Monday, 29 December 2014

Rick Ross - Hood Billionaire

Critic Score: 54 based on 5 reviews // User Score: 55 based on 4 reviewsSource

Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Music Industry 3. Fitness Industry 1. [EP] by Mogwai

The six-track EP from the Scottish post-rock band includes three songs from Rave Tapes remixed by Blanck Mass, Nils Frahm and Pye Corner as well as three new songs.

Label: Rock Action


Release Date: Jan 27, 2015 Read more


Joey Bada$$ Shares B4.DA.$$ Track, "Curry Chicken"

Sunday, 21 December 2014

Prince Charles discovers 10 ways to antagonise architects with list of 'geometric principles'

The Prince of Wales has been dismissed as a cranky elitist who believes that architecture should reinforce hierarchical society, after he outlined his 10 “geometric principles” for urban design.


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Thursday, 18 December 2014

Emilie Nicolas – “Grown Up”


Emilie suddenly regretted her choice of outfit under the hot stage lighting



Came across this undeniable gem while perusing Hype Machine’s “Best of 2014” collection and it instantly took my breathe away. Seldom can artists do so much with so little, and even at its boldest moments, “Grown Up” brings you through them effortlessly. There is only one other track on Emile Nicolas’ Soundcloud account and one can only hope this is the start of something big. Norwegians are pretty great at creating these dreamy atmospheres but she stands tall among the crowd.




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Band of Horses and Grandaddy's Jason Lytle Team for New Album, Christmas Song "Hang an Ornament"

Jack White Long Lost Single Surfaces After Being Hidden Inside Furniture for a Decade

Kathleen Hanna's the Julie Ruin Share Unreleased Track "Blueberry Island"

Tuesday, 16 December 2014

D'Angelo Rushed to Release Black Messiah Following Police Protests

Tame Impala Offshoot Pond Share Trippy Animated Video for New Track "Sitting Up on Our Crane"

Black Messiah by D'Angelo

The first release in 14 years for the R&B singer features songs co-written with Q-Tip and Kendra Foster as well as co-production from James Gadson, Pino Palladino,and Questlove

Label: RCA


Release Date: Dec 15, 2014 Read more


Hitler’s holiday paradise is reinvented as condos, hotels and a spa

Built by the Third Reich in the run-up to World War II, the Strength Through Joy resort was a Nazi vision of tourism’s future. Happy, healthy Aryans would stay and play at the 10,000-room complex on the Baltic Sea, eating, swimming and even bowling for the Führer. Think Hitler’s Cancun.


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Nicki Minaj - The Pinkprint

Critic Score: 70 based on 7 reviews // User Score: 54 based on 7 reviewsSource

Monday, 15 December 2014

Modest Mouse Share Strangers to Ourselves Artwork, Pre-Order Info

III by Take That

The seventh studio release for the pop band sees the pop band return as a trio with Robbie Williams and Jason Orange leaving the group in 2014.

Label: Polydor


Release Date: Dec 15, 2014 Read more


James Murphy Announces Remixes Made With Tennis Data Album, Previews "Match 176"

Garden Bridge: St Paul’s adds to £175m project’s troubled waters


When the designer of London 2012’s Olympic Cauldron laid out plans for a unique pedestrian bridge across the Thames, thickly adorned with trees and plants, he might have thought it would be a walk in the park.


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Berkeley to Bakersfield by Cracker

The 10th full-length studio release for the alternative rock band is a two disc set with the more rock-oriented Berkeley half recorded by the original line-up, while the second disc is the more country-influenced tracks with Johnny Hickman on lead vocals.

Label: 429 Records


Release Date: Dec 09, 2014 Read more


The Pinkprint by Nicki Minaj

The third full-length studio release for the rapper features guest appearances from Beyonce, Chris Brown, Drake, Ariana Grande, Skylar Grey, Jeremih, Lil Wayne, Lunchmoney Lewis, and Meek Mill.

Label: Cash Money


Release Date: Dec 15, 2014 Read more


King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - I'm In Your Mind Fuzz

Critic Score: 72 based on 5 reviews // User Score: 80 based on 4 reviewsSource

Mike WiLL Made-It Releases Ransom Mixtape Featuring Kendrick Lamar, Future, Lil Wayne, More

Modest Mouse Share "Lampshades on Fire"

Charli XCX - Sucker

Critic Score: 76 based on 5 reviews // User Score: 72 based on 10 reviewsSource

Erase Errata Return With New Album Lost Weekend, Share "My Life in Shadows"

Stream Jonny Greenwood's Inherent Vice Soundtrack

Trash Kit - Confidence

Critic Score: 71 based on 5 reviewsSource

iLoveMakonnen, Mike WiLL Made It Team for "Swerve"

Thursday, 11 December 2014

The Unicorns' Alden Penner Announces JUNE 04 EP

Juliana Hatfield Three Reunite, Announce Sophomore Album Whatever, My Love

iLoveMakonnen Re-releases Self-Titled EP

Current Affairs: The stylish electricity pylons sending shockwaves through the National Grid


Every Christmas, Norway gives us a spruce tree to decorate Trafalgar Square. But this year the Danes are giving us something for Christmas too: new electricity pylons. Work has just begun to install half a dozen new ‘T-pylons’ at Eakring, near Southwell, Nottinghamshire. This is where the National Grid trains engineers to work on the pylons and power lines that criss-cross the country.


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J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive

Critic Score: 73 based on 5 reviews // User Score: 84 based on 10 reviewsSource

Bedhead - 1992-1998

Critic Score: 87 based on 5 reviewsSource

Dan Deacon Announces Gliss Riffer, Shares Wonderfully Bizarre "Feel the Lightning" Video

Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Ben Frost - V A R I A N T

Critic Score: 76 based on 5 reviewsSource

Sucker by Charli XCX

The third full-length release (her first was not commercially released) for the British pop artist features songs written and/or produced by such artists as Ariel Pink, Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij, Patrik Berger, Bloodshy & Avant, Cashmere Cat, Weezer's Rivers Cuomo, Markus Krunegard, Greg Kurstin, Justin Raisen, Stargate, and Steve Mac.

Label: Atlantic


Release Date: Dec 16, 2014 Read more


Matthew E. White Announces Fresh Blood LP

Kendrick Lamar Pays Homage to Compton in Reebok Ad "I Am", Designing Shoe for Reebock

Jonny Greenwood Shares Inherent Vice Track "Spooks" Written by Radiohead and Featuring Joanna Newsom, Supergrass Members

Kendrick Lamar Pays Homage to Compton in Reebok Ad "I Am"

Leonard Cohen - Live in Dublin

Critic Score: 83 based on 5 reviewsSource

Russian Orthodox Church condemns Moscow's 'Eye of Sauron' art installation celebrating The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies


Plans for a skyscraper art installation inspired by JRR Tolkien’s ‘Eye of Sauron’ to open in Moscow tomorrow night have angered the Russian Orthodox Church.


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Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Ghostface Killah - 36 Seasons

Critic Score: 70 based on 5 reviewsSource

Best of by The Czars

This is a best-of collection of songs from singer-songwriter John Grant's former alternative rock band, The Czars.

Label: Bella Union


Release Date: Dec 09, 2014 Read more


Music and Words by Malcolm Middleton

British visual artist David Shrigley's words were turned into music by Arab Strap co-founder Malcolm Middleton in this collaboration that also features Bridget McCann, Gavin Mitchell, and Scott Vermeire.

Label: Melodic


Release Date: Dec 15, 2014 Read more


Joanna Newsom Narrates New Inherent Vice Trailer

2014 Forest Hills Drive by J. Cole

The third studio release for the rapper was named after the address of his childhood home in North Carolina and was self produced with !llmind, Cardiak, CritCal, Omen, Phonix Beats, Vinylz, and Willie B.

Label: Roc Nation


Release Date: Dec 09, 2014 Read more


The Free Design Featured in Clip From New Documentary Jingle Bell Rocks!

Arcade Fire's Will Butler Announces Tour

Of Montreal Announce New Album Aureate Gloom, Share "Bassem Sabry"

Belle and Sebastian Share "Nobody's Empire" Video

Sleater-Kinney Expand Tour

Tobias Jesso Jr. Announces Debut Album Goon, Tour

Bob Dylan Announces Frank Sinatra Covers Album Shadows in the Night