Single Serving: Free Time – Nothin But Nice
March 25th, 2013
I haven’t always thought of Australia as a hot bed for awesome music, but the sheer number of rad bands emerging from Melbourne and Sydney these days have me thinking differently. In fact, if you can’t name your favorite contemporary Australian band then you aren’t listening to nearly enough new music. Melbourne-based Free Time, led [...]
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Single Serving: Salt Cathedral – Dirty Me
March 22nd, 2013
Brooklyn-by-way-of-Bogota band Salt Cathedral are back with a totally sick brand new single. Whereas their debut cut “Take Me To The See” was a skittering, explosive math-rock anthem, “Dirty Me” flaunts a smoother build and a gentler release. It is, however, just as pensive and simmering with it’s delicious polyphonic rhythms and textured grooves. It [...]
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Musical Pairings: Psychic Ills – One Track Mind
March 21st, 2013
Kasey’s featuring a bourbon-filled Muddled Blackberry Mint Julep recipe today in the Kitchen. Just one taste and I pretty much immediately knew I had to pair it with Psychic Ills‘ latest LP One Track Mind. Partly that’s a reflection of the bourbon that builds the backbone of the drink, but it’s also because the muddled blackberry [...]
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Single Serving: John Vanderslice – Raw Wood
March 20th, 2013
San Francisco’s John Vanderslice has been a busy man recently. After lots and lots of touring in support of his album White Wilderness in 2011, he returned to his Tiny Telephone studio and recorded two full length albums. First, there is Dagger Beach. It’s thirteen tracks that John’s described as simultaneously fussy and loose (with [...]
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Single Serving: Banks – Before I Ever Met You
March 19th, 2013
If you like falling in love, then I’ve got the perfect new artist for you. In fact, Los Angeles’ Banks is almost a sure bet to make your heart swoon. Her latest jam “Before I Ever Met You” blends strong, sultry female vocals with clean, percolating rhythms and crackling synth grooves. Imagine the marriage of [...]
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Single Serving: S O H N – Bloodflows
March 18th, 2013
I don’t know about you, but I like to ease into my Mondays nice and slow. And that’s why London-born, Vienna-based S O H N is currently on repeat over here. His passionate and exquisitely textured electro-soul jam “Bloodflows” sails in smooth and gentle before snapping into a beautiful, stuttering synth-cloaked groove. But this isn’t [...]
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Single Serving: Rhye – The Fall (Live)
March 15th, 2013
It’s only been a little over a year since Rhye first made us swoon, but it feels much longer ago. At the time we first made their acquaintance, I described their debut single “Open” as maybe “the sexiest song I’ve ever heard.” I still stand by that description. A year later the closest competition can [...]
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Single Serving: Gracie – Habits / Creature Pleaser
March 13th, 2013
If you haven’t heard it yet, Gracie‘s Treehouse EP is easily one of the best EPs you overlooked in the past twelve months. It’s simply oozing with lovely, slow-burning grooves that grow with each listen. Yet, as awesome as it was, it’s apparently only a taste of Philadelphia songwriter Andrew Balasia’s potential. In fact, the scope of [...]
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Single Serving: WALL – Left To Wonder
March 12th, 2013
I’m new to the music of producer/songwriter Lyla Foy who records under the name WALL, but if the rest of her discography is anywhere near as lovely as the single “Left To Wonder” then I’ve been missing out. This ballad floats along a gentle breeze while supported primarily by Foy’s soft croon. Elegant and restrained, [...]
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Musical Pairings: Youth Lagoon – Wondrous Bughouse
March 11th, 2013
Admittedly, I’ve not been a Youth Lagoon fan for very long. In fact, until recently I’d pretty much (unfairly) written off Trevor Powers’ music. But that’s changed recently. After more or less immediately falling in love with the first single “Dropla” off his new album, I picked up his previous album The Year of Hibernation on [...]
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