The Hood Internet’s latest mixtape dropped this morning, and as can be expected it’s packed to the cellophane with what one would dub party starting mashups. The Mixtape Volume Seven is what you wanna put on in that summer BBQ before the DJ’s get set up, or maybe what you wanna play when you’re trying to […]

Acclaimed Brooklyn-based indie rock band Grizzly Bear has announced today that they will be releasing a new album this fall, September 17/18th. After gaining much attention from their last album Veckatimest, which was released three years ago and reached #8 on Billboard 200, all eyes (and ears) are on them to produce an album that […]

Ever wondered what Radiohead’s timeless albums OK Computer and Kid A would sound like if reworked in 8-bit format? If so, today’s your lucky day. Producer Quinton Sung took it upon himself to make your dreams come true. It seems as though Quinton has done several single track 8-bit remixes, but these complete albums are […]

This week The Drums wrapped up their North American tour on the stage of El Rey Theatre in the Miracle Mile of Los Angeles, and there was no doubt the night held special meaning — for both the audience and the band itself. Photos by Damon Cirulli After a great warmup set by Stockton-via-Seattle’s Craft Spells, […]

I’m just gonna say it: Noah & the Whale’s debut album, Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down, is one of my favorite albums of the decade. No shame, no caveats, no qualifiers. Not only is it an emotionally candid album (sometimes painfully so), with some of singer/songwriter Charlie Fink’s most personal lyrics, but it is […]

There’s no shaking the undeniable catchiness of Manchester Orchestra, the Alpharetta, Georgia band whose elegiacal “Simple Math” has taken over college radio. At first listen one could brush it off as a very capably written indie pop song, and you wouldn’t be wrong. But at second and third listens the track becomes an earworm, and […]

Noah and the Whale release the first single released from their upcoming 3rd LP, Last Night On Earth. The track, “L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.”, typifies Charlie Fink’s poignant — and dramatic — narrative storytelling, and is a nice hint as to what Last Night On Earth might have to offer. As NATW say of the album, “This is […]

After forming during their high school years in Calgary, Alberta, the four best friends who make up BRAIDS moved their prairie Canadian behinds to the cosmopolitan wonderfulness of Montreal. Entrenching themselves in the city of poutin and painfully cute artsters, the foursome holed up in a dilapitaded house in a Hasidic neighborhood to craft the […]