[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Young Montana? is a musician/producer out of the UK who’s making some pretty rad sounds that remind me a lot of J Dilla. In the mix above which he did for BTS Radio he combines all kinds of old soul, jazz and who knows what to create something [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] A Man With No Ankles by Owen Pallett Owen Pallet’s newest album Heartland might hands down be my favorite album of the year, so I was stoked to see that he had a brand new EP coming out on September 27th called Swedish Love Story. It’s only 4 [...]
For whatever reason I’ve had Monsters of Folk stuck in my head lately. I haven’t really listened to their album for a few months now but it’s definitely one of my favorites of the year. The one song in particular that I’ve been humming is The Sandman, The Brakeman and Me which on the album [...]
The first time I heard of Ball-Nogues Studio, it was as they completed Liquid Sky an installation in the courtyard of P.S.1 in New York. What I didn’t know at the time, was that the budget didn’t afford the LA-based partnership the luxury of staying somewhere other than the courtyard. So over the four months [...]
Taken from British troubadour Passenger’s (aka Mike Rosenburg) forthcoming album, Flight of the Crow, “Golden Thread” is just one sample of Rosenburg’s diverse collaborations with a selection of Australian musicians during his musical travels. Featuring vocals by Matt Corby and lovely animation by Mark Charlton, the concept of the video ties in perfectly with the [...]
The above illustration (by Ed Emshwiller) is from the 1958 novel Have Space Suit – Will Travel by Robert Heinlein. The story centers around Kip, a young lad eager to get to the moon, but plagued by a mediocre public school system that fails to launch him into an academic trajectory likely to lead to Mare [...]
