Well, this is just a two-song EP with some remixes so it’s going to be a quickie. Spoek Mathambo is the newest singing to SubPop and there is a lot going on here. Spoek is a South African rapper with multiple styles, sing-songy, backpacker, dub, dense, sparse—his flow is distinct or all over the place, depending […]

    I love it! I love it! I love it! If you love it so much why don’t you marry it? If it was legal and socially acceptable to marry an album, then I would be running off to Vegas with Mr. Gnome’s newest addition, Madness In Miniature. The super exciting duo from rather […]

The two lovely ladies and two lovely gents that make up London four piece Veronica Falls, just released their self titled debut album on Slumberland Records on September 20, 2011. This album has been out less than a month and it’s grown on me. It’s become addictive, even. To put it simply: this haunting, graceful, […]

AA Bondy at  FYF 2010 – Photo: Matt Fisher AA Bondy has quite a history. Discovered as the hillbilly Kurt Cobain, his first band’s first major label record, Verbena’s Into the Pink was produced by Dave Grohl and was pushed by a dying 90s Modern Rock industry as the saviors of grunge. This may sound […]

Loney Dear aka Emil Svanangen’s new album Hall Music which came out today, October 4, 2011 was influenced by playing shows throughout his native Sweden with chamber orchestras and coupling that influenced the reworking of some of his older material. The result is an orchestral rooted soundscape pairing the simple and complex, the clear and […]

The Dalston neighborhood of London is home to many significant pop culture people/places/things.  It brought us the ‘Nabootique’ shop on The Mighty Boosh, the setting of Simon Pegg’s movie Run Fatboy Run and it’s also where electronic party starters The Prodigy made their live debut in 1990.  Now, Dalston has one more thing to boast about […]

Grouplove at MINI Countryman Wanderlust (Malibu) – Photo: Dominoe Farris-Gilbert Everyone in the world should listen to Never Trust a Happy Song. This is the title of the debut full-length by the Los Angeles ensemble, Grouplove. This album is a blissful jewel of ripe sounds and sugary vocals coated to perfection. We’ve covered Grouplove numerous times and […]

Everyone, please rise and welcome back New York City’s very own pop-dance prodigal sons, The Rapture, and with them—In The Grace Of Your Love, the first studio album in a whopping five years, released on DFA records. After surviving a decade as a band, losing members, gaining producers and ultimately changing their minds, they return with an […]

Sacramento’s Ganglians are back two years after their last dual-album release of their self-titled debut and Monster Head Room in 2009. With producer Robby Moncrieff on board (Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca) this time around, they’ve taken some time to present their newest album Still Living, released August 23, 2011.  Does it hit the musical bull’s-eye? Well […]

Primus at Club Nokia – Photo by Ciera Leisenfelder  THEY’RE BACK!! After eleven years since their last studio release, legendary bassist Les Claypool has returned with his crown jewel Primus, releasing the much-anticipated Green Naugahyde. He is joined by Larry Lalonde and Jay Lane, both of whom come from the band’s old days (Lalonde has […]