Tag: Music
SummerStage is coming! SummerStage is great! But the concert series’ official website is confusing, unwieldy, and not as informative as it could be. What’s an enterprising live music fan in New York City to do? Enter SummerStageLove, a web app from ace programmer and photographer Dan Nguyen that’s designed to make navigating the SummerStage a little […]
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 we’re focusing on what’s one of the all-time great loops in my book: Willie Hutch’s 1973 orchestral soul jam “I Choose You,” sampled in UGK and OutKast’s […]
Amanda Ghassaei, the woman who brought you 3D-printed records, is back with yet another impressive alternative to vinyl: laser-cut maple and plywood. And not only do the wooden records look real pretty, they sound a hell of a lot better than their printed-plastic counterparts. But wood is still nowhere near bona fide vinyl, unfortunately. With […]
This is what a documentary about DFA should look like: good-natured, energetic, no portentous interviews about meaning and “lasting significance.” 12 Years of DFA: Too Old To Be New, Too New To Be Classic qucikly chronicles the history and current affairs of the stupidly consistent NYC label founded on the principles of having a good time, touching […]
“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 our friends in the Boston garage trio Banditas, whose 2012 release Save the Rats I’d recommend to any fans of boozey, bluesy rock and roll. The mix, curated by bandleader […]
Music fans have always been obsessive categorizers, but lately, the endless parade of genres, subgenres and scenes feels like it’s nearing critical mass. Fortunately, Massachusetts-based designer and developer Glenn McDonald created “Every Noise at Once,” an interactive musical map that covers everything, from new weird America to neue Deutsche welle. One click of a genre […]
“In the Dark,” the latest video from L.A.-based producer and Brainfeeder mainstay Gaslamp Killer, features whirling Mevlevi dervishes, kaleidoscopic images of trees in the snow, and a very scary woman with both eyes and skin the same morbid, icy shade of blue. Meaning yes, it’s every bit as much a wonderfully disorienting journey as the […]
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 presents a novel case. Like usual, both Chance the Rapper’s “Everybody’s Something” (released this week on his new mixtape Acid Rap) and Slum Village’s “Fall […]
Mac DeMarco gives the most charismatic acting performance by a musician this side of “Yonkers” in the clip for “My Kind of Woman,” his latest single. Directed by Alex Lill, the film opens on DeMarco putting on lipstick, then follows the songwriter through a saga that’s equal parts Blue Velvet (as Nowness points out), and the Beaver Trilogy. “We […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Kentucky’s Young Widows are perhaps the only working post-hardcore band that would put a 2010 Tom Petty track onto a curated playlist, and the rest of their “Listen In” mix continues that disregard […]
