Brooklyn’s latest overlords of the hipster world Sleigh Bells (vocalist Alexis Krauss and producer/guitarist Derek Miller) just released their second video off their eponymous debut. Although not all the tracks on the album are killer, this one’s one of the bigger bangers on there. Directed by Phil Pinto. Download Sleigh Bells’ “Infinity Guitars” mp3 Sleigh […]

Sleepy Sun, the fuzzed out, neo-psychedelic rock band from San Francisco (actually, from parts of California far-flung), is resuscitating a sound that hasn’t been quite the same since the transitional mid-70s, when peace signs were no longer cool, tie dye was forced to the back of the closet to make room for leathers and steel, […]

Let’s face it, Diplo made his name on the mixtape — first with his Hollertronixxx mixes with Low Budget back in the day, and then his gamechanging Piracy Funds Terrorism mixtape that put M.I.A. on the map back when she couldn’t even read a map. Then there was his superlative mix with Santogold, Top Ranking, […]

We’ve been kind of hyped up on Free Energy for awhile now, enough so we interviewed them back in December before their album dropped. Well their debut Stuck On Nothing is finally out, and it was well worth the wait — shouldn’t surprise, given it was produced by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and released on […]

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 […]

The latest signee from the esteemed Rhymesayers collective, Grieves, has teamed up with long time collaborator and musical foil Budo to remix Felt’s latest project, Felt 3: A Tribute To Rosie Perez. Felt, otherwise known as Slug and Murs, dedicated their last project to everyone’s favorite high pitched Puerto Rican actress, and Grieves and Budo […]

I stumbled across the Shout Out Louds one hot August night in Oslo back in 2007, playing in some graffiti-ravaged cellar the night before the Oya Festival kicked off. I wasn’t expecting much, as I never am, especially considering I was heavily brain-frazzled from the 20-something hour flight and drunk on the cheapest plastic-cup beer […]

The story on Friendly Fires is that they are from a sleepy commuter village in England called St. Albans, and that this terminally mundane existence molded them into the precocious songwriters they are. Works for me. Pretty much explains why every band in Sweden somehow seems to craft melodies so sweet you could use them […]