Tag: New Music

New Music – Be Gone

To capture that rawness of emotional distress and atmospheric dread, then to be mixed with the overpowering rush of clashing percussion and stringed instruments takes craftsmanship. It relies heavily on ability and the shifting tides of creating intrigue without becoming drowned out, but Oceans… Continue Reading “New Music – Be Gone”

New Music – Underground Elegance

Pouya, the five foot five destroyer comes hailing from Florida, or rather Flawda as he describes it. He has a sense of cultural pride behind his home and flows with that southern style as Bone Thugs, but changes it to fit a new modern… Continue Reading “New Music – Underground Elegance”

New Music – Time Traveling

Hardcore takes an incredibly exhausting amount of forms that branch out into everything from power violence to black metal. There is the punk, the rock, the hard rock, the comedy, but there is a real sense of a new leaf that switches with Turnstile.… Continue Reading “New Music – Time Traveling”

New Music – Balancing Act

Black Milk has been producing and illustrating a sense of abstract style since he stepped from the shadows of Detroit in 1983. He has worked with various producers and rhymers from both his Motor City home, to the international with collaborative efforts. Just as… Continue Reading “New Music – Balancing Act”

New Music – Nine Fingered Hand

Sacred Bones is a label mostly derived of different styles of near-droning, but engaged artists that range anywhere from new and genre defining, to the familiar but substantial. The Soft Moon is a band that flies under a relatively similar style of being familiar,… Continue Reading “New Music – Nine Fingered Hand”

New Music – Olympia’s Vixens

The gravitation toward punk music was always something that struck a personal chord. It captured the isolation and anguish, while maintaining an energetic and productive sound behind the rampaging string mixes and the percussive crashes that would rattle the foundation of music. Stiff Love… Continue Reading “New Music – Olympia’s Vixens”

New Music – Everything The Keys Touch

DJ HARRISON is a moving multi-instrumentalist that captures soundscapes of time through his music. The raw flow that he taps into and displays through his newest release, LightPower is immaculate. It is a constant shift of artistic vision that propels his music into unknown… Continue Reading “New Music – Everything The Keys Touch”

New Music – Missing Hardware

If Da$H is not a name that sounds familiar with A$AP Mob, $UICIDEBOY$, Mac Miller, Earl Sweatshirt, Vince Staples, or the hundreds of other artists that Da$H has worked with or collaborated with in the past, then underground hip-hop is a new wide door… Continue Reading “New Music – Missing Hardware”

New Music – Picklesburgh

With a name as putrid as Lumpy And The Dumpers, the sudden destruction to hesitation and abrasiveness comes naturally. With past records having names like Huff My Sack, Music To Hump A Trashcan To, and Cruise Horny or Die, a name like Those Pickled… Continue Reading “New Music – Picklesburgh”

New Music – Black Passion

Black metal is an overarching term that engulfs many different artists in a shadowed black cloud. Taake formed in 1993 under the moniker, Thule; eventually the band would see multiple line-up shifts while one remaining member persevered. In a stance of thunder, HOEST is the main creative process behind Taake and their newest 2017 release, Kong Vinter is another outflow of consciousness into the deep resources of the mind…

New Music – Systematic Chaos

Both The Body and Full Of Hell have been featured for their ability to create these obliterating masterpieces of sound that build upon the layering of bone destroying noise. From Chip King’s shrilled voice that while rough to the ears, is an essential tool for The Body’s style. Or to Full Of Hell’s Dave Bland who smashes away with the firing percussion; the two groups move well together and create not only a wall of sound, but a punch through sound itself…

New Music – From The Shadows

Soul in music is as essential as a tempo, and Jackie Shane has more than enough soul to go around for the massive, twenty-five track re-issue of her cult classic Any Other Way. The woman was a visionary in music for her immaculate vocal… Continue Reading “New Music – From The Shadows”

New Music – Step Back In Time

There is a certain essence about capturing an attributing sound of the past, the flair of the gentle and smooth sounds of Funk’s Golden Era, the glimmering potential of thousands of sounds coming from a single time frame. Curtis Harding in certain moments stands… Continue Reading “New Music – Step Back In Time”

New Music – Rainy Days Ahead

The dreamy, almost shattered perspective that King Krule paints in his now third studio record, The OOZ takes on an almost timeless sound that morphs the line between dystopia and real-life. The record is beautifully produced, featuring some of Archy Marshall’s finest work to… Continue Reading “New Music – Rainy Days Ahead”

☨ WEEK OF MANSON ☨ – DAY THREE

The Future of Hell Marilyn Manson has been in the musical spotlight since the 1990’s with his cutting-edge antics and catchy tracks that were both socially conscious, and incredibly produced. He influenced pop culture and managed to shift genres at an incredible rate with… Continue Reading “☨ WEEK OF MANSON ☨ – DAY THREE”

New Music – The Beauty of Difference

Kamasi Washington taps into the unfiltered nerve of soulful jazz music; keeping a modern twist on old love. Washington moves to a modern, purely instrumental session with his newest release, Harmony of Difference. From the beautiful Golden Ages of Jazz in the 1920’s, to… Continue Reading “New Music – The Beauty of Difference”

New Music – Steel City Parade

Pittsburgh’s hip-hop scene has been more than just major scratches on the surface, there are vast levels of both independent and mass mainstream artists that make hit after hit. Choo Jackson might not be a Pittsburgh native, but he sure does show the hospitality… Continue Reading “New Music – Steel City Parade”

New Music – Antique Shop

From the living dummies to now the bulls of punk rock, together PANGEA is a band that raises eyebrows and stomps feet from the cheerful, grasping, but still realistic style of surf that transcends the standard check-list of other groups. Where together PANGEA succeeds… Continue Reading “New Music – Antique Shop”

New Music – Alligator Blues

Dee Dee Bridgewater is an American Marvel; performing back to the 1960’s, working with modern day and yesteryear Jazz heavyweights, as well as working now at sixty-seven to continue to release and perform around the globe is no small feat. Her soulful style and… Continue Reading “New Music – Alligator Blues”

WEEK OF $UICIDE PT. II – DAY FOUR

Wade In The Water Winding down into the final stretches of the $agas, Ruby and $crim waste no time in creating a home to the misfits as their style is odd, somewhat a musical equivalent to a cult would use as sacrificing tools. While… Continue Reading “WEEK OF $UICIDE PT. II – DAY FOUR”