What's Matthew Listening To?

I may not be a real audiophile, but I have been listening to some good music -- and at the risk of being a hipster, you probably haven't heard of some of it. Which is a shame, because it's worth a listen. Page through, maybe you'll find something new and interesting.

Warning: I listen to NSFW music, and some of the titles ain't clean. Avert your eyes, children and actual adults.

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"Cum Junkie," by Genitorturers. Pop-rock with a catchy chorus that you can never, ever sing in public.

"Wu-Tang Clan Aint Nuthing Ta F' Wit," by Wu-Tang Clan. All you need is to listen to the hook, so you can quote and paraphrase it without feeling like a complete poser.

"Nobody Likes You (When You're Dead)," by Zombina and the Skeletones. Pop-punk about the loneliness of an undead girl. Smart rhymes and an upbeat organ/synth make this a fun parody of both B movies and middle-class culture.

"Hey Baby," by Deadmau5 and Melleefresh. I've heard it described as "for horny nerds," mashing up Deadmau5's expansive, sparse sound with alternating squeaky and gravelly bad-girl vocals. I usually listen to it in the same session as "Le Disko," and the pulsing bass is good for zone-out gaming; it's served me well playing FPSes.

"Tough Guy," by Celldeweller. Celldweller's somewhere between a rock band and a dubstep act, and if you took the structure of late-radio heavy metal, but replaced the solos with heavy drops, you wouldn't be far off from Celldweller. The drops are very Skrillex-y, very heavy and dirty.

"Invaders Must Die," by The Prodigy. They're probably closest to Pendulum in sound, serious drum 'n' bass with heavy distortion. This track goes very abruptly from slow to manic, so be prepared for violent drops.

Memento Mori by The Bastard Fairies. If a burlesque group moonlit as an indie band doing the soundtrack for a coming-of-age story, they'd be The Bastard Fairies. They've got acoustic guitars, airy vocals where you can hear every breath, and samples from 50's era PSAs. Fair warning, their sound changes between Memento Mori and their more recent releases; still good, but less cabaret-ish.

"Clarity" by Zedd and Foxes, "Wake Me Up" by Avicii, "I Need Your Love" by Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding. Pop-techno, you've heard it on the radio, you don't need me to describe it to you.

Immersion and "Witchcraft" by Pendulum. I latched onto Pendulum's "Blood Sugar" back in college, and hearing their new style is a dramatic change. (Or maybe "Blood Sugar" just wasn't representative of their style.) These tracks are more storybook and heroic/romantic, but still drum 'n' bass. The cover art of Immersion gives the right feel of musical fantasy: Two nude swimmers, in dark water with a spotlight ray of light, surrounded by a reef and fish.

"Crystallize" and "Elements," by Lindsey Stirling. Apparently everyone else has already listened to this, but I just discovered it. Violin played over dubstep; it's awesome. This is more like European dubstep, with slow, rolling drops, and less thudding bass and more in the higher registers.