NYC-based Turn It Records has just released Gina Turner and Kick-OH's tracks "Organolectic" and "Change Love" as a free download. "Organolectic" is pure house all the way, from the drums to the keys. "Change Love" has GT's vocals switching it up to sexy time with chopped whispers of "love is change" or something like that. Likes and re-tweets are the new currency in this link economy, and this is definitely worth the clicks. Follow Gina Turner on Facebook | Twitter You might also like: [...]
They say once you go black, you don’t go back. If you use ‘black’ to describe hypnotic, floor-shaking, pounding tech beats, then damn, do they have it right! Ever since seeing Adam Beyer back in January at Pacha, I’m a changed girl - feening for techno beats wherever I can find them. This Sunday, June 23rd, Drumcode head honcho, Adam Beyer , returns to NYC for a night that is sure to be filled with dark, entrancing tech beats. Last gracing us with his presence back in March, Beyer [...]
We rarely get excited about bands devoted to classic rock or blues standards, but when we stumble upon a really good NYC act flirting with these genres we don't shy away from highlighting it - and such is Sylvana Joyce & the Moment . Much more than a revival act, the band feeds itself with a wide variety of musical influences ranging from gypsy music to reggae and funk, allowing its charismatic front lady to showcase her remarkably versatile and expressive voice. Check out the video for single "The Break" here (although our favorite song from their [...]
The final resting place for New York City's three-term mayor Ed Koch has a botched tombstone . The self-proclaimed "liberal with sanity" and 105th mayor of NYC (1978-89), famous for his one-liner "How am I doing?", died on February 1 at the age of 88 from congestive heart failure. But his gravestone and place of burial at Trinity Cemetery in Washington Heights, Manhattan, has been set up for at least two years. (One vlogger paid a visit to the site back in 2011.) And, when the stone cutter etched Koch's vitals back in February, the date of [...]
We are getting mixed information about where Foxygen is currently based - many blogs were saying they are now an LA band, and the line "You're not in Brooklyn anymore" from one of the band's latest single seemed to confirm that notion, but from this insightful comment to a recent post it sounds like the band is always on the road but keeps coming back to NYC, Rado in particular (his Facebook's location is set to Manhattan). The 23 year old California native - lead guitarist and production guru in the band - just [...]
It's not easy running through three different directions in a song before you've even passed the first minute mark, but somehow Your Sister's Canary pulls it off. Three guys with as much control over their groove as they do with their epic themes, the band's smooth rock anthems make me think of Local Natives, if Local Natives had jazz chops. Latest record 'Good and Alone' takes the band to new heights, and might make you wonder why you're still able to catch them at smaller venues. Speaking of which, you can see them at The Bitter End on [...]
There may only be a few runes differentiating Canadian instrumental hip hop upstart CΛVEMΛN from Brooklynite five-piece Caveman but aurally, they're a proverbial world apart from one another. And it's that there latter to whom our attentions this afternoon turn, as the statesiders here return with In The City: set against a luscious sonic backdrop seemingly indigenous to Local Natives' back catalogue, Matthew Iwanusa's affected murmur protrudes forth like a skyscraper insistently poking the unblemished skies above. Akin in timbre to that of The Shins' James Mercer, it would surely be the apex of this particular piece were its instrumental elements [...]
"You're too perfect to be true" the inscrutable vocalist strung up in Ang Low croons on début release, Life Goes Down and really rather appositely, the song itself truly claws at a nigh on unfeasible perfection. Bursting with emotive synths, becoming presets and adolescent promises concerning the swift dismissal of promiscuity ("There will never be another like you, baby/ You will never have to worry about my heart", etc.), first songs from newly fabricated bands really shouldn't sound this consummate – months of musical refinement and line up reconfigurations should have to prelude things of such intimate brilliance. An [...]
"Uptempo" and "Pop" are by themselves two concepts that - in the business of being an indie band - can take you quite far ; but if on top of that you add to the equation also comparisons to The Smiths, then the hype can get out of control. Brooklyn's Drowners have more than one similarity with Morrisey's act, and although they will surely feel belittled by such comparison, they should not, because no artists really managed to be The Smiths' worthy musical heir yet (like, for example, XTC were for The [...]
Though set in the year 43,000 BCE, The Vanderbuilts latest record 'What We Forgot' is really an exercise in timelessness. On the surface, the band is every bit a gesture to the joys of classic rock riffs, and long road trips, but listen to the album back to back, and quite a bit more is ahead for your journey. From the barren landscape of 'Moscow,' to the resplendent 'I'm Coming Home,' this is a band that travels far and wide to feed their imaginations (half the record seems to take place in the stone age), but [...]
Ever since we've posted "Sonsick" back in January of this year, we knew that San Fermin are going to be big sooner than later. The track still is one of our favourite ones of this year. Since then no other song by the band lead by Ellis Ludwig-Leone has been released - but in this fall we'll finally get the release of the awaited debut record. It will be out on Downtown Records on 17 September 2013. In the meantime enjoy the video to [...]
In the mood for some dark, brooding weirdness? NYC's Zula - who last Wednesday opened for Deli Portland's favorites Radiation City at Mercury Lounge - will definitely fix you up in that department. With a debut LP brewing for the summer, the band takes its cues from a variety of places, from Krautrock to acid house and everything in between. Check out their captivating psychedelic samples and swirling effects in the track streaming below, entitled "Make Contact" or on their bandcamp page here , or see them live at [...]
Are you read to ruuumbllleee? Just kidding this isn’t about WWF or college basketball and I don’t really understand either of those two things. But rumbling is what I want to do at this show with Empire of the Sun this Thursday, June 20th. This live performance comes just two days after the Australian electronic duo release their album, Ice on the Dune . Now Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore will be bringing their cosmic masquerade-themed live show to the fans via Intel & MTV Iggy’s The Music Experiment 2.0 series. Tickets will [...]
Whatever happened to the independent ladies of the Lilith fair era, that golden time from the 90s when everyone re-learned how cool the piano and a great voice can be. Half Waif has some of that singer-songwriter sensibility setting off her emotions, but coupled with a scientist's flair for sound design (check out the long and soaring intro to album opener 'Wooden Horse'). New EP 'Future Joys' is at first an intimate journey told through her carefully wrought piano plays... but I'm continually surprised at how inventive the journey becomes as everything gets wound through her endlessly inventive [...]
Tonight things get rather interesting at Northside, with a bunch of bands I've been meaning to see live for a while but always missed. My night will start at The Grand Victory, where I'm curious to see Supercute! (pictured and streaming). Teenager girl playing Syd Barrett-influenced pop sounds just too intriguing to be missed! <a href=" http://supercute.bandcamp.com/ track/candy-city">Candy City by SUPERCUTE!</a> After that, Brooklyn Bowl around 7pm: Xenia Rubinos will open the show (we booked her for our Best of NYC show last year, and we were glad to see Pitchfork [...]
We hope you won't think we are chauvinistic if we say that Heliotropes' brand of rock doesn't often come from the fairer sex. Yeah because we are not just talking about 'punchy' stuff here, it's more like... fury! The Brooklyn female foursome has an explosive debut record on the way, and a release show to celebrate it in one of the finest NYC venues. Glasslands will be abuzz with excitement for A Constant Sea's release on 6/18, and with support from Bad Cop and Fan-Tan, the night promises to be interesting from the first act to the last. You don't [...]
The grungy, hardcore post-punk trio that is Verses Narrow hits your eardrums with rich, piercing guitar riffs, precisely driven drum work, and passionate indie vocals that all come together nicely to make for a well-executed sound that we think you should check out. Formed in Brooklyn in October of 2011, Bryan Louie, Sal DellAquila and Aaron Nice seem to borrow separate elements from the styles of their 90s band influences like The Jesus Lizard, Shellac and Quicksand to make a their own sound that they claim through their well-rounded execution. If you liked At The Drive In, check [...]
The grungy, hardcore post-punk trio that is Verses Narrow hits your eardrums with rich, piercing guitar riffs, precisely driven drum work, and passionate indie vocals that all come together nicely to make for a well-executed sound that we think you should check out. Formed in Brooklyn in October of 2011, Bryan Louie, Sal DellAquila and Aaron Nice seem to borrow separate elements from the styles of their 90s band influences like The Jesus Lizard, Shellac and Quicksand to make a their own sound that they claim through their well-rounded execution. If you liked At The Drive In, check [...]
Singer-songwriters are rarely inspired by punk themes and imagery. For Sizzy Rocket , she has all the love in the world, but channeled beneath her eyeliner, tattoo ink, leather jacket, and sexy grand piano, it can come out in some fairly unconventional ways. Whether singing odes to a crush (' Jamie '), or walking down memory Lane in ' Sid and Nancy ,' Sizzy Rocket is about as devil-may-care as her latest EP 'We do it for the Thrills' would make her out to be. The pianist breathes more fire into her 88-key chords than most guitarists with [...]
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