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  Le1f released his latest mixtape, Tree House, this past Tuesday, and it is the realness. Le1f, nÌ©e Khalif Diouf, is a queer New York native who broke into the scene by producing “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell‰” by Das Racist. His music video “Wut‰”...

With bold personal style and a voice that‰'s equal parts velvet and golden spikes, all eyes are on 23-year-old Etta Bond, the London-based chanteuse who released her second EP, Meds, just last August. Originally from Cambridge, Bond grew up around siblings who were...

As indicated in the title, the sublime dons a shroud of darkness in the Crystal Stilts‰' long-anticipated third studio album. In Nature Noir, released September 17, the Brooklyn-based underground-rock veterans focus on the complex relationship between humanity and...

San Fermin – San Fermin (Downtown) Dirty Projectors chamber pop with Matt Berminger‰'s voice. Take whatever you like about Dirty Projectors, then everything that you like about chamber pop (if anything), then everything you like about Matt Berminger of The National’s...

Pavement‰'s 1992 debut, Slanted & Enchanted, was an underdog record from the start. Recorded at the home of local hippie legend Gary Young (who was also recruited to drum on the album), the album was a melting pot of abrasive lo-fi guitar, sloppy drumming and...

Jazz, among other things, is music for the individualist. It bends musical rules forward and backward and refuses to conform to rigid structure and organization. Jazz values inconsistencies and imperfections and radiates a carefree energy through the disembodiment of...

This week, I’ve decided to take a look at the first video on MTV which launched a million Teen Moms, “Video Killed the Radio Star”. The Buggles’ barely remembered hit has a particularly uninspiring video to go with it. The poppy new wave track focused on the dual...

  The new single “Chamakay‰” by Blood Orange is nothing less than a masterpiece. The day-old track is characteristically heartfelt, complex and catchy. DevontÌ© Hynes aka Blood Orange travels to Guyana, which is his mother‰'s hometown, to pay homage to his roots...

Julie Holter is coming to the Rock & Roll Hotel Thursday, Sept. 26 and we’re giving away two (count ‘em, TWO) free tickets to the show! Enter here:åÊhttp://t.co/phRoZbVobY Contest ends September 18th.

Dent May – Warm Blanket (Paw Tracks) Summer slipping slowly away… Warm Blanket, the third studio album by Paw Tracks understudy Dent May, feels like his grab for the spotlight. He is clearly cut from the Paw Tracks/Carpark cloth, recalling Toro Y Moi‰'s soft grooves,...