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The Shouting Matches – Grownass Man [album review]
Normally when some bros get together and knock out some barroom blues, it doesn’t register on the musical landscape. But when those bros are Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Phil Cook (Megafaun) and Brian Moen (Peter Wolf Crier); it at least makes some ripples over in HearYa World HQ. This isn’t about them pushing the limits [...]
Diarrhea Planet – “Separations”
The four-guitar Nashville punk monster Diarrhea Planet has lately cultivated a rep as one of the best, most fiery young live bands on the touring circuit. If their revolting band name is still (understandably) putting you off, their live cover of “Born To Run” with Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles might be enough to change [...]
Atomic Books Comics Preview - May 22, 2013
In the weekly Atomic Books Comics Preview, Benn Ray highlights notable new comics and graphic novels. Benn Ray is the owner of Atomic Books, an independent bookstore in Baltimore. The Mobtown Shank is his blog, and his comic Said...
The Daft Punk Helmet Market
If you’ve got a gift for metalworking and/or LED-light programming, you may be missing your calling; you could be raking in a ton of money by helping people realizing their dreams of transforming into Daft Punk robots. A new Wall Street Journal article explores the secondary market of artisans who are making facsimiles of Daft [...]
Shorties (An Excerpt from Lionel Shriver's New Novel, Albums as Book Collection Prints, and more)
NPR excerpts from Lionel Shriver's new novel Big Brother. Standard Designs offers prints of several Cure, Smiths, and Radiohead albums as book collections. Guernica interviews Claire Messud about her new novel, The Woman Upstairs. SPIN investigates how music is purchased...
Watch Charli XCX Cover Backstreet Boys
The Backstreet Boys’ luminous ballad “I Want It That Way” is almost indisputably the single greatest song to come out of the teenpop era, and if you’re still resisting its charms 15 years later, this is a pretty good morning to reconsider. Yesterday, during an in-store performance at Chicago’s Borderline Music, the British singer Charli [...]
Daily Downloads (Pillars and Tongues, Bestial Mouths, and more)
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Amanda Jo Williams: "Holster, The Gun It Hangs In There" [mp3] from You're...
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 !
Names You Should Know
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 [...]
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