As the drummer and, eventually, lead singer for the legendary Dayton combo Slave, Steve Arrington played a significant role in shaping the history of funk — and, thanks to producers’ penchant for sampling the band, his music has been foundational to hip-hop as well. He’s still making active contributions to that lineage; Arrington released a […]
Benny The Butcher – “Deal Or No Deal”
Last year, the harder-than-concrete Buffalo rapper Benny The Butcher, one of the key members of the Griselda Records crew, released his EP The Plugs I Met, maybe my favorite record to come from Griselda yet. Benny also teamed up with Smoke DZA on the Pete Rock-produced Statue Of Limitations EP and took part in Griselda’s […]
Anjimile – "Maker"
The Boston-based musician Anjimile Chithambo has been releasing music on their own for a few years now, through a series of releases that have been largely scrubbed from the internet to make way for what’s now being billed as Anjimile’s debut album, Giver Taker. “A lot of the album was written when I was literally […]
Idle Hands – “It Doesn’t Really Matter” & “Puppy Love”
The Portland goths Idle Hands released their debut album, Mana, last year. We named it one of 2019’s best metal albums and the group landed on our list of the best new bands of the year. Today, they’re announcing their first release since then, an expanded edition of their 2017 Don’t Waste Your Time EP […]
Matmos – “No Concept” (Feat. clipping. & David Grubbs)
High-concept electronic duo Matmos have announced a new album called Consuming Flame: Open Exercises In Group Form. The record features contributions from 99 different musicians who were asked to play anything they wanted as long as the tempo remained at 99 beats per minute. The list of 99 artists featured on Consuming Flame: Open Exercises […]
Katie Dey – "happiness"
A couple weeks back, Katie Dey announced a new album, mydata, her follow-up to last year’s solipsisters. At the time, she shared “dancing” from it and today she’s back with its second single, “happiness,” a transcendent and stuttering song about opening yourself up to new things. “I want love/ I’m not above it,” Dey sings […]
Unreal City Announce New Album 'Cruelty Of Heaven', Share New Song "War Behind Bars": Listen
Robert Orr was once a guitarist for Integrity, the long-running Cleveland cult heroes who helped establish the metallic hardcore subgenre back in the ’90s. For more than a decade, Orr has been smashing out his own version of the Integrity sound with Unreal City, a band that also features members of groups like Eternal Sleep […]
Half Waif – "Murphy Bed" (Mirah Cover)
A couple weeks ago, it was announced that Mirah’s debut You Think It’s Like This, But Really It’s Like This was getting a 20th anniversary reissue, complete with a tribute compilation with artists covering each song from the album. And the lineup for that tribute was a pretty impressive array of names from the indie […]
Standing On The Corner – "G-E-T O-U-T!! The Ghetto"
In the past couple years, the amorphous, genre-imploding Brooklyn collective Standing On The Corner have gained more notoriety thanks to some pretty big collaborations. They had a hand in albums like Earl Sweatshirt’s Some Rap Songs, Solange’s When I Get Home, and Danny Brown’s uknowhatimsayin¿. But they’d already garnered a fair bit of acclaim for […]
Hear Ellis Cover Taylor Swift, Dinosaur Jr., & The Used On New EP
A few months ago, the Ontario musician Linnea Siggelkow, who releases music under the name Ellis, released her debut album, Born Again. Today, the Best New Band honoree has returned with an EP consisting of three covers. “I haven’t been feeling very inspired to write lately. The world is feeling equally chaotic and slow, my […]