The oft Tree collaborator, Shelf Nunny recently dropped this abstract and oberst/schwartzman toned track. Much more “New Life” showcases an interesting form of writing and production talent from a budding SoCal based artist.
Shelf Nunny – New LifeShelf Nunny 
(Soundcloud) (tumblr)
Rating 8
Contributed by Elliott Porter
Always entertaining the kind of golden nuggets that can be discovered on Soundcloud, this one comes from Davis, and then there’s another Davis too! Vintage chord progressions lead to a drop more righteous than Billy Crystal. The song goes from happy meal to Big Mac when the double time snare kicks in. The Eagle has landed! Houston we have a problem! Blastoff. If only Neal himself could hear this, he’d be proud.
Davis & Davis – Neil ArmstrongDavis & Davis 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8
It’s like Kid Ink has already gone and inked in his own Top 40 appeal. On “Time of Your Life” the young MC conducts his pop with the conviction of the rest of ’em, Wiz Khalifa, B.o.B, Drake, Lil’ Wayne? But as prolific? #MMAYBEMUSIC
Kid Ink – Time Of Your Life (Prod. by Ned Cameron)Rating 8.3
By Erin Routson
Some music is undeniably written by women. Contend that if you will. Seeing Lightyear (aka Lauren Zettler) open for Mitten and Allison Weiss at Brooklyn’s Glasslands merely hit the idea home. Sometimes there are places that only women can go.
Taking the stage with her band, she launched into a set that ranged from the gentleness of lullabies and near-whisper sung lyrics to the punk vibes of yelping “Oh my god!” and being unable to contain her energy. Her songs are culled from the subject matter that any woman as a diarist would recognize. Love, loss and finding one’s own way all work their way into her lyrics.
It sounds like a complaint, but it isn’t. If all of these ideas are swirling around in our brains, why shouldn’t women sing them? Why shouldn’t all of that creative force be channeled into music? Isn’t the point so that I relate?
While Lightyear’s debut EP All of the Miles is sometimes soaring, sometimes intimate, but always polished, her live show presents a more raw take on the same kind of expansive and constricting sound. This might’ve been partial credit to her under-the-weather slightly croaky voice, but the songs took shape live. “Lose Yourself” and the opener “When You’re Alone” capitalized on the full band rougher sound. They were more human and more powerful. Even the songs that were just her alone onstage with a guitar were bigger than what that idea connotes.
As she closed with “It Beats” Zettler seemed to almost want to climb out of her own body, seeking the “sea change” she sings about. Maybe only a woman could write those lyrics, but it’s also true that maybe only a woman could deliver them and do them justice.
The rest of the show carried through this theme of our innermost thoughts being broadcast backed with guitars, keyboards, or both. Mitten, weaving their way through dance tracks and dreamy vocals, got the crowd moving. By the time Allison Weiss took the stage (with Mitten as her supporting band), she could’ve read her diary out loud and it would’ve been enough. Her earnest and borderline comical delivery made her set charming as she took us back to summer camp, to awkward nights out beyond curfew, to feeling so many feelings.
It was a night to embrace all of those feelings and remember: it isn’t a shame to turn them into a song at all. It’s a gift.
Lightyear 
(Facebook)
Mitten (Facebook)
Allison Weiss (Facebook)
This A-level remix for “Sail Away” from electronic heavyweight champs Cut Copy joins remixes of the track from Aeroplane and Cosmic Kids on a new DFA release. Cut Copy takes an already “pretty good” song, one of their better tunes on In the Grace of Your Love, levels up all its the head ringin’ components and blasts it into some kind of heater stratosphere. That’s something you’re gonna want to be apart of. Hit that play button.
The Rapture – Sail Away (Cut Copy Remix)Cut Copy 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.3
By Chris Gedos; Photos: Jillian Prado
Voxhaul Broadcast gave their LA legion plenty to shout about on Wednesday night, January 11th, as night #7 of Satellite Nights was a rousing success. It’s quite a thank you from a venue to its patrons to host nine straight nights of free music! And I stayed away from the bar, so it really was a free night, even though all had fun whether they were imbibing or not!
Any doubts I harbored of Voxhaul sinking into the quicksand of anonymity vanished about four measures into their set. They’re a good band prima facie, as they say in the legal profession (upon first glance, literally ‘first face’). Three generations of music snobs could be in a restaurant, hear this band play over Sirius XM and all have the same immediate impression: “This is good shit!” During a brief, approaching half-hour set, the band knocked out “Cheetah” and “Leaving on the 5th”, both from the Timing is Everything LP, along with “Broken Nerve”, from their Between Love and War digital EP. Voxhaul Broadcast’s contrasting styles of bluesy, roots rock and Springsteen-esque indie were in harmony throughout. My only gripe is that it was difficult to move around on Wednesday night, so you’d better get there early when Voxhaul hosts the Satellite residency every Monday in March.
Voxhaul Broadcast – Broken NerveVoxhaul Broadcast (Facebook)
Rating 8.29
Ellie Goulding remixes probably take up approx. 22% of all server space on hulkshare. They’re evvvvvvvvvverrrrryyyyywhere and played out as hell. Right. But you’ve probably never heard that Starry Eyed vocal track flipped quite like this. Monsieur Adi totally takes it there. Suiting up Ellie with Marvin’s “Sexual Healing” and Madge’s “Lucky Star” for a 80’s-smooth/cruisin-in-my-yacht take on the track. Put a sweater on.
Monsieur Adi – Starry Eyed x Lucky Star x Sexual Healing (Ellie Goulding x Madonna x Marvin Gaye)Monsieur Adi 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.1
And then it happened… one of our favorite electronic musicians went and remixed maybe our favorite new artist right now, period. It’s Shlohmo doing a beautiful future-garage version of Lianne La Havas’ “Forget”. Do not miss it.
Lianne La Havas – Forget (Shlohmo Remix)Shlohmo (Facebook)
Rating 8.6
By Chris Gedos
“A Light Above Descending” calls to mind The Decline of British Sea Power, back when “Remember Me” spoke for a sub-generation and band members were getting injured at every other show. I recall with fondness Wayne Coyne’s quote from my old BSP poster: “They’re just a good band. They have trees on stage and they’re doing something really exciting. I wish they’d take more care on stage though. If they carry on like that they’ll injure themselves.” Coyne may very well have been at the Grog Shop with us in 2004, when Yan infamously swung on the rafters from the stage to the soundbooth and back. Maybe the past isn’t a foreign country.
British Sea Power 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.5
By Wyatt Routson
Open up your trunk. Ask Dro cause Tip here, Jeezy too. Fresh take on a fresh banger, T.I.P. and Jeezy here, fresh as the “Top Back” remix.
B.o.B. – Strange Clouds (Remix) (Feat. T.I. & Young Jeezy)B.o.B. 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.1
By Bruce Rave
The B3Sci bros have already alerted you to this new album with the track “Feel to Follow”. Here’s another taste from this album, which has created a sizable British buzz.
The Maccabees – PelicanThe Maccabees (Facebook)
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