Erik BurgAmbient bedroom pop pioneer Matt Mondanile, aka Ducktails, manages to break into untapped psych-pop territory on his new album, while appeasing those who long for his forgotten demo cassettes. And while Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics takes an...
Vee Hua 華婷婷This mixtape is composed of songs released by Own Records, a small independent label based in Luxemburg (Europe). Despite the diversity of these tracks, we like to believe that you will recognize the thin red line that moves us.
Verdugo Hills is somewhat renowned for its high school — in which numerous Hollywood movies have been filmed — and a hospital revered for its ties to the community. Verdugo Hills is also the title of Caroline’s new album, a...
To copy and paste from Jagjaguwar’s description: “Some of the questions raised when we announced the existence of Volcano Choir were ‘When are they going to tour?’ and ‘How will they re-create this live?’ The...
In no time at all, the Decibel Festival in Seattle has apparently become one of the premier all-things-electronic festivals in the nation. Most electronic music isn’t really my bag; year in, year out, I know maybe one or two of the...
"There are plenty of people doing completely novel, transgressive things, but no one knows because it is too esoteric or inaccessible." --
Nika Roza Danilova
In a way, it’s kind of convenient that this Brooklyn duo Von Haze have the word “haze” right in their band name, as it serves as kind of a suggestion toward the mind-frame ideal for their music’s consumption. I found that in...
Bugs, bats, flowers, nature, and squishy things blend atop each other in this abstract blur of a video for “Bicycle”, off of Memory Tapes’ first album, Seek Magic. Lots international Memory Tapes tour dates to come — a lot of...