Picture Atlantic – “Billy Banker” (audio) (premiere)
"Billy Banker" is a loud cry against sucking out artistic vision and extracting pure profit, and its frenetic instrumental banking gives that cry nice heft.
Will Rivitz
Will Rivitz is a student at Princeton University in New Jersey who plans to major in computer science. He's written for various Internet publications since 2012, and his ramblings can be found on Sputnikmusic (under the last name Robinson), The 405, The Daily Princetonian, and the Nassau Literary Review. He's still shedding the last vestiges of his teenage/post-teenage angst, and asks that those who roll their eyes at any that makes it into his writing kindly hold their tongues.
ZZK Records – ‘The Nu LatAm Sound’ (documentary) (premiere)
We’re pleased to be able to premiere a mini-documentary on the sound of contemporary Latin American music.
Vandoliers – “Wildflower” (audio) (premiere)
"Wildflower" is a dark song with a touch of brightness and hope, a tone kept consistent by the way it occasionally soars far above its gloomy guitar spine.
Beginners – “Stereo” (audio) (premiere)
"Stereo" is a tune as ready for blasting from a Camaro system as from Spotify
Paige Calico – “The Hard Way” (video) (premiere)
“The Hard Way” is pristinely loopy Americana, a gorgeous arrangement warped just a touch by a layer of sand and dirt.
LOVECAT – “Song For Eternity” (audio) (premiere)
“Song For Eternity” is a playful, bouncy synthpop piece, a strange choice given that its subject matter is the eternally masochistic struggle to make good art.
Robert Finley – “You Make Me Want To Dance” (audio) (premiere)
“You Make Me Want to Dance” is a slab of dirty, sexy soul, gyrating around a firm funk backbeat in much the same way as most pairs of hips exposed to this song might.
Darkher – “Moths” (audio) (premiere)
"Moths" starts pitched downwards and slides even further, gothic folk that plunges headlong into doom territory.
Starover Blue – ‘Spacegeist’ (album stream) (premiere)
Beat the summer heat by putting on this album — the temperature’s guaranteed to drop ten degrees while it’s pulsing from your speakers.
Josh Farrow – “Who’s Gonna Love You When I’m Gone” (audio) (premiere)
“Who’s Gonna Love You When I’m Gone” carries itself with an aura of impermeable coolness, suave organ and killer bassline as smooth as silk.
PIG – “The Diamond Sinners” (video) (premiere)
“The Diamond Sinners” is exactly what you might expect from a man who’s been making industrial for thirty years — and that’s a very good thing.
Low Culture – “Comfort Zones” (audio) (premiere)
Low Culture’s garage-punk is about as straight-ahead as you could hope for.