Ahhhh, I love surprises. First it was about ten degrees warmer yesterday than the weather report said…and then I found out Nu Clear Classmate have a new EP waiting in the wings. The first two songs from Lick The Star (out on April 9) are up on the duo’s MySpace. “Causeless Pain” lurches forward with…
For a dude who doesn’t want the Red Bull and vodka crowd to be alive, DJ Obake knows how to make an anthem for them. “Party People Must Die” – some sort of dense parody of club rat culture, or just an absolute crunchy dancefloor jam that morphs into something triumphant in its second half…
So, based on one of the randomly chosen images appearing in the upper left-hand corner of Osaka band Peach’s website the group at some point played their hometown’s Apple Store. This baffles me because their music seems very un-Apple (har har, a fruit joke!) like. Every iPod ad of the last decade used a cutesy…
Pasteur answer the great unasked question “what if Tortoise signed to Warp and really liked King Crimson?” with the song “Zahala Zzahala.” A cursory glance over the band’s influence list on MySpace initially hints to what the track could have ended up sounding like – either a math rock tinged in the vein of Battles…
Sorry Fuji Rock, Summer Sonic just earned my money. The two-city festival announced the first wave of artists playing this year’s festival and it’s some excellent stuff. Let’s bust out the bullet points for this one: – JAY-Z JAY-Z JAY-Z. He’s getting top billing this year and I’m jazzed because…well, it’s Jay-Z, only one of…