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noloveforned · 7 months

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despite it being both my birthday and bandcamp friday i've managed to put together a radio show which means no love for ned is set to air tonight on wlur from 8pm until midnight. listeners on the go have the option of catching up with last week's show on mixcloud at any time.

no love for ned on wlur – october 27th, 2023 from 8-10pm

artist // track // album // label cibo matto // know your chicken // viva! la woman // warner bros. courtney barnett // different now // split 7" w/ kurt vile // suicide squeeze earthling // i'm waiting for you // dance // king rvg // nothing really changes (sleaford mods remix) // nothing really changes remixes ep // fire screensaver // future trash // decent shapes // upset! the rhythm why bother? // when the radio is off // calling all goons // feel it wimps // never leave the house // city lights // youth riot superchunk // in between days // misfits and mistakes: singles, b-sides and strays 2007–2023 // merge homework // if you believe me // homework cassette // gold mold golden apples // park (rye) // banana sugar fire // lame-o anna hillburg // girl girl girl // tired girls // speakeasy studios sf lael neale // faster than the medicine // star eaters delight // sub pop the american analog set // long limbs // for forever // hometown fantasy anohni and the johnsons // go ahead // my back was a bridge for you to cross // secretly canadian amirtha kidambi // (part one) // solo live // forplay society jeff parker // four folks // international anthem at public records, volume five // international anthem atlantis jazz ensemble // enlightenment // celestial suite // marlow andreas røysum ensemble // røysification // mysterier // motvind mike reed featuring marvin tate // hold me, hold me // the separatist party // astral spirits l’rain // knead bee // i killed your dog // mexican summer billy woods and kenny segal // soft landing // maps // backwoodz studioz greenflow // i got'cha // solutions // qca blu and real bad man featuring planet asia // hebrews // bad news // real bad man prince and the new power generation // cream (take two) // diamonds and pearls (super deluxe edition) // legacy the sprouts // doorbell // eat your greens cassette // tenth court girl ray // hold tight // prestige // moshi moshi calypso // dune // oh boy! 7" // metadrone red pants // watch the sky // not quite there yet // meritorio jeanines // each day // each day 7" // slumberland the hermit crabs // goodbye my friend // saw you dancing // matinée

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sleepingvillage · 8 months

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Akai Solo - Driftman

Anything on Backwoodz Studios gets an auto-listen from me. It doesn't all hit, but enough does that I always give it a try.

#Akai Solo #Driftman #Brooklyn #2022 #backwoodz studioz #Bandcamp

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rcmndedlisten · 1 year

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Like all music these days, there is an entire sea of new rap music being released to dive into on a pretty much near-daily basis. These pages can’t profess to going as deep as the diehards do on that scene, but where it does pay attention are the words of rhyme making their way up from the alternative underground scene as well as those big, artful blockbusters that etch new mile markers in its culture. Here’s 2022′s best moments in those corners of the game...

AKAI SOLO - Spirit Roaming [Backwoodz Studioz]

Spirit Roaming, AKAI SOLO’s first release in collaboration with Armand Hammer’s Backwoodz Studioz, may be the 27-year-old Brooklyn’s rhymer’s most audibly compelling yet. Across a spectrum of color-and-mood-immersed production by the likes of established progressive beatmakers Preservation, Animoss, Messiah Musik and August Fanon as well as those being discovered in Theravada, ibliss, WifiGawd, Roper Williams and JUNIE creates a complimentary canvas for AKAI’s think bubbles, wrapping deep processing in prose inside a steep haze and self-designed spiritual ladder hell bent on ascending.

Backxwash - HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING [Self-released]

Backxwash’s 2020 breakthrough God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It and last year’s I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES heard the Montreal-by-way-of-Zambia noise rapper tearing through her skin and soul with her own process of faith, trauma, vice and addiction, all while unspooling her identity, and the trilogy’s conclusion, HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING, goes an additional layer deep in her therapeutic catharsis by looking even further beyond her own timeline and understanding the plague of debts generationally burdened onto the individual by history with a siphoned rage.

billy woods - Aethiopes [Backwoodz Studios]

These days, listeners are probably more familiar with billy woods as one half of Armand Hammer, but Aethiopes, his latest solo effort recorded alongside underground producer Preservation, deservedly reaps what he began to sew a decade ago in NYC’s alternative rap scene with an even finer skill set in beautiful rhymes and progressive beat-making that’s nearly gothic in its darkness, creaking in with minimalist structure as well as global influences, all while woods sets scenes fictional yet blurred into past and present realities.

Earl Sweatshirt - SICK! [Tan Cressida / Columbia Records]

SICK! is another example of how when the rest of the world of rhyming goes left, Thebe Kgositsile is already swerving into the right lane. Comprised of 10 songs in just 24 minutes manifested during the lowest points of a global pandemic, going through the motions of grief and anxiety of it all are right in Sweatshirt’s wheelhouse, but the murkier, fragmented production that once tattered his prose behind a curtain on 2018′s Some Rap Songs or 2019′s EP Feet of Clay doesn’t need any outer coverage here.

ELUCID - I Told Bessie [Backwoodz Studioz]

I Told Bessie, the third solo effort from Armand Hammer’s other half, ELUCID, is a personal document from the NYC rapper inspired by his paternal grandmother and doubles as an origin story from the roots up. The listen positions ELUCID in a headier space as he shifts through timelines with a jazz-rock fusion in its beat production that forms more psychedelic orbs to project abstract memories into. billy woods and Pink Siifu are close to his back throughout, but its ELUCID cutting through the daze that gives us a clear portrait of the energy that’s surrounded him.

Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers [Aftermath / Interscope / pgLang / Top Dawg Entertainment]

Even at his messiest, Kendrick Lamar is still miles ahead of the rest in the rap game on Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. An introverted nightmare where he feeds into his inner villain’s origin story, his pain, shame, and everything in his life that’s trying to kill him, Lamar at his ugliest can’t stop the Compton rhymer from being even more agile in his flow with full-on art in its production as his prose teeters disjointed bouts of soul and funk that jostles the brain and always knows when to bring a moment back into a banger.

MAVI - Laughing so Hard, it Hurts [Self-released]

MAVI’s way of rhyme is a very insular one, but the way the Carolina rapper and neuroscience student projects his singular experience brings his corner of the underground into a scope as big as his life is getting itself on his sophomore effort, Laughing so Hard, it Hurts. His flow here moves over a masterclass cast in beat production rich with soulful, spliced woozy textures as he peers into balancing the struggle introspectively. He’s got a lot to say in figuring this life (and it’s “jokes”) out, and with that, we’re privy to be a part of that journey with him, cracks in the sidewalk, and all.

Pusha T - It’s Almost Dry [G.O.O.D. / Def Jam]

It’s no surprise that It’s Always Dry plays out like another master class from one of rap’s most gifted rhyme articulators who isn’t afraid to put his ugly side on full display. A certain someone’s shadow behind the boards looms, but its Pharrell’s light that shines most, and it’s here where It’s Almost Dry gets most of its veneer of experimental freshness within its air. Where there’s plenty of wealthy to brag of, there’s also been plenty of bullets dodged. A true villain never apologizes, however, and as long as he keeps danger at bay, we can expect to hear Pusha T staying hungrier than the rest.

Vince Staples - Ramona Park Broke My Heart [Blacksmith / Motown Records]

The passion of Vince Staples is even more illustrious on Ramona Park Broke My Heart, the counterpart to the Long Beach rapper’s excellent 2021 eponymous self-reflection, with beats shifting away from the overt rumination of last year’s Kenny Beats production in a more finessed sense despite working with a collective of names familiar and not in the studio. It complements the richness in Staples’ style as he continues letting his life story from the darkened street corners be seen out in the open.

Wicca Phase Springs Eternal - Full Moon Mystery Garden [Self-released]

Adam McIlwee has had a prolific run since putting behind his emo rock days as the vocalist of Tigers Jaw and forging ahead with his emo rap moniker Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, but his latest effort, Full Moon Mystery Garden, may be the most cohesive statement from the genre-transcending rhymer. The sprawling 23-track listen has no filler and features Wicca Phase’s GothBoiClique cohorts in one of their most collaborative visibilities and hears the beat behind his morbid flow at its most compellingly absorbing, layering accessible patterns in rap-pop and trap with shoegaze and experimental electronic flashes in the dark.

#best of 2022 #akai solo #backxwash #billy woods #earl sweatshirt #elucid #kendrick lamar #mavi #pusha t #vince staples #wicca phase springs eternal

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recommendedlisten · 3 years

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Video: Armand Hammer feat. Earl Sweatshirt - “Falling Out the Sky”

One of the year’s top recommended rap albums thus far comes from, no surprise, underground rap greats ELUCID and billy woods and their latest outing as Armand Hammer. On HARAM, the pair teamed up with above-ground rap visionary the Alchemist, who brings a certain shade of lucidity to their omens tied up in Biblical bars and musings on today’s heated culture climate. This fall, you’ll be able to catch the duo’s energy in the flesh when the pair heads out on a North American tour which will feature select dates with their HARAM brethren the Alchemist as well as Philly punks SOUL GLO.

News of the dates drops with a Joseph Mault-directed music video for the album’s Earl Sweatshirt guest spot “Fall out the Sky”. It’s one of the more heavenly-bound moments through the listens, speckled in cosmic keys that ascend skyward (though Sweatshirt’s lyrics suggest the opposite direction) while the watch gorgeously zones out into wherever the solar waves pull you.

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Armand Hammer & The Alchemist’s HARAM is available now on Backwoodz Studios.

#new music and videos #videos #armand hammer #earl sweatshirt #the alchemist #backwoodz studios

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nofoodjustwax · 3 years

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Moor Mother & billy woods - Brass

Moor Mother & billy woods – Brass

LP, Backwoodz Studioz, 2020 Style: Hip-Hop (Hardcore, Boom-Bap, Experimental, East Coast) Vibe: Gritty, Ritualistic, Ominous, Dystopian, Philosophical, Futuristic, Apocalyptic, Cerebral, Cold, Cryptic, Dark, Philosophical, Political, Surreal, Woozy, Conscious Musical Qualities: Sampling, Beats, Percussive, Noisy, Lyrical, Spoken Word, Rhythmic

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tierceworks · 5 years

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ShrapKnel, Cobalt EP (Backwoodz Studios, 2019)

#album art #graphic design #photoshop #shrapknel #backwoodz studios #premrock #curly castro #Album cover art #album cover #Album Artwork #cover art #cd covers #design

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foreverwild9 · 9 days

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i made two songs and two videos

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whimsydingbat · 3 years

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crazy ass song. the way billy woods comes in commands your attention. this whole album is incredible and filled with lyrical gems

#billy woods #ELUCID #armand hammer #backwoodz studio #hip hop #Spotify

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djregular · 5 years

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From Blockhead’s upcoming album, Free Sweatpants from Backwoodz Studios, out on January 18th.

#blockhead #aesop rock #hip hop #backwoodz studios

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culturekingblog · 5 years

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Armand Hammer Represent for The Word Gods w/ “Paraffin” Armand Hammer represent for the word gods with a video featuring choice snippets from their new LP Paraffin. Their razor-sharp lyrics and visceral imagery make for a listening experience that’s sure to keep heads intrigued, on the edge of their seats and smiling profusely. The new LP is available now, right here.

#Armand Hammer #Paraffin #Billy Woods #Elucid #Backwoodz Studios #LAZERS

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lanparties · 7 years

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i’m how come we can’t have nice things

#billy woods #backwoodz studios #hip hop

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rcmndedlisten · 2 years

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The extended play and split format are for discovery and looking forward to what comes next. Be it new artists bubbling up from beneath the surface, favorites furthering where they’ve already been or will be going, or the mutual inspiration between two parallel creative worlds, this year’s list include an eclectic palette of sounds in evolving form. Here are the Best EPs and Splits of 2022...

AKAI SOLO - Body Feeling [Backwoodz Studioz]

Body Feeling is AKAI SOLO’s first team-up with Backwoodz Studioz and serves as a prelude to his other standout in this year’s followup full-length, Spirit Roaming. The Brooklyn MC’s heady nature takes the opportunity here to touch the surface before sinking itself deep into the thought void, with production from a myriad of collaborators in Preservation, Nicolas Craven, Child Actor, and Argov churning the waters for AKAI to flow through existentially in what feels like the art of painting life with words over a surrealist, soulful beat ebullience.

ASkySoBlack - Autumn In the Water [New Morality Zine]

In the many splintering limbs of hardcore, ASkySoBlack are growing into several directions at once, and yet still come to the same conclusive idea that heavy music is at its most resounding impact when it’s as multi-dimensional as the emotions that envelope it. Pressing play on Autumn In the Water, the five-piece continue what they started on last year’s debut EP, What Is Yet To Come?, in tearing through the fabric of the heaviest atmospheres as their sound transforms the scene’s elemental form.

awakebutstillinbed & for your health - hymns for the scorned [Twelve Gauge Records]

hymns for the scorned, a split EP between awakebutstillinbed and for your health, make both band’s sound exponentially bigger than respective debuts. Like MTV2 peak commercial emocore big. Both mastered by Jack Shirley and with fyh’s half produced by Chris Teti of the World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die (who maybe the only studio guru besides Will Yip doing scaled-up production justice for today’s current of modern punk and hardcore bands,) these are only hints at how both artists have not only burned down former walls, but are now building towers with their furious elegies.

Big City - Liquid Times [K Records / Perennial]

As the combined creative forces of Katayoon Yousefbigloo, guitarist of buzzy-in-their-own-right noise pop bands Puzzlehead and Hotline TNT, alongside underground dance experimentalist Davey Biddle of Copyright Linda Fox, the duo’s debut EP, Liquid Times, is a certifiably sick trip for late night minds wandering and needing to be warped where you will encounter transfixing elements adjacent to the time-collapsing sensations of SVIIB-esque shoegaze, the light speed of trance, and grooving lounge sax intermittently apparition in pop form.

Burial - Antidawn [Hyperdub]

Consider ANTIDAWN’s Burial reset. After having prominently defined the last several years’ of experimental electronic music through bleary, romantically broken soundscapes, the enigmatic producer has retreated into an ambient wilderness i a listen devoid of kinetic waves and more so focused on the body in its fully present moment. The interpretation of it is more so malleable and upon the individual to feel their way through, although the wind effects, sparkle of echoes, chiming, frigid prisms, glow of hymns in crackling nightlight passing, and ceremonial ascent through crystallizing flakes very much venture into an alternate projection of this world that mirrors its tunnels.

Ela Minus & DJ Python - ♡ [Smugglers Way]

After rising against through movement sounds and strobing club lights on 2020′s breakthrough debut, acts of rebellion, Ela Minus softens the bulbs in a reprieve for personal space and meditation alongside fellow NYC-based producer DJ Python on the collaborative EP, ♡. Inside voice vapors through an immaculately designed space of peacefully meditating ambient pools and a well-paced glitch in the timeline, the pair of electronic artists remind you what it is to fall in love and stay in that feeling eternally.

Glitterer - Fantasy Four [ANTI-]

With the listen being dedicated to Riley Gale of Power Trip and Iron Age’s Wade Allison, Glitterer’s latest EP, Fantasy Four, lives in four songs which find Ned Russin in the throes of asking why to the sky and maybe hoping there’s a chance on another timeline that he’ll see his departed friends again. Musically, it cuts beneath the short-form glitch and static core of what’s come before it, and though the downtrodden waves toss his brain around roughly, it also taps into a deeper side within Glitterer’s psyche that will make it interesting to hear where these questions will take the band’s sound next.

Home Is Where & Record Setter - dissection lessons [Topshelf Records]

In their own breaths, Home Is Where and Record Setter are harsh and necessary on their split, dissection lesson. As two breakthrough bands advancing the forms of screamo and experimental hardcore well beyond an already unconventional atmosphere, they're also two bands fronted by trans women who are loudly making their presence and their individual experiences known in a world that continues to try to hinder their existence. Home Is Where over-intensifies even last year’s standout “assisted harakari” with a righteous anger toward the rise in violence against members of the trans community. Meanwhile, Record Setter’s is set against a beautifully despondent Denton, Texas backdrop and is a awakening for the rest of us led by Judith Mitchell surrounding her own experience with transitioning, depression, and living under societal duress.

Hotline TNT - When You Find Out [Poison Rhythm]

Former Weed frontman Will Anderson and his band of cult DIY purists known as Hotline TNT carry on with the out of body, out of mind noise-pop oxytocin rushes carved out on last year’s breakthrough debut full-length, Nineteen In Love, with four more tracks of fuzz-indulgent spinouts that tangle the lines between colorful swaths of indie rock, hardcore’s coarse edges, and shoegaze’s daydream recollections. When You Find Out may hiss in cassette-quality feedback compared to the clearer visibility of its predecessor, but Anderson’s refinement in his songwriting craft continues to absorb rooms much bigger as time goes by.

Jivebomb - Primitive Desires [Flatspot Records]

Sometimes music – especially hardcore music – has the ability to destroy everything around it from the inside-out. Primitive Desires, Jivebomb’s heavy-handed debut EP, offers those emotions in combustible motion within minutes as vocalist Kat, guitarist Harper, bassist Ethan, and drummer Mees scourge the soundboard with scathing vocals and heated electricity from self-immolation. Carnal instincts kick in, and then destroy societal structures like they’re coming at it like an inside job.

Jobber - Hell In A Cell [Exploding In Sound Records]

Fans of pro-wrestling know that behind every great persona or gimmick, there’s a human behind it all bringing those characters to life in front of them. Jobber is kind of like that, but for indie rock and wrestling nerds who enjoy their storylines being a mirror of their own lives, too. Helmed by Kate Meizner, who has spent her musical career playing in live bands for Snail Mail, Potty Mouth, and more recently, Maneka, she steps out to the front to lead a faction (including former Speedy Ortiz guitarist / current Hellrazor frontman Mike Falcone) of grunge and ‘90s alternative riff rockers on the Brooklyn band’s debut EP, Hell In A Cell, that goes toe-to-toe with the daily grind inside the squared circle, and attempts to avoid submission.

Mo Dotti - Guided Imagery [Smoking Room Records]

Mo Dotti’s second EP, Guided Imagery, delivers with six solid singles-worthy tracks that concentrate woozy color forms with lush pop and a knack of heaven-scent melody that naturally boosts serotonin despite any forecast. That vocalist and guitarist Gina Negrini, guitarist Guy Valdez, bassist Brian Rodriguez, and drummer Shelly Schimek perform as equals in tandem as well means that no corner of their outweighs the other, which make them a more docile form on the sound, be it climactic sparks, wave-splashed daydreams, or psychedelic detours into the mind.

Mr Twin Sister - Upright and Even [Twin Group]

Upright and Even, a four-song EP recorded in adjacent to its predecessor, Al Mundo Azul, suggests that Mr Twin Sister are still at their best when they’re embracing more uninhibited ambitions. Stretching and contorting their musical limbs further out into dark club spaces with tracks that absorb themselves in ecstasy, a lounge sophisticate and jazz molecularization through Andrea Estella’s guiding light, the New York City groups binds unexpected motions together in a remarkable manner neither still or symmetrical, even if by their own titular definition.

Poorly Drawn House - Home Doesn’t Have Four Walls [Self-released]

Poorly Drawn House are the kind of band who defy any certain clear-cut definition in what to expect from their sound, as the Spartanburg, South Carolina three-piece look to their surrounding darkness only to inform them on their latest EP Home Doesn’t Have Four Walls. There’s a stop-and-start entanglement between loud bursts and deafening silence that would suggest a foundation in slowcore and post-hardcore, but the presence of clarinets and horns throws a wrench of dark free jazz into their music. Spoken word verse, a mournful presence behind them, and field recordings turn the dead leaves of emo and natural experimental elements onto their canvas.

SPEED - Gang Called Speed [Flatspot Records]

Sometimes it takes a group of outsiders to be that change, and because SPEED are far removed physically from the hardcore scene’s central roots here in the States – they hail from Sydney, Australia – their vantage point on a certain sound and fury comes from a different perspective. On their breakthrough EP Gang Called Speed, that’s most apparent in their fast approach on NYC’s gritty past, Los Angeles current fault lines, and whatever is wilding out of Baltimore with hard-grooved riffs and vocalist Jem Siow’s nasty charge into the pit.

Stand Still - In A Moment’s Notice [Daze / Triple B Records]

Born out of Long Island’s storied scene, Stand Still double down on what made last summer’s debut EP, A Practice In Patience, a promising first step. Heart-on-the-sleeve melodic hardcore will always be a full-proof method, with Stand Still’s binding of vocalist Gerry Windus’ personal admissions on tumbled relationships, be it romantic or familial, in lyrical prose behind five tracks – three recorded live to seamless cohesion. Microdosed with anthems in burled riffs and a well-paced headcharge against life’s seasons, In A Moment’s Notice leaves a timeless imprint.

They Are Gutting a Body of Water & A Country Western - An Insult to the Sport [Topshelf Records]

An Insult to the Sport, a split introducing the world at large to the strange wonders of local peers They Are Gutting a Body of Water and A Country Western through Topshelf Records, immerses the soundboard in wavering shoegaze and weirdo pop that flickers in the Phllly spirit of Strange Ranger and Spirit of the Beehive on the former’s first half, and a gonzo take on the slanted and enchanted with the latter. It in turn collectively piques the senses with sonic schisms, be it synthetic or electric, for two rising artists beyond concrete definition who’ve been quietly prolific in the background of the DIY scene, but maybe not for too much longer...

Weeping Icon - Ocelli [Fire Talk]

Born out of the hellscape that was 2020, Ocelli’s purpose in feeding off the anger from those times’ political and social dumpster fire helps Weeping Icon dig deeper into their crass-coated drive, and it burns through their art. Uniform’s Ben Greenburg recording vessel holds the Brooklyn noise-punk band’s collective rage through the dizzying sardonic static, a menacing, industrial warped timeline, and the combustible accelerant, as if to tell the story of that year in three parts that begins in anger and ends with them throwing that dumpster fire right into a bottomless pit.

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