A Quick Word from the Author: This has been an incomparably fruitful January for new music, across the board but more specifically Indie. It seems as if the music gods are making up for the lackluster performance they exhibited in 2012, and frankly, I'm quite shocked. To put it in perspective: I've downloaded and saved into my go-to playlist more songs over the past 31 days than I did the entire first quarter of 2012. It's hard to stress how meaningful this is to the casual music fan, but for those of us who...
If you're thirsting for some fresh beats to kick off your summer, don't fret. Beat nexus Astro Nautico is here to help clear the stale names out of your library and discover some great new artists with over 40 free tracks on Atlantics, Vol. 2. Based in Brooklyn and run by Obey City, Kuhn, and Paul Jones (all three make an appearance on the compilation and have had releases on the label), Astro Nautico has been doing it big for three years now – Atlantics, Vol. 1 was released in 2009 with seven tracks, for...