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It’s a real shortcoming of Hallmark as a company, that they don’t offer a “Post-Rock brings families together” greeting card. New York’s Phone Home is the second duo of brothers (the awesome Lymbyc Systym is the other) to channel potential angsty rivalry into beautiful musical alchemy. On their first 4-song self-released EP, Michael and John [...]

More than one promising dance music producer has met their end by succumbing to popular musical trends. While the new disco sound has grown in popularity over the years, the genre has been inundated with imitators who have nothing to offer but one lackluster production after another. Producer extraordinaire Ilya Santana is one man who [...]

In a musical world where each new artist uses a more bizarre nom de plume than the last, it’s refreshing to come across an electronic artist with the unassuming and very plain-sounding name of John Roberts. It’s a name that sounds more akin to, say, a conservative chief justice of the Supreme Court of the [...]

ScissorMix Vol. 5: Worked
Originally this mix had more of a summer vibe: a crowd-friendly mix of soul, reggae, funk, hip-hop, pop, etc. I spent the time, made that mix and decided that I didn’t like it. And more importantly, I didn’t feel like figuring out how to fix it. So I scrapped it and did something different. This [...]

Scissorkast #9: The Big Squeeze
I’m trying to learn to stop apologizing for the time in between these web radio shows. The truth is, when it comes to scisosrkick, I’ve been preaching quality over quantity for nearly a decade. And the fact remains, the longer I’ve taken between Scissorkasts, the more likely I have more fantastic music to choose from. [...]

Reports of summer’s death have been greatly exaggerated, as it’s still too hot to comfortably wear your favorite sweater, but these cool morning breezes cannot be ignored forever. As a goodbye kiss to August, we have a new album, Born In A Night, by the Scottish group Hassle Hound, who mix found sound, musical samples, [...]

Beat Beep Butterbumps
I was going to post a pretty far-ranging summer mix earlier this week, but something was missing. It was a little too wide open. Then I realized there’s a common theme in the new music that’s buzzing around in the airwaves this summer. Between Best Coast, Budos Band, the Books, Blundetto, and Big Boi, this [...]

Pop Winds is a group with a distinct, unmistakable flavor. Not surprisingly, distinct unmistakable flavors have a tendency to appeal to a narrow range of people. Thankfully, this Montreal-based trio has done us all the favor of breaking from the normat least in this respect. Pop Winds has a sound that, however distinct, should be [...]

I’ve always been attracted to soundscapes: worlds built out of voices, keyboards, and feedback that balance between detached and alien, as well as emotional and personal. Candy Claws, from Fort Collins, CO, delivers a distinctive brand of organic and atmospheric soundscapes. Warm Forest Floor isexemplary of their discography. The songs have a dream like quality, [...]

This album was recorded in 1972, a year before the band, Hedzoleh Soundz, would rerecord several of the same songs for a classic Hugh Masekela album. Here are those songs, minus the trumpet and dub effects, but given a more primordial force by way of thick basslines, relentless percussion and heartfelt melodies. If the typical [...]

A few weeks ago I found myself in Davis Squarejust outside Bostonwhere I was unexpectedly greeted by the accumulation of vendors of decidedly quirky sculptures and paintings, selling their wares to decidedly quirky people that can only be an art festival. Fortunately, at the same time my ears were greeted by the groovy rhythm section [...]

New offering from Ghostly recording artist Christopher Willits just found it’s way into my inbox. Perfect summertime electro-acoustic jams from the very talented experimental guitarist/producer/software developer/mippie (that’s musical hippie, meant as a good thing) who we’ve covered before here on SK. Densely layered and expectantly complex, “Sun Body” is perhaps one of Willit’s most accessible [...]

When you run a blog as long as I have, you end up stuck in database hell. Interns adding contact emails from the Hype Machine top 100 eventually land on scissorkick, and after nearly 10 years my inbox is cluttered by PR from labels and bands that have probably never downloaded or read about a [...]

We’re looking for people with truly open minds here. If you’ve followed the blog you know the consistent thread hasn’t been genre — we hop around from beats to metal to indie to electronic without blinking — but more the tone of the posts. We focus on instrumental music (not exclusively) that often fits nicely [...]

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