Written by Nick Leitzke
On March 9 the Besnard Lakes release their third album, ‘The Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night.’ A benefit of pre-ordering albums is the free digital download, and I have been listening to ‘The Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night’ so much that I can’t remember when …

Should be burning the iPod:
Hyperdub: 5 Years of Hyperdub

Chances are, if you like garage, grime, two step, dubstep, or any other genre involving bass-riddled, detective movie soundtrack qualitites, then 5 Years of Hyperdub was probably on your list of must-haves this year.  If you have no idea what I’m talking …

Norwegian shoegaze rockers Serena Maneesh doing what they do best. Being weird. And Awesome. They’ve signed to 4AD and apparently have a new album coming out in March. It’s been four years. Should be fun.

Written by Joe Lambert
Back when Lil’ Wayne was still in his diapers, before he was crying in front of Katie Couric, before he picked up a guitar and caused a million angels to drop dead instantaneously, Gift of Gab was rapping about, hell, he was rapping from other dimensions drifting …

If there is a handyman for illustrations, Michael Auger would fit that bill.  There isn’t a medium or format that would prevent him from illustrating it in some form or another.  Auger is a web designer, political cartoonist, toy maker, calendar stylist, album cover illustrator, photo retouchist, business card maker, …