Arca's &&&&& Mixtape

This guy is most known as one of the producers of Kanye West's Yeezus, which I could give a shit about but shit do I love this mixtape, which is available to stream or download.  Looking forward to more mixtapes and maybe even a proper album in 2014.

Stream Arcade Fire's new album Reflektor

NSFW: Brauheist Album Artwork

This will offend some people but I don't really care, most people following my artwork should expect some offensive shit.  Deal with it.  This is the artwork for Brauheist's demo that they released just over a week ago.  If you want a physical copy of the EP and can't make it to a show to buy one go to:

brauheist.bigcartel.com

or you can stream the album at:

brauheist.bandcamp.com

I have been listening to this a ton because its fucking great.  Heavy as hell.  I will take some photos of the actual CD packaging once it arrives here and post the photos.

Stream The Man in the Iron Fists Soundtrack

RZA has essembled an all-star soundtrack for his first foray into directing, the kung-fu epic The Man with the Iron Fists.  It is a surprisingly strong soundtrack featuring the likes of  Kanye West, the Wu-Tang Clan, Talib Kweli, Ghostface Killah, Pusha T, Raekwon, Pharoahe Monch, and RZA himself, who along with producing the soundtrack and MCing, directing the film, also stars as the title character in the film.  Ghostface sounds especially fierce here, invigorated and pissed off, and in a few months time he will release a new album with RZA also serving as Executive Producer so after a few weaker albums its exciting to think we may have another Ghostface classic in front of us.  Below is the red band trailer.

Stream Flying Lotus: Until the Quiet Comes

Listened to this for the first time last night and on the first listen I can say that I like this better then Cosmogramma.  The album will be released October 1 on Warp Records.  Below is the intricately animated video for the first single off the album, which is not, by a long shot the best track on the album.

Stream Animal Collective's Centipede Hz

Click on the cover art of Animal Collective's 10th album, Centipede Hz.  I haven't listened to it yet so I have no idea how good it is but from the new single it sounds like the album will be different then the last, once again.

Stream Liars new album WIXIW

Click on the album cover above to stream the new LIARS album.  Watch the creepy video for the first single   No. 1 Against the Rush.

Stream Death Grips' The Money Store

They played yesterday at Coachella and today they are streaming the new album, The Money Store, which is released April 24.  This is the first of two albums that they will release this year.  Only half way threw the album for the first time and its hard as hell.

Drive soundtrack and Symmetry: Themes for an Imaginary Film

Knowing nothing about this film besides a preview I saw months ago that just basically showed Ryan Gosling sitting around in a 1970s muscle car, I watched it last night and it was one of the best, and coolest films I have seen in a long time.  The one thing that helped elivate and set this film apart from most others is the pulsing 1980s tinged electro soundtrack; sometimes krautrock, sometimes industrial, always cool.  Really great with the stylized, oversaturated orange and green Los Angeles of today.  The song below is played over the opening credits and is one of a few tracks that feature vocals.

Nightcall (feat. Lovefoxxx) by Kavinsky

While looking for the soundtrack and who was featured throughout the film I found that origanally the director Nicolas Winding Refn wanted Johnny Jewel of Glass Candy to score.  The producers didn't trust a 20 year old to score the film so they hired Cliff Martinez who was the perfect backup plan.  Three years in the making, Symmetry, the project that began as a conceptual tangent between Glass Candy, Chromatics, Mirage, and Desire's more abstract sides shows possibly what Jewel had in mind if he would have been able to write the score.  Symmetry isn't his score for Drive but comes from the same place and has the same influences as Martinez's score.  An alternate audio history I suppose.
  


If you like Drive I suggest you watch Refn's last film Bronson, which tells the true life story of Britains most notorious inmate.  It features a batshit, insane performance by Tom Hardy who will become a household name this summer after squaring off against Christian Bale as Bane in Christopher Nolan's final Batman: The Dark Knight Rises.

Sepalcure

Duo from New York who's selftitled sounds like everyone from Autechre to Caribou to Zomby.  A great debut and I will definitely be listening to this album a lot more.

   Sepalcure - Sepalcure LP *Album Preview* [HFLP006] Hotflush Recordings by Surus

Tom Waits: Unrelease song from Bad As Me

Listen
Listen to the song "After You Die" a track that didn't make it on to Tom Waits excellent new album Bad as Me that definitely could have.

The Roots new single "Make My"

From the Roots 9th album Undun, “Make My,” features Southern rap Big K.R.I.T.  The album will hit stores December 6th.

The Roots "Make My" featuring Big K.R.I.T. by okayplayer

Here is a Promotional clip for both the song and the album.  I have a feeling this will be a new direction and a different, powerful sounding Roots album.

Hear the new Tom Waits album Bad as Me!!!

Click on the picture too listen to the Tom Waits album, you have to request an invite and they will email you a code to listen.  I've only listened to the first 2 songs so far and it sounds great so far.

Mastodon: The Hunter: New Album Stream

Listening for the first time now.