Can you think of a creative way to motivate people to take the stairs?

Back from their two year hiatus the garage-rock/indie/one-of-my-favorite-bands, The Strokes, are back. Their new album Angles dropped early last month.

The album cover art appears to be a homage to M.C. Escher’s Stairs. I recommend giving the album a listen to. Despite taking a break from recording, The Strokes still manage to retain their signature sound. Be careful though! The single Under Cover of Darkness is incredibly addictive. The video is not bad either. I bet that “Play” button feels pretty violated.

Last week Radiohead released the first edition of their newspaper, The Universal Sigh. Featuring short stories, art, and poetry, the newspaper was designed to help promote upcoming release of their new album, The King of Limbs. The newspaper, which seems very similar to a zine, is available for free at various locations. To our neighbors in San Francisco, you can try to snag a copy at Amoeba Records in the upper Haight. However, I doubt there will be any left. The Universal Sigh was met …

This month the Beastie Boys announced that their long anticipated album TheHotSauceCommitteePartTwo will be released May 3, 2011. The Beastie Boys have not dropped a new album since 2004’s To The Five Burroughs. Earlier this year the new album’s release was postponed due to Adam Yauch’s (MCA) battle with cancer. In a January interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Yauch stated that “reports of my being totally cancer free are exaggerated.”
Despite Yauch’s health concerns, the group is moving forward with the album. Be sure to check out …

This VOTD is a 2 for 1. The first comes from recording artist Toro y Moi.

Toro y Moi is the solo project of Chazwick Bundick, who just happens to be BFF’s with Washed Out. Don’t know who Washed Out (aka Ernest Greene) is? You probably recognize his best known song, Feel It All Around, which also is the theme song for Portlandia.

Swag. That’s all you need to know. If you don’t know about Tyler, The Creator yet make sure you do as soon as possible because he and the entire OFWGKTA (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All) crew are about to be the next biggest thing in hip hop. Ranging between the ages of 16-20 they have crafted an new sound that is uniquely their own. This is the newest video from Tyler, The Creator who is the leader of Odd Future who many are comparing to the status of …

Dibiase “Skullcrack” from Alpha Pup on Vimeo.
How many of you out there went to the show at 1015 on 2/4 and saw Madlib get so drunk that he was talking shit and jibberish to the entire crowd before being asked to get off stage two hours earlier than he was supposed to stop? Hopefully that did not kill your memory of who went on right before Madlib started having his drunken medicine shitshow. Dibiase is the name of the machine genius who went on before, and if you were blessed …

I don’t think it’s necessary for me to explain how amazing Flying Lotus is again. If you saw the last video we posted of his song Zodiac Shit you can tell already that very few have the sound that FlyLo has made his own. But I do think it is necessary for me to let you know that Flying Lotus will be the special guest at the next Low End Theory SF event on March 4th. And if you went to the last one you know how absolutely amazing this …

If you are unfamiliar with Blockhead’s music, get familiar with it. In my opinion he makes some of the best instrumental music out there. I have yet to be disappointed by a single one of his albums and would highly recommend you check them all out. As a place to start I would suggest Music By Cavelight. And if you are a fan of Aesop Rock then you can be sure that you have nodded your head in bliss to several of Blockhead’s beats. The reason I have chosen this …

I am going to be honest here and tell you that I had never listened to Flying Lotus (FlyLo) until about two months ago when my friend Cam (As-Isn’t Co.) introduced me to his music. Ever since then I have listened to all three of FlyLo’s albums on a constant repeat and can not stop listening to them still. I am going to be honest again and tell you that I had never seen the video for this particular song until about five days ago, and I haven’t been able …