Song Review: FaltyDL Gets Surgical With “Straight & Arrow”

“Hardcourage,” FaltyDL

Also out this week, FaltyDL’s Hardcourage debut on Ninja Tune Records. Listen to lead single “Straight & Arrow” in our playlist, and read why in the track reviews:

Album Review: Mountains Go Seismic On “Centralia”

Centralia, available today through Thrill Jockey, is the lead review in our new issue’s Album Reviews. Sean Ryan calls it Mountains’ “best record so far.” Listen to closing track “Living Lens” here, or in Issue 6’s playlist.

Song Review: Jose James’ Smooth Blue Note Debut

Jose James

New this week: No Beginning No End, Jose James’ first record on Blue Note. We review “Vanguard,” featured in the playlist of HASH’s brand new issue:

Kickstarter Update: Three Weeks Down, One to Go…

Our First Six Issues of HASH.

Here’s the latest on our Kickstarter campaign to print the next issue. We (and so far over 40 backers) can’t wait to see and hold the Fall 2012 issue. Can you?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hashmagazine/hash-magazine-our-first-print-issue/posts/339021

Kickstarter Update: Week 2 Brings New Backers, Sneak Peaks

 

 

 

We’re getting there! Check out the update we just posted to our Kickstarter campaign: Peep a draft of the HASH poster we’re promising donators pledging $50 and above, leave us your reactions and suggestions for it, spread the word and help us in producing our first print-issue this fall!

 

The CMJ 2012 Showcase You Can’t Miss: Saturday Oct. 20

We’ve finally made it. (You made it too, right?) Here’s what the last day of this year’s CMJ is looking like:

Saturday’s CMJ 2012 Must-See Showcase:

With everyone ambushing the finish line, the trend during the only weekend day of this festival is head starts. Of the afternoon events there are two setting a competitive tone early.

One of them creates its own contest: Brooklyn Vegan’s not-CMJ party at Public Assembly will have two different stages sporting divergent voices, like astral R&B showman Miguel,

The CMJ 2012 Showcase You Can’t Miss: Friday Oct. 19

HASH is forecasting the indie maelstrom descending upon New York, which will mostly be called ‘CMJ 2012‘. (For the entire schedule, click here.) Check in with us every morning for a preview of the next day’s must-attend showcase, plus what we’re calling that one wild card performance you absolutely cannot afford to miss.

Friday’s CMJ 2012 Must-See Showcase:

Wild Nothing and The Antlers are two outfits swaddling beleaguered lyrics with glimmering, often beautiful externals. Both will play and stream sets from CMJ Union this afternoon. In the evening, the Gramercy Theatre boasts the formidable hip-hop lineup straddling lyrical attacks and generations: Ghostface Killah, the

The CMJ 2012 Showcase You Can’t Miss: Thursday Oct. 18

HASH is forecasting the indie maelstrom descending upon New York, which will mostly be called ‘CMJ 2012‘. (For the entire schedule, click here.) Check in with us every morning for a preview of the next day’s must-attend showcase, plus what we’re calling that one wild card performance you absolutely cannot afford to miss.

Thursday’s CMJ 2012 Must-See Showcase:

In past years you could hang your hat on there being a trumpeted, somehow-CMJ-tethered event that seemed too big to have any business in the muck (Arcade Fire at Madison Square Garden, anyone?) This year’s semi-grand CMJ happening is less obvious. To some, it might be scheduled

The CMJ 2012 Showcase You Can’t Miss: Wednesday Oct. 17

HASH is forecasting the indie maelstrom descending upon New York, which will mostly be called ‘CMJ 2012‘. (For the entire schedule, click here.) Check in with us every morning for a preview of the next day’s must-attend showcase, plus what we’re calling that one wild card performance you absolutely cannot afford to miss.

Wednesday’s CMJ 2012 Must-See Showcase:

The hands-down destination for Day 2 is NPR’s showcase, being held at Le Poisson Rouge and featuring a melange of clamor and the serene: The Bleecker St. cabaret will play host to Stephen Ellis, that cosmically nomadic producer known as Flying Lotus, whose new album

The CMJ 2012 Showcase You Can’t Miss: Tuesday Oct. 16

As promised, HASH is forecasting the indie maelstrom descending upon New York, which will mostly be called ‘CMJ 2012‘

We’ll again be previewing and reviewing some of this year’s festival highlights. (For the entire schedule, click here.) Check in with us right here each day this week for a preview of the next day’s must-attend showcase, as well as what we’re calling that one wild card performance you absolutely cannot afford to miss. Let’s kick things off:

Tuesday’s CMJ 2012 Must-See Showcase: 

There are a pair of variable indie sets up for grabs, both at Bowery Ballroom (highlighted by Mountain Goats, and the emerging gospel whisperer-cum-bandleader Matthew E White)