DJ Spinna: Intergalactic Soul

DJ Spinna‘s upcoming release, Intergalactic Soul, is what you’d expect from this veteran of the New York hip hop scene who’s remixed the likes of De La Soul and Das EFX and made beats for luminaries such as, Grand Puba, The Jungle Brothers, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Pharaohe Monch. Like his website says, on this album Spinna taps “into his perfected take on a …

Sonarama

Ahhhh, summertime in Barcelona, can you feel the heat and the beats? Year-round this city's thumping to one rhythm or another, but summer months are a whole different story. For all the music festivals that descend on the town at this time of year, how anyone gets any sleep or does any work is a Catalan mystery. At its heart Barcelona is an electropolis and …

Sufjan Stevens: The Avalanche

Cherry-picking the best tracks from records, and jettisoning the filler is practically second-nature to the iPod generation. So when I say (Come On Feel The) Illinoise by Sufjan Stevens is far and away my favorite album released last year, you'll know how good it really is. Densely-packed with countless melodic ideas and intelligently-written lyrics about weird and surprising themes, it's almost like listening to some …