PORTALS TRAVELING SHOWCASE ~ LOS ANGELES, CA W/ 6BIT COLLECTIVE It’s finally here! THIS SATURDAY (June 2nd) the PORTALS party of a lifetime is coming to Hollywood! I’m super stoked on this event, you...
The Parish of Little Clifton - Your Smile Unfolds Simon Bridgefoot makes dancy electronic jams as The Parish of Little Clifton. It’s no wonder he is a part of the amazing and mostly Canadian family, ...
Agor - Train Once again, greatness springs forth from the unending wealth of talent collected at Montreal based label Arbutus Records. Alex Cowan is very literally a part of the Arbutus family, and a...
Psychic Twin - Gonna Get Her Some of my favorite label buds around, Lefse Records, just announced their inaugural 7” series. Starting in just a month, and spanning the course of several months, Lefse...
PORTALS May mixtape is here. And look at that album art!!! Compliments of Laurent Hrybyk. STREAM//DOWNLOAD <a href=”http://portalsmusic.band camp.com/album/portals-mixtape -5” data-mce-href=”htt...
Yung Life - Isn’t This Wow, I can’t believe how good this is. I just remembered it was over two years ago when I first listened to these guys. I highlighted the song below over at my buddies Dipped i...
Flashlight Tag // Smoke Don’t Smoke // Head Underwater present… DOPEWAVE IS REAL. Some words from me: Talking about music is a much different experience than listening to music. Genres at once confin...
Headaches - Oh Honey Landon Speers is quite the catch. He is, at the vary least, a triple threat. And if his photography, music, and all around charm aren’t enough to win you over, he can also cook s...
Unknown - #004 Hot off the morning presses. Shrouded in mystery. Who is Unknown?
Tours - Grand Lux I listened to this yesterday as I made my first summer beach trip. Walking along the sand, as the waves periodically crashed up over my feet, and then back down. Grand Lux is a perf...
Another week gone by, and strangely enough, good music did not stop being made. While maybe at times I’m too busy to sit down and post, I still get a chance to have these sounds in my ears at m...
Mister Lies & Different Sleep - Safety Net (feat. Jessica Blanchet) Well, it’s been a couple days now. This collaborative EP between burgeoning Chicagoan producers Mister Lies and Different Sleep, is...
Out of Japan, comes this submersive wave of soothing rhythmic bliss. Taquwami is a producer from Tokyo who should definitely be on your radar. His tracks are full and heavy, expansive electronic soun...
You might have seen the first remix for Steffaloo’s single On Fire hit the airwaves earlier this week on the FADER. Well it was the first of a whole ‘remix EP’ that was just released minutes ago. I’m...
Uncle Skeleton - Sophisticuffs I came across this delightful release earlier this week on Yewknee, whose experimental imprint, YK Records, happens to be putting out this little beaut. And when I say ...
TOTAL BUMMER 3D If this poster is totally indecipherable to you, it’s because there are over 90 band names on it! Click through to see, in detail, all the madness going on in Orlando in mere days! In...
Kuhrye-oo - Give In (For The Fame) It was over a year ago when I heard my first Kuhrye-oo track. It’s something special when parts of a whole become wholes themselves. Today Calvin releases his debut...
Ghibli - Little Clique Rare Pleasures is the most recent musical outpouring of Edmonton producer Tomas Michael. It is his unique interpretation of what he thinks a genre of music ought to be. That’s ...
XXYYXX - About You I’ve introduced you to XXYYXX before, probably one my favorite 16 year old producers right now. Well the lead track off his debut s/t album just got the slow-mo-hot-girl-smoking-bl...
Sam of Ricky Eat Acid, and his dear friend (“wife”) Jasmine started a one of the cutest, most without guile labels earlier this month. They are called Unlimited Free Milkshakes, and their first relea...
Have you ever heard something, and thought to yourself, ”Damn son, where’d ya find this?“ Well, if you haven’t, scroll down a bit and click play, and I think it may just become your mantra. M|O|D cre...
It’s no surprise. Another banger from recent 4AD artists Purity Ring. Needed to blog this to continue my efforts to support friends music I love. And this, I love. Album, Shrines, out 7/24/2012. Chec...
PORTALS is coming to Los Angeles! I’m so excited to help announce PORTALS first ever, West Coast show. Featuring 10 of our most beloved artists, the party is going down in Hollywood on June 2nd! All ...
Renny Wilson - By and By A film starring Hall & Oates set on a cruise ship with Donna Summer playing the woman of interest. Competition for her love nearly tears them apart, but they soon find out sh...
There’s something happening out there. Boston via Dallas producer LiL TExAS just sent over this hot little piece Miss Do Right. Proving once and for all that the future of dirty trap exists. And it i...
Bad Passion - Get Results We get results, living on the edge we doin’ it slow; Bad Passion don’t have to try, if anyone calls we’ll eat them alive You might think those wannabe bad asses, drinking te...
warui kettei - Pressure At the beginning of this week, my buddy Tyler, from Flashlight Tag, posted up this obscure and lonely tune. It’s a five minute and thirty six second journey that fades in slow...
Newtimers - January Love (yus remix) This is my contribution to the latest PORTALS Monthly Mixtape Series that just released today! I’ve been wanting to share this ever since Phoenix, AZ project yus ...
Orchard Thief - Young Face in the Water The slow start, an almost drunk rhythm, staggering trying to find it’s balance. Gaining it, then losing it. Back and forth, it goes like this, until two minute...
First Person Shootr - Punch-Struck First Person Shootr gets the Terror Eyes treatment, and it’s a thing of beauty. These dark, high contrasted images play perfectly to the slow and sultry R&B flavor ...
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