B SIDES: DISCOVERING NEW MUSIC – Santogold

This is the best music you aren’t listening to right now. How do I know you’re not listening to it? Because you’re still listening to the new New Kids on the Block comeback song. Turn it off now and turn on Santogold.

Take one part reggae, one part punk, one part dub, one part Gwen Stefani, [...]

B SIDES: DISCOVERING NEW MUSIC – Modeselektor

Remember the first time you heard German techno? Oh, you don’t? Well that’s probably because you were in a drug-induced trance. No worries because Modeselektor is around to remind you why, along with bratwurst and beer, German music is such an important part of Germany’s gift to our world. With their sophomore album Happy Birthday! [...]

B SIDES: DISCOVERING NEW MUSIC – PeelanderZ

If they are ever in your neighborhood, don’t be scared. Go see them play.
Peelanderz.
- Jeremy

B SIDES: DISCOVERING NEW MUSIC - Free Rainbows and Radiohead

Usually when something seems to good to be true that’s because it is. Like when someone tells you to just hold this $10,000 in your bank account for them and in a week wire half of it to Eastern Europe and the other half is yours. Yeah, that’s a scam. So, you’d think that a [...]

B SIDES: DISCOVERING NEW MUSIC – The Sound and the Fire - Concert Review

I’m a snob about music. I used to live in Seattle and would see shows from all different genres of bands on a nightly basis. Some of the best acts in the world performed clubs so small I could feel the sweat of the band. For the small band that makes it big, I can [...]