Category: Culture
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s playlist comes from the synth punks Holograms, who curated a list heavy on Swedish compatriots like Makthaverskan, Skriet, and Idde Schultz, peppered with a generous helping of American chillwave via Memory […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s “Listen In” comes from Brooklyn’s own Grooms, whose own music pairs ’90s shabby romanticism and energy with propulsive arrangements and crystal-clear production. For their playlist, the’ve compiled a genre-hopping mix that […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. The Massachusetts-bred indie rock quartet Speedy Ortiz contributed this week’s playlist, a genre-hopping trip that touches on ’90s rap, ’70s outsider folk, and mellow indie, closing with one of the greatest seven minutes […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Today’s “Listen In,” from the Maryland noise/punk band Chaos Destroy, makes great use of YouTube as a medium. In addition to tracks from the likes of Slint, Morrissey, and Arab on Radar, the […]
According to Redditor JayDubz, who snapped the above photo, Tracy Morgan was driving down 7th Avenue in his Porsche, listening to his own standup. No word on when. A quick Googling (which Tracy is sure to appreciate) of the phone number on the awning in the full photo reveals Morgan was indeed on 7th, just down […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s “Listen In” comes from Blood Knight, a self described “lo-fi nerd metal” band from Maryland whose name comes from a Magic: The Gathering card and whose music combines the crusty sonics and vocal assault […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s playlist comes from Dirty Beaches, whose acclaimed new album Drifters/Love Is the Devil synthesizes sounds as disparate as drone, minimal classical music, early rock and roll, and industrial. For his mix, Dirty Beaches’ […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. That handsome fella to the left is Houston rapper Fat Tony, circa senior year of high school. And though his “Listen In” playlist reaches quite a bit farther back than his own mid-2000s […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Brooklyn’s Octo Octa–a producer who makes lush, dreamy, deliciously hi-fi dance music–compiled this week’s “Listen In,” a tour through mellow, funky house music of the ’80s and ’90s. And while the mix’s opening […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s “Listen In” comes from Keyboard Kid, the producer best known for making the next-level beats for much of Lil B’s vast catalog. And though his tracks tend toward the left-field and […]
