The Oakland-based, perma-stoned Green Ova rap crew doesn’t much care whether you’re listening or not, or at least that’s the impression I get. The crew, anchored by the duo Main Attrakionz, had a relatively big year in 2011: Appearing on ASAP Rocky’s LIVELOVEA$AP, working extensively with producer-of-the-moment Clams Casino, seeing their murk-rap aesthetic take over [...]
BTW and Saturday Night Live alumnus Sleigh Bells sold out the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles bringing along six Marshall stacks, a twin Jackson guitar assault and blitzing light show in support of their latest album Reign of Terror. Jennifer Herrema‘s new project Black Bananas rounded out the noisy bill. Check out the photos above [...]
Alice Glass vogues hard in the new clip for “Suffocation,” in which the Crystal Castles frontwoman holds down an abandoned NYC mansion. The video is directed by bandmate Ethan Kath. Check it out at Vs. Magazine and download a new remix of the track by HEALTH down below. Crystal Castles – “Suffocation (HEALTH Remix)” II [...]
Last month, we posted “His Pain,” a truly gorgeous collaboration between old-school soul crooner BJ The Chicago Kid and scarily talented young polysyllabic rapper Kendrick Lamar. As it turns out, the two also teamed up for another excellent song from BJ’s Pineapple Now-Laters album. It’s called “The World Is A Ghetto,” and it’s streaming below. [...]
Swede synth-poppers Lo-Fi-Fnk will put out a single for Last Summer track “Kissing Taste” next week that will also feature remixes by Main Attrakionz, Krusha, Lemaitre and others. Today we have the debut of their new video for the single, an austere clip that features the group’s Leo Drougge and August Hellsing (as well as [...]
Former Red House Painters leader Mark Kozelek has a new album, Among The Leaves, coming out under his Sun Kil Moon pseudonym. Below, we’ve got a download of the leadoff track “Sunshine In Chicago,” which finds Kozelek in bittersweet-reminisce mode, singing with charming specificity about a listless night on tour in the city of the [...]
According to the National Post (via the Calgary Herald), guitarist Christopher Reimer of the acclaimed Canadian indie rock outfit Women passed away in his sleep last night. His cause of death is still unknown. He was 26. Women have been on a hiatus since a fistfight broke out between the group at a show in [...]
Blur’s big festival-circuit reunion tour came three years ago, and the group has mostly been inactive since then, though co-leaders Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon did get together to debut new song “Under The Westway” a few nights ago. But last night, all four members got back together to accept an Outstanding Contribution To Music [...]
Rick Ross’s “High Definition” is yet another one of Rich Forever‘s excess-championing bangers, and its video counterpart is stuffed with the requisite flossing you’ve come to respect from the big fellow and his Maybach Music crew. It’s free of the melodrama of “Yella Diamonds,” which is either welcome or a huge bummer, depending on your [...]
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