Daytrotter just posted today their session with Philly singer-songwriter Kwesi K. You can listen to and dowload the recording HERE (w/membership). (Illustration by Johnnie Cluney)

Check out the new remix from Vacationer of Caveman’s "In the City," which premiered today via The Fader! You can also download it for free. Vacationer will be performing at the NYC group’s first annual Cavemas Celebration being held at one of our favorite venues, Bowery Ballroom, tomorrow night. You can catch a live performance by the full band next in Philly on December 12 at Underground Arts opening for !!!.

The Hundred Acre Woods just premiered a new track earlier today called "City Lights" over at AbsolutePunk.net. It’s the lead single off their upcoming EP Cold In The Morning, which will be released on January 14 via Lame-O Records. You can pre-order the record HERE.

This evening, Union Transfer will be playing host to a fundraiser event for the Rail Park, a project to build public green space along the rail tracks of the abandoned Reading Viaduct. There will be a sold-out cocktail reception and fashion show before the music performances, which will feature short sets and rare collaborations from talented artists. You’ll be treated to Sharon Van Etten performing with Mary Lattimore and Jeff Zeigler, Birdie Busch backed by Pattern is Movement‘s Chris Ward, Spank Rock, Light Heat, Sun Ra Arkestra and The Walkmen, who have announced that this could be their final show (or at least for a very long time). All proceeds from the night will go to Friends of the Rail Park. Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 8pm, $30, All Ages – Q.D. Tran 

We’ve been looking forward to this announcement ever since learning from Adam Granduciel last winter that he had booked time at Mitch Easter’s studio in North Carolina to work on new material with Uniform Recording’s Jeff Zeigler. The War on Drugs just announced today a release date for their third full-length album entitled Lost In The Dream, which will be March 18, 2014 via Secretly Canadian. You can take a listen to its lead single, "Red Eyes," below. The band will be kicking off their North American on March 18 at Union Transfer.

Univox‘s Josh Jones recorded a cover of Mary Chapin Carpenter’s "Passionate Kisses," except he changed almost all the lyrics and added some by Journey. Oh yeah…now it’s a homoerotic tale about a criminal who falls in love with the cop who puts him in jail. Enjoy!

It feels like a minute since we’ve heard new recordings from emcee/producer Has-Lo. Well, we are happy to share his latest stoner-friendly head bobber "Exhale." Has-Lo’s bars feel effortless and razor-sharp. The instrumentals are simply hypnotic, and were produced by Culture I.

Though Red Martina didn’t win our most recent Featured Artist(s) Poll, we are happy to give props to the hip-hop group, which is made up of Noesis (Philadelphia Slick), Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind (Jedi Mind Tricks), Ish Quintero (Quintero) and Hayley Cass, for waging such a hard-fought battle. Please check out their latest single, "Outside," which you can also find on their debut LP Intransit (Badtape Music), and music video below. Enjoy!

We have a hypothesis that Bucks County peeps love Ween – particularly Doylestown folks; however, we are basing that on a bunch of our Doylestown friends. Well, helping to further move our hypothesis to a theory are Brian Dale Allen Strouse and Vanessa Winters of The Lawsuits (who once called Doylestown home before making their adoption of Philly official via the band’s Facebook and Twitter pages), and they’re recent performance of Ween’s "She’s Your Baby," off the LP White Pepper. The rendition was captured by Root Down in the Shadows for their Covers Club series, and this session was recorded at Break Neck Studios in Newtown, PA. The Lawsuits will be performing this Friday, December 6 at Kung Fu Necktie for the Levee Driver’s EP release show.

The THANGS’ Wedodo (Data Graden) is what would happen if Beck had never stopped getting weirder. It’s the logical conclusion of every experimental trip of a band out there: an album that is completely unpredictable, where every instrument, tone and aesthetic is in a state of flux. This isn’t just a weird album but one at the frontier of peculiarity, pushing every single trope of experimentalism to its breaking point.

While most exploratory pieces pick one or two quirks, The THANGS have instead opted to grab as many as they can and transition between them at breakneck speeds. Film audio sampling, futuristic 80’s synth, unorthodox percussion, ethnic chanting, classic rock riffs, and sinister voiceover interludes are all present and accounted for, yet are blended together seamlessly, as in the case of “King of Sound, Prince of Noise.” Its effects are simultaneously mellowing and exhilarating, never rising or falling but consistently going in both directions at once. It’s a melodic speedball.

What should be recognized is how risky something like this can be. Experimental electronica is a delicate balancing act between exploration and sheer composition. The farther an artist ventures off the beaten path, incorporating elements like sampling and mixing counterintuitive aesthetics, there’s a greater necessity for an underlying substance to the composition itself. The weirder you get, the harder it’s going to be to make your music aesthetically pleasing.

And Wedodo earns its indulgences. Behind all of its eccentricities is a rock-solid rhythm. The beats take priority over all else here; though through all the craziness and sampling, one’s head is not allowed to stop bopping for even a second. And it really comes down to what is really an expertly maintained percussion. They don’t falter whether it’s being held by a drum, clapping hands, or in the track “Dusty Rhodes,” what sounds like a cowbell. The THANGS somehow manage to create a consistently pleasing melody from a series of incongruent, even-clashing sounds.

Through its patchwork compositional style and strong continuity, the music takes on a lyrical quality. It conveys a sensibility of wry nihilism and playful, almost whimsical darkness. It’s an odder Flying Lotus (the similarities getting almost eerie in the track “Soft and Warm”), the flair of The Avalanches’ “Frontier Psychiatrist” with the substance of Ratatat. It’s somehow deeply reminiscent of an 80’s video game boss battle, but in a cool way. For a mostly instrumental piece, it’s incredible how strong of a voice Wedodo possesses. – Daniel Ludwig

Nicos Gun frontman Barney Cortez has a new album available for streaming entitled Degenerate Angels of the Underland. And while he waits for the record to be posted to iTunes so it can also be purchased, he made it accessible for your listening pleasure HERE. Enjoy!