Top Pops! June 2013: CocoRosie, Swahili, Sisterfella, Statistics, Elusive Parallelograms

"Pop music shouldn't always get a bad rap," says Top Pops!, a recurring selection of indie pop highlights across a selection of styles, updated every month to keep you funkeh. June's installment features a couple morbid songs from CocoRosie, dancey tracks from Swahili, Sisterfella, and Statistics, and an unlikely inclusion from Elusive Parallelograms.

Jun 28

by Vivian Hua

múm – Toothwheels Music Video (MV of the Week)

This flickering video for "Toothwheels", a collaboration between múm, Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson and Bruno Granato, visually translates the intent of the record, to "show the juxtoposing of two conflicting meanings, taking advantage of the energy created through the tension of both." The music video downright electrical, with its blasts of light and luminous accents framing...

Jun 28

by Vivian Hua

Date Palms – The Dusted Sessions Album Review

On The Dusted Sessions, Date Palms trace a fertile crescent from Nile Delta to Mojave Desert; soaring you though the stratosphere, then plummeting for a McCarthy slow crawl through the dust. Thrill Jockey have been killing it lately with their evocations of '70s kosmic soul jazz. Date Palms, however, have not created a love song...

Jun 27

by Jason Simpson

Aural Devastation, June 2013: The Dillinger Escape Plan, Deafheaven, Kylesa, Set and Setting

In this month's Aural Devastation, Kylesa return with a new album and Deafheaven redefine black metal as they know it -- plus songs from The Dillinger Escape Plan, Sun and Setting, and Sleeping in Gethsemane.

Jun 26

by Peter Woodburn

Royal Canoe Band Interview: Today We’re Believers in Pop Music (w/ Lyrical Analysis & Infographics)

"Today We're Believers is our way of trying to capture the moment on the first day of spring when the snow has freshly melted and everything comes alive. No matter where you are and no matter what you had to endure to get to this point, everything is forgiven and makes perfect sense, and your...

Jun 24

by Vivian Hua

Colin Stetson, Justin Walter Live Show Review (Barboza, Seattle)

Up until last night, I might have made the argument that the saxophone is one of the least interesting instruments on the planet. Although it is highlighted in jazz, its brass cousins easily overpower it in group arrangements. The saxophone, the metal woodwind, the wood-metal instrument with its odd metallic sound, is a bizarre thing....Read...

Jun 24

by Peter Woodburn