It's fun to think about O.N.E.'s music because (it seems like) O.N.E. finds it fun to think about his music. How else to explain references to socioeconomic constructs, agathist paradigms, obvio... Continue reading "In Which John Holland Validates O.N.E.'s The Starting Five" >
Free for download! Released to the public on July 28th, 2011 at 8pm. Reached the #1 spot on hypem.com's Most Popular chart on August 3rd at 5pm. Release date: Jul 28, 2011

As the gap between what many of us term as indie music and electronica becomes ever-more blurred it seems that many bands you would never have previously expected to are dabbling with synths and the like in an attempt to bolster and improve their sound. This of course is done with varying degrees of success and there are times when it feels both unnecessary and contrived. Thinking back to when I first heard The Twilight Sad 's debut LP Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters, I would never have [...]
Rihanna provides the visuals to her latest single off Talk That Talk , available now!

CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW VIDEO Ahhh I love it when live musicians flip beats in the same way beats flip live musicians. The DJ Cam Quartet are one of the best, and I posted about BADBADNOTGOOD a bit ago . Here's a lil something from Will Sessions: Will Sessions impressed many with the meticulous craftsmanship of their studio re-workings of the classic tracks for "The Elmatic Instrumentals." With their new two-part video "Mix Takes," the five-piece band is taking a similar approach in recreating some of their [...]
Raziq Rauf likes metal. Raziq Rauf likes prog. Raziq Rauf likes the internet. Here are his Top 10 Records of 2011.

That's right folks, our good brother $ has been a-workin on the railroad lately! His group Local Nobodies , which consists of him and fellow musical mastermind Mathien , just released this amazing full-length album One . I wish I had more of a backstory for you, but $uli leaves my ass in the dark all the time (*shakes fist*) so the onliest thing I can say is to download, shut up and JAM. You know how this works folks, track below for the pregame, full download [...]
The votes are in, the arguments have been settled, and the fights concluded without too much bloodshed - The Thrash Hits Top 20 Albums of 2011 list is here. We polled all of our writers, photographers, and contributors as to what their favourite records of the year have been, and through a series of complex [...]

CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW VIDEO Ahhhh more One Be Lo. If you been following my posts you'd know that he's my favourite MC and I think even if he isn't yours you'd recognise him as one of THE nicest out there at the moment. This is his second video from his latest release L.A.B.O.R ., which you can cop on his Bandcamp. These visuals are dope. Toni Hill kills the chorus too. One Be Lo: Twitter • [...]
The new collaboration between Harvard and Bart B More Bass with the E.P The Ones on Secure Recordings. And for a good reason: between saturated and whirring sounds grandiloquent, the song is riding on this revival Dance which runs the "streets" at the moment, but it does it very well! What are you jiggle other [...]

Channel Live were/are a rap duo that really only made any waves in the game back in 1995 with this banger. Discovered by KRS-One , these MC's should have been able to capitalize at least on some underground success, but never really did. "Mad Izm", which features their protege KRS, was included on their 1995 album Station Identification . With two albums released since, I'm not sure really what Channel Live are up to these days, but "Mad Izm" is still fire. Go back to a different time with this one. Roll up music. [...]

1. Burial - Shell of Light (Shlohmo Remix) 2. Drake feat. Rick Ross - Free Spirit 3. ASAP Rocky - Bass 4. Teebs - Just the Yellow Bits (Brainfeeder) 5. Gonjasufi - THELOWS.CERT 6. Com Truise - Futureworld (Ghostly) 7. King Midas Sound - Lost (Night Jewel Rework) (Hyperdub) 8. Pusha T - What Dreams Are Made Of 9. Modeselektor feat. Thom Yorke - Shipwreck 10. Zomby - Digital Fractal (4AD) 11. Salva feat. B Bravo - Obsession (FoF) 12. Black Milk and Danny Brown - LOL (Fat Beats) [...]
MP3 Electronic music producer Teebs will be dropping a new release on November 8th via Brainfeeder . Though I wasn't in love with this last album, Ardour , there were still some tracks that drew up some pretty interesting sounds. I'm feeling that way about the first track to drop from Teebs' forthcoming mini-album, too. The quirky, Laurie Johnson-esque melodies feel like they'd fit snugly into the theme for a vintage sci-fi radio program. The beat is pretty pleasant, too. The song's title is "Cook, [...]

Cette semaine, après plusieurs artistes un peu sombres, la musique que je vous propose est plus douce et plus épurée. L’artiste de ce soir nous vient de Berne et s’appelle Nadja Stoller. Nadja Stoller, ce n’est pas exactement une débutante. Avec différents projets, cela fait déjà de longues années qu’on peut l’entendre sur la scène musicale suisse. Elle nous a proposé du jazz avec le Nadja Stoller Trio ou un son plus pop ou chanson avec le groupe Lumi , qui partait déjà parfois dans des sonorités [...]

The Twilight Sad will release their third long-player, No One Can Ever Know , in early 2012 and if the first two tasters are anything to go by then it's going to be something very special indeed. First single Sick , is a dark (obviously), synth-driven monster of a song with front-man James Graham's vocals taking on an even more sinister role than before. The band also released Kill It In The Morning, which they gave away as a free download via their official website [...]
A principios de esta semana les contamos que la Revista Q estaba organizando el lanzamiento de un álbum tributo al inmortal Achtung Baby de U2 , disco que este año ve su 20 aniversario de vida y al que le debemos temas tan importantes como "One" , una canción que sin duda ya es una de las más reconocidas de los últimos años. El tributo vendrá incluido en paquete con la revista el próximo 25 de octubre , sin embargo, esta semana ya se han [...]
I have a whole smattering of psych & garage 45's digitized that never seem to make it onto my daily site (dereksdaily45.blogspot.com) so thanks to the magic of Bedazzled, I'll share a few micrograms of them here from time to time. First up, we have The Brass Toad, from (possibly) a town called Orange, TX with "In The Back Of My Mind" (1969). The group certainly has the type of late period psych sound as heard from fellow Texans The Bubble Puppy, [...]
It's been ten years since we first heard "The Blowers Daughter" by the then-novel Irish alt-troubadour Damien Rice and since that time we've only seen a pair of albums: the mind-blowingly great O in 2002 and it's anti-climactic 2006 follow up 9 . So we were both interested and a bit cautious when we heard that the extended dormancy of Rice's creative output was put on hold with this version of U2's classic "One" on a new Q Magazine -sponsored covers tribute to Achtung Baby . It's long and [...]
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Tweet Listen to Damien Rice 's cover of U2 's classic "One" below. It's only been a couple of days since I showed you guys Jack White's cover of U22s "Love Is Blindness" from the upcoming U2 tribute album, featuring a plethora of well-known artists covering songs from U2 's career-changing album "Achtung Baby" . Jack White [...]

Está planejando um feriado feliz e insolarado? Então mantenha distância do botão "play" do convidativo Soundcloud abaixo. Mas se você quer uma das melhores doses de melancolia do ano, vá em frente, pois Damien Rice , irlandês que é referência no cancioneiro triste (vide The Blower's Daughter ), foi o artista escolhido pela Q Magazine para assumir o que é, talvez, o maior clássico de seus conterrâneos do U2 : One . O cover, parte da coletânea AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered (da qual já ouvimos a versão magistral de Jack [...]