Garage reissue falls flat The description of this record on Burger Records website tells me that this is a long lost gem from the 2003-2004 noise rock scene. Cool and exciting as this may sound, The Traps, for all their noise and heaviness and loud guitars, are...
Selfie-advocate AND talented Burial's material is so scarcely released that, at this point, every EP, every single, every selfie, is followed with a firestorm of coverage from every corner of the electronic' music community, and rightfully so. His string of...
Baltimore group steps up their game I've always known Sun Club to be messy, totally unorganized, and entirely unreliable live. Sometime in the past few months, however, these Capital Punishment alum's have really stepped up their game, releasing an EP with...
For a band best known for their pubescent humor and alcohol-drowned performances (which occasionally were just meltdowns), The Replacements left quite the mark on alternative rock, gathering citations as one of the forefathers of the now uselessly broad genre of indie...
I'm not one to mourn when someone who doesn't have a discernible effect on my life passes on. When one of the lead singers who belonged to a band which I used to listen to a fair amount in high school died unexpectedly, it's fair to say that I didn't react the...
HAPPY FRIDAY! Check out these five favorite artists on the rack reviewed by the ballin’ music staff. Of course we’ve got a look inside Sam Smith’s EDM soul, static from Montreal’s Solids, darkness from NOTHING, “mahogany vocals” from Ane Brun and Snowmine with indie...
Monday night Annie Clark released an advance listening of her new album St. Vincent. It is a rather welcomed movement back into the landscape of Marry Me (2007). The album, which unfolds quite dialectically, back into and out of the conventions of social alienation,...
Another song detailing the deep inner pain of the singer comes up on shuffle. Another quivering voice metes messages out for my ear by belt and whisper. Music, really any art form, carries some crazy burdens. Folks cannot go wandering around screaming half mad about...
In what seemed to be the longest, coldest, most dreadful winter this year, D.C. finally experienced a day of bright sunshine and glorious heat this past Wednesday. So what better way to celebrate the beautiful weather than with a pre-springtime playlist to make the...
Indie-pop Latin-synth This five-piece London group got their name from a Baudelaire poem, reference Chuck Palahniuk, and make music as contrasting as their literary allusions. Let's Go Extinct sounds like some Brits stole a Cuban jazz band and decided to sing...