Styles: noise rock, heavy metal
Others: The Jesus Lizard, Craw, Soundgarden, Swans, David Bowie
Oxbow’s new album is bound to trigger powerful associations in 2017. Its title pays homage to one of the late David Bowie’s most controversial creations. The Thin White Duke emerged from the drug-fueled pressure cooker of the late 70s, making his debut on the title track of Station to Station. Bowie’s Duke had a demure, aristocratic bearing and favored conservative dress, evocative of 1930s Europe.
More about: Oxbow
Maybe trees are swaying gently outside your office window, or maybe you’re still lying in bed hungover before your shift started at 4 PM. But maybe, somewhere in your heart, you’re carefree on the dancefloor. You celebrate the water resistance of dancing ‘til your shirt is stuck to your back. You grind-up on a belt buckle, abandoning those daily constraints that drag you kicking out of your comfort zone into the dead ends of binaries, account statements, and listings. Forget your hours; you love this to DEATH.
More about: MORO
Styles: Jersey Club, battle dance, footwork, ballroom
Others: DJ Joker, DJ Tameil, DJ Unique, DJ Tiga
In writing about phenomena like Jersey Club music, it’s best to start from the assumption that I don’t know what Jersey Club is. I maybe know what it sounds like (the bedsqueak sample, breakbeats and staggered kick patterns, frequent reference by way of sampling to hip-hop, R&B, and pop songs), but to attempt to pin down an essence is to overshoot one’s powers of perception and to fictitiously place myself inside a story that I am at most a peripheral witness to.
More about: DJ Jayhood
Memes have a tendency to rise and fall in capricious ways. So, just as Wolf Eyes member John Olson probably coined term “trip metal” without a particular desire to flesh out its definition — let alone an intention to see the term become synonymous with all-things Wolf Eyes-related — it’s just as easy to imagine the term falling back into obscurity at some point in the future and quite possibly confusing the heck out of the next generation of know-it-all music-obsessives.
More about: Aaron Dilloway, DJ Earl, Elysia Crampton, Pharmakon, Wolf Eyes
After teasing the world with posters and a little cryptic social media mindfucking, Radiohead have announced the 20th-anniversary reissue of OK Computer. Titled OKNOTOK, the remastered release features eight b-sides from that era (many of which appeared on the Airbag / How Am I Driving? EP), as well as a few unreleased tracks: “I Promise,” “Man of War,” and “Lift,” all three of which Radiohead obsessives had been hoping to hear for years.
More about: Radiohead
Gaaaaaaaaaah.
Only May 2???
Fuck. THIS DAMN
MONTH
IS
Sooooooooo…
BORING.
I’m over here like:
OH WAIT. WH@T?
More about: A. G. Cook, Charli XCX, Danny L Harle, Life Sim, PC Music
Styles: backmasked trash, narcosub, noise
Others: Dean Blunt, Blue Iverson, Hype Williams
i saw the best producers of my generation elevated by stuttering hi-hats, molly, and percocets, snarking, hysterical, faded,
dragging themselves out the bando, looking for another snare hit…
angel-faced ******* burning for the ancient gyration […]
who privilege and top-buns and dilated-eyed and high sat up freak folking
in the so-called originary darkness of africa
More about: Babyfather, Dean Blunt
From Playboi Carti & Section Boyz to cupcakKe & Babyfather
With a daunting cascade of releases spewing from the likes of DatPiff, LiveMixtapes, Bandcamp, and SoundCloud, it can be difficult to keep up with the overbearing yet increasingly vital mixtape game. In this column, we aim to immerse ourselves in this hyper-prolific world and share our favorite releases each month. The focus will primarily be on rap mixtapes — loosely defined here as free (or sometimes free-to-stream) digital releases — but we’ll keep things loose enough to branch out if/when we feel it necessary.
More about: Babyfather, Billyracxx, CupcakKe, Dean Blunt, DIRTYFACESMOOK, FastMusic954, Geechi Suede, Kodak Black, Playboi Carti, Section Boyz, Valee
Sufjan Stevens introduced me to college. He introduced me to my first long-term girlfriend. He introduced me to accepting SOME forms of Christian paved/influenced art. He introduced me to Facebook when it was college-only. He introduced me to Keith Rankin as someone who could be my adult friend. He introduced me to my new job in Harlem with Carrie & Lowell. He introduced me to my dumb-delay in reading any Max Power reviews.
More about: Sufjan Stevens
Styles: subsumption, ambient dub, feral machines
Others: My Bloody Valentine, Cluster, Surgeon, Terrence Malick
You can still hear the sounds of the city weaving their way through the trees out here. It’s strange; since moving, I actually find myself craving that noise, nodding my head more to that pulsing beat from afar than I ever did when we would all go out on the town, stumbling from club to club as if any kind of stillness would be the death of us. I couldn’t be a part of that then, but still, how comforting is it to hear a train going by at night? I feel closer to that steel than I ever could to these trees.
More about: Gas, Wolfgang Voigt
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