Royal Baths — Better Luck Next Life
It sounds Jeremy Cox and Jigmae Baer got the best of both coasts.
02/16/2012 | Comments 0Various Artists — Chronicle: Music from the Motion Picture
I’m uncertain about the hit found-footage film, but the soundtrack for
“Chronicle” pops with energy from the start, courtesy of Blonde Acid
Cult.
02/14/2012 | Comments 0Poliça — Give You the Ghost
You’ve got to admire what they’re up to in the north Midwest these days.
That Bon Iver/Gayngs/Megafaun collective is probably the best non-Aaron
Rodgers thing to happen to Wisconsin in forever.
02/13/2012 | Comments 0Steve Aoki — Wonderland
Were it not for Steve Aoki, we would have no Dim Mak Records (founded in
L.A. in 1996), and, therefore, possibly none of some of the most
important electro dance music of the mid-2000s, including but not
limited to Canadian house duo MSTRKRFT, rockers Bloc Party or possibly
even New York avantists Battles, whose 2004 “B EP” was distributed by
said record label.
02/09/2012 | Comments 0Carter Sampson — Mockingbird Sing
Carter Sampson’s voice and subject matter are too sweet to get lumped in
with those rough ’n’ tumble Red Dirt boys, but instrumentally, her
“Mockingbird Sing” isn’t far off.
02/08/2012 | Comments 0
