Karl Blau Nature’s Got Away Rating: 8.3/10.0 Recommended Tracks: 2, 3, 6, 9, 13 RIYL: Sebadoh, Beck, Beach Boys, Velvet Underground, Nick Drake, Lambchop, Phosphorescent, Olivia Tremor Control. Yeah. Believe it. The only certainty I felt about Karl Blau’s latest release “Nature’s Got Away” at first listen was of its »
Deerhoof Offend Maggie Rating: 8.8/10.0 Recommended Tracks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11 RiYL: Experimental Dental School, Melt Banana I have to begin with telling you that I have not been so pleasantly surprised by a new album in a good while. I honestly had no idea »
TV on the Radio Dear Science Rating: 8.3/10.0 Recommended Tracks: 1, 2, 8, 10 RiYL: Gang of Four, CYHSY, Bright Eyes, m83, the National Recurrent visions layered with psychically-charged free-verse, intricately overlain on an electrifying palette of prismatic guitar static – how many ways can you say, TV On the »
I recently found myself in a very strange situation. I was sitting on a couch in a fifth floor room of the nicest hotel I have ever been in, with a fellow DJ, Agata S., and in walks Michael Cera and Kat Dennings. Cera seems to be exactly like the »
Little Teeth Child Bearing Man Rating: 7.1/10.0 Recommended Tracks: 1, 2, 5, 8 RiYL: Spastic and screechy, sometimes whiny vocals Straight from San Francisco Little Teeth bursts onto the scene with their debut album Child Bearing Man. With their inventive sound (pulled off with only three band members mind you) »
Koushik Out My Window Rating: 7.8/10.0 Recommeded Tracks: 2, 3, 7, 9 RiYL: Caribou, Panda Bear, French Kicks, Madlib, Four Tet 2005′s awesome “Be With” marked Koushik on our map. Coming from Stones Throw records, it was no surprise to notice that Koushik was jazzy, layered, delightfully free-form at their »
We were honored to have the few good (young) men of Cub Scout Pack 727 grace the ranks of Radio UTD recently for a quick tour and demonstration. They came in on a Saturday morning and helped us play and announce some amazing music by Jens Lekman, Broken Social Scene, »
These United States Crimes Rating: 7.3/10.0 Recommended Tracks: RiYL: The Dodos, Le Loup, Bowerbirds I think many people expect album reviews to begin with a tone of decisiveness. I either like it or I do not, and that should be portrayed to the reader early on. Having never listened to »
