At his best, Matthew Dear often manages to invoke a perfect balance of anxiety and flirtation. Hes mined dark corners of electronic music throughout his career; while this latest single, "Her Fan...
King Tuffs self-titled LP is full of intoxicated garage-rock that plays towards ones primal and destructive instincts by disguising ingenious craftsmanship as dumb luck. Those instincts are best demo...
Hot on the heels of his collaborative album with White Fences Tim Presley, Hair, Ty Segall has another record coming out, this time with his touring band. What weve heard from it so far has sounded l...
The members of Tampa, Florida post-punk trio Merchandise hail from the citys ethos-first hardcore commnity, having performed in such groups as Cult Ritual and Neon Blud. That background helps explain...
"Val Venis" is Chicago rapper King L (formerly King Louie)s first official record for new label home Epic, and despite its title, it has nothing to do with Val Venis, the kind of hilarious ea...
On "ILLuminate", Ab-Soul puts himself in the class of top five rappers dead or alive, says hes better than Jay-Z and Nas, promises to come at Biggie and 2Pac when he dies, and calls his Black...
A mere 23 seconds into "Craver" from the Copenhagen punk band Lowers sub-nine minute debut EP and its clear the song is a threat, its shrill, piercing guitar line screeching on like fingernai...
As genre names go, EDM is about as vague as "indie." While its useful shorthand for the post-millennial rave movements superstar DJs and producers, it doesnt give much insight into the stylis...
One of the many unreleased tunes that appeared on Rusties incredible BBC Essential Mix from earlier this year was Brooklyn producer Baauers disorienting banger "Harlem Shake". Well, its unrel...
Savages: "Husbands" on SoundCloud. Violence and domestication rub against each other on London four-piece Savages debut single, out digitally on May 28 through Pop Noire, though the pairing...
Beating Lana Del Reys record for "1990s influenced Tumblr photos per minute" with the video for their debut single "Hurricane", out July 2 via Iamsound/Chess Club, the shadowy New Yor...
Ronald Reagans presence looms so large in gangsta rap, and casts such complicated shadows, that to invoke his name in a rap song is to summon an entire worldview and refer to a constellation of injus...
As the action commences in the video for "Share My Love", we catch R. Kelly and two of his female associates-- hes sharing his love, see-- basking in the afterglow, preparing to make an entra...
At this very early point in her young career, Azealia Banks is becoming known more for a flurry of self-imposed drama (starting random beefs, announcing and then shelving releases) than the songs she...
When I hear that Oneohtrix Point Never has created a version of the pop classic "I Only Have Eyes For You", I immediately have an idea of what I hope it might be: something disorienting and s...
Weve reached the time of year where people start talking about potential "songs of the summer", and Stockholm pop duo Icona Pops latest single, "I Love It", seems like a righteous con...
Back when they called themselves Dive, DIIVs earlier singles sounded similar to the lackadaisical vibes of Beach Fossils, another band that leader Zachary Cole Smiths been involved in over the past f...
Meek Mill is a murderously intense rapper. While his Maybach Music Group associates often have the aura of cats who just ate the canary, Meek seems like a Marines recruit who might be asked to drop a...
Animal Collective dont like to repeat themselves, but "Honeycomb", the A-side of the bands forthcoming 7" single, sounds familiar. The watery production is reminiscent of Feels murkier re...
The Roanoke, Virginia duo Eternal Summers made their name in underground pop circles with a ramshackle guitar-and-drum sound that celebrated a resurgence several years ago. Time has told its a formul...
"It is not entirely coincidental that we are releasing this on May Day," explains Brassland co-founder Alec Hanley Bemis, "in a sympathetic gesture toward a movement afoot." The first...
At one point last year, after recording the relatively subdued Goodbye Bread, Ty Segall half-jokingly said in an interview that his next record would sound like a Hawkwind or Black Sabbath album. Whi...
Cassies latest single, "King of Hearts", has been out for a few months now, but its been given a pair drastic, excellent re-works over the past two weeks. The first take showed up on Glasgow ...
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<p>Only <a href="http://pitchfork.co m/artists/116-fiona-apple/&quo t; target="_blank">F iona Apple</a> could deliver something like the psychologically complex self-ana...
<p>It had been around for more than a decade by the time she recorded it, but the definitive version of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" will always be <a href="http://ww...
<p><a href="http://pitchfork.co m/artists/30241-daughn-gibson/ " target="_blank">D aughn Gibson</a> has a thing for old cowboy music-- the kind that you find on mus...
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<p>The first 34 seconds of "Lazuli", off of the upcoming <i><a href="http://pitchfork.co m/news/45684-beach-house-confi rm-new-album/" target="_blank">B l...
<p><i>Photos by Arno Frugier</i></p> <p><i></i>A decade ago, <a href="http://pitchfork.co m/artists/4548-the-walkmen/&qu ot; target="_blank"&...
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