Tag: Music
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. Kanye West is on everyone’s mind these days–the Post gave Kimye top billing over Edward Snowden on its cover yesterday, and Jon Caramanica’s Kanye profile blew up the internet–so in anticipation […]
There’s a big sound coming out of South East London and it’s called Unit 137. In their own words, Unit 1-3-7 is a “a collective of DJs, producers, vocalists, engineers and instrumentalists drawn together by a shared passion of conscious, forward thinking bass music,” consisting of Hylu, Jago, Zico, D-Tek, Galak Spiritual, Nãnci Correia, Papa […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Big Deal’s music takes the familiar sounds of power pop and acoustic balladry and lovingly twists them in new ways. Similarly, much of the band’s “Listen In” playlist is comprised of a who’s […]
“No Bueno,” Angel Haze’s NSFW doozy of a new video, features a whole cast of characters lip synching or actually rapping and signing along to Angel’s verses–fat people, thin people, black people, white people, young tattooed punks, and old-timey country-and-western types. It’s great. Angel Haze is a very good rapper. And yes, as you noticed when […]
The Eclectic Method, aka Jonny Wilson, aka the guy who brought you this, this, this, and this, is back with a new one. The video remixer’s latest piece takes clips of laughter from a variety of films, then sets it to a slice southern rap-inflected bass music that wouldn’t sound the least bit out of place […]
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. This week’s Sample Wars concerns a track that’s become a modern classic of sampling, entirely thanks to one producer: Clams Casino, one of the chief architects of the dreamy, blown-out […]
Dungeonesse’s music owes an unabashed debt to the dance-pop of the 1990s–everything from C+C Music Factory to, like, Jennifer Paige shows up on the group’s self-titled debut, released last month. It’s hard to imagine any dancefloor-friendly act to come out of Baltimore without paying some kind of homage to that city’s ubiquitous club music, however, and though none […]
Not to be outdone by Kill Bill bees and Johnny Depp Arthropods, a group of paleontologists studying a giant prehistoric reptile discovered in the 1970s decided to name it after the original Lizard King: Jim Morrison. The ancient beast, dubbed Barbaturex morrisoni, lived some 40 million years ago, weighed 60 pounds, and was six feet long. It’s one […]
See how many of your favorite indie musicians you can spot in the video for Vampire Weekend’s “Diane Young.” Look, there’s Chromeo, picking a fight with Vampire Weekend drummer Chris Thomson from across the dinner table! And Santigold playing with sparklers! And, in the video’s greatest moment, Despot smokes a positively tremendous amount of weed […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Listening to Cities Aviv’s latest release, 2012’s excellent Black Pleasure, it’s hard not to be wowed and/or disoriented by the sonic landscape. Out is the left-of-center boom-bap that characterized his debut, replaced with music that’s […]
