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premiere: Laura Mvula – “She (Robin Hannibal rework)”

Laura Mvula‘s stunning single “She” gets a tasteful, tender re-work from Rhye‘s Robin Hannibal, which,... Read more »

video: The Knife – “A Cherry on Top”

Widowspeak and The Auras at The Garrison in Toronto

Frank YangObjectively speaking, there’s not a world of difference between Widowspeak’s 2011 self-titled debut or the follow-up Almanac, released in January of this year. You can file them both quite comfortably under “the soundtrack to dreams of dusty country roads”, not too far from lazy but not inaccurate reference points Mazzy Star and Cat Power, [...]

Mixtape Of The Week: Cassie RockaByeBaby

Once upon a time, people hated Cassie. In 2006, she was a 19-year-old model-turned-singer whose big single, “Me & U,” may or may not have been about blowjobs. After a couple of notoriously bad TV performances of the song, some joker started an online petition saying that Diddy should drop her from Bad Boy, and [...]

Garbage & Screaming Females – “Because The Night” Video

’90s alt-pop professionals Garbage and Jersey basement-punk heroes Screaming Females have an unlikely bond. They toured together last year, and Scremales leader Marissa Paternoster joined Garbage onstage regularly to cover Patti Smith’s “Because The Night” (itself the result of an unlikely Smith/Springsteen alliance). Show More Summary

The 10 Best Public Image Ltd. Songs

Tackling the 10 best Public Image Ltd. songs is a daunting task. First question is, who exactly is PiL? Yes, there is a recent album called This Is PiL that some might think answers the question, but on PiL’s first record, First Issue, released in 1978, PiL was John Lydon, Keith Levene, Jah Wobble, and [...]

Review of Young Galaxy’s Ultramarine

Vanessa HeinsThey couldn’t have known it at the time, but when naming their 2011 album Shapeshifting, Montreal’s Young Galaxy were describing not only their sonic shift from well-worn dream-pop to sleek, futuristic disco, but in their fortunes as well. Their first couple records had failed to launch them into an orbit commensurate with their band [...]

Thundercat – “Heartbreaks + Setbacks”

If you didn’t hear Thundercat (aka Stephen Bruner) on his fantastic 2011 album, you’ve probably heard his bass guitar brilliance on many of Flying Lotus’s best tracks Now Thundercat has a new album on the way, Apocalypse, which seems like a play on the former’s title, Golden Age Of Apocalypse. While Golden Age was mostly [...]

DJ Khaled – “No New Friends” (Feat. Drake, Lil Wayne & Rick Ross)

Once upon a time, DJ Khaled stumbled into taking credit for one of the best singles of 2011, when his name appeared on the left side of the hyphen on “I’m On One,” the excellently twinkly and moody Drake/Lil Wayne/Rick Ross team-up. Khaled’s new single “No New Friends” is a transparent attempt to recapture that [...]

video: Basement Jaxx – “Back 2 the Wild”

[directed by Mat Maitland & Natalia Stuyk]

Daft Punk x Pharrell x The Creators Project

The Collaborators, part 4.

Redd Kross and B-17 at The Horseshoe in Toronto

Frank YangThe weather may have been nigh-on dreadful last Thursday night, but it was going to take more than Winter’s last gasp to keep Toronto from venturing out to catch the long-awaited return of some colourfully-named Californians been pioneers at melding punk energy and pop sensibilities since adolescence. No, not Green Day at the Air [...]

Live in Edinburgh This Week – 15th April 2013

This week is, of course, the week of Record Store Day where we hopefully remember that record shops are nice places to  spend time and money and resolve to go there more often, rather than just fight for the exclusive scraps scattered like breadcrumbs for pigeons. Understandably, most of the gig action this week is [...]

Exclusive Interview: Psychic Twin

Prior to the release of Psychic Twin's most recent 7-inch, I connected with Erin Fein - the woman behind the project - for an exclusive interview. In this interview, she shares her insight on her creative process, the future of Psychic Twin and this year's SXSW.

Daft Punk x Pharrell x Nile Rodgers – “Get Lucky” (SNL ad)

Daft Punk x Hedi Slimane for Saint Laurent

CONTEST – Young Rival @ The Rivoli – April 17, 2013

Frank YangWho: Young Rival What: Hamilton-based garage-rocking power trio who released their second album Stay Young – always solid advice – last Fall. The first video from it made the inaugural shortlist for the Prism Prize, created to recognize the best music video in Canada. Why: They just showcased their goods last month at Canadian [...]

Stream Charli XCX’s True Romance. Or don’t. Whatever.

Dan CurwinAs much as I’d like to be able to claim to have seen Charli XCX’s latent stardom from the get-go, a quick look back at my writeup from SXSW 2012 confirms that I was not, in fact, overly impressed with the set I caught, but this also acknowledges that performing in a stripped-down setting [...]

video: Sally Shapiro – “If It Doesn’t Rain”

[video edited by iris beatrix]

The Prodigy – “Firestarter (Death Grips Remix)”

It’s nice when groups connect the aesthetic dots for us. This afternoon, noise-rap troublemakers Death Grips posted a hectic, disorienting remix of “Firestarter,” the feral techno-rock song that was a massive hit for rave popularizers the Prodigy in 1996. And now that I think about it, the Keith Flint mouth-foaming and Liam Howlett steamroller production [...]