Machinedrum springs breathy new track on fans Jay Kwok April 6, 2014 News Though fans are still hungover from last month's Fenris District (the clubbing sector of the imaginary Vapor City), prolific dance musician Machinedrum has already moved on. The act, also known as Travis Stewar...
Thievery Corporation explore the essence of sentiment with the multilingual Saudade Linda Choi March 31, 2014 Album Review 1 Comment Thievery Corporation gives universal meaning to saudade, an exclusively Portuguese word, in their newest album. Thievery Corporation's Saudade Since the mid-90s, Thievery Corporation, a D.C.-based duo consis...
Brooklyn’s Snowmine and Small Black generate great conversation at Rickshaw Stop Joanna Jiang March 26, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews 1 Comment There are nights when the openers are openers; there are nights when the openers steal the show. Tuesday night’s stacked lineup at Rickshaw Stop could’ve gone either way. During local one-man act Yalls, we...
Shit Robot gets groovy and historic on We Got A Love Myra March 20, 2014 Album Review Shit Robot Irish producer Marcus Lambkin, aka Shit Robot, creates club dance tracks with late twentieth-century throwback sounds. His nostalgic style fits perfectly with the aesthetic cultivated by his label, ...
Metronomy tells ghost stories, writes Love Letters Conner Smith March 12, 2014 Album Review photo by Gregoire Alexandre Capitalizing on the modern revival of the British Invasion, Metronomy has synthesized a haunting electropop gem in Love Letters. The group's fourth installment is rooted in drum m...
Four Tet practices hypnosis at San Francisco’s Mezzanine Chris Redman March 10, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Four Tet at Mezzanine in San Francisco Four Tet, the moniker of electronic artist Kieran Hebden, delivered a hypnotic, sample-based performance at the Mezzanine in San Francisco Saturday night, mixing element...
Max Cooper explores the cerebral on his long-awaited debut, Human Joanna Jiang March 5, 2014 Album Review Max Cooper has a Ph.D., a real affinity for Twitter, and a critically acclaimed music career that seemed to come out of nowhere. The UK producer showcased his raw, but expert chops with an electrifying perfo...
“Picture You” underwater with KALEIDA’s deep, bubbly new single Joanna Jiang March 3, 2014 News At this point in time, the sultry pop of London's KALEIDA is the strongest contender for a soundtrack to a Little Mermaid film reinvented Her-style, if it ever were to happen. (Hello, Spike Jonze.) The musical...
DJ Rashad and Digital Mystikz work feet and heads with bass heavy tunes at 1015 Folsom Myra February 28, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Digital Mystikz A night doused with precipitation and subsonic frequencies arrived at 1015 Folsom in San Francisco this Thursday, where footwork and dubstep duo DJ Rashad and Digital Mystikz (UK producers Mal...
Cibo Matto returns to San Francisco, commends the food Linda Choi February 28, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Cibo Matto Sporadic showers and behind-schedule buses didn’t stop dedicated Cibo Matto fans, many of whom have been devotedly following them since the late-90’s, from flocking to Slim’s on Wednesday to ...
Nguzunguzu unveils prismatic mixtape Perfect Lullaby Jay Kwok February 27, 2014 Album Review Known as Nguzunguzu, the Los Angeles-based pair of Asma Maroof and Daniel Pineda recently gifted us an immersive sequel to their 2011 mixtape Perfect Lullaby, which has been posted with an accompanying stream ...
Crosses debut self-titled: dreamy, surreal Jade Theriault February 15, 2014 Album Review When Pitchfork published an article titled “Deftones Dude Has a Witch House Project" in 2011, it was one of the earliest sightings of Crosses. Crosses is Chino Moreno (Deftones), Shaun Lopez (Far), and Chu...
Little Dragon – “Klapp Klapp” Conner Smith February 15, 2014 News Electronic resurrection in Little Dragon's latest video Sweden’s Little Dragon just orchestrated an electronic resurrection with their latest single, "Klapp Klapp." The song's punkish beats and heavy synth b...
DJ Rashad’s Double Cup Advances The Footwork Genre Myra November 25, 2013 Album Review There are far too many DJs in this world, but DJ Rashad's Double Cup is worth sharing, doubly much. The Chicago-based producer has just released his second album on London's Hyperdub, the dubstep label resp...
Interview: Memories of Room 14 with Keep Shelly in Athens Joanna Jiang October 28, 2013 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview, Photos, Reviews 1 Comment She’s a petite young girl with large eyes that go from worried to incandescently happy when she is in her realm. Her realm? Kypseli, Athens – the one she, who goes by Sarah P., and bandmate RΠЯ (pronounce...