Kendrick Lamar s highly anticipated 2015 album, To Pimp a Butterfly: honest, fearful and unapologetic . The album is the follow-up to the rapper s critically-acclaimed 2012 Effort Good Kid, M.A.A.D City. The album was recorded in studios throughout the United States, with executive production from Dr. Dre and Anthony Top Dawg Tiffith. Boi-1da, Flying…
2016 release from the R&B sensation. Having treated fans with new music during various TV performances over the past year, Top Dawg Entertainment alongside Aftermath Ent Interscope Records release untitled unmastered. By Kendrick Lamar. An eight song project which features studio versions of the untitled songs Kendrick performed on The Colbert Report, The Tonight Show…
Largely recognized as their breakthrough album, Khanate was confident enough by the two-song, forty-minute Capture & Release (2005) to peel back its layers of thick mossy drone and reveal the minimalist underpinnings, a change either interpreted as maturity or an implied threat. It s a grim, avant-garde exercise in tension and paranoia. Dense, leaden drones…
Clean Hands Go Foul (2009) generously offers more of everything: voluminous drones, clashing dissonance, mysterious subharmonic swells, escalating terror, and environments drenched in heavy anticipatory dread. The final hour of the band s first decade sees Khanate, as always, making music that, even in the realm of extreme music, is dark and distorted (Pitchfork). Clean…
Khruangbin s fourth studio album, A La Sala ( To the Room in Spanish), is an exercise in returning in order to go further, and doing so on your own terms. It continues the mystery and sanctity that is the key to how bassist Laura Lee Ochoa, drummer Donald DJ Johnson, Jr. And guitarist Mark…
Kid Cudi returns with his new album, MAN ON THE MOON 2: THE LEGEND OF MR. RAGER. The album features the single Erase Me (Featuring Kanye West) . Kid Cudi s devoted fan base continues to grow on and offline as he has played over 100 live shows in the last year and a half,…
Highly anticipated 2009 release from the Brooklyn-based Hip Hopster. Kid Cudi released his first mix-tape, a Kid Named Cudi, in July, 2008 as a free download sponsored by New York streetwear company 10 Deep, leading to an introduction and signing to Kanye West s G.O.O.D. Music imprint, and in turn, to Cudi s co-writing of…
The Killers have sold over 20 million albums worldwide, headlined festvals across the globe, performed at the White House and have won multiple awards. In celebration of their four studio albums and their first decade together, the Killers will release DIRECT HITS. DIRECT HITS is a collection of singles from their four albums, plus two…
Hot Fuss is the debut studio album by Las Vegas-based rockers The Killers. The album was released in June 2014. Hot Fuss is mostly influenced by new wave music and post-punk. The album produced several commercially and critically successful singles: Mr. Brightside , Somebody Told Me , All These Things That I ve Done and…
2018 reissue. 12 Bar Bruise is the debut studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. It was released on 7 September 2012 on Flightless. The album was self-recorded by the band, and several tracks used unconventional recording methods. One of these is featured on the album s title track…
2020 release. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard present Chunky Shrapnel, a new music documentary film and accompanying live album. The album features 13 live performances hand-picked from the band s 2019 tour; includes new musical scores written by Stu Mackenzie that add a magical touch of an alien melancholy throughout the record. Chunky Shrapnel…
2018 reissue. Eyes Like the Sky is the second studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. It was released on 22 February 2013 on Flightless. Described as a cult western audio book , the album is narrated and written by Broderick Smith – who tells a story of outlaws,…
2019 release. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard return with Fishing for Fishies, their first new music since 2017, and perhaps their most perfectly realized album to date. Fishing for Fishing is a blues-infused blast of sonic boogie that struts and shimmies through several different moods and terrains where organic meets automated, rustic meets robotic,…
2018 reissue. Float Along – Fill Your Lungs is the third studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. It was released on 27 September 2013 on Flightless. It peaked at #6 on the ARIA Hitseekers Albums Chart. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard formed in 2010 in Melbourne, Victoria….
2017 release. Flying Microtonal Banana is King Gizzard s first-ever experience in microtonal tuning, which features intervals smaller than a semitone and not found in customary Western tuning octaves. Earlier this year we started experimenting with a custom microtonal guitar our friend Zak made for (lead singer and guitar player) Stu Mackenzie, drummer Eric Moore…