In case you had somehow forgotten, Bad Veins is performing tonight at Crowbar (this evening's show will make it the fifth time the Ohio indie rocker duo has been down in our neck of the woods in a little over a year) and we're pleased as Punch to see them back in town again, obviously, especially with locals Jensen Serf Co. and Death Starsky rounding off the bill for what promises to be a super dooper dope as all get out good time. Bad Veins Doors at 8:00 • $10/12 [...]
The National - Don't Swallow The Cap The National - Graceless Been looking forward to new material from The National since the release of their last LP, the complex and bittersweet High Violet , which we loved loved loved. So raise a glass to this one, guys, 'cause Trouble Will Find Me has more dark hymns of headiness and swirling melodies and the immediately recognizable baritone delivery of intimacy and nuanced/oftentimes quite bewildering lyrics [...]
Mokhov - Magic Times Mokhov - Sun Clouds Electronic producer Mokhov makes music that sounds like it's been retroactively crafted as a soundtrack to every single cross-country drive I've ever been on. Or something like that. I usually ignore blurbs penned by artists trying to hype themselves, but in this case the self-proclaimed Boards Of Canada and Four Tet similarities are actually fairly accurate 'cause I can definitely hear influences from both, and I can easily see fans of also-similar-sounding peeps [...]
No Joy - E No Joy - Blue Neck Riviera If you happen to have the patience to peruse through the past few hundred or so of our picks, it will probably become more and more apparent just how much we enjoy the Mexican Summer roster and back catalogue, 'cause good god! they've put together a ton of quality releases over the years... A few of our top faves include Washed Out and Lilacs & [...]
No Joy - E No Joy - Blue Neck Riviera If you happen to have the patience to peruse through the past few hundred or so of our picks, it will probably become more and more apparent just how much we enjoy the Mexican Summer roster and back catalogue, 'cause good god! they've put together a ton of quality releases over the years... Here are a few of our faves: Lilacs & Champagne and [...]
Baths - Worsening Baths - Miasma Sky Look look look! New beats courtesy of Baths (aka electronic wizard Will Wiesenfeld) plus more quirky melodies and tons of stop-and-then-start-again glitchy goodness on Obsidian , following up the acclaimed Cerulean debut long player from a couple three years ago! Yes, I'm excited. As if you couldn't tell . Obsidian will be released on May 28th, via Anticon.
Baths - Worsening Baths - Miasma Sky Look look look! New beats courtesy of Baths (aka electronic wizard Will Wiesenfeld) plus more quirky melodies and tons of stop-and-then-start-again glitchy goodness on Obsidian , following up the acclaimed Cerulean debut long player from a couple three years ago! Yes, I'm excited. As if you couldn't tell . Obsidian will be released on May 28th, courtesy of Anticon.
GG DOOM (Grip Grand x MF DOOM) - But How? (Jesus Pizzas) GG DOOM (Grip Grand x MF DOOM) - Gonads On the unauthorized But How? remixtape, producer Grip Grand crafts a pretty fucking solid reinterpretation of the man in the mask out of random MF DOOM acapella tracks and a crackly combo of golden age television bits, vintage radio snippets, and off-the-wall beats, natch. But How? is available as a [...]
Black Milk - Piano Moog Black Milk - Drunk Tweets Detroit hip hopper slash producer Black Milk shows off his sci-fi-styled skill side on the aptly titled Synth Or Soul collection of beat oddities, but I guess it's really not a question of either/or as the name suggests, 'cause he does a pretty good job of melding synth hooks with soul grooves and weaving a serious set of quirky instrumental beats out of [...]
Still Corners - The Trip Still Corners - Berlin Lovers Still Corners and their lush melodies + looping basslines tend to remind me a bit of likeminded Chromatics - with similar swirling vocals and minimalist motorik beat tendencies to boot - though I feel like less discerning listeners might lean towards lumping this dreamy duo in with other, less memorable nostalgia-pop acts instead of acknowledging the truly savvy/sexy/synthy and downright gorgeous twelve tracks on their new sophomore release, [...]
!!! - One Girl / One Boy For real. The fine fellas in the !!! powerhouse keep the Strange Weather, Isn't It? afterparty going strong by slinging out more slinky/sexy beats and some fierce as fuck, catchy-ass funk grooves on their brand new THR!!!LLER full length. Even if their brand of unabashed, infectious disco punk isn't quite yer bag, methinks you'll at least consider a good booty-shaking whilst listening, 'cause you'd hafta be a real special kind of pussy buzzkill not [...]
Lilacs & Champagne - Sour / Sweet Lilacs & Champagne - Le Grand We wore out the digital grooves offa the debut self-titled effort from Grails peeps' producer project Lilacs & Champagne a little over a year ago, so follow-up LP Danish & Blue is an especially tasty treat, ya hear? More psych sounds in a loungey beat haze, all cult film OST style, with tons more dusty samples, crackling audio fragments, and brooding atmospherics for y'all [...]
Alpine - Hands Alpine - Gasoline Light 'n' breezy siren-song Aussie act Alpine is finally getting a stateside release of their kinda/sorta-ish self-titled and shimmering A Is For Alpine full length after charming the pants offa everyone else in the world who's already heard it. Colonic digs it 'cause it's cutesy and airy and inventive all at the same time, and we think you guys are gonna love it, too . A Is [...]
The Knife - A Tooth For An Eye I'm sure you've got an opinion about this one already, but for what it's worth The Knife released their Shaking The Habitual double (or triple, depending on your preferred format) album a couple weeks back and because of just how massive this thing is - both in runtime and in conceptual scope - I've been stuck wading through its layers of chilling synth and quirky percussionary ac coutrements and twisting bits of noise abstraction and esoteric constructs ever since . Shaking The Habitual is available [...]
The Appleseed Cast - Great Lake Derelict The Appleseed Cast - North Star Ordination While they might be the seemingly odd man out offa the otherwise bonkers Graveface roster, mid-west indie outfit The Appleseed Cast are gonna absolutely shine regardless of whatever company they may keep. Don't agree? Check out the soaring post-rock hymns and warm, melodic subtleties and gorgeous, echoing choruses on this, their eighth full length, Illumination Ritual . And then try to tell me otherwise . [...]
The Appleseed Cast - Great Lake Derelict The Appleseed Cast - North Star Ordination While they might be the seemingly odd man out offa the otherwise bonkers Graveface roster, mid-west indie outfit The Appleseed Cast are gonna absolutely shine regardless of whatever company they may keep. Don't agree? Check out the soaring post-rock hymns and warm, melodic subtleties and gorgeous, echoing choruses on this, their eighth full length, Illumination Ritual . And then try to tell me otherwise . [...]
Fol Chen - A Tourist Town Fol Chen - You Took The Train These weirdos in Fol Chen are getting real good at perfecting their brand of sugary lullaby-esque pop with layers upon layers of glittery, quirky synth-beats and staggering stop-n-go changes. Hard to describe, guys - just remember that The False Alarms is half-n-half tracks of bubbling playfulness, and then about-face, straight into arrangements alternately icy and foreboding, with (all the while) sauntering, sexy vocals that [...]
Black Bug - Reflecting The Light Black Bug - Police Helicopter Reflecting The Light is full of dark and ominous arrangements from the weirdo Black Bug duo (trio?), with bits of playful nihilism oozing out from everywhere, so niceties be damned, you know? Think raw power of dirty punk chords vs. dismal and oh-so eerie noir synth progression (somewhat reminiscent of the booming aesthetics of The Soft Moon and maybe even a lil' bit of a stripped-down Mind Spiders , [...]
The Thermals - Born To Kill The Thermals - You Will Find Me I still can't believe that I get this excited about the Thermals and their big chords and chunky guitar/bass combos and sweaty, adrenaline-fueled, sing-along-styled anthemic choruses, even after listening to 'em, and completely digging the shit outta every single one of their albums, for the past ten or so years. We've gone over all of this before , but if you want to hear something that truly [...]
Mixed Blood Majority - Fine Print Mixed Blood Majority - Ritual (ft. Kristoff Krane) This whole Mixed Blood Majority collaboration pairs up Crescent Moon and Joe Horton (Kill The Vultures and No Bird Sing, respectively) with Doomtree affiliate Lazerbeak - Minneapolis peeps, all. Featuring percussion-heavy production skills and a sometimes straightforward, sometimes minimalist series of beats alongside the witty, often biting banter between two veteran lyricists, natch . Mixed Blood Majority is [...]
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