It's that time of year again. The time for crazed festival fans to prepare themselves for the summer's upcoming musical events. Finally, summer music festivals are releasing their lineups for 2014 and pumping up festival-goers across the country. This past Tuesday,...
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DJ Spotlights: Strictly Kosher
How did you come to call your show Strictly Kosher? Drew Sher: Before Strictly Kosher, my show's name was Fur Sher. As with all of my names, I was joking around with Mikey Creedz, Mike Creedon, and we came up it. I like for my show name to be a play on words. What...
Leading Ladies: Female Artists Supporting Each Other Is A Great Thing
Janelle MonÌÁe performs with a hologram M.I.A. for a live on-stage collab. (I might have cried just a bit.) I am a big fan of seeing women uplift and support each other, especially within the music industry. Recent examples include BeyoncÌ© featuring Nigerian author...
The Tough Crowd: Copeland – A Love Letter
Very rarely am I optimistic about a new record. Especially when the new record is from a recently reunited band, and even more so when that band’s last record I consider one of my personal favorites. Last week when Copeland announced their reunion, it's the...
Chance The Rapper-Acid Rap (Self-Released)
SEE CHANCE LIVE AT AU ON APRIL 10 Among the best hip-hop releases of last year, Chance The Rapper’s breakthrough project Acid Rap is an impossibly smooth and effortless collection of summer infused, fresh pop rap. With a voice that sounds like the unpredictably...
Mac DeMarco – Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
He’s done it again After 2012's 2, which featured the enticing single “My Kind of Woman,” a yearning for Salad Days was inevitable. The phrase “salad days” has been around since Shakespeare, made popular by DC band Minor Threat ÛÒ referring to the...
Cloud Nothings ÛÒ Here And Nowhere Else (Carpark)
The Best New Music. There comes a point in our lives when we have absolutely no idea what we're doing. There aren't any signs pointing us in the direction that we should be headed, instead we have to some how figure it out on our own. At times it is excruciatingly...
Tycho – Awake (Ghostly International)
Though Scott Hansen, aka Tycho, has been making hazy, pleasant chillwave and dream-pop tracks by himself for years now, somewhere in the past two years he took it upon himself to flesh out his project from just himself to a fully realized, traditionally instrumented...
The Hold Steady ÛÒ Teeth Dreams (Washington Square)
“Movies and Krishna and hardcore and Jesus and joyÛ If (as a poster in my 11th grade English teacher's room claimed) Bruce Springsteen is Steinbeck in leather, then surely The Hold Steady's Craig Finn is Fitzgerald in a Twins jersey. Instead of writing about the...
Panama – Always EP (Future Classic)
RX: feel good grooves Aussie electro-pop lads, Panama, have found the cure for the winter woes with the perfect prescription of dreamy dance beats and ready-for-sun remixes that will have you up and going in no time. Once the burnt orange chord progressions of opener...