Montreal's Helena Deland stopped by CBC Music's First Play Live recently to play some selections from her series of songs "Altogether Unaccompanied" Vol...
We're super excited to announce Beat My Distance, the stellar debut full-length from Montreal's Chloé Soldevila and her band Anemone (Miles Dupire-Gagnon, Gabriel Lambert, Zachary Irving and Samuel Gemme), coming in early 2019 on Luminelle Recordings...
Brooklyn group Pavo Pavo, aka Eliza Bagg + Oliver Hill, share the touching Harrison Atkins-directed video for the starry title track from their forthcoming second album, coming in early 2019 on Bella Union...
The Father/Daughter crew continues to impress and inspire with their run of 2018 releases, and the latest from Chicago artist, activist, and poet Tasha is another triumph from their already stellar year...
Presenting our new monthly mix for September 2018, featuring some of the best tracks we heard over the past month. This month's mix, which features new music from Yaeji, Men I Trust, Grimes, the Samps, Thom Yorke, Helena Deland + more, is extra good in an attempt to atone for my blatant disregard for the rich tradition of the GvsB monthly mix last month, in which I irresponsibly posted no mix. Listen below:
Fresh off of dropping that silky Charli XCX remix just last week, NYC house music producer and inevitable pop-star Yaeji -- the creator of the two best debut releases of last year -- makes an auspicious return with the first new track of her own in 2018, and it's another one of her entrancing, uniquely soft-almost-to-the-point-of-whispered bangers/dancefloor fillers, on which she deftly and fluidly alternates between Korean and English over a thumping but relatively airy beat to fully hypnotic effect...
2018 has been such a bountiful year for incredible new music from favorites new and old that it's been almost impossible to keep up, but I'm doing my best...
We are beyond excited to announce our new endeavor Luminelle Recordings, a record label formed in collaboration with Fat Possum/House Arrest...
As the internet's collective attention span continues to dwindle away and the clickbait economy slowly ruins everything good, we made a conscious effort this year to spend more time listening to fewer things. Discovering new favorites will always remain a priority around here, but it felt good to devote more quality time to absorbing ambitious, flawed, elaborately nuanced and layered masterpieces like Dust, Quazarz, Party, and The OOZ. And the more immediate records that we fell in love with at first listen -- TOPS’ Sugar at the Gate, the super charismatic Carti mixtape, and Kelly Lee Owens’ enveloping debut full-length, to name a few -- felt more like all-time favorites with each spin. While anyone in our top 5 could have staked a legit Album of the Year claim depending on the day, we had to put the two EPs that announced the arrival of dance music's brightest new star in their rightful spot at the top of our list. Here are our favorite records of 2017:
Montreal's Helena Deland stopped by CBC Music's First Play Live recently to play some selections from her series of songs "Altogether Unaccompanied" Vol. I-IV, as well as a goosebump-inducing performance of her 2016 masterpiece "Baby"...
LA artist Paige Stark (of Takashi Miyaki) shares her debut solo single "Albatross", a gorgeous and poignant dream-pop ballad featuring the legend Jon Brion on guitar/keys/bass, that shimmers with a classic, '70s West Coast singer-songwriter vibe, while also recalling the twangier side of Mazzy Star...
A year after releasing one of the best records of 2017, Yung Edgar quietly drops the groovy, sample-oriented demo for OOZ standout, "Sublunary":
We had a bunch of footage from when we brought noah's parents' vhs camera with us on tour to sxsw. Our friend Ricky Alba shot most of it -- he's a good friend and good artist from Brooklyn.
We edited it together over a demo of mine that's been laying around and doesn't have a home. Just for fun :) -- Barrie
When we were first working with Aaron Lowell on artwork for the first single, he came up with a bunch of different beautiful ideas. We loved this design but it didn't quite fit, so we saved it. -- Barrie
I took the new tote bags with me to a recent trip to the Middle East with my gf & our friend Bridget...
Compilation of our friend Takuya shredding at the Lot Radio. Coolest person in New York right here. -- Noah, Barrie
Song from my other band’s last album. Part of which was recorded in New York, and is probably part of the causation to make me wanna move out here. This video was recorded in the Sahara though. -- Dom, Barrie
Basslines & Banter is a visual podcast that is recorded live at the party which shares the same name. I interview music professionals (my friends & peers) about living & working in New York (maybe LA too), their career paths, favorite food spots, worst concert experiences etc...
This is the video I just released for "Hot Sauce” - A song from my first solo EP released last year through the Brazilian feminist label, Hérnia de Discos.
The video was directed by Brunella Martina, edited and colored by Coty Checchi and styled by Marcela Fritzen...
Secret Friend is an experimental dance party that I throw with my friends from POND Mag and my other band, Psymon Spine. For each installment we collaborate with an artist or group of artists to turn whatever venue/club we’re using into an immersive installation, and book musical guests we think will gel well with the visual theme they’ve set (including various side-projects from the Barrie crew)...