The droning, looping wonderfulness that is Woodsman is what you hear while getting your teeth drilled under the heavy seditation of some analgesic, painkilling drug — only without the teeth-drilling part. Hailing from Denver, their ambient post-psychedelic instrumental missives sound more like sonic backdrops to a lost teenage trip than to a couple dudes banging […]
To Whom It May Concern
12
May
Ambient post-psychedelic instrumentals to get your weed on
30
Apr
A touch of Beatles folk pop from Seattle
In 2007 lead vocalist Tim Wilson and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Carbary teamed up to from Ivan & Alyosha (yes, that’s a Brothers Karamazov reference). They spent a year recording their debut, The Verse, The Chorus (Cheap Lullaby Records), which they just debuted, and have hence begun to pick up a lot of love in their native […]
19
Feb
Vancouver's dance punk phenoms get their stateside release
UPDATE: You Say Party! We Say Die!’s album XXXX dropped this week, available from iTunes or Amazon, so we’re re-posting their To Whom It May Concern Q&A. There’s also a video for “Dark Days” and a new remix for “Laura Palmer’s Prom” below, as well as expanded tour dates coming up in March, so why […]
29
Jan
Psychadelic pop from the soul of South Carolina
South Carolina has never been renowned as a hotbed of musical talent, and that serves Chaz Bundick, aka Toro Y Moi , just fine. After graduating last spring from the University of South Carolina, the 23-year old Columbia native retired to his bedroom studio and decided to meld his brain to his studio gear. With […]
16
Dec
Arizona hippie moves to Omaha, continues evil synth-pop ways
Shawn Foree grew up in the desert shrubs outside of Tucson, Arizona in a Baha’i hippie commune, which is really weird given the incredibly synthetic textures of his music. Maybe that’s where he got the name of his band, Digital Leather — a literal conflation of a most organic material with the most intangible, artificial […]
8
Dec
New York and Austin unite to bring you...psychadelic afrobeat?? Why not...
Ninja Tune artist Antibalas (aka Martín Perna) and partner Adrian Quesada (of Grupo Fantasma ) are the latin funk and afrosoul wonder that is Ocote Soul Sounds. The duo are releasing today a deluxe re-issue of their third LP, Coconut Rock, which was released in June on ESL Music. The deluxe edition features include five […]
1
Dec
The debut full-length album is finally just around the corner
Free Energy has been hinting that Stuck On Nothing, their forthcoming debut full-length album, is coming out since the Spring. Bummer that their tour wtih the Rakes was cancelled. What are you gonna do… the Rakes had an untimely breakup. Stuck On Nothing is finally just around the corner, tho…it’ll be released January 26, 2010 […]
19
Nov
Hip-hop just found something new
Keys N Krates have toured all of Canada and have started making their presence felt in the US. I haven’t seen them (DJ Jr. Flo, Matisse on keys and Tune on drums) live yet, but I keep hearing all this talk. I’ve got respect for the guys just from watching their videos on YouTube. Live […]
