[FESTIVAL COVERAGE] Hangout Music Festival 2013: Day 2 Playlist

The Sights and Sounds has been invited to cover the 2013 Hangout Music and Arts Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama and as part of our coverage of the event, and in an effort to continually bring you the best in new and great music, we will be running a series highlighting the artists set to [...]

[HIPHOP/RAP] C2C – “Happy” (Chill Bump Remix)

I’ll be the first to admit that when it comes to listening to new music, I tend to shy away from hip hop. It’s not that I don’t care for it, it’s just that there is so much other music I listen to that I don’t get around to it. But every once in a [...]

[FEATURE] Train Your Ears To Say Yes: Rules For an Original Track

Part 1: Train Your Ears To Say Yes: Rules for an Original Track So, there is tons of new music out there. You feel like it’s impossible to get through it all and still find quality music. You wonder how in the hell those music bloggers do it, bringing you all those exciting new tracks [...]

[THE DAILY SWIM] Paldoore – “In Your Head”

Welcome to The Daily Swim, a new feature on The Sights and Sounds to bring you as much new music as we can. As a daily swimmer, water has always served as a dichotomy to my psyche – wholly and unswervingly calming in it’s vast simplicity yet at the same time able to harness and [...]

[MONTHLY] Um, F*ck Fear. I Have None: The Sights and Sounds’ Best of Feb. 2013

We haven’t done this in awhile and it’s totally Kavit’s fault (you’re a pillar of success, Kavit) so here’s a larger set of our Sunday Spotlights compiling our best of the best for the month—at least according to what that wily Kavit thinks (and, you know, he’s a bit of a pusher about featuring his [...]

[THE DAILY SWIM] Dwele – “Lady” (Sango & Lakim Edit)

Welcome to The Daily Swim, a new feature on The Sights and Sounds to bring you as much new music as we can. As a daily swimmer, water has always served as a dichotomy to my psyche – wholly and unswervingly calming in it’s vast simplicity yet at the same time able to harness and [...]

[ELECTRONICA/HIP-HOP] Purity Ring – “Grammy” (Soulja Boy Cover)

Yeah, you read that title correctly. Purity Ring and Soulja Boy, while an unlikely combination, is just another example of bands working to expand their sound by incorporating and mixing in elements of other genres. And in this case, like in many others, it sees the cover band releasing a much better version than the [...]

[DUBSTEP/HIP-HOP] Modestep & Teddy Killerz – “Inside My Head” ft. Ghetts

Modestep‘s newest release had me doing a sonic double take after the first time I heard it. “Inside My Head” featuring sounds from Teddy Killerz and Ghetts has Modestep exploring some darker sounds compared to the rest of their catalogue of high energy sounds. A moaning bass sets the tone before the chorus brings back [...]

[ELECTRO/HOUSE] Dr. Dre – “Still Dre” (Milk N Cookies VIP Edit)

Chicago based twins Milk N Cookies have officially unveiled their second project of 2013 with their festival VIP edit of Dr. Dre‘s classic hip hop single “Still Dre.” I suppose it’s not really a 2013 project, since they’ve been dropping it at shows since around North Coast Music Festival time last year. But regardless it’s [...]

[WEEKLY] Sunday Spotlights: Week 6

This week’s spotlights find us traversing the increasingly nonexistent boundary between indie and mainstream. I know, I know, hipsters’ heads are already starting to explode. The point of this week’s spotlights isn’t to claim that mainstream is increasingly great—oh, far from it. The point of music bloggers is to cull through all the shit out [...]