The shapeshifting and ever-evolving Laurel Halo will officially release her brilliant and immersive new record Dust this Friday on Hyperdub, but you can spend the rest of the day listening to the record now below. The whole thing is a breezy, mesmerizingly weird and beautiful trip, but start with the infectiously playful summer jam "Moontalk", one of our favorite tracks of 2017:
Kedr Livanskiy shares the dreamy title track from one of our most anticipated full-lengths of 2017, the follow-up to her brilliant 2016 debut EP January Sun...
Presented by Sound on Sound Fest, starring headliner + co-curator WASHED OUT, and featuring JESSY LANZA, JACQUES GREENE (live set), SHE-DEVILS, + more...
DJDS teams up with future massive star Amber Mark, who takes the duo's soulful, anthemic dance music to another level on emotional new banger "Trees on Fire", which also features vocals from Marco McKinnis...
We announced last week that Washed Out would be headlining (and co-curating) this year's GvsB VI show here in Dallas at the Bomb Factory on August 12th, and today Ernest Greene reveals that his long-awaited new album will drop later this month via the legendary Stones Throw.
Aldous Harding shares the stunning video for the opening track from one of the year's best albums. Directed + edited by Charlotte Evans. Not quite as intense as seeing Aldous live, but probably about as close as you can get. Aldous says the video's concept "is based on that awful scene from 'Apocalypse Now' where the Playmates pile out of the helicopter," adding, "the costume was handmade for me, it turned out great. It's in the bin. I spent eight hours dancing on a Lazy Susan, it was easy really.” Party is out now on 4AD:
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.
Today we follow up our albums of 2016 list with the much more interesting list of our 101 favorite songs of the year. Featuring a couple of inventive flips of Shangaan Electro and Tropicália samples in the top 3, the powerful opening missive from A Tribe Called Quest's first album in nearly 20 years, an old Radiohead love song, multiple jams each from Frank Ocean, Danny Brown, and Carly Rae, undeniable breakthrough singles from Whitney, Mitski, Maggie Rogers, and The Homie, another strong showing from TX's own S U R V I V E boys (whose massive year culminated this morning in 2 Grammy noms in the same category), and many more incredible and essential tracks that helped us all make it through this pathetic excuse for a year. Hit play on that 6 hour spotify playlist + check the full list below:
Jacques Greene presents "a series of official remixes alongside a full library of stems from the record for free download - a token offering to a more free and democratic www, where so many of his original samples were found"...
Taken from the Range x Jim-E Stack's limited new collaborative New Lots / With You 12", out now on Domino. Animation by 29th Floor:
Aldous Harding at The Mohawk // Austin, TX // June 19, 2017
Shabazz Palaces share another one from Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star, one of two LPs they'll drop via Sub Pop on July 14th. Listen below + catch the group when they roll through TX this summer with Porter Ray.
Shlohmo drops his new, self-described "big heat wave lounge style music" mixtape FOR THA SUMMER for Sneeze Mag, featuring laid-back re-works of only the hits from Thugger, Future, Rae Sremmurd, Migos, Mobb Deep + more, with woozy samples from "old Japanese and Korean soul records" deftly weaved throughout...
TOPS' Sugar At the Gate highlight gets a lovely video, directed by the group's own Jane Penny, and starring Ellise Barbara, Riley Fleck + Jackson MacIntosh:
Kedr Livanskiy shares the dreamy title track from one of our most anticipated full-lengths of 2017, the follow-up to her brilliant 2016 debut EP January Sun. According to her label 2MR, the new record was inspired by "the Izhevsk (sometimes referred to as "the capital of Russian electronic music") sound of the 80s", and album-opener "Ariadna" is a perfect, glimmering union of Yana Kedrina's melodic, otherworldly dream-pop sensibilities and her thumping and hypnotic underground club music, and it's probably the most accessible track she's released to date...
The shapeshifting and ever-evolving Laurel Halo will officially release her brilliant and immersive new record Dust this Friday on Hyperdub, but you can spend the rest of the day listening to the record now below. The whole thing is a breezy, mesmerizingly weird and beautiful trip, but start with the infectiously playful summer jam "Moontalk", one of our favorite tracks of 2017:
Sound on Sound Fest (fka Fun Fun Fun) returns to Sherwood Forest in McDade, TX, just east of Austin this November, and the SOS squad reminds us once again why this has been our favorite fest for the last decade...
Grand Rapids band Major Murphy share the visuals for their intoxicating new single "Oceans", taken from the group's timeless forthcoming EP On & Off Again, out July 14th via our friends at Winspear (home of Hoops, Parts, Amy O, etc...