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I Found A New Baby: August 2015
I Found A New Baby is a monthly column that seeks to shed light on swing music from the past and present, looking at albums from musicians who were once considered the biggest names around, and those...
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Pad & Pencil: August
Pad & Pencil is back to breakdown new collaborations, emerging artists, and their favorite Hip-Hop releases of the last month, including Chief Keef, DonMonique and B-Mac The Queen.B-Mac The...
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Cassette Club: August 2015
A double release from Fog Lake, a cathartic tape from Kissing Fractures, and the appropriately named Chill Mega Chill make up this month’s Cassette Club, curated as always by Rafael Grafals.Earlier...
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I Found A New Baby: September 2015
I Found A New Baby is a monthly column that seeks to shed light on swing music from the past and present, looking at albums from musicians who were once considered the biggest names around, and those...
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Indie 500: Exploding in Sound Records
How many underground bands can you name off the top of your head? Out of those bands, can you name the record label that put out one of those band’s releases? Record labels have been both troubling and...
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Pad & Pencil: September
From Australia to the Windy City, Pad & Pencil have scoured the globe to bring you the best in Hip-hop this month, including new releases from Gangsta Boo, Retch, and Finale.Baro.Recent high school...
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Cassette Club: September 2015
Our usual host, Rafael Grafals, is out for the month, so Ian Cory stepped in to cover a tape release that redefines the meaning of jock jams.With the start of the NBA regular season still weeks away,...
View ArticleFlashback: Kaizers Orchestra – Maestro
Imagine yourself in UK in the late summer of 2005. Indie-pop, Brit-pop, rock-pop, or whatever you want to call it, is filling the airwaves. Bloc Party, Maximo Park, Babyshambles, and about a hundred...
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I Found A New Baby: October 2015
I Found A New Baby is a monthly column that seeks to shed light on swing music from the past and present, looking at albums from musicians who were once considered the biggest names around, and those...
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Pad & Pencil: October
This month’s edition of Pad & Pencil, our monthly round up of the best in hip-hop, covers ground from classicists like Jay 305 to the genre’s outer limits with new releases from Milo, Scooter...
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Cassette Club: October 2015
In this month’s edition of Cassette Club, Rafael Grafels covers tapes from Benoit Pioulard and TV Girls that serve as neat summaries of their careers thus far.I was first exposed to Benoit Pioulard,...
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I Found A New Baby: November 2015
I Found A New Baby is a monthly column that seeks to shed light on swing music from the past and present, looking at albums from musicians who were once considered the biggest names around, and those...
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Indie 500: Father/Daughter Records
It may seem odd that an actual father and his daughter started Father/Daughter Records, but as Jessi Frick, the daughter in this equation, pointed out as we talked about advice on starting independent...
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Cassette Club: November 2015
Cassette Club is our monthly exploration into our favorite new tape releases. This month Rafael Grafals breaks down EPs from Beverly Tender and Florist and a full length from Richie Woods.Following...
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I Found A New Baby: December 2015
I Found A New Baby is a monthly column that seeks to shed light on swing music from the past and present, looking at albums from musicians who were once considered the biggest names around, and those...
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What We Missed: December 2015
There’s a preposterous amount of music out there, so much that sometimes we don’t even get to cover all of it in a timely manner. What We Missed, returning as a quarterly feature, is our chance to...
View ArticleThe Top Albums of 2015 (50 – 26)
With a bow and a flourish, 2015 is over. It’s been a year full of change, with every artist, critic and listener weighing in on a range of important issues facing the music industry right now....
View ArticleTop Singles of 2015
Whether on an album, streamed on a curated playlist, or remixed endlessly on soundcloud, songs are the basic building block of the musical economy. A great song will transcend the moment, no matter how...
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Ones To Watch 2016
Our New Music and Introducing teams are constantly on the hunt for new music. Be it the hype track of the week, that tweet you have to know about or your first listen of a hot up and coming act, we’ve...
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