Clik here to view.
Brolin – “NYC”
“NYC” is the debut single from UK bedroom producer Brolin, who sounds like the urban, streetwise counterpart to San Diego’s Youth Lagoon. Water treading vocals will quickly bring to mind the way...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Frank Ocean – “Blue Whale”
Last night, Frank Ocean released (“dropped”) a non-album track via his Tumblr page that acts both lyrically and sonically as an epilogue to his recently praised album Channel Orange. Though Ocean’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Neuroscience and Chinese Food: An Interview with Ariel Pink
On an unusually active Thursday night at Oberlin College, I had the curious opportunity of sharing some words with Ariel Pink, currently on tour with his band Haunted Graffiti supporting their new...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Javier Dunn – “Call Your Girlfriend” (Robyn Cover)
Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend” has incurred a staggering amount of cover versions. Perhaps it’s the earnest lyrics or simple chord progressions that lend themselves so beautifully to harmonies...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rhye – “The Fall”
We’ve been fans of Rhye since their mysterious debut track “Open” came out of nowhere early this year. Well we now know a little bit more about the Los Angeles by way of Berlin duo Robin Hannibal and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MØ – “Pilgrim”
MØ is 23-year-old Copenhagen native who makes punchy electropop that’s already been compared to Grimes, and fellow Scandinavian Lykke Li. “Pilgrim” is brooding and unapologetic, carried by well-placed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Video: Disclosure – “Latch” (feat. Sam Smith)
You know a video for a song is good when you can no longer separate rolling image from melody after exposure. Like an outbreak (not the scary monkeys) of musical disease, it infests every future...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Titus Andronicus – Local Business
Patrick Stickles has bold bones to pick. Endlessly moaning on 2010’s The Monitor in lament over the sediment of Civil War, the Titus Andronicus frontman now uses this most recent release to hone in on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
PAPA – “Put Me To Work”
It’s been a little while since we’ve gotten new material from QM friends PAPA. The Los Angeles band who played one of our shows earlier this year have been hard at work on their upcoming album, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“If Beats Was Money..”
Squadda’s voice trails off as he contemplates life after the monetary change, but if beats was money, then North Oakland hip-hop duo Main Attrakionz would have so much you could find them setting...
View Article