Charismatic Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt has released a video for new track ‘WHOA’ – the follow-up to the introspective ‘Chum’. The video, directed by Tyler, The Creator (who also appears on the track), is a typically surreal affair which sees Earl living in a trailer park with a ballerina. The track itself follows the […]
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Watch: Earl Sweatshirt debuts three new songs at live show in LA
The above fan footage video shows Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt perform three new songs during a surprise guest spot at a Flying Lotus gig in LA last night. The three new songs are called ‘Hive’, ‘Burgundy’ (produced by Pharrell Williams) and ‘Guild’ – and all three of them are expected to join previous release […]
Listen: January 2014 Playlist – All the Best Music from January 2014 in one handy playlist
Although January tends to be a bit of a depressing month – Christmas is gone, no-one has any money, the weather is dreary etc. etc… – it does have one thing going for it: new music.
January is typically the month where everyone starts the ‘big in 2014’ scramble – so there’s always a lot of cool new music floating around to get into on those dark nights.
I’ve put together the below playlist featuring the best of what’s come out in January, which includes new stuff from BANKS (who is definitely going to be big in 2014), Bombay Bicycle Club (already pretty big I think!), Yuck, Metronomy, James Blake, Blood Red Shoes, Elephant, Blood Cultures and loads more. There’s also a couple of tasty remixes in there as well. Read more about Listen: January 2014 Playlist – All the Best Music from January 2014 in one handy playlist …
Stream: May playlist – all the best new music from May 2014
It’s been another busy month in the world of awesome new music, and we’ve done our best to collate the creme de la creme of all that was amazing in May 2014 into the below playlist. In it you will find a fair amount of La Roux, who burst back onto the scene this month […]
Earl Sweatshirt announces UK tour dates – buy tickets here
Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt had a storming 2013, making many an ‘album of the year’ poll with his debut album proper Doris. The precocious talent has now announced a huge world tour, which he is calling his ‘Wearld Tour’, which includes three dates here in the UK in March 2014. Earl Sweatshirt will play: […]
The 13 best debut albums of 2013
There’s lots of talk about the lack of great new bands on the scene these days, but when you look at the amount of quality debut albums released in 2013 it seems that new music is in great shape. So let’s stop being defeatist and revel in some of the great first albums released this […]
Album review: Earl Sweatshirt – ‘Doris’
Earl Sweatshirt – Doris {rating} Buy: Doris It says something of the high regard Earl Sweatshirt is held in that, in a year that has seen big new albums from Kanye and Jay Z, his debut album proper Doris is still seen as one of the most highly anticipated hip-hop LPs 2013. His association with […]
Listen: Flying Lotus, DOOM, Earl Sweatshirt and Thundercat join forces for new Adult Swim release ‘Between Villains’
Forget Kendrick Lamar and his scene-shaking verse, the real hip-hop news this week is the release of Flying Lotus AKA Captain Murphy’s new single in the Adult Swim Singles Series – which not only features fellow cool producer-type Thundercat but DOOM (in his Viktor Vaughn guise) and Earl Sweatshirt. The single is called ‘Between Villains’, […]
Album stream: Earl Sweatshirt – ‘Doris’
Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt has just made his debut album proper Doris available to stream online ahead of its release next week. The album is his first collection of new material since the breakthrough free album/mixtape Earl in 2010. Following that, he was sent to rehab in Samoa by his mum – so Doris […]
Albums out in August
A new month brings a host of new albums to start getting excited about, and August is no different. Below is a list of all the best new albums due to be released this month, feel free to include the August albums your most excited about in the comments at the bottom. 5 August The […]