As usual, there’s plenty of cowbell. Via Soundcloud.
Ghostfunk: Ghostface vs Afrofunk
Released in July 2011, Ghostfunk pairs one of my favorite hip-hop artists, Wu-Tang member Ghostface Killah, with vintage African funk, high-life, and psychedelic rock music. Artwork by Joe Dichiara. Grab it here. [Thanks GD]
New Sun Araw MP3
From Sun Araw’s website: ANCIENT ROMANS is the fifth full-length album from SUN ARAW Primal Splendour, who sends out innumerable rays, not perceptible by the senses, but collectively thinkable Heartfelt and marbled, this album is documentation of the slow exit (the triumphal entry): moving the camera back 8 stages along the circumference of the circle […]
New Washed Out: "Eyes Be Closed"
From Sub Pop Washed Out is the operational alias for Atlanta, GA’s Ernest Greene, and on July 12th, we at Sub Pop Records will be releasing the first Washed Out full-length, Within and Without. We are excited about this, to an almost unseemly degree. Greene recorded Within and Without with Ben Allen, who, among a […]
New Ganglians Single: "Jungle"
We’ve been loving the first single from Ganglians’ new record Still Living, out on Lefse August 23rd. Pre-orders now available. Sacramento’s Ganglians return after a relatively quiet two years since their dual album dropping in 2009. The aptly titled Still Living hits the streets August 23rd stateside via Lefse, and August 29th throughout Europe via […]
Dirty Gold – "California Sunrise"
It’s almost not warm enough to post this — this is clearly summer music and it’s barely early spring — but what the hell. Grab the single “California Sunrise” from San Diego three-piece Dirty Gold below. The EP, which reminds us of a more sunny Beach House, just dropped on Autumn Records April 12. [via] […]
New Fleet Foxes Track: "Helplessness Blues"
I can’t believe it’s been three years since we last heard from them, but Fleet Foxes finally have a new record Helplessness Blues, scheduled to drop May 3rd. Sub Pop has been kind enough to release the record’s first single “Helplessness Blues.” The track is exactly what you expect from the band — sun-drenched folk […]
Vintage Jesus Freaks Psychedelia
Aquarium Drunkard just posted an interesting compilation of Christian psychedelia from the sixties and seventies: This is so good. A couple of weeks back the guys at Crescere shot me an email hipping me to their latest creation; a two part compilation of super-obscure, often private press, outsider psychedelic guitar and folk music from the […]
The L.A. Burnout Compilation
We posted about this a while ago, but since I’ve been revisiting this great compilation, here it is again. It’s the perfect soundtrack to a mellow weekend. From Aquarium Drunkard. The L.A. Burnout comp was mailed to me in November from a longtime reader based in NYC, which coincidental arrived at the same time I […]
Omri S. Quire's Second Annual Halloween FREE Mix Tape
Get yourself into the Halloween spirit with Omri S. Quire‘s second annual FREE Halloween mix tape! Click HERE to peep the track list and download the mix with over an hour worth of tunes that will take you on aural journey through the darkest hours of the day!