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Deafheaven Is the Black Sheep of Black Metal
The metal community are a passionate bunch. Step out of line, and you'll get the horns. Just ask Deafheaven. The San Francisco natives turned heads with their 2011 debut LP Roads to Judah (rel...
Christopher Paul Stelling
New Music of Note !
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CHRISTOPHER PAUL STELLING is a workhorse. A year after releasing the beautiful "Songs of Praise and Scorn" (Best Albums of 2012) and touring extensively on both sides of the Atlantic, Stelling returned home a few weeks ago and then settled in to prepare for the release of his new record. Show More Summary
Alejandro Cohen's Dance Music Is Unbuttoned Just Enough
[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.]
Until recently, it was tricky to quantify Alej...
Yeah She Raps, But Don't Call iLLCamille a "Female Emcee"
On a Friday night, West Pico bar The Mint was host to a small, hardcore crowd of hip hop purists donning hi-top fades and African medallions. On stage, a woman dressed in a vintage Nike windbrea...
I Tried To Teach My Sons About Music While Fishing But Instead They Just Did Karate Moves On The Beach
[Editor's Note: Shea Serrano sometimes writes about Why This Song Sucks, and sometimes about his hilarious and poignant life and times. Better put your shoes on because your socks are about to...
video: Chromatics – “Camera”
[unofficial fan vid edited by david dean burkhart]
You, Essay! You, Essay!
Double Dagger - "The Mirror" My brain is fine, but my body has mental problems. My body is a stupid, lumbering animal. My body is silent almost all of the time, but when it speaks, it speaks in illiterate, bleating...
Kvelertak @ The Studio At Webster Hall 5/17/2013
Words like “party metal,” and “beer metal” come to mind when talking about Kvelertak, Norway’s black ‘n’ roll export, but a more accurate descriptor would be “sweat metal.” Or, if we we’re really going for accuracy, “fluid metal,” because it wasn’t just sweat that was soaking the stage and crowd at the Kvelertak show on [...]
Jacques Greene – “On Your Side” (Feat. How To Dress Well)
The first time I ever saw Jacques Greene DJ, he spun Mya’s overlooked, Nicki Minaj-featuring slinker “Ponytail.” Throwing that out there made it clear he had been committed to pop-R&B at a young age, but is also ordained to keeping things on the dancefloor vibe sultry but still party-primed. Tom Krell, bka How To Dress [...]
The Rolling Stones - Staples Center - 5/20/13
The Rolling Stones
Staples Center
5-20-13
If last night's concert at Staples Center really was the Rolling Stones' final show in Los Angeles after nearly 50 years of faithful pilgrimages to t...
our love is like the morning clouds // like the morning dew
british soul singer-songwriter laura mvula recently released her extraordinary debut album “sing to the moon”. full of beautiful surprises, laura mvula has created a heavenly arrangement of movie-soundtrack worthy melodies that gather from traits of gospel, acapella, r&b, funk, jazz — all against the momentum of a brilliant orchestra. listen: laura mvula – like the [...]
Cold Cave – “Black Boots”
Wes Eisold describes the new Cold Cave A-side as, “Cool nihilism. Existential, groovy, psychedelia.” I think the former term fits “Black Boots” pretty well, insofar as it means anything at all. The latter, though? Sorry, but “existential, groovy, psychedelia” this is not. Show More Summary
Madlib – “The Mad March”
The enigmatic Californian rap producer Madlib is exactly the type of person to make a new track, put it on a 7? single, only make 300 copies of that single, and then only sell those copies to the people who show up at one specific show. His new two-track single Rock Conducta is only available [...]
Cass McCombs – “Three Men Sitting On A Hollow Log”
As far as we know, the great inward-looking indie singer-songwriter Cass McCombs has no plans to drop a new album on us anytime soon. But this summer, he will release a split 7? with the veteran folk-music outsider Michael Hurley. McCombs’s contribution is a warm and buoyant shuffle called “Three Men Sitting On A Hollow [...]
The Great Escape 2013: Stuart Warwick
If you think I didn’t know Lab Coast all that well, another artist I saw at The Great Escape this year about whom I knew very little ended up producing precisely the opposite reaction: I wasn’t immediately struck the first couple of times I heard his record, but live on stage he really was captivating. [...]
Goodie Mob – “Special Education” (Feat. Janelle Monáe)
Apologies for those who already know, but before “Crazy” and “Fuck You” and The Voice, Cee-Lo was one fourth of the ridiculously great Atlanta rap group Goodie Mob, whose first two albums are indisputable essential classics and whose third album is kind of sneaky-great. Last year, the group reunited on (of course) The Voice and [...]
Album Of The Week: Majical Cloudz Impersonator
You never, as a music dork, stop learning this lesson, but the truth behind it stands: It’s always, always a bad idea to dismiss an artist based on a terrible name. That rule is right up there with “horrendous rappers get better all the time, so stop believing it can’t happen,” and we break the [...]
The 10 Less Obvious Must-See Sets At Sasquatch! ’13
If you’re heading to The Gorge for Sasquatch! this weekend, you probably already know to check out Sigur Rós, Vampire Weekend, Tame Impala, and other live favorites. But, as with Coachella, there are some hidden gems of the festival that you need to check out. Some are groups on the verge of breaking through, some [...]
Madlib – “The Mad March”
New Madlib track from his super-limited (300 copies) new Rock Konducta white label 45, made... Read more »
Deafheaven – “Sunbather”
From a distance, the title track from Deafheaven’s sophomore LP, Sunbather, sounds like a particularly harrowing and intense act of God — a tornado leveling a concert hall, maybe, or an avalanche burying a valley. But in the lovingly crafted details, the song is all about dynamics: George Clarke’s raw shriek is pure urgency and [...]
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