Bay Area tune bird Mikal Cronin has a new album titled MCII comin out 5/7 on Merge. I caught Mikal opening for Thee Oh Sees at SXSW, which makes sense considering the narrowing degrees of separation between the former, Ty Segall and the latter. Mikal dropped a new track titled “Weight” today. Given Mikal’s past work […]
Philadelphia’s Verbatum Jones, self described rapper with his “Bill Cosby on with the sweater”, hit me up this morning with his new video for “Nappy”. It’s produced by bahwee and apparently marks the first release off Jones’ upcoming .winter project. I’m new to the dude, but dig what I’ve heard so far. Check out the video plus […]
Portland’s the Thermals was one act at SXSW I was eager to catch. A few thousand other people had that same idea, and I could only catch the daytime Friday set to the sold-out Mohawk from outside the door. But even from that vantage, it was a hell of a show. The seasoned “pre-Portlandian” PDX’ers’ […]
Kithkin has been no stranger to our site, both in the past year and most recently with SXSW. After a feverish run at SXSW with nearly 10 shows packed into the Austin mayhem, the Seattle band showed no hesitancy or fatigue when headlining our own Cascadia showcase. After a 30 hour drive back to the […]
The Strokes announced their new album & follow-up to 2011’s Angles earlier this year. And they’ve already shared a handle of teaser’s for said album Comedown Machine. But the full deal is streaming on over at Pitchfork Advance. Have a listen. As a major strokes fan, Angles was a bit disappointing, and the band agreed on that, possibly due to a disjointed recording effort. […]