So with a name like Magmablood, you can’t help butt wonder what these guys are about, but once you hear their music you will. The trio, Ikolai Borziak (Synthesizer and Computer), James West (Electric Guitar) and Bernie Howard (Acoustic Drums) are bringing a future breed of electronica to your stereos in the form of their […]
Album Review: @theglitchmob – Drink the Sea
If you don’t know who they are by now, The Glitch Mob is the talent of 3 seasoned LA producers who have a common goal of making you feel all those bass frequencies that are often missing. Composed of Ooah (Josh Mayer), Boreta (Justin Boreta) and edIT (Ed Ma), these 3 producers all bring something […]
Album Review: Adaledge – Vintage Feelings
Enter the sonically blissful world of Adaledge. He is set to release his debut Long player today titled Vintage Feelings. No one really knows much about this guy, but what I can gather from some research is that the owners of Triple Down Records overheard his music in a bar one night, and upon asking […]
Album Review @MeYouUsThem – Post-Data
Today I’m gonna tell you guys about this sweet band from Brooklyn called Me You Us Them (MYUT) MYUT are a 3 piece rock band from Bushwick. Its members, Ryan Reesey, Ian Ljungquist and Zach Eichenhorn, fuse indie rock and pop-rock with an edge that will never go soft or limp. The group, signed on […]
Album Review: Trim the Fat – How Strange
I got this album, How Strange, last week from Nicky Howard, a.k.a. Trim The Fat, an accomplished underground electronic musician based in Yorkshire/UK. I didn’t think that I was going to listen to it at first because there were some other albums I wanted to peep, but during my trip back and forth from home […]
Expo Releases New Album, ‘She Sells Seashells’
Expo is simple. One guy (John Lane) and a bunch of friends chilling out making some lazy day music. He has just released his latest album, She Sells Seashells (say that 10x fast) independently which apparently was mastered in mono. First thing you’ll notice while listening to his music are the similarities to The Beach […]
Kitsune Maison 9 Compilation (The Petit Bateau Edition)
Had a chance to check out the Kitsune Maison 9 Compilation album, and I have to say the all around mix of songs they have on it will please many ears. According to Kitsune, the choice of songs was based around the idea that while we can all like and dig the tracks, other people, […]
Album Review: The Consulate General – Person Number
Continuing on this lo-fi indie streak I’m on, I give you The Consulate General, a new project led by Taiwanese-American Alexander Chen of Boy in Static, currently a resident of Sweden. A multi-instrumentalist who often performs live on viola, Chen´s first recordings were released in 2004 by Markus Acher of The Notwist, who later invited […]
Album Review: Dr. Hollywood – Dr. Hollywood EP
If your sick of LMFAO, like most other people, there is a healthy alternative for you that comes via the city of angels and it might just be the perfect prescription for your dance rock blues. I am of course talking about LA duo Dr. Hollywood who have just released their debut, self titled EP. […]
Album Review: Sweet Electra – When We Abandoned Earth
NYC transplants, via Mexico, Sweet Electra, have blasted out of this world and into the cosmos with their latest outing, When We Abandoned Earth. Made up of duo Nardiz Cooke on vocals and Giovanni Escalera on keyboards, guitars and programming, their indie electronica-twinged pop sound is whats doing it for me lately. The title of […]
Album Review: The Seedy Seeds – Count the Days
If you hear a banjo laced over electroclash beats, do not be alarmed. You are not in a parallel universe were the banjo surpassed the guitar, you are in the musical world of Cincinnati’s The Seedy Seeds. While the rest of the world is fusing indie rock with electornic music, The Seedy Seeds decided to […]
Album Review: Hot Chip – One Life Stand
What to say about the new Hot Chip album… well, its no The Warning, and i cant say it’s a Made in the Dark, what i can say is that the trend has been going down for Hot Chip, and their latest work, One Life Stand, I feel proves that even further. Don’t get me […]
Album Review: Infight – The Discoland EP
A lot of times, I get emails from artists saying that their sound falls into the genre of electro-punk/rock, but often times that is the furthest thing from the truth, probably just a marketing ploy, or rather, they don’t know what they are talking about. So when I got this EP from Infight called The […]
Album Review: FM Belfast – How To Make Friends
FM Belfast are set to release their debut album, How to Make Friends, on January 22nd. We heard the first single from the the album, Par Avion, back in October and we were excited to see what else they could do. Well, after listening to the album, all I have are mixed feelings about it. […]
Album Review: Psychonauts – Songs for Creatures
Quick history lesson…Psychonauts, a name you have probably not heard of before, but a duo that helped shaped this new disco revival we are seeing, have re-released/re-mastered their album Songs for Creatures. Composed of UK producers Pablo Clement (currently 1/2 of UNKLE) and Paul Mogg, (currently 1/2 of Boy of Girl), they released the album […]
Album Review: Comfort Fit – Polyshufflez Remixes
German Hip Hop/Electronica/Experimental producer Comfort Fit released his latest album Polyshufflez a little while back. He has followed it up with a remix album that takes remixes from some up-and-coming producers around the world. On the 14 track LP you will find remixes Laurent Garnier, Boom Clap Bachelors, Atjazz, Domu, Opolopo, Robot Koch, Jacob Korn, […]
Boom Boom Chik’s Top 10 Albums of 2009
so 2009 was an interesting year in the music world. In my opinion we witnessed a changing industry, one that will make great leaps and strides in the next decade. We saw the emergence of artists taking a more DIY approach with the available technologies at hand. We saw an increase in digital music sales, […]
Album Review: Monogold – We Animals
There seems to be a trend coming out of Brooklyn these days in the indie rock scene. Take some ambient indie rock, add a little folk and spaced-out airy vocals and you most likely will have a hit. Prime examples include Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear and now we have struck gold with Monogold. Monogold, […]
Album Review: Throwing Seven – Hope Forgets to Breathe
It’s always great to reconnect with stuff that you like, or things that may have been forgotten in this ever changing world we live in today. I had one of those moments today when I put on the first track from LA band, Throwing Seven. Upon listening to it I was brought back to my […]
Album Review: @Julianshah- Un Ange Passe
Julian Shah-Tayler is a solo artist who writes, produces and performs all his own music. He has produced and/or played guitar, bass and keyboards and sung in bands with Siobhan Fahey, Courtney Love, Joaquin Phoenix, Whitey, drinkme, Adamandevil, Bunny, Piel, Xerox, PFC and many more. He is set to release his debut Solo EP, “Un […]