Eric Prydz and Chvrches released a new collaboration single yesterday—which is, technically, a remix of the already-existing Chvrches song “Tether” from their 2013 album The Bones of What You Believe, but it comes with a cool video, so we’ll let them go. While none of them appears in the video, it features a bunch of eye-catching computer animated wizadry. Chvrches have […]
Sharon van Etten
Sharon Van Etten’s music is imbued with the kind of intensity usually reserved for natural disasters. Her voice is a thunderous force to be reckoned with, as are her words. The potent combination has even garnered her comparisons to Cat Power and PJ Harvey. The singer-songwriter’s latest album “Are We There” is her most personal yet, recalling details of a […]
Oh My Darlings: Catching up with Kevin Drew
Depending on how close your ear was to the ground at the time or how many memory obliterating substances you’ve indulged in since, you may need a refresher: It’s been thirteen years give or take since You Forgot It In People had critics getting it right (yes, it happens occasionally) and blogging the praises of Broken Social Scene in near […]
DISCWOMAN: A Conversation About Women in Music
Music and sex have had a long, sordid history together, but when it comes to dissecting gender politics in the world of electronic music, things tend to get a bit less fly. Which is exactly what Frankie Hutchinson and her two friends are working to dismantle. DISCWOMAN, a two-night music event being held in Bushwick’s infamous Bossa Nova Civic Club, […]
Rhonda Says
Five years ago, finding a good night out in L.A .didn’t always come easy–if at all. For a long time it was more about the door and getting in, then the actually party inside. It wasn’t uncommon in the early noughts to be delayed by the dreaded velvet rope, eventually entering the hottest spots into town, only to discover an […]
FKA Twigs: Stunningly Seductive in her Artistry
London-based singer FKA Twigs signed to the sensual, moody Young Turks label (SBTRKT, The xx) late last year for the release of EP2. Aside from the sheer talent heard in her ethereal voice over electronic-tinged R&B (think How to Dress Well meets Aaliyah meets Massive Attack), Twigs threw herself into the visually stunning videos she made to accompany four out […]
Warpaint
I’ve always relied on my friend Katy to tell me who to listen to. When I returned from a months-long trip to India, she handed me a mix CD with a hand-collaged liner stuffed inside. “This is what you missed,” she’d written. And it was. So in 2010, when she sent me Warpaint’s breakout single “Undertow,” I listened eagerly. The […]
Girl On Decks: DJ Becka Diamond
[dropcap]N[/dropcap]ew York’s nightlife will never suffer from a shortage of DJ’s, musicians or scene queens. And with the city’s never ending influx of transplants hoping to find success and notoriety, getting noticed takes talent, tenacity and a splash of good ol’ fashioned luck. DJ Becka Diamond has mastered the formula. From her signature shock of white-blonde hair to her penchant for expensive fashion, the former […]
On Macklemore, Rap Grammys and How We Misconstrue White Privilege
[dropcap]M[/dropcap]usic’s Biggest Night was last night—a curious phrase to be throwing around the first month of the year, considering that it implies that from here on out, 2014 is Music’s never-ending Sunday. And surely by now you’ve heard that Macklemore & Ryan Lewis—the former, a white rapper who looks a little bit like a squash; the latter, the most timid […]