Album Review

Enigmatic rapper/producer/general eccentric Lil' Ugly Mane, also known as Shawn Kemp, has come out of his voluntary isolation to release a six track EP. Entitled The Weeping Worm, the EP contains some of ...

Chillwave may not be a canonized genre of music, but Toro y Moi is definitely a canonized name in said genre -- more like, his name has been engraved, by lightning, on the stone slab of said genre. Since f...

Chock-full of dark corners and bright openings, long corridors and sharp stops, soft suggestions and provocative twists, I Forget Where We Were, English musician Ben Howard's latest effort out October 20 v...

courtesy of Steady Focus Productions College kids love EDM -- according to Spotify, EDM is the second most popular genre on college campuses, and UC Berkeley listeners enjoy EDM on average more than any...

Photo by Jenna Foxton, Courtesy of Sacks & Co. I first heard Bear's Den on a lazy Sunday, the second day of Mumford & Sons' Gentlemen of the Road stopover in Lewes, England. Each member bearded, shy...

“Come on / come at me,” sings Stacy Dupree-King on “Young and Free” from her latest EP as Sucré. Loner, released last month via Red Velvet Records, is the follow-up to her debut LP, A Minor Bird ...

Looking for a weekend pick-me-up? Check out Cheerleader's latest EP, On Your Side, a sunny blend of pop and alternative rock. Each track balances whispery vocals with the textures of synthesized beats an...

Long Beach indie rock outfit, Cold War Kids, released their new album Hold My Home on October 20th, as their fifth full length studio album, arriving just one year after Dear Miss Lonelyhearts. It’s safe ...

A looping wave like something out of a dream, it’s almost impossible to appreciate “Infinite Trips,” the first track off of Cosmic Logic, without telling yourself “this is the first track off of Cos...

As a child, I spent Thanksgivings in Dan Snaith’s old backyard. Dundas, Ontario, Canada will always conjure pastoral images of rolling farmland, and apple orchards (McIntosh, Jonagold, and Northern Spy ar...

This generation of millennials has caused what some call the “death of electronic music,” as big room house and its associated ecstasy-fueled culture has come to dominate the listening tendencies of teens ...

On October 6th, Iceage released their third full-length album Plowing Into the Field of Love. It is a challenging, dark record that summons angst, conflicts of youth, and a stormy collection of raw emotion...

Flying Lotus’s new album You’re Dead! arrives amidst huge anticipation culminating with the release of two singles, one of which features the current standard of rap, Kendrick Lamar. Confirmed rumors th...

“Do you wish you could go back to it all?” From humble beginnings and an absurdist Gregorian chant, Nika Roza Danilova and Taiga appear. This is the fifth release for the Arizona-born, Wisconsin-raised, ...

As writers and wordsmiths, we can relate to The History of Apple Pie’s sweet-nothing of a moniker. The London band’s 2010 inception story is most akin to that of a local jam band, one that plays the sho...