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...
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Leading Ladies: "Broke With Expensive Taste" should be on everyone’s top albums list
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...
Another Kind of Currency: The Quotations Used on Titus Andronicus’ "The Monitor"
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...
The Tough Crowd: Scenes From A D.C. Basement Show
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...
Live in the Hive: Alex G
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...
Capitol Punishment Preview: BADBADNOTGOOD w/ Ace Cosgrove
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...
Pop Exodus: Arbitrary Rankings from This Week in Pop
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...
Coo Coo Ca-Choo: Getting Nostalgic with the Vaccines
Courtesy of The Vaccines' Russian website. Rewind to Outside Lands 2011. I was 16, just barely a young adult. My best friend and I braved the festival wholeheartedly, taking in every moment of our music-filled surroundings. That and some second-hand...
The Current: Stream of Consciousness on Music Streaming
When I first started listening to what I define as “good” music, I would find a lot of new bands from Pandora Internet Radio. I'd plug in a song I liked and then some sort of computer algorithm would be employed and find me a bunch of other sick songs similar to...
Deerhoof, "La Isla Bonita" (Polyvinyl)
With nothing more than ten days of jam sessions, contemporary indie giants Deerhoof release one of their best efforts in years. There's something so impressive about fluency. When a studio artist doodles out of boredom and produces a beautiful portrait, when your...