There’s nothing like some projectile vomiting to announce your long-awaited third album. That’s a disclaimer for the video above, “New Coke,” which is the first song to emerge from Echo Park’s experimental noise band HEALTH‘s new album, “Death Magic,” their first album since 2009’s “Get Color.” Since then, they recorded the soundtrack to the video […]
Sarajevo-born Valida is best known as a DJ on local favorite KCRW, and has spun records across the globe throughout her career, but has also been a musician and performer since she was 4. In addition to remixing Foster The People and Milo Greene, among others, she has also released some original material, beginning first […]
“Good grief, I been reaping what I sowed,” Earl Sweatshirt rapped to the packed floor of the House of Blues last night, performing his new track “Grief,” over a dark and crunchy metallic beat of his own making, which rattled hard as dozens of audience hands shot up, and dozens more rapped along, “N*gga, I […]
Seeing as the new trend in rap is to release your album with little to no notice, Odd Future ringleader Tyler, the Creator has announced his newest album via his recently launched Golf Media app. It’s titled “Cherry Bomb,” and there’s word that Lil Wayne and Kanye West will appear on one of the album’s […]
After releasing the songs “The Spirit of St. Louis” and “Truth and Diamonds” early in 2015, Los Angeles-via-Brooklyn artist Alge has just dropped a new single called “Palms of Our Hands.” It features his friend and frequent collaborator, the Brooklyn-based R&B artist DAJ, and is his most anthemic and dynamic track yet. The iced-out pop […]
vōx (stylized “vōx” and pronounced “wokes”) is the moniker of Minnesota native and Los Angeles-based artist Sarah Winters, and was inspired by the Latin words she had tattooed on her fingers years prior, vōx et praetere nihil, meaning “a voice and nothing more.” But what a voice it is. In 2010, she released her debut […]
Earlier this year, the Ugandan-bred and Los Angeles-based artist Angela Muhwezi released her first single, “New Age,” a two-minute gospel song about race relations, with the blistering opening, “Black is black, white is white / And you better not cross the color lines / If you dare they will bite / ’cause the honey’s real […]
Following the 2012 EP “In Love With The Enemy,” Los Angeles artist Kita Klane released her sophomore EP, the four-track “Fingerprints,” last week, a moody and sultry batch of indie-soul. The black-and-white video of the title track was directed by Nic Harcourt (the former KCRW music director and current KCSN morning host), stars Mike O’Malley […]
Los Angeles-via-Dallas artist Post Malone is relatively unknown at this point, with the Internet largely void of his backstory, and only a few songs to his credit — however, those few songs are great. His track “White Iverson” has logged over half a million listens in the last few weeks, Malone half-crooning and half-rapping with […]
Action Bronson is set to release his new album “Mr. Wonderful” on March 24 via Vice/Atlantic, and after releasing the video for the track “Actin Crazy” last week, the 31-year-old New Yorker has also put out the new single “Baby Blue.” The soulful, piano-driven beat was produced by Mark Ronson, featuring an awesome and signature […]
