Blog: Editorial Emissions

Take a look at  Major Lazer's  official lyric video for  "Watch Out For This (Bumaye)" , off their upcoming album  "FREE THE UNIVERSE"  out April 15th on Secretly Canadian/Mad Decent/Downtown Records.  The video was released on POTATO; an electronic music network curated by A-Trak, Skrillex and Diplo. Major Lazer is the digital reggae/dancehall project of Diplo(Philadelphia's Wes Pentz) and Switch (London's Dave Taylor), two globetrotting, tastemaking DJ/producers whose previous collaborations notably included production work [...]

We all know the type:  Prolific bands who commit every loose thought, stray idea and 90-second song fragment to tape. Bands who pay no attention to little inconveniences like "release cycles" or "self-editing," and instead decide that quantity equals quality, creating a discography more labyrinthine, imposing and – ultimately – exhausting than the cast of creatures in a sci-fi novel. Here is why none of that applies to Thee Oh Sees . Because each of the dozen-plus albums they've released since 2004 are possess a distinct personality and represents a different point along the path of John [...]

Debating whether I’d attend the Paid Dues music festival on March 30th, the line-up proved too much of a draw to stay away. The idea of getting to hear new artists and those I knew and loved outweighed the con of venue choice. Changing venues a few weeks before the show filled me with naïve hope that this con would disappear altogether. With an overwhelming schedule of artists playing at overlapping times on three stages, I needed to map the day out as efficiently as possible which was aided by the Paid Dues app which allowed users to customize a [...]

Debating whether I’d attend the Paid Dues music festival on March 30th, the line-up proved too much of a draw to stay away. The idea of getting to hear new artists and those I knew and loved outweighed the con of venue choice. Changing venues a few weeks before the show filled me with naïve hope that this con would disappear altogether. With an overwhelming schedule of artists playing at overlapping times on three stages, I needed to map the day out as efficiently as possible which was aided by the Paid Dues app that allowed users to customize a [...]

It’s been a long haul for alt-rock veterans Garbage in the nearly 12 months since the release of their comeback album Not Your Kind of People . After abruptly announcing an infinite hiatus during the promotion for Bleed Like Me way back in 2005, the band have done their best to make up for lost time. They’ve toured the world over, including two stops in Toronto, which is where Shirley Manson, Butch Vig and company found themselves the night before Good Friday. [...]

One of our favorite hip-hop discoveries of the past couple of years is Georgia rapper Rittz . We came across him at SXSW in 2011 and have been following his every move since. Initially a protege of Yelawolf , he has since stepped out of his shadow and is now working with Tech N9ne . His new debut record on Tech's Strange Music label is called The Life & Times Of Jonny Valiant , and is set for release on [...]

We all know the type:  Prolific bands who commit every loose thought, stray idea and 90-second song fragment to tape. Bands who pay no attention to little inconveniences like "release cycles" or "self-editing," and instead decide that quantity equals quality, creating a discography more labyrinthine, imposing and – ultimately – exhausting than the cast of creatures in a sci-fi novel. Here is why none of that applies to Thee Oh Sees . Because each of the dozen-plus albums they've released since 2004 are possess a distinct personality and represents a different point along [...]

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Consequence Of Sound has premiered an MP3 of  The Thermals  new single  "The Sunset,"  along with a lyric video for the track. In the cold, sweeping darkness of The Thermals' upcoming LP  Desperate Ground , "The Sunset" is an obvious ray of light. Like the sun itself, the song is wide, warm, and more than a little dangerous at close range. It is the story of a man with only shadows for friends and only memories for food. Like many Thermals tracks, the song is loud, catchy, and [...]

Coming off a string of successful SXSW shows, Bleeding Rainbow is embarking on a national tour with Cave Singers (Jagjaguwar).  Earlier this year, Bleeding Rainbow released third LP Yeah Right , receiving rave reviews from Rolling Stone, Stereogum, KEXP, and more, as well as receiving public proclamations of adoration from Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, the latter even attending one of their many SXSW shows. At SXSW, Entertainment Weekly took note: "They cranked up the volume past the ear-plug limit, blending shoegaze-y guitars with sweet, girlish vocals. They made [...]

Take a look at  Major Lazer 's  official lyric video for  "Watch Out For This (Bumaye)" , off their upcoming album  FREE THE UNIVERSE  out April 15th on Secretly Canadian/Mad Decent/Downtown Records.  The video was released on POTATO; an electronic music network curated by A-Trak , Skrillex and Diplo . Major Lazer [...]

In 2009 Spectrals began life as a one man band. That one man was Heckmondwike, Yorkshire resident, Louis Jones, and he played everything on his early releases himself. A number of singles were released on labels such as Captured Tracks, Tough Love, Underwater People and Moshi Moshi; somewhere along the way Louis recruited his brother, Will, to play drums; touring band members came and went, but the core of the two brothers remains to this day. In 2011 Spectrals signed to Slumberland (in North America) and Wichita (for the rest of the [...]

After knocking out this year’s SXSW as one of the most talked about and must see acts, Vancouver’s furiously melodic punk band,  White Lung , will perform at Pitchfork and NXNE Festivals this summer.  White Lung are currently out on an extensive spring tour which includes dates with METZ, Iceage, Pissed Jeans and Merchandise.   Sorry  (Deranged Records), their second LP, was released last year and pushed the band to a wider audience receiving critical acclaim from SPIN, Pitchfork, Bitch and gained Rolling Stone’s “Top 10 Albums Of The Year” for 2012. White Lung are a four-piece indie [...]

After knocking out this year’s SXSW as one of the most talked about and must see acts, Vancouver’s furiously melodic punk band,  White Lung , will perform at Pitchfork and NXNE Festivals this summer.  White Lung are currently out on an extensive spring tour which includes dates with METZ , Iceage , Pissed Jeans and Merchandise .   Sorry   (Deranged Records), their second LP, was released last year and [...]

Los Angeles duo  Houses  have announced that they'll be joining  Baths  as main support on his upcoming national tour.  Coming off a strong SXSW showing, an upcoming sold out  San Francisco show and having already been announced as main support on  Cold War Kids  April dates complemented with a remix of their single "Miracle Mile"  which premiered on FILTER today, Houses are on track to have a huge 2013.  Starting May 23 in Portland and wrapping up June 29th in San Francisco, Houses will be spending much of the next four months on the road in [...]

Los Angeles duo  Houses  have announced that they'll be joining  Baths  as main support on his upcoming national tour.  Coming off a strong SXSW showing, an upcoming sold out  San Francisco show and having already been announced as main support on   Cold War Kids  April dates complemented with a remix of their single "Miracle Mile"  which premiered on FILTER today, Houses are on track to have a huge 2013.  Starting May 23 in Portland and wrapping up June 29th in San Francisco, Houses will be spending much of the next four months on [...]

The Joy Formidable  are honored to take part in this year's Record Store Day with a special 12" single release,  "A Minute's Silence."  The B-side of the single is an acoustic cover of Bruce Springsteen's classic  "Badlands"  that was recorded live at the Sirius XM studios in NY. The band recorded "A Minute's Silence" in 2012 during the sessions that spawned their acclaimed second album Wolf's Law. About the song, lead singer Ritzy Bryan said "We love buying music and we've always valued the atmosphere and experience of browsing a really great record [...]

French electronic music titans  Justice  have announced a new live album,  Access All Arenas , set for release via Ed Banger / Because Music / Vice / Elektra on May 7th. The 14-track album is a recording of their show in the Nîmesarenas last July, offering a taste of the wild effervescence that makes this duo one of the most exciting electronic live bands of the decade. Album art and tracklisting below. In 2012 the Audio, Video, Disco tour sold-out in a matter of days, comprising 105 shows that spanned from Australia to New York, Europe and South [...]

Inspired by folk, rock, country, and bluegrass, the London-based Mumford & Sons feature singer/guitarist/drummer Marcus Mumford, vocalist and banjo/Dobro player Winston Marshall, vocalist/keyboardist Ben Lovett, and vocalist/bassist Ted Dwane. The foursome started playing together in 2007; though they were playing with other bands at the time, they bonded over their shared love of rootsy music. Mumford & Sons quickly became a part of London's underground folk scene, which included acts like Laura Marling and Noah and the Whale. Mumford & Sons are pleased to announce the details of their upcoming North [...]

Montezumas frontman Kristian Matsson started recording a set of rustic, gravelly-voiced tunes, ones that nodded to fellow SwedesHomesick Hank and Thomas Denver Jonsson, under the nom de soloact the Tallest Man on Earth in the early 2000s. His self-titled debut EP was released on Sweden's Gravitation Records in 2006. The "Pistol Dreams" single followed one year later, leading up to the release of the Tallest Man on Earth's first full-length album, Shallow Grave, which hit stores in 2008. Matsson spent the rest of 2008 and 2009 touring, opening for Bon Iver and John Vanderslice as well as playing solo [...]