Say Wut at work Though it does feature his signature horns and a nod to his early days as NSW (Nigga Say Wut) in that ominous synth-choir sound, “Alien Nation” is a new kind of club track for Say Wut. It’s anchored by a spare flicker of strings and brassy video game noises, but...
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"Off My Mind" Erstwhile For the People Entertainment rapper Billo has been steadily dropping videos for the past few months, at least four off of last August’s mixtape Falling Off Into 1st, and the latest is for “Off My Mind.” The song, featuring a melodic hook from WillStar and a light, elegant beat that’s...
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"Play it loud" Last year, Volcom Entertainment’s “vinyl club” announced a 7-inch from Maryland metal god Scott “Wino” Weinrich‘s old, recently reunited band Saint Vitus. It was supposed to feature live recordings of “Saint Vitus” and “Born Too Late” (those are links to studio recordings, by the way). But “Saint Vitus” b/w “Born Too...
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Dubsteppin' When he isn’t telling everybody to “pray pain away” on a Christian club refix of the Rod Lee classic, it seems Jonny Blaze is scouring the blogs or flipping through back issues of The Fader, or something. A few days after releasing a club take on Glasser’s “Mirrorage,” he’s put out “Boys...
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Lower Dens In last week’s paper, Michael Byrne wrote about “Batman,” the A-side of the new 7-inch from Lower Dens, out today. Though this isn’t a case of “B-side wins again”–“Batman” is too crunchy and buoyant to concede to a cover of an old psych-folk song–Lower Dens’ take on Mayo Thompson’s “Dear Betty Baby”...
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Dave Heumann Dunno the context for this aside from it being Dave Heumann sitting alone on a hill during the fall sometime. The song is “When Delivery Comes,” off Arbouretum‘s forthcoming The Gathering, and you’ve got to appreciate how heavy he can make it even minus all of the full band’s electric churn and...
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urbanmusicdirect.com Rap beef? Bossman doesn’t even have time for that now. He’s on to the Ultimate Question. The answer? “Live life, religion’s all a mind game.” The beat is as heavy as lead, and his delivery is kinda insane, darting all over feverishly and only coalescing a few times into lines like the above....
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"Wreck" When “Wreck,” a new song from Mania Music’s Kane Mayfield, arrived at the end of the year, it felt a bit like a step backward. Kane’s stellar solo tracks on Welcome to the Audience (“Poor Georgie,” “Welcome to the Audience,” “Reagonomics”) found the rapper trying out an empathetic storytelling style that was as...
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So Percussion and Matmos The amorphous electronic music free-thinkers of Matmos have an upcoming collaboration with New York’s So Percussion set for release this July. Expect a bit of the deft, hybrized musique concrete that Matmos excels in, distilled even further into marvelous, uncompromisingly appealing instrumental compositions. “Treasure” is a sneak peak. Matmos/So Percussion:...
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