Keenhouse, née Ken Rangtuky, is a Los Angeles-based electronic music producer who split time between Europe and Southeast Asia in his youth, cultivating an interest in the sounds of both the East and West. A few weeks ago, he released his third (and most ambitious) album, “A Future Past,” on Sunlinxx Records, with 15 tracks […]
Rapper Sin Marlee is in his mid-20s; from the mid-city, Carson to be exact; and he is on the Los Angeles-based label 6J Recordings. On “King of Nazareth,” a single released last summer, he raps over smooth, jazzy production by Foisey, filled out with drums, horns, and sirens, with a flow equally as smooth about […]
As she begins surfing the wave of buzz surrounding her eponymous debut album, one of the year’s best so far, Natalie Prass played to a packed house at Hotel Cafe on Wednesday night, captivating the hushed crowd who only broke their dead silence to erupt in applause after each song. Backed by Scott Clark on […]
Long Beach rapper Boogie hasn’t been rapping long, but he sounds like he has, with a cadence and ease in his flow that suggest seasoning. In 2014, the 25-year-old guested on SBTRKT’s “Wonder Where We Land” B-side “Spaced Out,” and dropped the “Thirst 48” mixtape last summer, an 11-track offering full of smart and witty […]
Fresh off of two Grammy wins on Sunday — best rap song and best rap performance for his positive and uplifting single, “i” — Kendrick Lamar flipped the script this week and dropped a new track “The Blacker The Berry.” Over a boom bap beat from Boi-1da and a hook from Jamaican artist Assassin, Lamar […]
Odd Future member Hodgy Beats is also a part of respective duos MellowHigh with Domo Genesis, and MellowHype with Left Brain, but he just released the 12-track mixtape “Dena Tape 2,” a follow-up to 2009’s “Dena Tape” and the first solo work he’s put out since an untitled EP in 2013. Hosted by Philadelphia rapper […]
The Suffers are a 10-piece band from Houston, formed in 2011 by bassist Adam Castaneda and keyboardist/vocalist Pat Kelly, and subsequently filled out with local musicians including guitarist Kevin Bernier, trumpet player Jon Durbin, frontwoman Kam Franklin, percussionist Jose “Chapy” Luna, trombonist Michael Razo, jazz saxophonist Cory Wilson, guitarist/vocalist Alex Zamora, and drummer/vocalist Nick Zamora. […]
Following the release of his wonderfully sharp and thought-provoking album “Dark Comedy” last year, Los Angeles rapper Open Mike Eagle is back with the six-track “A Special Episode Of” EP, due out next week via Mello Music Group, and featuring production from Exile and Gold Panda. The first track to surface is “Raps For When […]
The skinny on Natalie Prass is that she’s a singer-songwriter born in Cleveland and raised in Virginia Beach who did a stint at Berklee and eventually ended up in Nashville, releasing the “Small & Sweet” EP in 2009, and the “Sense of Transcendence” EP in 2011. The real scoop is that after performing in Jenny […]
In advance of his third album “Eclipse,” due out on March 17, his first on major label Warner Bros., Twin Shadow’s George Lewis, Jr. and company played a one-off show Thursday night at the Troubadour before they embark on a North American tour this spring. ||| Photos by Michelle Shiers They launched into “Five Seconds” […]
