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My favourite live performance of all time. All musical projects that Mat is part of have always found a way to be touching and funny and sometimes bizarre at the same time. Only is one of my favourites off the record Stoned Alone, but this particular performance of it is entirely its own creature...

If you’re not familiar with Acid†Priest, I’d recommend starting with Vacation Wasteland, the single off their EP Outta Control. Their drummer Matt recently performed this song drenched in his own blood and gave himself a tattoo in the song’s honour...

Listen to Wilco's very refreshing, pleasant surprise of a new album Star Wars, which sounds to us like it bears some very heavy White Denim influence in its looseness and nervy restlessness (which wouldn't be too much of a stretch; WD toured with Wilco back in 2012, and Jeff Tweedy produced a couple of jams on on the band's last full-length)...

01 GRIMES - REALiTi 02 METRO THUGGIN - Free Gucci 03 JAMIE XX - Loud Places 04 CHROMATICS - In Films 05 LEON BRIDGES - River 06 PANDA BEAR - Tropic of Cancer 07 LOWER DENS - Your Heart Still Beating 08 JAMIE XX - I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times) (feat...

Mecano was a huge pop band from Spain during the 80s and early 90s. They were a really cool, ahead of their time band and I think some of their music still sounds pretty relevant today. I was exposed to their music because my older sisters listened to them a ton, and their songs played a big role in my childhood...

I think I might be one of Sean’s biggest fans. I think he is so great in such an indescribable way. I played a show with him in Montreal last year and that was my first time seeing him...it was unlike any live experience I’ve had before, his performance feels like a Lynchian dream...

There’s nothing cooler to me than someone who has real chops at whatever it is they do. Beyond all cool factor in music, and all that, there is nothing sweeter than an insane ability with an instrument or voice. I’m a huge appreciator of big, interesting voices, and this chick has one of the sickest contemporary voices I’ve come across...

Nick Hakim is truly great and you should check out his music. It’s smooth and soulful and created with real care and emotion. And his voice is out of this world. Nick and I met during a summer camp where we performed Mariah Carey and Musiq Soulchild duets together in front of a bunch of parents...

Show Me The Body is really fucking weird and cool. I don’t know what else to say about them. They’re really young, smart New York punkies (not to categorize them as punk specifically) — the banjo is pretty central in their stuff. There’s something really hard to pin down about their music but what’s for sure is that they’re cooler than I ever knew was possible at their age...