Tag: Music
Well, this is a bittersweet surprise. On the heels of Kim Deal’s announcement that she was leaving the Pixies comes this new track–the band’s first since 2004–which sounds to be one of Deal’s final moments as a member. “Bagboy” starts off uninspiring, with Frank Black doing a wordier version of his neurotic talk-singing over sparse […]
“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 […]
Here’s a wonderful little distraction for your Thursday afternoon: Soundodger, a free, arcade-style web game from Adult Swim. It’s a bit like Asteroids, putting you in control of a circular little “ship” whose sole purpose is to dodge the flood of debris that’s constantly flying at it. Unlike that arcade classic, however Soundodger doesn’t give you a gun to […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. Between a new single, a new album coming (we hope), and an awesome rebuff to those who dismissed her last record, M.I.A. seems poised for a full-on comeback. In […]
Put on a bucket hat, do the cooking dance, add some net art aesthetics and #90sKid pop cultural references, and you’ve got yourself a pretty banging rap video circa 2013. Technically, Yung Lean is from Sweden, but really, he’s a child of the internet, and as such, all of the above make appearances in “Hurt,” his […]
/\/\ /\ Y /\, M.I.A.’s third album, looked almost like a career-killer when it was released in 2010. A New York Times Magazine profile released at the time singlehandedly turned public opinion against M.I.A., and the album’s noisy, industrial-influenced sound threatened to topple the the precarious balance between pop and provocation she had maintained on her first […]
The case against Carmine “Papa Smurf” Franco, a notorious mobster who ran trash trucks in New York and New Jersey, has turned up at least one amazing piece of evidence: a tape, obtained by DNAinfo, that shows Franco and his associates extolling the virtues of Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious. DNAinfo explains: “One of the […]
Yeezus is easily Kanye’s darkest record, and with that comes an almost total abandonment of the warm, sample-based sound upon which he built his name. The samples themselves aren’t gone, however, they’re just different–instead of Curtis Mayfield we get Capleton, instead of Smokey Robinson, TNGHT. Babylon Cartel have assembled a mixtape of the tracks Kanye and […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Gaslamp Killer’s association with the L.A.-based Brainfeeder collective often gets him painted as an instrumental hip-hop or bass music producer, and while those characterizations hold some truth, his roots are just as deep […]
First Slava charms the hell out of you with that “Werk” music video, perpetuating the old stereotype that Slavs drink Vodka at work and then dance to electronic music inside computers. Now, he drops “Girl Like Me” — dir. Eugene Kotlyarenko’s stylish, dramatic, well-paced, beautifully-shot, crisply aesthetically-attuned silent short film that made YouTube commenters stop misspelling […]
