“Slow Magic is the sound made by an unknown imaginary friend,” reads the mysterious producer’s sparse, yet incredibly fitting, Twitter bio. While the masked Downtown Records-signee has
BLUFFING is a scrappy Brooklyn outfit that delivers quick, charming fistfuls of indie pop with a twist of punk. Their debut album, Sugar Coated Pills
Karen O delivers with a heartfelt, drug-induced love song off her debut solo album Crush Songs. Tastefully lo-fi, as if it were recorded in some New York
Brooklyn synth-pop quartet Haerts return with the gorgeous, galloping new single “Giving Up.” This cut follows 2013’s St. Lucia-produced Hemiplegia EP, which gifted the world
Los Angles songwriting duo Foxygen has returned with a track off their upcoming album, …And Star Power, that is wild, strange, and echoes the ghost of
Beverly is a brainchild of Frankie Rose (she of the solo, Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls, and Crystal Stilts fame) and Drew Citron (she of
Abu Ashley may have started making a name for himself in dance halls and dives here in NYC, but he has since moved on to
Tucked away in the back room of Rough Trade, the band Bear In Heaven glowed under yellow, purple and green lights. The crowd of mustaches
So, this was different. We frequent all of the usual NYC haunts for music, from dive bar to stadium, but rarely do we get the
AFROPUNK — our beloved, diverse, (not to mention free) counterculture festival — returned to Brooklyn’s Commodore Barry Park for its 10th annual incarnation this past weekend, touting
Bishop Allen for years seemed to be one of the hardest working bands in New York in a very implicit sense. For example, the band
When we were rounding out the final lineup for our spring showcase at Brooklyn Night Bazaar last March, the guys in Anamanaguchi highly recommended Maxo.
The Drums have been off the radar since 2011’s excellent Portamento, a honest and oftentimes painfully relatable album about the crumbling of a romantic relationship. Three years
FPopular Canadian culture is kind of sad, and kind of hilarious, but mostly sad. Yeah, sad is the adjective I’m going to go with here.
Brooklyn’s Young Magic (Melati Malay and Isaac Emmanuel) released Breathing Statues in May and started their North American tour yesterday. The album is a collection
Dan Snaith, the mastermind behind Caribou, will be releasing a new album this October titled Our Love, coming to you via his long term label
Since Ferguson, Missouri has recently turned into what would appear to be an actual war-zone, a good amount of our current dialogue has appropriately shifted from meaningless repartee to
After winning our hearts with their debut album Summer’s Gone in 2012, the American production duo is now finally giving us more. The promising new
After releasing their mind-blowing debut full-length, Psychic, late last year, Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington’s collaborative project DARKSIDE is already calling it quits. The duo took to
Post-punk outfit Big Ups released a video for “Justice,” a track from their debut album, Eighteen Hours of Static. The video is a colorful and
Since 2008, Drew Lustman has been inventing and reinventing himself and his sound, resulting in the release of three successful albums (Love Is Liability and
Every season boasts its own set of unique characteristics. Autumn’s warm-hued beauty is bountiful and festive. Winter brings snowfall and holidays and nostalgia. Spring offers
Vince Staples may lay his claim to the Long Beach, Calif. rap thrown left unoccupied after Snoop Dog turned into Snoop Lion and became
Versatile is the only way to describe Porter Robinson’s debut album Worlds. The size. The sound. Everything from the orchestral quasi-concerto “Fellow Feeling” to the
Here’s something a little different for your usual summer festival circuit. Out in the Streets — a Brooklyn-based music and arts festival in its second
I made a late-night stop at Baby’s All Right, a bar that is quickly becoming the hottest music venue in Brooklyn, to catch a trio
We have the pleasure of premiering the newest single from The Britanys, a young trio straight from Brooklyn touting a brand of lo-fi rock that
Deers, a garage pop duo hailing from Madrid, released a video for “Trippy Gum,” which is exactly one half off of their debut two track
Have you and your significant other recently put hideous orange traffic cones on your heads and gleefully giggled at how dumb/adorable you two looked? No? Well, no wonder
TJ Carter, known to most as Lil Silva, created a masterpiece with his latest release “Don’t You Love.” The track starts off slow with an
In his new video, Bedstuy’s own Mac DeMarco has taken his song “Chamber Of Reflection,” slowed it down to a hazy psychedelic lurch, and set
Ah, yes, summertime — the euphoric and magical, highly anticipated three-month vacation from having to double-up on socks and debate whether risking frostbite or having
