Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the December 2010 Mix and find out. You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Downloadables: Young Bodies [...]
Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the December 2010 Mix and find out. You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Downloadables: Young Bodies [...]
DEATH GRIPS Exmilitary Third Worlds Music This album feels like a deliberate challenge to Gaslamp Killer, not only to claim his throne as the most intense, crazy sample-based hip-hop sound in California, but also to reinstate the MC's role firmly in the new era. Death Grips' MC Ride shouts with an in-the-red intensity somehow stranded in the Bermuda Triangle of soccer hooligan chants, "Who Let the Dogs Out," and Onyx. There's a major debt to horrorcore in these lyrics about orgies in [...]
(Sweat Lodge Guru, 2011) Hyper-ambient wonder-kid, Not Noah Lennox, or some couple of dudes now (people seem to be thinking ("Neither Noah Lennox?")), RxRy, finally, after three bedroom-churned bliss-outs (and some EPs)--freely distributed--can now be heard where it was appropriate he/they should be heard from all along: etched into a vinyl plate. Alpha finds RxRy perpetuating the crumbling pulse-heavy astro-electronics of previous albums, only this time with a healthy dose of ADHD. Clocking in somewhere between an EP and a full-length, Alpha is headphone candy of the brain-burstingly serene variety, in as [...]
A prominent narrative going into CMJ this year was the surge in the popularity of hardcore music, and at the forefront of that discussion was Sacramento's Trash Talk. Though Trash Talk have been together, and been very good, for a number of years, they pretty much stacked paper at CMJ, from a press clip standpoint. Trash Talk came to embody a city that no one really knew much about - outside of that they have a former NBA fan favorite as a mayor - but what they did know wasn't pleasant. Sacramento is a reputably scuzzy, rundown city, [...]
10/22/2011, Mary Anne Hobbs aired a very special podcast lee bannon did for her. We wanted to share the full podcast with you here. Tracklist: Sepalcure "Deep City Insects" Moon Bounce "Gone (feat. Steffaloo)" Shlohmo - Parties First Person Shooter -DARK QUILT blood orange -Sutphin Boulevard Death Grips - Exmilitary - 2 - Guillotine Zach Hill- The Primitives Talk
Welcome to The Art of the Video, our collaborative series with Sean Stout and Terroreyes. Sean will be taking you behind the scenes of videos he's directed, and once in a while we'll add in some commentary as well. For our first volume, we asked Sean to talk about his work with Zach Hill for [...]
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raleigh moncrief - "lament for morning" (download) I'm very excited for Raleigh Moncrief 's upcoming record on Anticon ( Watered Lawn, out Oct. 25). Raleigh has produced/engineered for the Dirty Projectors , Zach Hill (Hella), Ganglians , and more. "Lament for Morning" has been floating around for a little bit, but I REALLY love this song, and can't wait to hear the rest of the record. Check out the brand new video [...]
In the new video from California's fearsome (if not amorphous) rap troupe Death Grips , we're treated to more of the assaulting, crusty VHS vibe they've been throwing at us lately. Here it's for "Known For It", a bookending track off their recent LP, Exmilitary . Some aggressive, suffocating live shots flash by, featuring MC Ride, Zach Hill's signature thrash, and what appears to be a deck set up for Flatlander, the group's producer. Is it just me or are these guys rolling out these little bits at just the right pace?
Stylistically, I think Tripper is an exciting return to Hella's old, stripped down form. Some fans may see it as a bit of a regression, but that's only half of the truth. The duo throws in some overdubbed guitars and bass, and manages to utilize some of the tricks they've learned working in various side-projects since the release of 20072s There's No 666 In Outer Space. There are moments on here where I actually feel could have made it onto a Zach Hill solo album. The downside is, though I do think Hella is sounding pretty [...]
Life Sux is the new EP from SoCal Weedcore/Dankwave wunderkind Wavves . The EP comes out on September 20 via Nathan Williams' own Ghost Ramp imprint. Because of the hype surrounding the rise of Wavves , it can be pretty easy to dismiss Williams. On the other hand, while the haters probably won't even admit it, the dude writes some catchy-ass tunes. Listen. Downloadable: I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl (mp3) Preorder Life Sux @ (uggh) iTunes . [...]
Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the August 2010 Mix and find out. Downloadables: Golden Town (mp3) by Super Wild Horses Fried Egg (mp3) by Grass Widow I've Gotta Get (mp3) by Woven Bones Glitter (mp3) by No Age [...]
As you should already know, the postmathrock outfit know as Hella is presently comprised of just two founding members, Zach Hill and Spencer Seim. The duo is set to release its latest album, Tripper via the Sargent House label on August 30th. Here is the 2nd brain-melting track the band has dropped pre-release. Listen. Downloadable: Yubacore (mp3) You can preorder Tripper in various formats over @ hellomerch.com . And here is a shot of Hella engaging in [...]
As you should already know, postmathrockers Hella is presently comprised of just two founding members, Zach Hill and Spencer Seim. The now duo is set to release its latest album, Tripper via the Sargent House label on August 30th. Here is the 2nd brain-melting track the band has dropped pre-release. Listen. Downloadable: Yubacore (mp3) You can preorder Tripper in various formats over @ hellomerch.com . And here is a shot of Hella engaging in everyone's favorite meme [...]
While Tyler, the Creator's Goblin won more than its fair share of fans, chagrin, and a spot in the Billboard top 200, a retrospective look/listen to the album less than a month after most of the hubbub has died down has Odd Future's fearless leader looking suspiciously like just another angsty, teenage rabble-rouser. Rather than the paradoxically menacing/endearing figure Bastard painted the 20-year-old producer/rapper to be, his second full-length sounds out of ideas a minute into its third track, and never fully recovers. Despite his noted pride on the collective's self-contained autonomy, Goblin would've benefited highly [...]
Be warned: this music is not for the faint of heart (or ears). Death Grips is a new hip-hop project from Sacramento, featuring the likes of Zach Hill (of Hella, Marnie Stern, Bygones) and some his other Sacramento cronies. Part hardcore, part experimental dub and beats, all anger. This music makes you want to smoke crack and dropkick a cop. Cop their mixtape, Ex Military , right here . And watch the fucking mental videos for Guillotine and Full Moon below.. Death Grips - [...]
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