Riot Games is the group behind the online multiplayer battle arena game League of Legends, which has more than 2 million players. Filled with colorful, playable characters that have their own unique personalities within this universe, there are five characters that have formed the virtual band Pentakill. Riot decided to release actual music from these characters…
Interpol was a band I always stated was a staple of the "My First Indie Rock" song collection. It was the gateway to the more obscure and weird and experimental artists all along the blogosphere. However, the band hasn't been as synonymous with that as it used to be. Artists like Arctic Monkeys, Lana Del Rey, Twenty-One Pilots,…
I was on Tumblr the other day when I saw this post called the "Anatomy of Music". It listed different genres and it gave the general (and very funny) structures of the songs that are associated with them. Indie music was comprised of banjo, twentysomething problems, faster banjo and it made me think of the…
In Do the Shuffle, one of our team members put their iPod on shuffle and list the first 10 songs that play. It's great for us because it helps us remember some of the stuff that gets lost on our playlists and it's great for you because you can discover some of the awesome music…
When I talked about while (1<2)'s first disc (see the review here) as being this perfectly paced venture into a non-traditional deadmau5 album, I meant it. Everything about the first disc brought new light into the way that house albums could be played, and if it was just kept at the first disc it would've been more…
Honeyblood's debut reminds me of Veronica Falls' Waiting for Something to Happen, some Icona Pop, Widowspeak, and a splash of The Breeders and Yuck. It's a mish-mash of sounds and ideas while still maintaining a really cool sound that should be praised but falls under the umbrella of most household names in indie pop. The sound is praise-worthy and the production…
Many think of Heavy Metal or any of the subgenres like Progressive Metal, Technical Death Metal, Sludge Metal, Serbian Turbo-Folk Metal and the like as an acquired taste. Some are right to think that way, but it gives us the chance to laud some of the albums that let us enter into another world of…
out of 10 If you want to talk about musical progression by album, I don't think there's a better example than Southend-on-Sea's The Horrors. Since their debut, these guys have been changing up their style, experimenting with new ideas, expanding their instrumentation prowess, and overall having no comfort zone. They've gone…
out of 10 NOTE: Tackling this album as a whole would be insane. The entire album with both discs is over 4 hours long, so I decided to put them up as their own individual discs and compare them later. But, the show must go on, and this is what I…
In Do the Shuffle, one of our team members puts their iPod on shuffle and makes a playlist out of the first ten songs that play. It’s a great way to find new music or rediscover the old stuff. Enjoy! 1. The Heavy - "Long Way From Home" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoB5ahJvjTk 2. Girls - "Lust for Life"…
