Granted, this one might be better to end a night than to start one, this is a very heavy track from Angular Recordings’ Fresh Touch, and was apparently a spin-off from Damon Albarn’s Kinshasa-One-Two project – and is loaded up...
There has been significant debate about what The Stranglers’ 1981 song Golden Brown is about. In a 2001 book about the stranglers, lead singer Hugh Cornwall cryptically states that the song is “…about heroin and also about a girl. Essentially the lyrics...
Roy Apron is Boy 8Bit. Boy 8Bit is Roy Apron. Boy 8bit has been making amazing, minimal-yet-sonically-crushing beats for a while now. He released a bunch of awesome EPs on MadDecent, and he has just released a new one under...
Tom Jones is making music with Jack White. If you were paying attention in 2010, you might have seen this coming (PHM is ALWAYS paying attention to Tom Jones). The singer started making really cool, dirty blues music 2 years...
Happy heaviness for fans of anything with the word ‘dub’ in it, iLL Audio is a new group doing what UK groups do better than anyone else – blurring lines between genres. This one features a muted trumpet, MC Roots...
Completely missed this one in 2011. Had to hear Zane Lowe play it last week, then see it on Paste’s top 50 albums of 2011 for it to finally click – this is awesome! Those Darlins are from the impossible-to-pronounce...
Pronounced NET-sk-eye, this is new music from a well-established Drum&Bass producer from Belgium. Crank this up and destroy your weekend!
Robert Glasper is an incredible jazz pianist and producer. His band, the Robert Glasper Experiment is a legend on the hip hop circuit; playing with everyone from Mos Def and Talib Kweli, to Lupe Fiasco, Maxwell, et cetera. (*side note,...
Beyond having one of the best band names on the planet, Pulled Apart By Horses can bring it. They are from Leeds, UK, and in a period of music where more and more of the best agressive music is made...
You have no-doubt heard that this week’s SOPA protests postponed the bill. Score one for reason! House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith then said his panel would not consider the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) until a compromise was reached....
Pixelated People is all London. Jess Mills is a London-based singer who has worked with a huge list of producers, is signed to a major label (Island) and has a voice that will no doubt be used in countless electronic...
Common doesn’t really need much of an introduction. This is from his new album, The Dreamer, The Believer, which came out in December. So glad artists are still making hip hop like this…
Philadelphia, meet Paris. Paris, Philadelphia. This is a very cool, quite hard-to-describe remix of Philly’s Santigold by French producer (and member of Yelle) Tepr. Rather than ramble on about trying to figure out what genre this is, just listen to...
Mike D and Stephen Colbert dissect what it REALLY means to be “illin”.
Kick back with a good book and Doves. This is a really cool, spacey track that opened their 2000 Lost Souls album. Doves somehow always produce an amazing soundtrack for ANYTHING.
