I hope that in her next life, all Donna Summer ever feels is love. I hope that all of us feel it, including myself.

The past few months the music community, the country and even my circle of friends has been inudated with the subject of death. It is often the center of art, ranging from morbid and morose to glittering tributes to visions of the after-life. It is the inevitable for which we all wait. People’s view on the subject often ties into their belief structure, which garners another whole world of emotions and subjects. In short, death is heavy, and this mixtape is a smattering of songs on the matter. I went for a few that everyone knows, a few everyone ...

by TMT Staff • April 2012 This year marked the third installment of the New York edition of Unsound , an offshoot of the annual Kraków fest (which will have its 10th installment in October). From April 18-22 and across five different venues — BAMcinématek, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Public Assembly, Lincoln Center, and ISSUE Project Room — Unsound New York 2012 featured music that included everything from warped dub and ambient metal to bass-heavy club music and techno. This meant we were treated to the likes of TMT favorites like Hype Williams, Sun Araw, Heat Wave, Laurel Halo, Peaking Lights, Actress, Demdike Stare, and ...

For the festival's return to Lincoln Center and (le) poisson rouge, LXMP, Peaking Lights, Next Life, Actress, and Hype Williams all made strong impressions.

Recommended Show: THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012 DINOWALRUS & NORTH HIGHLANDS @ PUBLIC ASSEMBLY 70 N 6th St Brooklyn, NY 11211 $10, 8PM There are a tons of your favorite indie bands playing at Public Assembly tonight, but two of our favorites are Dinowalrus and North Highlands . However, that really is just scratching the surface. WIM, Fixers, & Cultfever @ Pianos Peaking Lights & LXMP @ Lincoln Center JD McPherson & Lucius @ Mercury Lounge Needtobreathe & Ben Rector @ Webster Hall Hotel Lights & Emperor X @ Rockwood Music Hall Disappears, Lotus Plaza, & Noveller @ Glasslands Cat Martino, Daltonians, & Patrick Bower @ Union Hall Oneohtrix Point Never & Body Language @ Brooklyn Museum Herbcraft, Dharana, Millions ...

Brooklyn’s Royal Baths recently released their somewhat spooky second album ‘Better Luck Next Life’. Seb and Alison spoke with Jeremy about touring, noise and melody, and finding sonic inspiration in new cities.

2003 wasn’t just the year after Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots . 2003 was the year Unsound Krakow started up, a festival that, according to its website, “is interested in the idea of cross-border collaboration, and thinking of the festival as a tool for commissioning and fostering new work.” 2010 wasn’t just the year before Strobo Trip . 2010 was the year Unsound New York cropped up, an offshoot of the Krakow festival that somehow brings together everything “from contemporary classical music to post-industrial sounds to black metal to new directions in bass driven club music.” This year’s festival ...

Young Roddy - one of the talented whipper snappers from Curren$y's Jet Life crew - is on deck today with his first solo mix tape, Good Sense . And after a quick spin this evening, it's clear that it makes perfectly good sense to skip to the bottom of this post and click the download button. With 13 tracks of goodness on offer, Roddy has plenty of chances to show and prove that he's kicked on since last year's Jet Life To The Next Life joint effort with his running mate Trademark Da Skydiver. And show and prove ...

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive Fatos Marishta Things are slowly coming together for Royal Baths . The Brooklyn-based grunge quartet is still largely unknown, yet the group's plodding psych-rock has already been featured on Stereogum and scrutinized by Pitchfork, which called the band's psychedelic new album Better Luck Next Life "a sludgy, turgid take on the blues." (Not exactly a compliment, but all press is good press, right?) And it's been one show after another for the upstart group, so maybe that's why Royal Baths' co-founder Jeremy Cox sounded a little disheveled when ...

Brooklyn's Royal Baths are heading out to Australia for the first time following their epic new album Better Luck Next Time . Originally from sunny San Francisco and lumped with the garage psych scene of Ty Segall, Fresh & Only's and Thee Oh Sees the band packed their bags and headed to New York to delve into a more darker approach to their music. Larry Heath catches up with the band to talk about their new record and what to expect from their maiden Australian voyage. How has 2012 been treating you so far? We've been keeping pretty busy ...

Um es vorweg zu nehmen: Ja, Royal Baths machen Retro-Mucke. Ja, sie klingen nach Velvet Underground oder Neil Young auf Acid. Und, man höre und staune: Sie machen urzeitlichen Garagen-Rock mit einer Prise Blues. In der Tat klingt der Vierer aus Brooklyn auf dem neuen Werk “Better Luck Next Life” so extrem nach Velvet Undergrounds [...]

(Kanine Records) San Fran garage rock turncoats get dark Just like Charles Manson never fit in with the flower power scene, Royal Baths were something of a square peg in the San Francisco garage/psych scene where they grew up. The two-piece were always too dark, brooding and heavy for Bay Area contemporaries like Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall. Perhaps that’s why they switched up their west coast home for America’s eastern seaboard. Settling in Brooklyn and starting to write and record the follow- ...

"Faster, Harder" MP3 from the album Better Luck Next Life 2012 iTunes BY IVY PEREZ | Jonk Music Royal Baths' third album, Better Luck Next Life , is a dreamy sort of dark, flirting with the line between the darkness of adolescent rebellion and a deeper, more cynical kind. Like many of the songs in the album, opener "Darling Devine" starts off lightly, hinting at the ethereal, only to build a feeling of dread with rhythmic walking bass and immediately raise the tempo. The album beguiles with pleasant, light harmonies and chanting choruses that blend with a whiny, deliciously sarcastic singing style ...

Score: 7.0 /10.0 Kanine Records Royal Baths Better Luck Next Life unfolds like an old-time Western. Opener “Darling Divine” begins with a few wayward guitar tones, setting the scene for the showdown. Lead singer Jeremy Cox saunters in (“When we met on the street / it was hate at first sight / he left a nasty [...]