Rhye -Totally F*ckable: Rhye new LP Music Review
Rhye's debut album, Woman, is out now, and we all love it. Seriously. You'll be extremely hard-pressed to find a negative word written about it. And while I'm not about to be the exception to that rule, I've basically been obsessed with this band 
Atoms For Peace -Atoms For Peace - Amok
The highly anticipated / criticized Atoms For Peace's AMOK drops in the UK on 2/26, and it already has to climb the uphill battle and derail the train of modern-music-mediocrity. Not because they're nobodies, but rather because they're all pretty major somebodies.
I was bitte...
Kids Without Instruments -Kids Without Instruments - Teenage Indielectronica
Kids Without Instruments are none other than Marion and Frankie...2 teenagers from Long Beach making their own soup of indielectronica music. And holla back on this music review yo because they have their
The M Machine -The M Machine - Delivers EDM Goods - Again.
Last month we revealed the only thing that can make Bruno Mars' music tolerable, which is of course San Francisco's The M Machine. Today we're bringing you a teaser of the el...
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down -Review: Thao & the Get Down Stay Down "We the Common"
After the spending the bulk of her 20's on the road, either by herself or with the Get Down Stay Down, Thao Nguyen decide to plant some roots in San Francisco. After settling down and throwing herself into community activism, Thao finally got around to making We the Common
Local Natives -Local Natives - Hummingbird | Music Review
A hummingbird is an exceptionally small bird that has the ability to flap its wings 12-80 times per second (depending on the species). On the flip side of all that work, a hummingbird also has the ability to go into a hibernation-like state (torpor) in order to rest, or survive if its food sources are scarce. Hummingbirds mai...
Twenty | One | Pilots -Review: twenty | one | pilots - Vessel
This is how to kick off 2k13. We’ve been part of the hype around twenty | one | pilots ever since we first heard of them, and this music review post is no exception. BitCandy also called dibs on them before MTV as our
School Of Seven Bells -School of Seven Bells Put Your Sad Down
I stared blankly at my computer screen for close to an hour trying to come up with a clever headline for this review, but in the end I decided Put Your Sad Down was such a tremendous name for an EP that I shouldn't sully with my own (likely unfunny) words.
I would argue that the title alone p...
Best New Indie
Best of Indie - Week 25, 2013
Congratulations to Kanye West and Kim Kardashian on the birth of their publicity stunt, sorry, their baby girl. Grab your headphones, close your eyes, gently rock back and forth, and pretend that none
Best Indie Songs (10 Favs) - Week 24
Kicking off this week's Best of Indie, with a “shout out!” to the bros over at PRISM. I am going to assume that they are reading this, you know, considering that they have been surveilling
Best New Videos
Best Indie Videos - Week 24, 2013
Electric skeletor kids of the beach, a phantasmal starfish journey, the F. Scott Fitzgerald of hip-hop, a woman so prepared to destroy herself she should have her own Guantanamo Bay hold-out and more,
Best Videos: The National Tiny Desk Concert
We've been all about The National around these parts as of late. So for anyone who's been paying attention, it should come as no surprise that we think the Tiny Desk Concert they did for NPR is a best
Best Pop Alternative
Best Alternative Pop Music | Week 23
Welcome to Wednesday's PopSmut, which caps a list full of shameless indie pop tunes from around the web and curator submissions, mouth watering mashups, artists we’d like to booty grind wit
Best Indie Pop / Alternative Pop (Week 23)
After the Miley Cyrus and Snoop Lion/Dogg collaboration for ‘Ashtrays and Heartbreaks,’ people around the world screamed, “We want more Miley Cyrus!” (For the record: nobody ev
