The 00's were a really cool time to be a DJ.  The internet fucked up the genre-based marketing plans that the majors had spent decades constructing to maximize profits.  A crop of amazing DJs made anything-goes parties the norm.  DJs from disparate genres started collaborating more and more.   I spent 1999 through about 2003 basically only spinning hip-hop.  From 2003 onward I've been learning about everything I was missing. And it was in that market that DJ Apt One and myself started Philadelphyinz, a poorly named DJ night where two dudes who conversed almost entirely in obscure post-Rawkus ...

Artist: Gossip Album: A Joyful Noise Genre: Indie rock/dance/post-punk Label: Columbia Records Gossip (formerly The Gossip) describe themselves as ‘soul discharge’ on their Facebook page. I’m keeping that description, because it captures their sound perfectly. They’re a striking mixture of classic status and soul beats with pervasive indie pop mentality. There’s dance and punk and rock, all smelted in a furnace of engrossing brilliance. The band has consistently shown their taste for slick, catchy anthems anchored by smoking bass lines and allied to the astounding vocals of Beth Ditto. A Joyful Noise adds another exquisite ...

Was it the summer of 2010 we first heard from Superhumanoids? Yes. Even though it always feels like some kind of summer when the L.A. dream-pop outfit anchored by Cameron Parkins, Sarah Chernoff and Max St. John unveils new music. No overnight sensations they, Superhumanoids still continue to flirt with the sensational every time they [...]

Anchored have released the video for their new single "Throwing Down" which features west coast hip-hop legends Snoop Dogg and Terrace Martin. The song was recorded at NRG Studios in Hollywood, CA with producer Jay Baumgardner (Papa Roach, Evanescence) and is the first single from Anchored's upcoming new album which is scheduled for a summer 2012 release. "'Throwing Down' is a song that makes you want to pop back a cold one," says Anchored vocalist Brandan Narrell. "It was great to get to work with Snoop Dogg and Terrace Martin, as they are both hip-hop icons. We're looking ...

Since 2004, Julian House and Jim Jupp have been putting out myriad weird and wonderful music under the Ghost Box Records label. Ghost Box releases stick to a very idiosyncratic style; a retro-futuristic view coupled with a nostalgia for an England that never quite existed. This creative, haunting music takes its cues from old sci-fi television series, public information films, library music, B-movie horror, 1970s krautrock and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Warm, analogue synths burble and hum, tracts of speech are lovingly pasted onto audio collages, and you’re transported to a land you never knew. This world now extends ...

Keith Buckley  from Every Time I Die wrote up a lengthy post regarding his feelings about Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys’ passing. Read it below by clicking “Read More.? Related Stories: Benji Madden Releases Statement On Adam Yauch’s Passing   Beastie Boys Release Statement On Adam Yauch’s Passing   Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch Passes Away At 47[[MORE]] The first time I remember seeing my father sad was when Roy Orbison died. Until that point I had seen my father in the throes of numerous emotions but a sincere, genuine sadness was never one of them. It was hard to ...

Deadline.com reports that Jewel will play singer June Carter Cash, the wife of the late, great Johnny Cash, in The June Carter Cash Story in a Lifetime biopic. Matt Ross of American Horror Story is set to play music legend Johnny Cash. The film is based on the memoir Anchored in Love: An Intimate

The new chart is anchored at the top once again by Toronto group River Tiber, with the rocking “Someday” at #1 for a third appearance (6 weeks) and the quiet and thoughtful “Symmetry” moving up to #2.  The band is working on their next album, and will be playing in Toronto on Saturday June 16 [...]

West Coast beat legend Dibiase recently released a mini-mix via Bandcamp to promote his new album and subsequent tour, both titled Looney Goons. Employing tooth-rattling subs and surprisingly tasteful midrange wobbles anchored by ton-of-bricks kicks, it appears Looney Goons is going…

Jewel will star as June Carter cash in a Lifetime movie, "The June Carter Cash Story." Matt Ross ("American Horror Story") will play Johnny Cash, Carter Cash's husband. The film is based on the memoir "Anchored In Love: An Intimate Portrait Of June Carter Cash" by Carter Cash's son John Carter Cash. Allison Anders will direct with filming this summer in Atlanta for a premiere later this year. Steven Michaels, Jonathan Koch and John Carter Cash are executive producing....

Okay, admittedly unlike some of the forgotten gems I write this isn't some band I stumbled on the other day. This is New York's Blacklace and I have been a fan of theirs for some time. The first time I heard them was likely by way of them doing "I like to rock" on Hit Parader's Wild Bunch cassette only compilation back in 1985. It was a good solid rock track. Although as I would eventually find out they had even recorded even better songs. This New York band formed in 1981 then a demo in 1983 ...

Beats Per MinuteMost tours follow some sort of logical routing anchored around major markets, festivals, what have you. Reunion tours are usually even moreso, what with their main motivation – or at least one of them – being to maximize revenue rather than build audiences (unless of course you’re the Pixies, in which case your [...]

Rocking Horse is a glitchy, throbbing affair, alternating between the restrained and explosive. With swirling vocals anchored by a brooding bass-line, the track explores ideas of place and belonging - seeking security in familiar spaces whilst simultaneously feeling trapped by them. The...

The Wedidit collective is home to a number of talented beatmakers, including Groundislava , eLan , Jonwayne (who helmed our latest podcast ), and frequent XLR8R subject Shlohmo . Today, the crew is dropping its first official release, a solo effort by New York City native RL Grime . The Grapes EP is his debut release, and opening cut "Grapes Alla Vodka" is a big, brash, and addictive slice of Houston-flavored crunk anchored by a gargantuan synthesizer that drips a spooky, syrup-laden melody over the jam's flickering claps and cymbals. To celebrate the release, Wedidit has created 100 iron-on patches featuring RL Grime's ...

Jangly guitar-pop tends to invoke an air of timelessness, if only because of its ability to seamlessly connect distinct eras and genres within a matter of minutes. "Even the Blind," the lead single from Wild Peace , the debut album by South London's Echo Lake , is a perfect example. Inside five minutes, the pair folds together the charming dissonance of mid-1990s indie rock, the romantic whorl of late-80s shoegaze, and the lo-fi atmosphere of a band recording songs in the comfort of their home. The song is anchored by singer Linda Jarvis' spindly vocal melodies as the band threatens to ...