Real and relatable, the lyrics of Chicago MC Serengeti’s first solo album explore the everyday elements that help us all become humans. We have no choice but to go through the motions, and it’s our choice in method that informs character. We meet p…
Australian skater and musician Jonathan Boulet has his sophomore album coming out soon on Modular Recordings. The first single, “You’re A Animal,” is a rallying cry that’s certainly powerful enough to open an Olympic ceremony. It’s full of driving per…
The very last working streetlamp emits a faint, yellow light that does more to heighten the mystery in shadows than provide any visibility. A vortex of echoes lick the back of your neck before slithering back into the corners of the abandoned wareh…
With his Midas touch, Guillermo Scott Herren, known reverently as Prefuse 73, just painted Sister Crayon’s silvery “Stem” a bright gold. The original focuses on space and distant sonority, creating an atmosphere you’ll most certainly get lost in. And, …
Like clipping his favorite memories from the sticky, yellowed pages of an old photo book and slicing them into unrecognizable little bits to form a collaged whole, the notoriously reclusive Vondelpark borrows what he needs from the brittle, exposed bo…
Your eyes circle the room searching for the source of that scent. There she is, standing in the corner of the room, legs long like flowering stems, hair blooming like orange blossom petals– she’s that forbidden fruit. The funk-lite sound of Santa Barb…
Free jazz doesn’t happen to be my thang, but I have a deep respect for those gusts of tumultuous passion it can produce on occasion. Surrounded by structured melody and rhythm, I can digest these chaotic bites and feel fully satisfied. Such is the ca…
Yearning is a complex feeling. It’s a push and pull of your limbs that carves endless emotions in your mind, rendering you exhaustively, yet perfectly helpless– and within that exhaustion and perfection lies the complexity. You’re left abandoned and…
The Stepkids, Stones Throw‘s latest slangers of psychedelia, thought they’d let their neighbor Mike know how much his advice and support means to them. Recently, Mike went into the hospital with some serious health issues, but when Mike read this l…
There’s a single, tiny window sitting high on the wall that, on the rare rainless day, emits a faint, yet burgeoning ray of light. It reveals the only contents of the room – a solitary piano and Daniel Blumberg, aka Oupa, wandering around the desolat…