Judy Nelson&nsbp; Santa Monica’s CHIEF falls into the unfortunate category of a band which gives a false first impression: they can enthrall with a taste, with one track — and then let you down dramatically when you encounter the full album. The...
Vee Hua 華婷婷Sometimes, the albums which make indelible marks on your memory are the slow-growers. Perhaps it’s been an eternity, and you still don’t know what your opinion is about said albums, but one day — it just all clicks. And when you...
Although Norwegian electronic experimental group Casiokids released their first album in 2006, the naïveté — childishness, almost — of their early release continues to define their stylistic mélange in their latest release, translated to...
BLK JKS released their first US full-length last year, and it made a relatively small ripple in the music pond. This year’s EP Zol! from the South African band promises to make much more of a splash, due mostly to the well-deserved hype that...
This post and these images are taken from Yanko Design. Created by Yuree S. Lim and Jieun Yang, this might be a prototype rather than an actual product. I can’t be sure. In either case, I constantly have the problem of not knowing what to do...
Gospel Gossip are yet another Midwest discovery from Northfield, Minnesota. They’re a rather young three-piece that formed in 2007, with one prior ful-length album. It’s said they began as twinkling dream-pop; with Drift, they’ve...
You, my friends, can download Bear Hands’ recent The Rumpus Session at bearhandsband.com. Once you sign up you will receive a Bear Hands // Rumpus Room digital bundle containing the full video session and an MP3 of the live session mixed +...
On a recent hour-long drive, I burned a CD of mp3s, and all that would fit on the disc was CocoRosie’s entire Grey Oceans album and nine tracks from Jamie Lidell’s latest effort, Compass. Five tracks from Compass were missing from the...