Faded Francis, Keenan Hennessy and Ice ATM teamed up for an album dropped over the summer. The fellas bring plenty of excitement and energy over eight tracks, trading off wicked bars about focusing on themselves and lining their pockets with money. All three rappers are on the same page as one another and you can tell that there’s immense trust
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R&B star Tai Mistyque dropped a new single this past week. Featuring production from Baby J, the song puts someone chasing Mistyque to the test and begs to know how they’re going to show her they’re not playing games. She doesn’t want to push them away but she also knows what she wants – if you’re playing keeps then it’s
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R&B artist Just Becca follows up her debut single with new song “Elevate.” She’s high on life here and looking to relax her way into new levels. Becca’s in tune with herself; her heart’s speaking to her and she’s making her way to the top. It’s a positive, uplifting moment from Just Becca and we look forward to seeing how
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Long-running experimental band Boy Dirt Car released new music this week. Recorded live in the studio, these two tracks consist of compositions released on previous tapes, complete with introductive dialogue before each. Laden with cacophonous soundscapes, industrial textures, chantlike passages and haunting samples, “Sinner or Saints” is a 34-minute dedication to Boy Dirt Car’s prolonged journey through noise and improvisation.
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R&B artist Chala Shirae dropped a new single and video this summer. Shot by Daniel Ramos, the visuals find Shirae laying across the bed, sitting in an ornate chair fanning herself, and out by the shore singing with the waves. Shirae can’t get someone out of her head and she’s staying up texting them every night; they keep crawling back
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Psych rock group Painted Caves released a new single this week. It’s a song about who is feeding off of who; Ali Lubbad sings of his heart sitting on the border between two lands and he begs to know where he fits. There’s a triumphant feel here like we’re on a great pursuit of deeper meanings. Additional instrumentation is provided
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Electronic project Violethead released new music today. Things get dark and glitchy over three songs, feeling cathartic at times while dreamy at others. Ellen Kimberly utilizes glowing synths, manipulated vocals and pounding bass to channel personal subject matter. Embark on a shadowy reverie with Violethead’s new EP.
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Indie rockers Brat Sounds are out with their fourth and final LP today. Have you felt immense existential dread over the last few years and wondering where the hell to go from here? If you have, look no further than Brat Sounds’ fantastic new record – it’s got all the anxiety-ridden ditties you need. With jangly riffs and effective hooks,
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Jas Rosenblatt of indie acts Bug Moment and House Tree is out with their debut solo EP. These four songs touch on personal subjects like mental health, hidden adversities and yearning for things to get better. It’s a gentle, honest and vulnerable release from Jas? that resonates heavy with anyone struggling with loneliness right now. Always remember you are loved
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Indie pop artist Danny Arcane’s latest single is about falling in love but trying to play it cool. Although his heart’s pounding and he’s thinking this person’s out of his league, Arcane’s dream is about to come true – as long as he doesn’t get carried away. With a dreamy, hazy touch, Danny Arcane is walking on a cloud with
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Experimental electronic artist Odd Person has a new compilation out via Aerozine 50. These cosmic synth passages incorporate elements of vintage techno and wondrous space imagery. The lore is explained by Odd Person like this: the Secant Archives have floated through the universe for millions of years – originated from ancient times of atmospheric temples of sentient crystals – and
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Alternative rockers Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends have a new video out and it’s directed by Mark Borchardt. We all realized a lot about how fake and futile so many of our societally upheld constructs are while we were in quarantine, and one of those things is commuting to and from work every day. That’s what this song and
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Matt Glassel’s hardcore punk project Gorilla Knifefight has a new EP out. It’s four songs, one of which “Fear Factor” we heard this summer released as a cassingle. Glassel is ready to kick ass and fight as he rocks about the bullshit that is the United States government. The dude’s got love in his heart and spreads it through anarchy
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Improv noise duo Normal Rituals are out with a new album via Portland, ME’s Tracedobjects. Peter J. Woods and Eli Smith join forces once again as wise mages of sound and art, delivering the clicking, clanging, clattering, crashing and cooking of unconventional electronic and guitar utility. A drone rumbles underneath scattered guitars in “A Silver-Plated Weapon” while “Before They Vanish
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Alt-R&B songstress Bisca Rae claims self-ownership with her new album. It’s nine tracks where Rae pours her heart out, reflecting on the last few years of her life up to now, finally choosing herself in the end. She puts it really well in “2:42AM” – she was stuck on a one-way and kept trying to take a turn before encountering
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Doomed psych pop band Dinner Set Gang unveiled their video for “Ceiling Fan” from debut EP “La Fata Turchina.” Edited by the band’s own Josh Evert, the visuals consist of archive footage from the 1986 Cleveland Balloonfest. There’s certainly a Lynchian feel here where everything seems so jolly and happy at first but something doesn’t quite seem right. Then there’s
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Instrumental pysch rocker Ricky Thump released his debut album. He has tons of fun jamming out over eight tracks, enlisting vocals only once – from Kyle Janes on the second track “CROW.” Thump recognizes the intimate relationships between color, texture and sound through these songs, from the badass charge of “The Jakes” to the lamenting ditty “Kyle’s Song” to the
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Experimental hip hop/trip hop artist Randal Bravery released a new album this week. Spanning fourteen tracks, Bravery delivers a heaping helping of breakbeats, chopped samples, jazzy loops and dreamscapes. There’s a sense of floating, cosmic wonder amidst the abstract production techniques, fit for both relaxing and pensive moments. Enter the masterful mind of Randal Bravery with “Parade…”.
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Zolton and 2Hi collaborated for a new single this week. The two have plenty of chemistry here, glowing over ethereal production from No B. They drop bars about chasing this dream with the sky being the limit; Zolton in the past has been known for dreamy R&B sensibilities but he really shines into his hip hop side here, and 2Hi
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Alternative pop rockers Gold Steps are here with their sophomore full-length album. All the high-energy hooks and soaring melodies the band’s released over the last few months are here plus a few new cuts as well. There’s a strong theme of divorcing yourself from toxic past relationships (the ones that make you go, “what was I thinking?”) and learning how
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Electronic project Liquid City Motors’ latest single is described as “a gentle creature trapped in a purple sphere.” Co-written by Rai Hudson, the song starts with a hyperventilating rhythm and metallic taps, eventually building into a techno-laden club banger that’ll get you having the zoomies like a cat. Liquid City Motors brings an experimental touch to dance electronica with “Freakout.”
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Punk rockers The Eradicator are out with their third album today. The record assumes the role of John the Squash Man, who battles both internal and external enemies in order to keep his title. There’s blazing punk riffs, infernal vocals and anthemic choruses galore to get you riled up as the masked warrior rages on – if you’re a pusshead
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Singer-songwriter Johanna Rose has a new EP out today. They wrote these songs while huddled up by the stove with a guitar at their Vermont mountain treehouse, reflecting deeply on survival in this late-stage capitalist hellscape in spite of being surrounded by such natural beauty. Themes of hard work, doing what you need to do to get by, clinging onto
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Corey Pieper dropped a new single and video recently. Filmed in Dubai and directed by PhillyFlyBoy, the visual finds Pieper taking in the city while getting a feel for the culture, going out dune-buggying, hanging out with a camel and out on jet skis in the river. Corey Pieper is out living into his dreams, bringing a trap beat (produced
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Gothic post-punk rockers Convert released a video for “Unnatural Acts” off recent album “Saves.” The video has an apocalyptic feel with clips on masked doctors, mass surveillance, disorderly conduct, strange AI experiments and riots. Such ideas go hand in hand with the song’s overall theme of just how ugly humanity can get. Directed by the band’s own Sam Sharkey.
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