Origami Sound's very own Village and Arapaima have teamed up to produce the six-track EP, The Catch . The Trap-influenced, "Antlers", concludes the extended play. The label is geared towards eclecticism in electronic music, and the new release lives up to this ideal. The Catch also includes tracks by Village such as "Take On Me", "Mojo", and "Love On the Line". Arapaima provides two other tracks, "Lilt" and "Head Over Heels". Music Player: [...]
The first After Dark compilation from the Italians Do It Better label, which was released back in 2007, was something definitively worthwhile, and now you can finally get your hands the follow-up anthology with After Dark 2 . read more

Listening to Carousel Beach feels like a privilege because you get to witness the evolution of a genre that could have died out as quickly as it came alive. Phosphorescent Green [...]

The most succinct way possible to describe the music of electronic duo Coyote Kisses is spacey, sci-fi inspired, '80s dub-step. Diving At Night [...]

With You Knew, the sophomore LP from Austin's Mother Falcon, the still-fledgling band flaps and glides, sometimes catching an updraft, but never quiet soaring. Pink Stallion [...]

Strap on your seat belts ladies and germs. DNTE's latest album is an adventure into hyperspace. You might not always know where you're going, but it's fun as hell. Dnte "Stoned" [...]

This Midwestern rock band brings back stadium-sized riffs flavored with Americana. Their debut LP is definitely worth a listen if you want to be able to say you knew them before they blew up. [...]
If you can't catch Kurt Vile on his tour this summer, at least you have this stream of his full acoustic set last night in Philadelphia. read more
Since the Boston Marathon bombings, support has been flooding through to the city and it's inhabitants from all across the United States. read more
In a demonstration of downtempo artistry, Portlandian producers Yacht brought their talents to Chloe Howl's track "Rumour." Music Player: Rumour (YACHT remix) [...]
Italy's own, and member of Skrillex's OWSLA label, Michele Balduzzi released the track "Ride the Prejudice." Music Player: Phonat - Ride The Prejudice (Taken from Flume - 6 Mix) [...]
Italy's own, and member of Skrillex's OWSLA label, Michele Balduzzi released the track "Ride and Prejudice." Music Player: Phonat - Ride The Prejudice (Taken from Flume - 6 Mix) [...]
With talk of a new album in the works, British electronica band Leftfield has been reported to be playing their new material at The Playground Festival. read more

Daft Punk return with Random Access Memories, an album that tense-shifts the band from their futuristic roots into music's past. 7774_08_-_get_lucky_feat_pharr ell_williams.mp3 [...]
San Francisco electronic trio Pixel Memory have announced that they will be releasing a new remix EP. Music Player: Guardian (Pixel Memory Ghost Hack Mix) [...]

Majical Cloudz' singer Devon Welsh suggests "there's power in fragility". There's also torpor in rumination. Bugs Don't Buzz [...]

There's something about this group that sets them apart just enough, putting them right at the edge of twee without pushing over into it - they're sweet but not sickening so, charming and direct without hitting annoyingly earnest. [...]

The National are not unstoppable. Their new album has everything you've come to expect from them except intensity, and the lack thereof is crippling. 7777_05_sea_of_love.mp3 [...]

Small Black gets shiny with Limits of Desire, shiny like an ocean view that stretches for miles and miles and miles and miles... and miles. Small Black - "Free At Dawn" [...]
frontpage_features: Mackenzie Scott’s debut self-titled record under the Torres moniker is seeping with famine, strength, and honesty, so much that each line breathed by the singer might evaporate in an [...]