Goat : "It's Time For Fun" (via Sub Pop /YouTube) The Well : "Mortal Bones" (via RidingEasy Records /Us-Them Group/ Brooklyn Vegan /YouTube) D33J : "Slow (Low Limit Remix)" (via anticon /Soundcloud) Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

Nick Oliveri's Uncontrollable : "Human Cannonball Explodes" (via Howlin' Wuelf Media / Schnitzel Records /Soundcloud) Alma Construct : "On The Edge, Surrounded With The Shores of Assudrey" (Force Field PR/ R&S Records /Soundcloud) Literature : "New Jacket" (via Force Field PR/ A.V. Club /Soundcloud) Medicine : "Turning" (via Captured Tracks/YouTube) Oscillator Bug : "Giimmi Goe" (via Us-Them Group/ Tiny Mix Tapes /Soundcloud Bowl Ethereal : "The Last Minute" (via Earsplit PR/ Noisey /YouTube)   Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

Shabazz Palaces : "Forerunner Foray" (via Sub Pop/YouTube) Paul White : "Honey Cats" (via Force Field PR/Soundcloud) The Picturebooks : "Your Kisses Burn Like Fire" (via Speakeasy PR/ Noisey-Vice /YouTube) Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

Obliterations : "Kick Against the Pricks" (via Enabler PR/ FADER ) Vex Ruffin : "Living For the Future" (via Force Field PR/Stones Throw) Nightmares On Wax : "Be, I Do" (via Friends of Friends Music) Celestial Shore : "Hour Minute" (via Force Field PR/ Stereogum ) HSY : "Tarter Mouth" (via Force Field PR/ Noisey ) Odonis Odonis: "Are We Friends" (via Force Field PR/ Stereogum ) Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

dBridge : "Death of a Drum Machine" (via R&S Records /Force Field PR) Esmerine : "Barn Board Fire" (via The Quietus ) Gaytheist: "Stomach Pains" (via Good to Die Records/ Whitey McConnaughy ) Big French: "In the Morning of the World" (via Enabler PR) Sleepmakeswaves: "In Limbs and Joints" (via Us/Them Group) Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehaed

Exwife : "Rituals" (via Noisey ) Hooded Fang: "Ode to Subterrania" (via NME ) Free The Robots: "Transmission" (via FACT ) Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

"In the Dark" is a new single/video from LA producer William Bensussen , who is better known as The Gaslamp Killer .  The single is pretty sleek and ominous, string ensembles merged with John Carpenter -evocative tones.  The video certainly helps enhance the atmosphere of the track. All info courtesy of Life or Death PR & Management. Credit: Abby Wross THE GASLAMP KILLER SHARES THE NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR "IN THE DARK" VIA INTERVIEW MAGAZINE Watch: "In The Dark" - http://youtu.be/0TN1TLMHlvE Los Angeles' William Bensussen, aka The Gaslamp Killer, is proud to share the music video for Breakthrough highlight "In The Dark". The clip was directed by HYPERBALLAD ( Dano Cerny and Marielle Tepper ) in a forest outside Prague and in a medieval crypt built in the 12th century. Inspired by the mystic beauty of the song, the directing duo chose to shoot in Prague because of the city's ancient connection to the occult. The video also inc...

Cut Chemist 's new single, "Outro (Revisited)," was released on April 10th.  The track possesses a fascinating and theatrically dramatic immediacy, sort of like a high speed car chase, a feeling visually portrayed throughout the video as rapper, Blackbird , is seen running away from either Cut Chemist's decks or the drum set manned by The Mars Volta 's Deantoni Parks .  Very entertaining track. All info comes courtesy of Force Field PR. Cut Chemist premieres music video for "Outro (Revisited)" Feat. Blackbird at Complex VIDEO: "Outro (Revisited)" Feat. Blackbird - http://youtu.be/jT4ciAuKn34   "If Cut Chemist's new single, "Outro (Revisited)," has a frenetic, escapist feel to it, there's a good reason for that. The Los Angeles DJ/producer recorded the track following his release from jail. You can hear his sense of urgency in every portion of the track, from rapper Blackbird's high-energy f...

The new Factory Records compilation, Fac. Dance , is out and a couple more songs have been made available as pre-purchase appetizers.  I posted about Fac. Dance months ago, but you can find info on the release below along with some music via Force Field PR. Do some dancin.'  Away with you.    A Certain Radio- Wild Party (from Fac. Dance) by Strut Hear a track from A Certain Ratio from FAC. DANCE, a new Factory Records collection of 12" mixes & rarities from 1980 - 87 STREAM: A Certain Ratio - "Wild Party" - http://soundcloud.com/strut/a-certain-radio-wild-party STREAM: FAC. DANCE Bill Brewster Factory Records Mini Mix - http://soundcloud.com/strut/fac-dance-bill-brewster/ A Certain Ratio Strut presents FAC. DANCE , an essential new retrospective covering the dance output of Factory Records, the seminal Manchester record label founded by Tony Wilson , Alan Erasmus and designer Peter Saville . The album turns the spotlight on some...

Some Kind Of Awesome is hosting a new single from DJ Shadow ’s upcoming album, The Less You Know, The Better. Though I wouldn’t call “I Gotta Rokk” a complete return to form (i.e. Endtroducing... ), stylistically it’s reminiscent of Shadow’s The Private Press , though it has a sonic boost that seemed in absentia for most of that album. You can find the track here . According to the blurb, an EP will be releasing May 17th that features a longer version of “I Gotta Rokk,” other singles and some remixes. I found this via Stereogum . Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

900X Music For Lubbock, 1980 Law of the Least Effort Music for Measurements Casey Foubert/James McAlister Music for Drums Asthmatic Kitty Released: 7.7.09 Things may be improving a little bit, but we’re still in the midst of a recession. Earlier this year, once Touch & Go Records became a casualty of our economic decline , it was suddenly apparent that any sort of artistic or cultural bastion would be threatened and possibly forced to disappear or modify itself into a lucrative co-identity. The independent music industry is still surviving, but who knows for how long. Pessimistic view perhaps, but it’s difficult to accept the absence of underground or alternative outlets without preparing a little bit, even if it is by taking a mostly defeatist view on matters. Asthmatic Kitty Records is breaking into an interesting part of the music industry, becoming a pseudo-music stock house with their new series, Library Catalog Music . In what I imagine to be a mostly humoro...

When The Private Press came out in 2002, I enjoyed it, though I thought it nothing next to Endtroducing... If I remember correctly, the general consensus at the time was that DJ Shadow ’s previous opus had left him little room to maneuver or improve, earning The Private Press the pseudo-honor of being “likable.” It’s a familiar trap that many artists fall into, momentary creative elevation followed by a steady decline as expectations wind up unmet or unmatched. But, though mostly offering dance licks and overt “I’m a bad muhfuckin’ DJ” styled aggression, The Private Press did boast “Six Days,” a blue-based melancholia that mesmerizes and boosts the album’s worth. DJ Shadow - Six Days from lika2008 on Vimeo . Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

Damian Lazarus Smoke The Monster Out Get Physical Released: 5.26.09 Rating: 6.25 out of 10 I really don’t like dance music, at least not from a “listening” standpoint. Whereas I appreciate the need for a beat, the perpetual oontz oontz influencing body movement and coaxing hot liquid from the skin of the young and single club patrons lucky enough to be allowed past the velvet rope, it's a genre specific to the confines of whatever all-night domicile features DJ So-and-So’s handiwork. Yes, it’s a skill to keep a club rockin,’ but… without the club, the patrons and the alcohol, dance music doesn’t translate well in a “listening” sense. One thing you can say about Damian Lazarus, London DJ-turned-Los Angeles maestro, is that he’s evidently attempting to branch out. His album, Smoke The Monster Out , is what one could call a semi-industrial electro beat art statement, reveling in its allegiance to Brian Eno and firmly tied to a raver-friendly foundation. As a budding musician, La...