[LISTEN] [Label: Sub Pop] [Date Released: February 10, 2015] [Genre: Indie Rock / Psychedelic Folk]
In recent years, the most striking image of the newly infamous Joshua Tillman has been his brazen gallop down a road deep in Hollywood’s Laurel Canyon, pants around his strained...
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Album Review: Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper – Panda Bear
[LISTEN] [Label: Domino] [Date Released: January 13, 2015] [Genre: Neo-Psychedelia / Electronic]
It’s a well-known, yet seldom completely understood phenomenon that the longer and deeper you trudge on in life, the more and more death presses in on one’s mind. At a certain point, staring death in...
12 Daze of Christmas: A Short Guide to Eclectic Holiday Music
Despite a suspected need to intravenously inject holly and tinsel from a bright candy cane- colored syringe as prompted by flood of Christmas spirit burning ever since Halloween in the worst cases, it’s always possible to tone things down. Not to say that 24/7 broadcasts of...
Album Review: Pom Pom – Ariel Pink
[LISTEN] [Label:4 AD] [Date Released: November 17, 2014]
[Genre: Lo-Fi, Indie Pop,Synth Pop ]
Every realm of music can call to mind a certain oddball character—a court jester or sound clown that helps round out the soundscape by mixing in a healthy dose of eccentricity and irreverence...
Show Review: Twin Steps, Genuis, & Pregnant @ Third Space 11/5/14
Third Space Art Collective was the venue, a cozy, unassuming warehouse shortly off campus. Inside a traffic cone chandelier hung from the rafters splashing the stage with an orange hue, and Christmas lights were vibrantly tangled along the stage floor. How’s that sound? Daniel Trudeau of Sacramento-based...
Album Review: Run the Jewels 2 – Run the Jewels
[LISTEN] [Label: Mass Appeal Records] [Release Date: October 24, 2014] [Genre:Hardcore Hip Hop]
Only one year removed from the original release of Run the Jewels, the duo of El-P and Killer Mike has since been picked up by Mass Appeal with heavy tour backing and amassed the...
Album Review: You’re Dead – Flying Lotus
[LISTEN] [Label: Warp Records] [Release Date: October 6, 2014]
[Genre: Electronic / Experimental Hip Hop / Jazz Fusion]
Resident Los Angeles producer and musical cosmonaut Flying Lotus has never been one to hedge...