Copenhagen-via-Norway duo Smerz rocked the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA last night. All photos by Faith Silva on the Impossible Project's glossy new metallic frame film. Click for more:
Presenting our second annual summer mixtape of modern yacht rock vibes: Like last year, we’re using the term "yacht rock" loosely here, to include myriad sounds inspired by smooth, sumptous soft rock grooves, while occasionally veering off into balearica, pillowy soft funk, sophistipop, cosmic disco novelties, psych-soul, and darker forms of hypnogogia. Listen/download + check the full tracklist below:
Presented by Sound on Sound Fest, starring headliner + co-curator WASHED OUT, and featuring JESSY LANZA, JACQUES GREENE (live set), SHE-DEVILS, + more...
Toro y Moi commits to a vibe, and succeeds in low-key spectacular fashion on his best full-length yet. Listen to Boo Boo below:
LA electro-R&B luminary Ramona Gonzalez -- aka Nite Jewel -- follows up one of the best records of 2017 with a glowing new 10-track, bandcamp-exclusive b-sides record, featuring demos, alternate mixes, and previously unreleased jams from the Real High sessions (including the absolutely gorgeous "Never Show", featuring string arrangements by Ramona, "inspired by her concurrent work on a film soundtrack"), plus a few tracks from her new Italians Do It Better 12"...
Washed Out's amazing new visual album Mister Mellow is officially out tomorrow on Stones Throw, but you can check the whole thing now, complete with some "mellow conversation" with Kyle Mooney, below.
As we approach the halfway point of 2017, here are our favorite albums + songs from what is shaping up to be a frenetic, kind of convoluted (we are not on board with the teaser trend, just drop the jams), and overwhelmingly great year for new music:
The winter solstice is an astronomical event marking the shortest day and longest night of the year, a day on which the sun stands still, officially ushering in winter...
It may or may not be that time yet, but here is the highly subjective list of our 60 favorite albums -- too long, I know, but we could have gone much deeper -- from an unfathomably weird, incredible, terrifying 2016. It was a year marked by loss and uncertainty, and that might be why music felt more monumental to us than ever. Thanks for sticking with us for another year. Check the full list + a lovingly curated four-hour Spotify playlist below, and as always, we'd love to hear about your favorites that we might have missed.
Copenhagen-via-Norway duo Smerz rocked the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA last night. All photos by Faith Silva on the Impossible Project's glossy new metallic frame film. Click for more:
Jacques Greene's live set for Boiler Room last month in his hometown of Montreal has us so psyched to catch him at GvsB VI next month we can barely stand it. #GvsB6 with Washed Out, Jessy Lanza, She-Devils, Sober and Jacques Greene goes down 8/12 here in Dallas at the Bomb Factory, and it's going to be the dance party of the year...
Producer Jim-E Stack shares another emotional new one from his new EP It's Jim-ee, out August 4th. Featuring vocals from Charli XCX + additional production from Rostam:
Boiler Room teamed up with Jamie xx & friends last month for a "rooftop broadcast under the setting sun" in Reykjavík, including a stunning set from Kelsey Lu:
More intoxicating, balmy lo-fi house heat from prolific NYC producer Baltra, out August 15th on UK label Tape Throb:
Dent May shares another very classy new preview of his forthcoming record Across the Multiverse, almost a year to the day after dropping his smooth, vintage disco-romance gem "Face Down in the Gutter of Your Love"...
Mønic's Deep Summer 12" is out Friday. Video by Levente Dobos:
BOSCO follows up one of the dreamiest vids of the year with another wavy track from her new EP b., out August 11th on Fools Gold:
Burial drops a rare summer release in the form of a lovely 10-minute reimagining of Mønic's new single Deep Summer, out this Friday on 12" via UK label Osiris Music. Based on the 7-minute preview, it's a glowing, dreamily winding journey -- replete with those signature, hauntingly emotive vocal samples -- that'll sit nicely alongside his more sentimental Rival Dealer tracks...
Taken from Sudan Archives' new EP, out today on Stones Throw. Video directed by Eric Coleman: