Elaquent – So Far, So Good

Credit to AstralSounds. Check the mixtapes. All so good.

-AMK

Signed by Force Hits it Hard

Stuff is happening over with the Signed by Force people.

Edan Brings the Echo Party

Just a little quickie to get your Tuesday going right.

Its Edan’s Echo Party Mix and its Psych-Dance awesomeness has been spinning in my head for a while now.

Merchandise – Strange Songs (In The Dark)

Merchandise is a relatively unknown post-punk band out of Tampa. They rule.

Their debut LP, Strange Songs (In The Dark) has been on repeat for me for like 2 weeks now. Strange Songs is probably one of the best tries at being both catchy and noisy at the same time that I have ever heard. To make it even better, they’re on super chill label Katorga, who is distributing the digital version for free.

J-Dilla – 5 Years Gone

It was 5 years ago (well plus two days now I guess) that J-Dilla died. To be fair I had completely forgotten about him. Never being really into hip-hop at the time, he didn’t make much of an impression on me at first. I just got his last album Donuts (courtesy of engineofruin on tumblr), and apparently the fact that everyone was so impressed by it actually meant a lot.

Libyans Deliver Blistering Punk

Boston band Libyans have been delivering some of the most intense punk in the scene since a couple years ago. Naturally, when they released their first album last summer I had completely forgotten about them, but thanks to icoulddietomorrow, I have been reminded. A Common Place is a wave of pure energy the whole way through, and is just about everything I want from a punk album.

Elfin Saddle’s Wurld of Folky Stop-Motion

Elfin Saddle, a Montreal based folk band with a pretty wide experimental streak has finally come back into the light after a few months of not hearing much with the announcement of a show on March 3 at Club Lambi. To say the least, I was impressed by their last release Wurld . Its not so often you see a band come out with a 23 minute stop motion film to complement their album. Check out the trailer on the other side.

Stream Gold Zebra’s Debut EP

Out on their bandcamp since August, Gold Zebra’s Debut EP has a lot of the things I like most about the Montreal indie scene’s characteristic sound.

Samiyam + Teebs @ Former Zoobizarre

Jazz Under the Radar (pt. 2)

This is part 2 of a series about the great jazz that you can and should be hearing, even if it tries to hide a little. See part 1 for more.

It’s been quite a while since any new big band has done anything noteworthy, or anything at all really as far as I know. That’s why Adam Lane’s Full Throttle Orchestra, and their newest release, Ashcan Rantings are such a sweet concept. It’s probably also why they’re incessantly being compared to Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus’ bands.