Impose

As seems to be the going standard for these collections of emerging musicians from Australia, there is not central signpost orienting the 16 tracks on this collection. The good people behind these not-for-profit endeavors actually went out of there way to talk through their mantra this time.

The Jelly Pool Parties have been a summer institution in Brooklyn for the past four years. If its going to continue it needs your help.

By Jason Diamond » Lights 2008 self-titled debut on Language of Stone flew far under the radar, but was one of the best albums of the year. At some points it sounded like makeout jams from ...

“Liturgy, a young band from New York, opened on Friday and Sunday nights, playing notional black metal. (Saturday’s show, also at Union Pool, was headlined by Skeletonwitch, which combines black metal with the punkier thrash.) But in all its rush and speed there’s an unlikely serenity. ...

By Jeremy Krinsley » Even before she was a former member of Pocahaunted, Bethany Cosentino was immersed in Los Angeles' music world, albeit as a potential starlet in the glossy major-pop-industrial complex. ...

By Jeremy Krinsley » Here's a track leaked out from Beach House's January-slotted third full length, Teen Dream on Sub Pop.

I see a pattern developing. I feel more myself and more alone. And yet I feel her here with me, twisting around me when she is thousands of miles away. It should be a celebration for us that we both do what we always wanted. ...

Drawings by Karen Aragon » James Ferraro played a show last week with Eric Copeland, Infinity Window, Luke Perry, and a drunk Euro tourist. True story.

By Nick Graham » Seeing as how every single rapper in the south is going to jail at the same time except for Young Jeezy, I figure we better start getting used to Jeezy-focused mixtapes like this one. ...

By Blake Gillespie » This Friday Night we have two exclusive remixes of VHS or Beta's "Feel It When You Know" single by L.A. Riots and Jesse Jamz.

By Jeremy Krinsley » The ever-consistent Pukekos serves up a fantastic chunk of testimonials about early Parts and Labor history, and with that a partially blacked-out vision of Brooklyn circa six years ago.

Beru is the avant folk project of one Jessica Collins who, at least theoretically, can be described in a class with Liz Harris' Grouper and Mehdi Ameziane's Twinsistermoonprojects.

Not that you throw them away, but that you approach them differently than you do an Album, that clunker of the Boomer generation. They are fast, fresh, vital, because they have no pretense of being classic or monumental. Albums are statements, one-way, inflexible.