The great thing about Japanese hip hop producers is that they produce instrumentals like it's still 1995. BudaMunk keeps it jazzy like Pete Rock and bass-heavy with a...

Show Your Shoe is a brand new name (and a fine moniker it is) in 80s cheesy disco funk, and through his debut EP Technik City, the producer is already giving veteran...

Band names make fun of people often these days. Joy Orbison, Flosstradamus, Taprikk Sweezee, Klaus & Kinski... Digi G'Alessio is a producer from Florence whose name...

Mexico City garage punks Le Butcherettes have debuted with Sin Sin Sin, a slab of seductive and surreal rock that more than stands up to the mayhem of their live...

Ango's EP is coming out in time for summer. As soon as it's warm, overly mirthful music stops being annoying and becomes the soundtrack to shorts-wearing, cold beer...

Dead Set Gemini marks 50 years since the first human left earth with a track about the horrors of outer space. Call it a psych-out, call it planetary agoraphobia, Dead...

A lot of bands are putting together albums for the cause in Japan, but rock juggernauts X Japan are making the ultimate sacrifice -- Yoshiki's "crystal" piano. Glam...

Bamako, Mali's hip hop/acoustic trio SMOD are criminally slept on in the West, as is their self-titled third album. Nacional Records just announced plans to try to give...

There's a cool late '60s, early '70s vibe in the simple live video for "Perfection" from Danish electropop darling Oh Land. It looks like some avant garde variety show...

Who Knew is another name in the litany of Icelandic exports. But the six-piece is a far cry from the icy, tinkering pop of Ólöf Arnalds and Sin Fang. By contrast, Who...

A week ago, a number of DJs converged in Berlin for the first in a series of beatmaker competitions held by Finest Ego. The bulk of the performers were Germans,...

Young Icelandic band Retro Stefson may have stumbled across a magic formula for awesome indie pop. The seven-member outfit that met in middle school blend the...

Did someone say revolutionary socialism? No. No one said that, what the hell are you talking about? Ohhh, you must be confused because we're talking about Karlmarx. No...

Sweden's Shout Out Louds fell off the recording map after last year's indie rock gem Work -- or so we thought. Turns out, the enigmatic group Serenades is fronted by...

South African electro-futurist Spoek Mathambo has teamed up with Berlin-based DJ/producer Wool for Kult Leader, an EP of dangerous beats out now on Discobelle...

The Kills's fourth album Blood Pressures will be a treat for long-time fans and the previously unconverted as well. The rock duo's first album since 2008 finds them...

New York's MuthaWit is a multicultural/multitalented musical collective that has been led by composer Boston Fielder since 1989. The group's sound runs from jazz...

Italy's Tying Tiffany has been strafing clubs with her vicious take on dark electro for a few years. He third album, Peoples Temple, is out now. The artist doesn't go in...

Los Angeles-based band Twenty7 is led by Turkey-born Okan Serli and they call their sound "raki 'n' roll." (Raki is the anise-flavored unofficially official alcoholic...

There's just something about a man in a mask. And there's definitely something about one particular man in a filthy, bedraggled bunny mask and not much else besides some...