Don't let the name fool you: Santa Barbara's FMLY BND hardly sound like any family band that you've heard before. Is it the synths? The genre-bending hooks? Trance-inducing gang vocals? It's probably a little bit of all of those things. FMLYBND's music, their photos and videos (their brand, if you will) all feel like the last decade of youthful musical/cultural exploration, fully realized. They don't just play music together. They live together, they cook together, they get tattoos together. The music, as one...
Singapore's Kevin Lester has just released his debut EP, Everything You Love, You Hate, following a stand-out year that included a performance with Nelly Furtado, The Spirit Indestructible showcase in Singapore, and a trip across the pacific for shows at SXSW and the A3C Hip-Hop Festival. LionCityBoy (as he's known in Singapore) has become the flag bearer for Singaporean hip-hop to the rest of the world, and with one listen to his first single "Hear Me Go", it's easy to see why. His confident rhyming style,...
To say that New York indie-synth-pop-rockers Little Daylight aren't resting on any laurels would be an understatement. Having just released their first single, "Overdose", to rave reviews (and the top spot on HypeMachine), one might expect the trio to take it easy for a bit. Instead, Little...
Having released their first single, "Overdose", to universal praise (and a top spot on the HypeMachine), our formally-favorite-remixers-turned-favorite-up-and-comers Little Daylight have begun to pass a metaphorical torch- the remix torch... I guess... "Overdose" is now making its way through...
The first time I spoke with the guys from The Neighbourhood, they put me on speaker phone in their car during the drive back to Newbury Park from some of the more "famous" parts of Los Angeles. It was a great night to be on the phone with the boys from the Neighbourhood—a night that was, for...
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New Zealand's dream-pop savant Junica, aka Nik Brinkman, has just released his latest video project for the track "You're My Sun". The track is a cut off of Junica's first full length album The Celebration, released late last year with LTPS Music. Brinkman has always taken special interest and...
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Itch has just chucked this lyric video for his latest single, "Diplomat", in the feisty fashion that we've come to expect from the UK-bred rapper since being introduced to his work a number of months ago. "Diplomat" is a cut off of the recently released The Manifesto pt. 2, and it's sound and...
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The Pro Letarians are a hip-hop duo out of Indiana who are worth getting to know. Their sound is an amalgamation of hip-hop; contemporary style and flow met with classic sample-heavy beats, all without a shred of sing-tone hooks or gimmicky mispronunciations. Jupiter Jim and J.O. have released...
