Funky, Soulful, Electronic, and Dance-inspiring Maya Vik has hit a perfect balance between her own unique sound and years of inspiration reaching back to the 1970s and 1980s. On It is funky with fun bass lines and colorful instrumentation. The album's second...
Angry Arcade Fire on acid Reminiscent of the aura of “Reflektor” but transcending in the Rocky Horror Picture Show universe, Electric Order manages to be confusing and appealing in the same riff. Originating in Seattle and dominated by a guitar god, Atomic...
Garage goes lo-fi What do you get when you cross San Francisco, a garage band, and a synth? A little surprisingly, this band is no joke. POW! packs listeners with a punch, proclaiming a “natural Doppler effect” through their songs. While not quite your run of...
Girl-rocker in love. If you've ever strongly related an 80s montage of a teenage girl getting ready for a cute date, Molly Thomason is right for you. This 19-year-old Canadian has butterflies in her stomach and crushes on her mind. She's sounds like a fizzy...
A goofy walking bassline opens up this (reimagined) classic Dead Kennedys track. Jazzy, mellow guitar and swing percussion enter the mix as Jello Biafra addresses an imaginary bar, encouraging them to drink up to the last moments of free speech, recommending the house...
Past the Pacific Ocean comes a group from Australia. Their music doesn't convey as many (if any) implicit messages as their name might strangely imply. Strange Talk, formed in 2010, will probably sound similar to the chockfull of synth-pop bands that permeate the...
My roommate recently started on an Outkast spree. “Hey Ya” blares on through the speakers and across the room. Reveling in the nostalgia feels glorious. Memories of riding back on the bus from public school in 2003, kids asking the driver to turn up the radio, come...
The album Dirty Gold by Angel Haze aims at producing a very common effect. “My Identity is the music, everything you need to know about me is in the music: my home, its where I originate, its where I fall apart, its where I come to lifeÛ, to quote the opening lines...
After making a name for himself producing for some of the biggest names in underground' hip-hop, such as Joey Badass, Talib Kweli, and and Curren$y, Lee Bannon could have easily just become another boom-bap producer with a secret penchant for more aggressive...
For being tagged with the unfortunate genre descriptor of post-rock', a genre so often defined by its swelling crescendos into explosive climaxes, Mogwai, on their latest effort, very much lack the huge eruptions that someone would have expected from the...