New Music

Prince Daddy & The Hyena Release New Music Video

July 1, 2016

Albany troublemakers Prince Daddy & The Hyena just released a tour-footage video of their song, “***Hidden Track***.” The video is pretty hilarious, featuring some of the best moments from their recent tour with their fellow emos in oso oso. In case you aren’t familiar with P Daddy, they sound a lot like an impossibly raucous combination of Atom and His Package, Andrew WK, and The Hotelier. “***Hidden Track***” is the last song on Prince Daddy & The Hyena’s latest release, Adult Summers, out now via Broken World Media. The “pay what you want” rate is an incredible deal – make sure you swing by and give it a download.

Susanna Rose Releases Genesee Live Session

May 24, 2016

Rochester native Susanna Rose is unwavering in her consistency — her recent video session with Genesee Live is a clear testament to this. Between the pristine voice and the honest, humble delivery, it’s easy to trust her as a listener from the get-go. I have absolutely no qualms in saying that she already embraces the demeanor and stylings of a seasoned singer-songwriter who knows her own sound incredibly well. This session features tracks off of her release Snowbound, which was our album of the week back in December. Despite being laden with stark, wintry imagery, the overall vibe of these tracks still translates well in a displaced season. Watch and listen for yourself below.

elle belle – “Failed Dreamz”

May 20, 2016

Los Angeles based psych-pop act, elle belle, released the video for “Failed Dreamz”  this morning and without a doubt it’s one of the strongest songs we’ve checked out this year. The song “Failed Dreamz” is off belle’s forthcoming album Baptistina I & II, due out this fall. There are a couple of similarities between Ariel PInk and “Failed Dreamz,” both with the gothy upbeat pop delivery and the “what the fuck am I watching?” vibes. If you are pressed for time let me try to explain this to you. A man that can best be described as a Kiss cosplayer in coveralls wakes up in the wilderness and pukes up sludge. A shouting man in a hat picks him up and flips him off a lot. Hat man brings Kiss guy to a warehouse where a pretty woman shouts into the his mouth and licks his teeth then makes him choke her. Eventually hat guy[...]

LANY – “Where the Hell Are My Friends?”

May 5, 2016

Los Angeles-based electro-pop act, LANY, unveiled a new video a couple weeks back for their single “Where The Hell Are My Friends.” In the video, singer Paul Klein navigates through a party and ultimately has a crossroads moment. Why is he in Los Angeles? No one cares about him. He’s just one person out of 40 million people across the state. Should he move? Who would notice? In the end he’s alone in a room full of superficiality. “Where the Hell are my Friends” is upbeat, reflective, earnest, and overall catchy as hell. Fans of Phoenix, Humans, or Holy Ghost! would be into LANY. Check out the video below and try not to jam it all day. I dare you.

Why We Run – “A Moment To Return”

April 6, 2016

Sydney-based quartet Why We Run released the video for their first single “A Moment to Return,” off their forthcoming album due out early summer. The video is powerful, featuring an elderly man swimming, then Benjamin Button-ing back into retrogressing in childhood over a three minute time-lapse.  Below the surface, “A Moment To Return,” is about a near-drowning experience where lead singer of Why We Run saw his entire life flashed before his eyes. Heavy stuff. Check out these up-and-coming Aussie’s new video below and keep your eyes peeled for their new album. It’ll be a good one.

PineSheets – “Sunday Afternoon”

February 11, 2016

Albany’s music scene is severely underrated. Their atmosphere is a lot like how Buffalo’s was in 2012-  minimal legitimate venues spaces for a local band to play and talented musicians constantly talking about moving to another city (mainly NYC). Even with the obstacles put in place, talented up-and-coming acts have been emerging (Slowshine, Prince Daddy & The Hyena, Bare Mattress, Jouska, and The Black Ships, to name a few). Enter PineSheets, a wonky one-man producer/singer’s whose sound is something best described as weirdo-sensual. If Mac DeMarco were to write an album to try to seduce a woman wearing high-waisted jeans after binging on How to Dress Well, the after product would be pretty close to PineSheets’ current discography. The R&B Capital District sensation has released a new music video this morning for the song “Sunday Afternoon,” off the forthcoming EP Casual Frustrations out March 5th. “Sunday Afternoon”  in essence is about how much[...]

Chad Valley – “Arms Away”

November 30, 2015

Electro-pop UK-based artist, Chad Valley (aka Hugo Manuel), released his latest single and accompanying music video last week while we were scaling back for the holidays. Valley’s latest single, “Arms Away,” off of his sophomore album, Entirely New Blue, is synth-pop at it’s purest, combining youthful perception with growing-up sensuality. As poppy as “Arms Away” is, the subject matter is fairly sullen – the follow-up to a long term relationship that is no more. The video, directed by Lauren Sieczkowski (who also has directed TVOTR, and Vampire Weekend videos in the past) features dream-like interpretative dancing from Brooklyn’s Indelible Dance Company along with a sullen Valley talking to a past self, transforming back to the present. Fans of Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaur, Frankmusik, or Evan Voytas would dig Chad Valley. Check it out below.

Snoop Dogg ft. Pharrell & Stevie Wonder – “California Roll”

May 20, 2015

Snoop Dogg has been on a futuristic funk wave his entire career. He began as a G-Funk pioneer alongside Dr. Dre and the like on the West Coast in the 90s, sampling George Clinton often on his tracks while offering a hypnotically smooth flow to groove to. Though he’s been relatively experimental in his career, Snoop has maintained the funk influence from his Doggystyle days through his latest album Bush, from which we get “California Roll.” The track features music legend Stevie Wonder on the harmonica and background vocals and Pharrell (who produced the entire album) on hook duty. The video is a Jetson-esque look into the future from 1946, with curious appearances of Egyptian symbols and landmarks. Stevie, Snoop and Skateboard P are decked out in black and gold, and Snoop’s slow-motion c-walk might be the coolest thing captured on video. Check it out below.

Blue House

Blue House Records Live Session with Pizza Club Productions

April 14, 2015

It’s always encouraging to see creative channels come together in a DIY fashion to support one another. It’s the existence of this kinship that gives birth to cool collaborations and a robust local art scene. Fredonia is somewhat of a hatchery for this dynamic, which agreeably led Blue House, the solo project of Long Island native Danny Palladino, to team up with Fredonia based Pizza Club Productions in recent weeks to film their second Cool Little Music Session. Pizza Club Productions is the ongoing live music video series started by Joe Cardina, Cam Gordon, Chelsea Newton. and Eric Lemke. The group aims to unite music and visual fronts to showcase bands all over the area through well produced videos. Blue House, a fairly new endeavor, is one of the handful of artists to be featured so far. With subtle vocal embellishment, bare-boned arrangements, and quiet reflectiveness, Blue House comparatively calls[...]

Action Bronson – “Actin’ Crazy”

February 27, 2015

Queens MC, Action Bronson, is larger than life in every sense of the word. His music video game is always on point, and it’s not a stretch to say that he could be the best in the game as far as visuals are concerned. Themes have ranged from action movies to Westerns, but every time a Bronson video drops, you know it’ll be entertaining, and you know that the big guy is probably going to try to show off his mobility. This time though, Bronson lets the green screen do the work for him, in a cheeky video for recent single, “Actin’ Crazy.” Between scenes of him blasting off in computer-generated rocket ships and using Super Saiyan-like flying abilities to dunk a flaming basketball, the green screen returns to standard green, and Bronsolino gets the behind-the-scenes luxury of lint-rolling females taking good care of his black v. The song itself[...]

Max Garcia Conover – “Motorhome (a love song)”

February 24, 2015

Jamestown, NY native, Max Garcia Conover, has begun to release weekly songs and videos while holed up in his home recording studio in his new home in or around Portland, Maine. His first video, “Moterhome (a love song),” was released on February 9th and has since released two more videos, the most recent on Sunday, in his year long project. While this Bon Iver-like exile is not a new concept to the musician, this year, the folkie decided to try something a bit different, creating a Patreon page where you, as the listener/viewer, can leave him “tips” for every time a song comes out, giving you early access to the videos and more. You can find out more about the sort-of crowd sourcing project here. Watch the video for the weary, Phosphorescent-esque “Moterhome (a love song)” below, and keep an eye out for future clips on Garcia Conover’s Youtube page.

A$AP Ferg – “Doe-Active”

February 18, 2015

A$AP Ferg always looks like he’s having the time of his life, and the video for “Doe-Active” is nothing different. The single comes from last year’s mixtape Ferg Forever, and is a high-energy, infectious banger. The video also serves as the first release from the A$AP crew in the waning weeks since the loss of leader A$AP Yams, a death likely preventable. Directed by Spike Jordan, “Doe-Active” is a three-minute, 45 second long flex by Ferg, who shows off his celebrity friends and bootylicious females as he screams “I got a hundred dollar bill for every bump on your face.” Notice that “Doe-Active” is a play on the acne cream “Pro-Actve.” I particularly enjoy this chorus because it always seems like Ferg says it too many times, like he knows he should probably move on to a verse, but he still just wants to rub it right in our zit-infested faces.[...]

Planet Three – “Pluto”

February 3, 2015

Buffalo debutantes Planet Three dropped a new video last week for the Marilla natives ultra spacey jam “Pluto” that’s got tongues wagging in advance of the trio’s opening set next Saturday (February 14th) at Lesionread’s album release party. The clip, directed by the blog’s favorite polymath,aka Sean Lewis, is a lo-fi romp through time and space, featuring 80’s visual motifs, a cameo from the directors channeling both Spike Jonze and R. Lee Ermey, and lots of orange spacesuits. You can catch Planet Three in support of Lesionread at the latter’s release party for the new tape “Lesionread’s Greatest Hits! Vol.”at Dreamland.

BadBadNotGood and Ghostface Killah – “Ray Gun” ft. DOOM

January 23, 2015

Toronto trio, BadBadNotGood, burst on to the scene a few years back remixing the likes Odd Future and A Tribe Called Quest. Their jazzy, improvisational sound got the attention of some of rap’s most well-respected artist, and it set them up for this collaboration with the Wu Tang’s Ghostface and the masked underground rap giant DOOM. “Ray Gun” is a strange ride following a metal-faced alien, played by Odd Future’s Left Brain. The video heads into a go-go bar and the veiled assailant tries to take a lady back with him to the motherland. The whole thing is pretty weird and shot like it’s in the 80s, working nicely with really great verses from Ghostface and DOOM. Check it out below, and stay tuned for a new collab album between Ghost and BadBadNotGood coming next month.

The Weeknd – “Earned It”

January 23, 2015

Apparently there’s this movie coming out in a few weeks that’s based on a series of erotic novels that you can buy at Target called Fifty Shades Of Grey, and it will be a huge hit because all of our neighbors who’ve bought the books at Target will bumrush theaters down the street from Target to see if the movie measures up. The soundtrack for 50 Shades Of Grey, also available at Target, will include sexed up contributions from artists like Beyonce, Sia,  Ellie Goulding, Jessie Ware, The Rolling Stones (yes! “Beast Of Burden!”), and Toronto’s very own The Weeknd, who’s featured in the first video off of that soundtrack, the mildly NSFW “Earned It.” Actually, The Weeknd (aka Abel Tesfaye) doesn’t need to sex up his music any more than it already is, and based on this clip featuring Grey lead actress Dakota Johnson, this could well be the[...]