Swimwear - Cannonball

chris on December 17 2015

If you have an umbrella and a rain jacket - these items are moot if your shoes are made out of tissue paper. This is my realization 10 steps out of my door while i'm far too late to turn back and correct my error. I literally said fuck it out loud. I'll just be absolutely miserable for the remainder of the day. Also, another realization... It should not be 60 degrees in New York in December and these raindrops should definitely be snow flakes.

Idol Mind - Yeah

chris on December 16 2015

Good bands these days hit a meteoric rise. And poof... before you know it, your chance to see War on Drugs at mercury lounge with 100 people is gone like a fart in the wind. Go see music at small venues immediately.

Laurie Shaw - Where the Lights Don't Reach

chris on December 15 2015

Perfect... I mean FUCKING PERFECT mesh of a Coconut Records slash Mac Demarco "made in your bedroom" sound with early 90s Pavement slash Beck style alternative.

Elite Gymnastics - Andreja 4 Ever

chris on December 15 2015

Good work on your name Elite Gymnastics. I'm not sure if you're going to love it in 5 years, but right now it's spot on.

Portishead - Wandering Star

Alex on December 12 2015

Personally speaking - no other album in the history of music could possibly be so nostalgic as Portishead's Dummy. I spent HOURS upon HOURS smoking weed in high school listening to this album on repeat - just hearing those crisp drums brings me back to late nights at the Krispy Kreme donuts inhaling little pillowy morsels of heaven-- brb going to Krispy Kreme.

Sierra Manhattan - You Are Real

chris on December 09 2015

In my opinion, this could be in contingency for Album of the Year. Eleven straight songs of amazing. In reality, it's not going to even come close to making the list. It's all politics man... politics.

Axxa/Abraxas - I Almost Fell

chris on December 08 2015

You know when you have 29 things to do and you can't figure out what to do first and your mind is reeling and just repeating the list over and over and over and over and you do a little bit of one and a little bit of another and then you feel like your brain is about to explode. No.. Me neither.

Car Seat Headrest - psst, teenagers, take off your clo

Alex on December 07 2015

This year for Thanksgiving I was thankful for having water proof skin -- because boy if I didn't -- GET A MOP!

Guns - Ricochet

Alex on December 04 2015

If you want to ensure no one can ever find your band via Google name them Guns during a period of American history where gun violence and mass shootings are at an all time high. What could possibly go wrong? ...Some day we'll collectively realize as a species that were all in this together and if we don't work together on getting off this dying rock all of our traversing through triumph and struggle will be meaningless. Billions of years of evolution couldn't have intentionally lead us here, at what point do we become an advanced civilization?

Brigitte Bardot - La Madrague

Alex on December 01 2015

Sultry french vocals on this one - we like it. In other news: I am officially 10 pounds heavier than I was before Thanksgiving. I need to go on one of those Dr. Oz miracle diets where all you do is eat the rotten stems of mango trees grown on top Native American burial grounds at an elevation no higher than 200 feet above sea level. -- Or you know... eat fucking healthy and exercise - whichever.