All Ears: How to craft the perfect BBQ playlist
Guess what chicken butt, it's summer. Time for properly charred specialty foodstuffs—and don’t we need 'em?
Grab a grill, a heating source be it propane or charcoal, food, and beverages...
New Music: Oakland collective SMARTBOMB has that feeling of futurism
Beat music, the defiant all-inclusive electronic aesthetic that seizes and chops up odd bits of hip-hop, library music, jazz, bass music, IDM, and anything else that shouldn't fit but...
New Music: A classic Oneness of Juju re-release jolts consciousness
Witness the rhythmic agency of soundtracking a movement. Prudent is the beat that moves your feet and mind simultaneously, jolting up new pathways of consciousness. Full-body instruction keeps a...
New Music: Compilation recalls the greatness of Om Records’ city synthesis
Better go grab yourself a burrito and Jarritos before you sit down to assess the money behind today's electronic music. According to the Ibiza Music Summit's last business report,...
New Music: Jayda G channels life-force into the moment with ‘Both of Us’
Let's get one thing straight. Jayda Guy is smart. Like nerdy, goofy, love the environment, NASA scientist-type intelligence. No joke. She's got the marine biologist paperwork to prove it....
New Music: With ‘Mordechai,’ Khruangbin follows inner compass to success
Attaining the title "DJ's DJ" during the early 2000s, a certain heyday for San Francisco's musical landscape, was one of the loftiest forms of a compliment any music presenter...
Deerhoof’s ‘Future Teenage Cave Artists’ scrawls a calamitous fairy tale
Deerhoof’s new album is about the end of the world. Climate change is irreversible, infrastructure has collapsed, death is dealt out undiscerningly, and a small band of hopeful youth...
Out of the Crate: Revolutionary records to spin you into summer
With this past weekend, summer's officially here—and while that may not mean dancing in the streets, you can certainly use some new protest and home listening energy. Here's a...
New Music: An array of excellent sounds to discover (and artists to support)
Here we are halfway through 2020, with so much to keep an attentive eye on that you might walk into the shower fully clothed. For real. That shit happened....
Diving into Sespool’s genre-agnostic indie rap
Before Rin Tin Tiger, Westwood & Willow, Pericardium, or the weird-ass Christmas album, he was Sespool—the “SES” coming from his initials, Sean E. Sullivan. The music he released under...
