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Arthhur “Lost In The Walled City”

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Arthhur released a new album today, Dec. 14th, called Lost In The Walled City. This this trio of Mike Fox, Matt Ciani, and Luke Dahlgren. On this album they are bringing the a danceable brand of Disco Punk that could be compared to vintage Talking Heads.

As with the their last album, Come Meet The Opposite Committee, they have released a full list of the equipment they used to record this album. This gives the young musician or someone just starting out a sense of what goes into creating to creating a certain sound and an album.

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Philmore Greene

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Philmore Greene dropped a powerful new album this week called Chicago: A Third World City. The album feature some intense rhymes from Greene over beats primarily produced by Rashid Hadee. Through out the album there are also appearances from Neak, Yarbrough, FLYKelly, Peter Jericho, and Slot-A.

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Chrissy Martin “Body Puzzles”

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Chrissy Martin has released a new piece called “Body Puzzles” via the Michigan label 1473. This is a part of a larger project she is calling “Sound Moves” which explores the relationship between movement and sound, voice and body.

The audio was recorded live during the performance that you can watch below.

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Kevin Czaja “Past, Present, Future”

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Kevin Czaja has released a second composition, “Past, Present, Future”, from his forthcoming album. This is cinematic classical music that allows you to close your eyes and imagine the epic battle scenes and aerial shots this music was meant to accompany.

This is a far departure from the instrumental metal sounds of his rock duo Mad Martyr.

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Cascader “Me Us You”

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Cascader is the instrumental post-rock trio of Ben Chargot, Parker Langvardt, Jeff Schaffer. They released their debut LP, Me Us You, via Worry Records today. This is epic, anthemic, instrumental rock that powerfully tells stories in a wholly unique way.

You can catch Cascader at The Owl tonight, December 13th, with Horrible and Basement Family.

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Stunna “Blue Dreams”

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Producer Stunna (aka Jay Cappo) recently released a new single, “Blue Dreams” b/w “Cali Nights”. As Stunna has been come to be known, these tracks effortlessly blend Stunna skill as a classically trained keyboardists with savage Drum & Bass techniques.

Stunna also hosts a weekly radio show called “The Greenroom” which can be heard live every Wednesday from 2 to 5pm on Bassdrive Radio.

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PROM D8

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PROM D8 has their self-titled debut EP, and it is wild blend of Hip Hop, Soul, R&B, and insanity.

This primarily the work of Lizzie Zhang (L2K), Slade Warnken (Slade.Antonia), Alejandro Paredes, and Gavrie Smellhorse (2006IX). They also dropped a mixtape last month in advance of their debut that is almost equally as good.

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I Ya Toyah “Code Blue”

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I Ya Toyah is the Electronic music of Ania Tarnowska. She recently released her debut album, Code Blue, which finds her conquering all aspects of her hypnotic sound from synths to guitars, to beats, to intense vocals.

The album’s latest single is called “Glass Eyes” and is accompanied by the wild Joel Lopez (Lumbra Records) created video.

You can catch I Ya Toyah at Underground Lounge with Zwaremachine at Underground Lounge on March 29th.