The moment the beat drops, you feel it in your chest. It is a heavy, mechanical thud that immediately grabs your attention and refuses to let go. Lakeside X is back, and they are not messing around. After a three year break, the Prague based alternative electronic rock band has returned with "Factory Flowers", a single that hits like a jolt of electricity. It is...

Badtaste, the creative vehicle of Czech-German artist Anna Kristina, has dropped a conceptual diptych titled "Hedonism, Sobriety." Now operating out of Paris, the singer, songwriter, and dancer has constructed a release that thrives on friction. It is a project that looks directly at the messy, often contradictory nature of human desire and refuses to tidy it up for easy consumption. The music operates in the...