As many of us have heard the hype, Kanye West is dropping his sixth full length album this Tuesday called Yeezus. However according to the Los Angeles Times, the album was leaked four days before its release online through various illegal file sharing websites. The album has many different artists featured on multiple tracks, such as Frank Ocean, King L, Kid Cudi, and Chief Keef. Music critics are rating the rapper’s new album with great reviews. [..]

San Francisco based indie electronica band The Limousines, released their latest full length album Hush last week! This is the band’s third album which officially released June 6th, 2013 here in the United States. The album expresses the band’s electro style to the max! With so much synthesizer and 1980′s techno beats, listeners can even hear some ’80s jazz saxophone powering away at the end of “Fool’s Gold!” But although all of the songs on the album are very catchy and make everyone want to just get up and dance, the lyrics are about lust, love,

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With the mixed sound of Passion Pit and Empire of the Sun, Los Angeles band Smallpools is the next big indie pop band! Members Sean (vocals/keyboard), Mike (guitar), Joe (bass), and Beau (drums) of the band formed earlier this year in February. The only single they have currently released is their song “Dreaming,” which was produced by Captain Cuts. The single was released on Soundcloud on May 16th, 2013. The catchy song is full of ooohhs and ahhaahhs, sythensizer, guitar, drums and groovy beats that make you want to dance around with your friends at a party or take a summer drive with the top and windows rolled down! Check out the Soundcloud link to download their single “Dreaming” for free here! [..]

Rocking straight out of Melbourne, Aussie garage rock band Total Control created a packed house, mosh pit infused show this past weekend at The Eagle Tavern in San Francisco. For those of you who missed the show, this might be the last time Total Control will be playing in a small and intimate environment. Bringing in such a large following, we can expect the band will perform at larger concert venues in the city with future American tours. Total Control came together in 2008, with its band members coming from a mix of other bands, such as lead singer Daniel Stewart from UV Race and Straightjacket Nation, guitarist Mikey Young from Eddy Current Suppression Ring, known photographer and bassist Zephyr Pavey, and drummer James Vinciguerra from the bands The Collapse and AIDS. They released their debut album Henge Beat back in 2011, and their most recent album 7″ released this past February. [..]

New York quintet Vampire Weekend just dropped their third studio album “Modern Vampires of the City” in May and for those of you who wrote the band off as baby-faced Ivy-leaguers who were a one-trick pony (i.e. 2010′s “Contra”), prepare to be pleasantly surprised. “I wanted us to embrace our identity in a way. I wasn’t afraid of sounding like we had before in some ways, because I think there was an opportunity to go deeper than we ever had before,” said guitarist and keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij in an interview. “Modern Vampires of the City” is the third installment of a “trilogy”, as described by the band, and features some of Vampire Weekend’s most layered work to date. [..]