Deadmau5 new album is out, here are some initial reviews

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The new Deadmau5 titled​ >album title goes here< came out yesterday:

Dancing Astronaut, Lessthan3, and Electric Honeycomb wrote their own respective reviews on the album. You can find them here:

While no review gives the album an overwhelming endorsement each blog outlines their favourite tracks out of the bunch. I think >album title goes here< is a successful album with some deep tracks that merit a good listen alone in the bedroom with your headphones on. My personal favourites out of the bunch are 'Superliminal' for it's bass and 'Fn Pig' for it's long buildup but huge payoff:

I'll be enjoying both of these tracks for a while.

Funniest thing I've read in a while - Riff Raff concert review in Seattle

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I literally laughed​ out loud multiple times while reading this concert review of Riff Raff by Andrew Matson from the Seattle Times:

​The California-via-Texas rapper went on an hour late and only played for 30 minutes. But that was long enough. Any more and someone probably would have burned the place down...
​...The smallish club felt oversold... Others tried to sneak in from the sidewalk to the back patio, throwing themselves over the heavy metal gate, crashing into the bushes...
...After the show multiple fights broke out on the sidewalk. Driving away, I saw guys five blocks down the road ripping off shirts, squaring up. It was too much.​

​But guess what? Despite all of the tongue lashing Andrew actually thought the music was good. The legend of Riff Raff continues to grow.

Riff Raff will be in Winnipeg tomorrow at the Greenroom, and at the Fortune Sound Club in Vancouver this Friday. ​

(Source: Seattle Times, @JODYHIGHROLLER)​

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Diplo produced Snoop Lion's entire new album

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​This could be old news to some but when Snoop originally announced his new name and sound I thought it was cool but didn't bother to read further beyond the various tweets I saw that day. But after reading this recent interview of Diplo I decided to look a further and found this article detailing that the face of Mad Decent has produced Snoop Lion's entire new album.

Diplo, who produced the entire album under his alias Major Lazer, sat to Snoop's right. He said the music was "some of the best" he's ever made and expressed his respect for the latter's career shift. "He wanted to do real reggae," Diplo said. "To sing and find a new voice. It was a dream to work on an entire record [as opposed to a single]. That's very rare."​

This summer I've been listening to anything and everything that Diplo and Mad Decent have been putting out so when I see someone as talented as Diplo 100% backing the Snoop Lion reinvention then you've gained my attention. Once there are some previews of the new album I'll be sure to post them here.

(Source: Huffington Post, article 1, article 2)​