by Jake Sessanna | May 2, 2017 | Rochester
In a brash two-and-a-half minutes, Rochester’s Pleistocene conveys a message like a swarm of bees: Missing an old friend is hard even if you’re confident she’ll be okay. “Your New Life” is the lead single from the band’s killer...
by Cliff Parks | Mar 24, 2017 | Buffalo
KIN, the infinitely charming side project from Eliot Douglas (M.A.G.S.) featuring himself and his lovely wife Julia Douglas, released the video for their debut single “Try,” and it is absolutely wonderful. A sweet ode to married indie rock domesticity, the...
by Michael Moretti | Apr 6, 2016 | Watch This
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...
by Michael Moretti | Nov 30, 2015 | Watch This
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...
by Matt Moretti | May 20, 2015 | Watch This
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...
by Matt Moretti | Feb 27, 2015 | Watch This
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...
by Mac McGuire | Feb 24, 2015 | Watch This
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...
by Matt Moretti | Feb 18, 2015 | Watch This
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...
by Cliff Parks | Feb 3, 2015 | Watch This
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...
by Matt Moretti | Jan 23, 2015 | Watch This
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...
by Cliff Parks | Jan 23, 2015 | Watch This
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...
by Matt Moretti | Jan 16, 2015 | Watch This
It’s not a stretch to say that Action Bronson is one of the most consistently entertaining characters in rap. Without even getting into his raps, Bronson has his delightful cooking show “Fuck, That’s Delicious,” one of the most discernible...
by Justin Kloczko | Dec 15, 2014 | Watch This
Panda Bear’s music has always felt like daydreaming, or recapturing that awe struck feeling of childhood. Those deceptively simple repetitions and stoned tempos seem like they could go on forever, and are on full display here. While Animal Collective’s Centipede Hz,...
by Matt Moretti | Nov 12, 2014 | Watch This
Maryland-turned-LA rapper, Azizi Gibson, is on the rise, and it seems to be his fate. Leaving family and college behind in his home state, Gibson headed west with the hopes of making it big. By chance, he ran into mega-producer Flying Lotus at a gym while he was couch...
by Mac McGuire | Nov 10, 2014 | Watch This
The words “new music from Interpol” used to not send cringes down my spine. There was a time when this band was still good and that time is long up. Save for the throw-back opening track, El Pintor is another album that lacks the swagger Carlos D used to...