Run DMT’s Culture Dealer imprint is accepting lyrics submissions to make your very own song poems. For those unfamiliar with song poems, you should really watch PBS’ documentary, Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story, but the basic concept is as such: yo…
Greece’s Keep Shelly in Athens just dropped the title track from their forthcoming EP for Planet Mu. “Campus Martius” thickens as its layers of synth melodies envelop this appropriately autumnal groove’s piano loop. –Matt Sullivan, Altered Zones vi…
18-year-old Phoenician Jacob McNaughton, aka Galapagos, posted a chopped and chipmunked rework of Jennifer Hudson’s “No One Gonna Love You” that has enough hiccuping pitch-shifted vocal stabs and dizzying arpeggios to keep you watching the young prod…
In the undulating analog clip for “Red Song,” the face of Suuns’ Ben Shemie gets flexed by fingers and torqued in tracking. It could almost function as a surreal hostage tape for the self, if we could decipher any of Shemie’s soft-sung demands. “Red S…
Dark Brooklyn duo Light Asylum graced the downstairs stage of Altered Zones’ CMJ showcase alongside Atlas Sound, Eric Copeland, and Captured Tracks up-and-comers Dive for a set not to forget. Peep their live rendition of “End of Days,” which might jus…
Between their known history and stylistic similarities, Christa Palazzolo and Sarah Brown’s current project, Boy Friend, is destined to be compared to their former band-turned-solo-project, Sleep ∞ Over. But in “Egyptian Wrinkle,” the Austin duo’s …
Today we are treated to the collaborative fruits of recently profiled artist Hubble and the telescope itself. Ben Greenberg, aka Hubble, crafted the ambient drone and mesmerizing fret taps of Hubble Drums’ cut “Hubble’s Hubble” to soundtrack the cos…
Fall’s arrival has left me reminiscing about 2011′s best music, and the ghostly R&B echoes of Holy Other’s zoned in EP, With U, come quickly to my mind. In this YouTube video of his live performance at this year’s Rewire Festival in Den Haag, stan…
Former Yellow Swans member Pete Swanson harnesses crystalline polyrhythms toward militant ends in “Misery Beat,” a brash house music monster from his new Type Records LP, Man With Potential. The abusive four-on-the-floor sneaks in under the ripple of…
Out of feedback squalls and a rushed drum count-off comes a massive guitar banger, “The Finest Thing,” the newest of Captured Tracks’ 7″ shoegaze reissues, this one from German noiseists Grabbel and the Final Cut. The band formed in 1989, two years a…