I don't care much for vacations. I find them dull, boring and usually unfulfilling. I'll vacation when I'm dead. I much prefer adventures. Jordan Manley makes me incredibly jealous and inspired all at once with this adventure. The story telling. The visuals. The hardships endured to create something beautiful are bound together perfectly. Every shot is breath taking. It makes me want to pack up my bags today and head north. It's videos like these that keep my spirits alive. They keep my dreams burning. What Jordan Manley has done here with a talented group of athletes [...]
My favorite albums of 2012 (so far) continue today with some really exciting releases, including the solo debut from the one and only Jack White , the exciting debut from Kishi Bashi , and the beautiful new release from Lost in the Trees — A Church That Fits Our Need . If you haven't already, be sure to check out Part 1 [...]
Kick back and let your mind drift for three and a half minutes to this idyllic utopian island. Leaf Dog has production credits on this one taken from Dr Syntax's new mixtape, Still At Large . <a href=" http://drsyntax.bandcamp.com/a lbum/still-at-large-mixed-by-d j-woody">Still At Large (mixed by DJ Woody) by Dr Syntax</a>

Sum 41 have announced summer dates in the UK, Europe and Russia. They continue to support 2011's Screaming Bloody Murder .
“Yes, I’m paranoid - but am I paranoid enough?” This quote best fits El-P ’s Brooklyn, NY state of mind: uneasy about being uneasy, angry about being angry, sick of being sick, paranoid about being paranoid. After over 17 years defining underground hip hop as head of the pioneering Definitive Jux label, one third of Company Flow, production work with Cannibal Ox, and his previous solo records, El-P has reached Peak El-P. The roads in his mind are curling back onto themselves like a mobius strip and more than ever, most of the verses on Cancer [...]
El-P's new album Cancer For Cure is streaming on Rolling Stone. but watch this first...
This week, Killer Mike released his album, R.A.P. Music, a collaborative effort between Mike and New York underground rap guard, El-P. But El's work this year hasn't been limited to making beats for Mike. His ... read more
Today, the brand new Brooklyn-based label Young One announced its formation , and it's already got a small but seriously impressive roster: Bay Area cloud-rap pioneers Main Attrakionz, wide-eyed Queens trio Children Of The Night, and buzzy young Houston MC Fat Tony. Next month, Tony will link with the rapper/producer Tom Cruz to release a new collaborative mixtape called Double Dragon . And below, we've got a download of their track "Bad Habits," which features Texas rap elder Bun B and Islands frontman Nick Diamonds. (Impossibly, this is the second Nick Diamonds rap post we've done [...]
At this point, it's pretty expected for every big indie rock type to make the late-night rounds whenever a new record drops. But there's still a transgressive charge to seeing El-P, patron saint of New York noise-rap, stopping by to see fellow redhead David Letterman on network TV last night. El brought Islands frontman Nick Diamonds along to do "Stay Down," a song from his masterful new album Cancer For Cure . Diamonds guested on vocals and Roland synth, and El's live band (including trombone!) did excellent work at recreating the headblown clusterbomb beat, with El himself helping out [...]

El-P performed "Stay Down" with Nick Diamonds on the Late Show with David Letterman. Watch the video below: ...

Photo by Brian James Mikey Maramag's new project, Church Spires , is a name I’m increasingly excited about. After the release of his debut cut, Islandic , less than a week ago, it’s great to have a new tune to digest so soon. The tune in question is Tropical Night , a piece of music that wears its intentions firmly on its sleeve. It flutters, throbs and floats with the warmth, smells and people [...]

In four weeks – on May 28 in the UK / May 29 in the US – Sigur Rós release their highly anticipated new album Valtari on XL. Thanks to BBC 6 we now get to hear another song off it: «Varúð» . Stream it below. stream | Varúð

Church Spires is the new project of Blackbird Blackbird mastermind Mikey Maramag and first track "Islandic" is a peach! continue reading >>

Photo by Jackson Bowley The sun is setting, I have a pizza on in the oven and I’m getting ready to meet an old friend this evening. I was pretty stoked on today as it was, and then Blackbird Blackbird decided to go and make it all even more delicious by dropping the first track off his side project, Church Spires. Centered around a central reverberating melody, the cut creates has a striking resemblance to the brief moment between afternoon and night, the exact moment [...]

Festival Air d'Islande, Le Point Éphémère, les 14 et 15 avril 2012 Hartzine était donc présent les 14 et 15 avril derniers au Point Éphémère afin de profiter du copieux programme musical proposé par le Festival Air d'Islande . Deux soirées durant lesquelles on aura pu se rendre compte de visu de la diversité et de la qualité de la scène islandaise actuelle, souvent pour le meilleur, parfois quand même pour le moins bon. Ainsi, la première soirée, avec sa programmation concoctée par l'équipe de l'excellent Iceland Airwaves Festival , aura commencé, disons, tout doucement, avec l'OVNI [...]
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G-Side hits us with their new visuals for "No U In Us". The record is off their latest album, Island, and is very dope. G-Side's music talks a lot about their humble beginnings in Alabama, and how it's shape their mindframe and music. "No U In Us" speaks to that theme. Watch it below.

Hoy en la llamada Diesel Embassy Island Chile (Av. Vital Apoquindo 1650) se llevará a cabo la presentación oficial de la campaña Diesel Island, un proyecto global que incluye variadas actividades. El evento incluye la presencia de los cariocas The Twelves, que están presentando un renovado show, además de los austrialianos Miami Horror, a estas alturas habituales animadores de fiestas por estas latitudes. Infórmate sobre Diesel Island y el pasaporte que da acceso a actividades como esta siguiendo este enlace .

Da gab es doch diese lustige Umfrage unter Urlaubern. Eine internationales Reiseportal hatte seine Kunden befragt. Das Ergebnis: Urlauber whlen Schweiz zum unbeliebtesten Reiseland. Nun war ich zwar noch nie in der Schweiz, aber so einige Gruselgeschichten habe ich schon gehrt. Wie dem auch sei, als Musikblogger hatte ich bisher lediglich mit Musikern und Labels aus der Schweiz Kontakt. Die erschienen mir jedenfalls alle super nett, gut drauf und unbedingt sympatisch. Zum Beispiel die Schweizer Kapnorth. Da bekam ich die Tage eine Mail mit der Bitte, hier ein bisschen die Promotionrakete zu znden. Und so znde ich auf [...]