The Hit List: 20 Demos, Albums and EP’s You Need to Hear Right Now — July 27, 2015

Posted on July 27, 2015 by adammarx13

One month down and still killing it with some amazing artists here on the Hit List. This week, a sick new bunch of artists tearing is up. You gotta check these people out, you won’t be able to stop hitting repeat, ha! As always, albums are in the no particular order. Check these people out, they’re brilliant!

1. Ghost – Between California and Summer – 2014

2. Don’t Care – Belly Up – 2015

3. Run and Gun – Single – Fake Planes – 2015

4. Survive the Night – Single – 50/50 – 2015

5. Last Known Surroundings – Carousel Scene – 2015

6. Inside – Evenstate – 2015

7. Generation Dreams – Teenage Buzz – 2015

8. Own Your Ocean – Direct Divide – 2015

9. Saturday Night Loud – The Forty Whacks – 2014

10. Sweet Disillusion – Single – Elie & the Engine – 2015

11. Spirit of Freedom – Perseids – 2014

12. The Lost [EP] – The Beautiful Monument – 2015

13. Turkana Boy – Thousand Days – 2015

14. the Ocean – Of the Sonic Sea – 2015

15. Unify – Isometric – 2015

16. In My Head – Hillary Hand – 2015

17. Lov/ners – The Nories – 2015

18. For Machines EP – Limb to Limb – 2015

19. Stranger Just the Same – Heel – 2014

20. Fourstory EP – A Black Eye Affair – 2015

The Hit List: 20 Demos, Albums and EP’s You Need to Hear Right Now — July 20, 2015

Posted on July 20, 2015 by adammarx13

Week three into the resurrected Hit List and there’s no sign of slowing down. A new slew of amazing artists you need to hear, as well as new releases from some of my favorite independent artists from around the world! Albums are in the no particular order. Check these people out, they’re sick!

1. For Machines EP – Limb to Limb – 2015

2. The Black Swan Theory – Imber – 2015

3. Worth the Weight – Guidelines – 2015

4. Take Control EP – Free Sergio – 2015

5. Kissing Boys – Single – The Swear – 2013

6. Skin and Bones – Single – Bloody Diamonds – 2015

7. In My Head – Hillary Hand – 2015

8. Paint the Sky – Tigerface – 2015

9. One Step At a Time – Hour 24 – 2013

10. Change EP – Derange – 2014

11. 1974 & the Death of the Herald – 1974 – 2013

12. Rise to Fall EP – Altermind – 2015

13. Bareknuckle Love – Freya Wilcox & The Howl – 2015

14. My Heroin – Single – Nussy – 2015

15. Foxhollow – Foxhollow – 2015

16. Invisible Tonight – The Nearly Deads – 2014

17. For the Dearly Departed – The Funeral Portrait – 2014

18. SUBSPACE – GASH – 2013

19. HOME – On Call Heroes – 2015

20. Demo – Third Season – 2015

The Birth of the Tech Investor Portmanteau

Posted on July 15, 2015 by adammarx13

A couple months ago, I examined a few tech investors through an artistic lens. This time I thought I’d let the word nerd in me out to play. Instead of deconstructing an investor’s creative Twitter, I thought a more literal approach would be appropriate here. And then it hit me: tech investor portmanteau mashups!

A portmanteau is a combination of words and phonetic sounds to form something new, like smoke + fog = smog. This being the case, I naturally wondered if the same dynamic could be applied to the tech investors we all know and love (and indeed it can be!). Thus the tech investor portmanteau is born. Because every badass tech investor needs a single-name moniker ;D

Investors:

1. Jason + Calacanis = Jalacanis (seed investor)

2. Hunter + Walk = Wunter (Homebrew)

3. Marc + Andreessen = Mandreessen (Andreessen Horowitz)

4. Ben + Horowitz = Borowitz (Andreessen Horowitz)

5. Fred + Wilson = Frilson (Union Square Ventures)

6. Chris + Sacca = Chracca (Lowercase Capital)

7. Aileen + Lee = Laileen (Cowboy Ventures)

8. Steve + Sinofsky = Stinofsky (Andreessen Horowitz)

9. Peter + Thiel = Teter (Founders Fund)

10. Sam + Altman = Saltman (Y Combinator)

11. Beth + Seidenberg = Beidenberg (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Buyers)

12. Josh + Felser = Jelser (Freestyle Capital)

13. Ron + Conway = Ronway (SV Angel)

14. Dave + McClure = DacClure (500 Startups)

15. Jessica + Livingston = Jivingston (Y Combinator)

16. Sarah + Guo = Guarah (Greylock Partners)

17. Marissa + Campise = Camprissa (Greycroft Partners, SoftBank Capital)

18. Brad + Feld = Frad (Foundry Group)

19. Morgan + Beller = Borgan (Andreessen Horowitz)

20. Chris + Dixon = Chrixon (Andreessen Horowitz)

The Hit List: 20 Demos, Albums and EP’s You Need to Hear Right Now — July 13, 2015

Posted on July 13, 2015 by adammarx13

Another week, another 20 demos, albums and EP’s from the international underground you need to hear this minute. Check these artists out. In no particular order:

1. The Lost [EP] – The Beautiful Monument – 2015

2. Save Me EP – Forever Still – 2015

3. Dreamers – Monster Eats Manhattan – 2015

4. Penny The Dreadful – Those Mockingbirds – 2014

5. Mad Dog EP – Ten Dead Crows – 2015

6. Detours – Damn Mondays – 2015

7. Stranger Just the Same – Heel – 2014

8. Uncontrollable – Single – The Nixon Rodeo – 2014

9. Passengers EP – The Fallen Prodigy – 2015

10. Dais EP – Dais – 2015

11. Egressor – The Body Politic – 2014

12. Nocturnal – Isobel Trigger – 2014

13. Anchors – The Wonderlife – 2015

14. Time and Place – The Playbook – 2013

15. Do It Yourself! – Count Me Out – 2015

16. Change EP – Branded Bandits – 2014

17. Lunge – Lunge – 2013

18. Give It Away EP – Felice LaZae – 2014

19. Contenders – Contenders – 2015

20. The Drake Equation EP – Helion Prime – 2015

The Resurrection of The Hit List — July 6, 2015

Posted on July 6, 2015 by adammarx13

When I was running my radio show Underground Takeover, one of the best things I did was run a feature called The Hit List: 10 Demos, Albums, and EP’s You Need to Hear Right Now. Every couple of months I would compile a list of the albums, EP’s and singles that I found myself listening to ad infinitum, and that I figured everyone needed to be aware of and listening to.

When my show ended (it was a college show, after all), The Hit List ended with it. Lately though, so much amazing material has been coming out, these artists really need to be highlighted. So, we’ll resurrect The Hit List for a little while and see how it goes!

Some new details though, to reflect a new incarnation of The Hit List:

Lists will be lengthened from 10 entries to 20.
List items (demos, albums, EP’s, single) appear in no specific order; i.e.: there is no “top” or “bottom” of the list.
I will do my best to attach relevant details to each item, including title, artist, artwork, and year.
I will do my best to keep the list running, and publish a new list as often as possible.
These albums and singles are spread across a variety of platforms, and thus making a straight playlist is currently too time-consuming. However, I’ll reexamine this point over the next few months.
To help distinguish: demo, Single, Album, and EP titles occur in italics, artist names in bold, and years of release in regular font.
Artist names will be linked to either their Facebook, Twitter, home site, or other pages.
This is all for fun, so let’s keep it that way.

So with that, let’s get to it. Here’s my Hit List for July 6, 2015: