Berlin blog No Fear Of Pop seems to be the #1 place to go for Hype Williams-associated updates. Recently, they posted a new track from Inga Copeland, the female half of Hype Williams. “Trample” sees Copeland on a serious pop lean. It’s more of a body-b…
Way back in 1965, drummer Angus MacLise helped form the Velvet Underground. Before the band even played their first show, he up and quit amid accusations that the band had effectively “sold out” for agreeing to play a live concert. According to Lou Ree…
Amanda Brown (LA Vampires, Not Not Fun, 100% Silk) and Daniel Martin-McCormick (Ital, Mi Ami, Sex Worker) recently recorded Streetwise, a four-song 12″ for NNF under the name LA Vampires Goes Ital. Tentatively scheduled for a May 25 release date, Stre…
So everyone’s been going on about Clams Casino lately, right? I first heard of Clams from his productions for Main Attrakionz, which turned me on to all his work with Lil B, and eventually his instrumental mixtape. Another frequent Attrakz collaborato…
Tonstartssbandht is Andy and Edwin White, two brothers from Orlando who reside in Montreal and New York City, respectively. This past weekend, they went on a quick tour to Russia and the Ukraine with a limited tour cassette called Hymn. The six-song EP…
Burlington, Vermont’s Toby Aronson is one of the men behind NNA Tapes, in my opinion one of the best tape labels out there. They’ve released music from the likes of Oneohtrix Point Never, Nonhorse, Driphouse, Dylan Ettinger, and Hubble among others, …
I’ve watched this Thomas Byrd-directed Happy New Year video for “Twins” at least a dozen times since Matt Weiner, coincidentally a member of a band by the same name, sent it over last week. The clip was shot atop the Danbro building in Bushwick, Brook…
The “dreamteam trio” of Daren Ho (Driphouse, Mandelbrot & Skyy, former Raccoo-oo-oon), Brendan O’Keefe (Nimby) and Jeff Witscher (Rene Hell) have come together for a dirty house collaboration called Cuticle. They recently dropped Confectioner Bea…
I’ve been obsessed with this howse track, “vbs,” for about a month now. By far the most complete and striking track on the undizputed EP, “vbs” is based on a few themes; muffled raindrip percussion and abrupt pleasure sighs converge at a footwork-quick…
Paranoid Altantan mutant pop duo Featureless Ghost have been steadily bulking up their credentials since they dropped their first digital single a couple months ago. Later, they released a video for one of the songs, “Scanproof,” which premiered on A…