Which Cities Are the Musical Trend Setters?

The chart below (from their study) shows the “leader-follower network” for the 20 most active cities in Canada and the United States for popular music overall, indie rock, and hip-hop.

(via yvynyl)

How To Dress Well | I Wish (R. Kelly Cover)

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(Source: howtodresswell.blogspot.com, via 1000xpm)

How to dress well – Ready for The World 

How to Dress Well aka minimal-deconstructive-earie-R&B from Chicago, Brooklyn & Köln (tweeter style)

For a more detail review I copy Joe Colly from Pitchfork

On paper, a blown-out, emphatically lo-fi reinterpretation of Ready for the World’s tender 1986 slow jam “Love You Down” doesn’t seem like it should work. But Brooklyn bedroom producer How to Dress Well, alongside Cologne-based pal cokc dokc strip the song to its barest elements and make something truly haunting out of it. The pair, who aptly describe their sound as “lo-fi Shai”, have been releasing boatloads of material recently— six EPs since September— and “Ready for the World” shows what they do best.

Superficially a sexed-up, romance ballad, the original “Love You Down” also contains a tinge of melancholy, and How to Dress Well & cokc dokc isolate that element and magnify it into a whole song. Layering longing falsetto over pieces of a clipped female vocal sample and loping, tinny drums, the track lurches resolutely forward but feels distant, as if it were seeping in from a neighbor’s apartment. The unrefined production (which is Ariel Pink-like in nature but in this context brings to mind newer acts like Salem) enhances this faraway quality, and by song’s end you feel like something warm and strange has washed over you. It’s an eerie sensation, but a good one.

How to Dress Well are self releasing their tracks and are all available on Soundcloud for streaming and download

Latest tracks by howtodresswell

Yourself and the Air - Sick Days

A song I wrote about the very first time I ditched school.  I was in Middle School, and while me and my cousin were walking to the bus stop, we decided to take a wrong turn on purpose and spend the rest of the day running around town in the snow.  It was a very exciting feeling, until we got caught by my uncle.  My cousin got in a lot of trouble…I felt bad for her.

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