Vee Hua 華婷婷May 2012 marked the 15th anniversary of Constellation. This label mixtape draws from the past couple of years, and offers a pretty comprehensive picture of what we’ve been up to as of late.
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” If one were to pose this classic philosophical question to the director of Bestiaire, Denis Côté, Côté would probably respond with an emphatic yes...
Erik Burg"Everything you lose you can either try to recreate and get back or just let go and start anew." -- CFCF, Michael Silver
At first blush, Grimes’ latest full-length, Visions, may seem like a trendy dance-pop album. Go a bit deeper, and you’ll see it’s not that easy to describe. The Grimes wave was a bit slow to wash over me at first, but once it did...
“Pop music shouldn’t always get a bad rap,” says Top Pops!, a recurring selection of pop music highlights across a selection of styles. Hunting Club Using only cascading drums, drawn-out synths, and extremely minimal pop...
A post critiquing two female-fronted, genre-hopping experimental bands — and exaggerations. YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN Pitchfork describes YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN as “psych-opera.” Press point yarn. This is not psych-opera, dudes;...
Remix City Sifting through mountains of remix trash so you don’t have to, in an attempt to find the ones that contribute to their originals. Today’s post runs the gamut in musical style, but pay special note to the Whitney Houston...
SPECTRAL HYPNOSIS A recurring series, featuring mesmerizing songs for one to lose sense of time and space, mind and body. Orcas – Orcas Two Pacific Northwest musicians — electronic-minded singer-songwriter Benoit Pioulard and minimal...