New York City rompers, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, have released the music video for their single Heart in Your Heartbreak. It features the band working at a guitar/instrument retailer reminiscent of Guitar Center and involves a plot against a controlling manager who just hates good music. The playful video is definitely worth… Read More

Cut Copy can get a crowd moving. Having recently seen them in Montreal, I can attest to their powers. Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, the foursome have three steller LP’s under their belts. Their freshman effort, Bright Like Neon Love, feels like a midnight joyride through a futuristic NYC. This is manifested in the album art:… Read More

Reggie Watts is the man. He’s got a fantastic afro, a fantastic persona, and a fantastic falsetto. THIS LINK will prove that to you. I’m stoked to see him at Sasquatch Music Festival this summer but am also seriously concerned for his health under the bright, Washingtonian sun. Reggie Watts is a comedian, musician, and… Read More

Pusha T has clearly been around the block. Clipse, his duo with Malice, permanently spit about moving kilos of both powder and green. In the single Wamp Wamp (What It Do) he raps about Ferraris, selling drugs, and how the art of hustlin’ seems to be recession proof with lines like: “Down to the watches,… Read More

Pavement is the greatest band in the world. Inherent in their sound is a sort of nonchalant swagger that is rarely reproduced. Their albums function as both separate entities and as a complete discography while their tracks can more than stand alone. But for me, it’s Stephen Malkmus’s off-the-cuff lyrics that truly hit home. Ranging… Read More

The soundscape of 2007 was one of a “operatic-disco” in which bass lines were fuzzed and disco-tropes were fizzled out and strung back together. The commercial success of Justice and their album † was substantial for its label, Ed Banger Records, when, in 2007, the Justice remix of Simian’s “Never Be Alone” charted well in… Read More