Discovery, “Orange Shirt” I am a notorious and avowed critic of modern R&B music. It’s awful. The classic sounds of 1960s and 1970s Motown have been replaced by copious amounts of AutoTune, excessive rap cameos and nonexistent song structures — and that’s not a good thing. The genre died with Michael Jackson’s career in the [...]

MGMT, “Destrokk” For those of you who fell in love with MGMT through their 2008 hits “Time to Pretend” and “Kids,” you’re probably wondering when the dynamic Brooklyn duo plans on releasing the follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut album, Oracular Spectacular. Unfortunately, I can’t answer that. I do know that the new album will [...]

Matt and Kim, “Daylight” While most of you are probably unfamiliar with Brooklyn duo Matt and Kim, you may recognize this song from a recent Bacardi commercial. (Not that you would ever pay attention to an alcohol company’s promotional spots…) It’s really a shame that such a fun, interesting band has to sell their soul [...]

Monsters of Folk, “Say Please” First of all, please don’t immediately navigate away from this page: I promise you the horrible, horrible name “Monsters of Folk” does not bely equally crappy music to follow. This indie-folk supergroup, comprised of Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, and M. Ward, could [...]

This post marks the fourth entry of a new feature here at Rhombus: the Song of the Day. In an effort to bring you great music, both local and otherwise, and fulfill our goal of helping you expand your musical horizons to include the best artists available, we will pass along one Rhombus-approved song each [...]

This post marks the third entry of a new feature here at Rhombus: the song of the day. In an effort to bring you great music, both local and otherwise, and fulfill our goal of helping you expand your musical horizons to include the best artists available, we will pass along one Rhombus-approved song each [...]

This post marks the second entry of a new feature here at Rhombus: the song of the day. In an effort to bring you great music, both local and otherwise, and fulfill our goal of helping you expand your musical horizons to include the best artists available, we will pass along one Rhombus-approved song each [...]

This post marks the beginning of a new feature here at Rhombus: the song of the day. In an effort to bring you great music, both local and otherwise, and fulfill our goal of helping you expand your musical horizons to include the best artists available, we will pass along one Rhombus-approved song each and [...]