Hollertronix is what the ADD kids are chattering about, period. Never Scared, a low-pro mix album they released late last year on indie start-up Money Studies, is a pirated rush of hip-ified Jock Jamz adrenaline, where dirty South b-ounce fire adroitly meets No Wave undercurrents that freeze sweat like Napoleon…
The telephone connection crosses the Atlantic and Ivan Smagghe picks up in the studio amid zaps of off-putting metallic modulation crafted by his chum Arnaud Rebotini. Together they are the French outfit Black Strobe, who recently swooped into clubland stateside via a remix of the Rapture’s “Sister Savior” and the…
After months of drooling anticipation, Liars have unloaded a large, mysterious object into the dying fire of pretentiousness. And while it is moderately intriguing to hear those flames crackle again afresh, it is doubtful either fans or haters expected a sophomore album as stubborn and abstruse as They Were Wrong,…
Oh, where art hipper-than-thou Chromeo? Servicing a talk box with Bambi Woods-like smoothness, this Canadian couplet stars Vice magazine’s rap editor Dave 1 (he’s A-Trak’s older sibling) as a Casanova MC wannabe and his gold-grilled associate, Pee Thug, who chimes in with enough synths to power a Third World country…
So the word’s finally out on Jaylib’s Champion Sound and Soul Position’s 8,000,000 Stories. Both are decidedly a little woomp woomp given the stratospheric expectations for these dream team collabos: Too much Detroit braggadocio raps from Jay Dee on the former and too much rhyme distraction from Blueprint on the…
Midwest Product’s new album, the Ann Arbor-based trio’s followup to last year’s decidedly more blue-collar gem, Specifics, finds them exchanging glitch for an airy pop sensibility. Not exactly a surprise when it’s titled World Series of Love and a thick stream of rainbow graces its white cover. But after a…
While superheroes are abandoning their metropolises this summer for Tinseltown’s big paydays and exclusive spa memberships, Metal Face Doom, the “world’s most celebrated super villain,” is having none of it. He’s staying underground in a damp lair watching old Godzilla films with his wily crew of Monsta Island Czars and…
