Monster Rally

Take a trip through the tropical beats of South America and Japan with Monster Rally’s new two-part digital 45, Escape To The Cloud Forest. As usual, like everything MR releases, it’s really good. Escape To The Cloud Forest is available now via MR’s Bandcamp page and you can sample its goodness below. Enjoy. You can …

Monster Rally

Ted Feighan is back with his newest and strongest Monster Rally effort yet, Flowering Jungle. His cut and paste production skills are on point as he takes the listener on a groove-filled tour into his world of hip hop beats meets exotica from days past. As soon as the needle drops on track one, “Sunny Sloth”, …

Monster Rally and Jay Stone

After a long holiday break, I feel refreshed and ready to start bringing the hits again. For the first post of 2015, I am stoked to be sharing a couple tracks from the upcoming Monster Rally & Jay Stone collaboration, Foreign Pedestrians. Monster Rally’s hazy, exotic beats mixed with Jay Stone’s razor-sharp vocal delivery are …

Monster Rally

Ted Feighan is back with Return To Paradise, his best Monster Rally release yet. Check out opening track “Orchids” (below), it’s a killer mix of old vinyl crackle, hip hop beats and pure tropical bliss. This album is solid, and does just as it’s title suggests. Return To Paradise comes out on October 29. You can …

Monster Rally

What do you get when you take a stack of old records and sample bits and pieces in order to create new music with a psychedelic, tropical, surf, hip hop vibe to it? The answer, my friends, is Monster Rally. Monster Rally is the project of Ohio-resident Ted Feighan. His music has a warm, lo-fi, …

Favorite Releases of 2017 (Todd’s List)

Here are my favorite albums/EPs from 2017, in no particular order… Monster Rally Flowering Jungle (Gold Robot) Spotting Spotting EP (self-released/Aarght) Spotting S/T EP by Spotting The Rebel Set 4 Song EP (Hidden Volume) Ty Segall Ty Segall (Drag City) Molly Burch Please Be Mine (Captured Tracks) Doug Tuttle Peace Potato (Trouble In Mind) David …

May 17 Mixtape

Better late than never. Here are 20 tracks to end May with. 1. The Cardigans – Iron Man (Black Sabbath Cover) 2. Alias – Resurgam 3. Hanni El Khatib – Freak Freely 4. Adolescents – LA Girl 5. Misfits – I Turned Into A Martian 6. Wooing – In Colour 7. Ha The Unclear – …

Introducing the 3hive Co-op Shop!

Hey friends, Do you still love buying vinyl in this age of all-you-can-stream music subscription services? Yeah, so do we. That’s why we’re introducing the 3hive Co-op Shop – so we can buy records together! Here’s how it works: when we buy records for ourselves, we buy a couple extra for the Co-op. This allows …

Best of 2016 (Todd’s List)

20. Thee Oh Sees – An Odd Entrances [castle face] 19. Thee Oh Sees – A Weird Exits [castle face] 18. Rocket Reducers – S/T [dead beat] 17. Kate Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos [lex] 16. ORB – Birth [castle face] 15. OHIOAN – EMPTY / EVERY MT [gold robot] 14. A Tribe Called …

September 2016

September 2016 from 3hive on 8tracks Radio. 15 tracks of anti-fall/winter goodness. Enjoy. 1. Four Tet – And Then Patterns 2. Odd Nosdam – Ethereal Slap 3. Monster Rally – Pelicans 4. Dr. Octagon – 3000 5. Cornelius – Drop 6. Katy Goodman & Greta Morgan – Pay To Cum (Bad Brains Cover) 7. Redspencer …