Loyal Divide – Labrador EP

Psychedelica might be the new posh thing to emerge in 2009. Only reason why I say that is because of the mass amount of hype surrounding Animal Collective, and the recent 9.6 rating they got on Pitchfork (nobody has scored that high since The Arcade Fire back in 2004). And when a band creates sounds […]

Bloop. Bleep. Bleep.

8-bit, chiptune, nintendocore… whatever you want to classify it as (for the record, I call it 8-bit) the electronic subgenre of our generation hits home in a way no other genre can. Whether its the Commodore 64, Atari 2600, NES, or that big grey brick we all had, the GameBoy… 8-bit artists are able to […]

Bored This Week?

Well fear not my fellow Chitown electrobots. Two unnecessary parties are in line for the next couple of nights. Starting things off Wednesday night at the Double Door, Urb Magazine presents the ‘Cool By Association Mixtape Release Party’. Apparantly there will be some ‘fresh noise’ from the likes of DJ Zebo, Murderbot and the Starters […]