Hot Yoga by Candlelight. Maybe I just have a different perception of yoga from others, but Comfort in Doubt seems to me to be a much better set list than a string of nature sounds. It's relaxing in a different way, a sensual way. Clearly, there's something sexy...
West coast garage punk. Criminal Hygiene apparently enjoys getting drunk before recording music, and it shows on this album. But not in a bad way. The album has sort of a haphazard messiness to it, but rather turn the listener off it provides its own unique...
Fans didn't exactly get what they were expecting when Kendrick Lamar dropped his first single in nearly two years late this September. The track, simply entitled "i", is an upbeat anthem; sampling the Isley Brother's classic "Who's That Lady," and using a...
Courtesy of The Guardian. The Antlers have been labeled as a “sad band.” It comes without surprise as one of their earlier albums, a concept album titled Hospice tells the story of a hospice worker caring for a patient suffering from terminal bone cancer. The overall...
Courtesy of @AZEALIABANKS. “212” featuring Lazy Jay dropped in 2011 as a free download on Azealia Banks's website. Three years later, Broke With Expensive Taste was stealthily released on Nov. 6. For me, one of the most important things I look for in a musician...
Courtesy of Stereogum. Well. Here it is. The column I've had ever since I thought about writing about music. Titus Andronicus is a punk band from New Jersey that just so happened to release an absolutely perfect album in 2010 entitled The Monitor. I've always...
Courtesy of Impose. We're more than midway through the semester so it's time to switch it up. Next week The Tough Crowd will return to it's usual informational shenanigans, but this week it gets more personal. Being a senior in college means life gets busy. Too...
Courtesy of Nicole Brunet Photography. A few weeks ago we were lucky enough to catch Alex G during his month-long fall tour with Gardens & Villa. It seems like the precocious Philadelphian has been touring nonstop ever since his most recent album DSU (a...
Courtesy of Eli Fosl. The juxtaposition of jazz and hip hop is not something new. A Tribe Called Quest and even Kendrick Lamar have played around with this interesting intersection. BadBadNotGood exemplifies the combination of these two seemingly opposite...
Courtesy of Slack-Time. From the petulant pop-punk of Ace Wilder to the totally unnecessary sledgehammer similes of Fifth Harmony, I decided to make you a handy-dandy list of all the Most Important Tracks from the Week:Ace Wilder, "Riot" I've been...