The world of Twitter is relatively new place for me. Over the past month or so I have been trying to navigate the waters of the social network and learn its intricacies. I have learned some but I still have some way to go to become a master sailor of Twitter. I find...
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Rainy Day Music #9: Hospice
Last week's pick, Dilute’s second album, was a piece of beauty that embodied rain in its sound as well as its abstract emotion. This week's Rainy Day Album does away with the abstract and goes straight for the emotion: Hospice by the Antlers. Thanks to our...
633 Ashland Ave.: Parquet Courts Announce New Album
Only two years after the release and success from their first album, Light Up Gold, the Brooklyn punk outfit Parquet Courts have announced the release of their new album Sunbathing Animal. Along with the announcement of their new album, they also released a new...
Shaken Not Stirred: A Brief “Death Cab” Overview
It's that time of year again. The time for crazed festival fans to prepare themselves for the summer's upcoming musical events. Finally, summer music festivals are releasing their lineups for 2014 and pumping up festival-goers across the country. This past Tuesday,...
DJ Spotlights: Strictly Kosher
How did you come to call your show Strictly Kosher? Drew Sher: Before Strictly Kosher, my show's name was Fur Sher. As with all of my names, I was joking around with Mikey Creedz, Mike Creedon, and we came up it. I like for my show name to be a play on words. What...
Leading Ladies: Female Artists Supporting Each Other Is A Great Thing
Janelle MonÌÁe performs with a hologram M.I.A. for a live on-stage collab. (I might have cried just a bit.) I am a big fan of seeing women uplift and support each other, especially within the music industry. Recent examples include BeyoncÌ© featuring Nigerian author...
The Tough Crowd: Copeland – A Love Letter
Very rarely am I optimistic about a new record. Especially when the new record is from a recently reunited band, and even more so when that band’s last record I consider one of my personal favorites. Last week when Copeland announced their reunion, it's the...
Chance The Rapper-Acid Rap (Self-Released)
SEE CHANCE LIVE AT AU ON APRIL 10 Among the best hip-hop releases of last year, Chance The Rapper’s breakthrough project Acid Rap is an impossibly smooth and effortless collection of summer infused, fresh pop rap. With a voice that sounds like the unpredictably...
Mac DeMarco – Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
He’s done it again After 2012's 2, which featured the enticing single “My Kind of Woman,” a yearning for Salad Days was inevitable. The phrase “salad days” has been around since Shakespeare, made popular by DC band Minor Threat ÛÒ referring to the...
Cloud Nothings ÛÒ Here And Nowhere Else (Carpark)
The Best New Music. There comes a point in our lives when we have absolutely no idea what we're doing. There aren't any signs pointing us in the direction that we should be headed, instead we have to some how figure it out on our own. At times it is excruciatingly...