Rebecca Ferguson has brought her heart and soul over from the UK. After placing as the runner-up on the UKs The X Factor in 2010, Ferguson got a record deal in both the UK and the US. Fergusons debut...
Kimbra Johnson has had a whirlwind of a year. From a hit single with Gotye ("Somebody That I Used To Know") to playing her first shows in the US, Johnson has been on one wild ride.
Before he was in a band called Vampire Weekend, Chris Baio was a DJ. Each week, the New York native would carry his laptop from the Columbia University library to a studio space where, between the ho...
In the 1989 film, Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure, the titular Bill and Ted have an electric-guitar, garage rock band called Wild Stallions and Eddie Vedder aspirations. Had the movie been ma...
Remember the first time you listened to Sonic Youth? The way the guitar throbbed? The way Kim Gordons voice cut from breathy whisper to hoarse yell? The way those cigarettes you and your best friend ...
Hip-hop is changing. Or, to put it more mildly, the sub-genre of throwback, flippant, late ‘80s-influenced indie rap is proliferating. Names that come to mind are Cool Kids, Das Racist, Azealia...
After over a decade of poking at the border and years of occupying the fringe, electronic music has officially entered the American mainstream. Sperry Top-Siders are as ubiquitous at festivals as glo...
Josh Osho is a soul singer whose pain comes through clearly in his delivery—which isnt easy to come by in todays heavily manufactured music world. From selling drugs on the streets of south Lon...
If Bon Iver scored Into the Wild, it would sound a little bit like JBM. The solo project of singer-songwriter Jesse Marchant, JBMs brand of fireside balladry separates him from his peers.
Last week, Garbage returned from an extended sabbatical with the release of the highly anticipated Not Your Kind of People, their first studio album since 2005.
"Night Shift," the latest track from Hortlax Cobra, the curiously Transformer-esque named alter-ego of Swedish percussionist John Eriksson, began with simple sketches on a childrens Casio key...
Exitmusic feels like musical Instagram. Everything is slightly overcast and distorted, but thoughtfully so, with skillfully applied lo-fi elements enhancing the duos deeply saturated ambient post-roc...
The U.K.s latest R&B minx isnt all nonstop soul-pop.
Megan Reillys voice and spirit are immediately captivating. She brings warmth to even the darkest of topics—a few of which are covered on her new album, The Well. From breakups to death, the ma...
"I dont know whats going on, but I like it," reads one comment on Hot Chips new video for "Night and Day." We had a very similar first reaction to the Peter Serafinowicz-directed vide...
Pop music is a malleable and expansive genre. There is a lot of space to play around. Chicago natives Maps & Atlases know this and enjoy its full range of possibilities.
Songstress Jesca Hoop has jumped the pond to live and work in Manchester—but while there dont seem to be any overt strains of Morrissey in the video for her latest single, "Born To," of...
This has not been a good month for music legends. Only two weeks after the death of Adam Yauch, who helped define 80s hip-hop with the Beastie Boys, Donna Summer, who arguably did the same for disco ...
With their new video for "PSA," which were pleased to exclusively premiere today, Leucadia, California-based synth-pop duo Junior High (comprised of Michael Deakers and Josh Ottum) hearkens b...
"City of Lovers," the new song from the boys of Baby Monster, would fit perfectly at the end of a mid-80s John Cusack film (a less surrealist version of Better Off Dead, perhaps).
On their new album, Bloom, the dreamy Baltimore duo returns with a collection of stoned disco anthems to sway by
Sigur Rós has announced a rolling global listening event, Valtari Hour, to commence at this Thursday at 7 pm in every time zone around the world. There is, of course, a hashtag.
If youve been browsing the blogs as of late, chances are youve caught a glimpse of transgendered talent Mykki Blanco (also known as Michael David Quattlebaum Jr.). The rapper/singer/songwriter/poet/ p...
Today, we bring you breaking news from Sal Masekela that doesnt involve a Kardashian. The former Daily 10 on E! host, X Games host, and professional surfer is adding another entry—musician&mdas...
As one-half of The Hood Internet, Steve Reidell has made a career out of mashing songs together. What you may not know, however, is that Reidell also mashes food items together to create beautiful cu...
Animal Kingdom is more than just a Disney World day trip and an Australian crime drama. Its also the name of the UK indie-pop project from Richard Sauberlich, Hamish Crombie, and Geoff Lea, who are i...
A secret: we are suckers for stop-motion films; blame Willis OBriens King Kong (1933) or The Nightmare Before Christmas. It is this technique that first attracted us to the above Jonquil video,...
Here We Go Magic frontman Luke Temple believes strongly in that moment when the recorder turns on and the creativity flows out.
Since releasing its 2010 debut, Twin-Hand Movement, the drone-rock band Lower Dens has spent a lot of time on the road, captivating audiences with its hazy, atmospheric sound.
The marketing campaign for I Love You, Its Cool certainly turned heads last year, when Bear In Heaven streamed album number four online in its entirety—and hilariously slowed down 400,000 perce...
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