I'd been hearing about it for years, the return of '80s sounds to popular music, but due to my relative disconnect from new music, it took a while to hear it for myself. But, well, it's definitely there (Which I'm sure you already know). And you know what? I don't mind in the slightest. Essentially the vibe I get is that a bunch of people took the good sounds/tones/effects from the mainstream '80s and left behind all the cheesiness while applying them to interesting, late '80s early '90s alternative rock songwriting, with a dash of thoroughly [...]
Ariel Pink is widely regarded as the leader of the modern lofi movement, inspiring tons of crappy bedroom musicians around the world to believe that one day they will become a famous indie star even though they don't have any real musical talents. Recently, Ariel Pink has some photoshoot with Terry Richardson , and they decided to use some hot ass big-tittied models. I have really bad depth perception, so I can't tell if they are real or not, but Ariel looks happy, with some nice, big ta-tas pressed all up in his face. U have [...]
The champions of mashups have officially thrown their hat in the ring of production with this full length debut. Earlier this year we had tastes of this, but now we finally have the full album. The 14-track affair, commissioned by Mishka, features remixes of Foster The People, The Rosebuds, DVAS, and guest vocals from friends like [...]
One second. Sometimes that's all a photographer gets - and hardly in ideal conditions. At worst (and most likely), a photographer may be squeezed between 15 others in the pit, mere feet away from pyrotechnics, finding support from stress-rattled knees, while focusing on a spastic frontman and sheltering oneself from a downpour, which may or may not involve a hailstorm. Truth: A great photographer handles the unenviable task of capturing that one moment everyone goes home thinking about. Half-truth: There's probably a statistic somewhere that discusses what the job does to the heart. If not, there should be a study. Double-truth: [...]
Als Ariel Pink letztes Jahr mit Before Today samt Band den Schritt ins Tonstudio machte, schienen das einige als Bruch mit der Vergangenheit zu begrüßen. Schluss mit Lo-Fi, Schluss mit Schrägheit, Schluss mit der Unsicherheit, ob der Kerl es wirklich ernst meint und ob seine Songs auch in konventionellerem Format funktionieren würden. Nun ja, wenn die grenzchaotischen Liveshows nicht genügt haben sollten, zeigt sich Pink auf seiner diesjährigen Single wieder erfreulich widerborstig: Ein einziger 16-minütiger Patchwork-Song hookreichen, proppigen Blubber-Pops mit ebenso Dada-politischem Text wie einem Video, das die Weltberichterstattung des US-TVs mit absurden Collagen parodiert. Weil [...]
Als Ariel Pink letztes Jahr mit Before Today samt Band den Schritt ins Tonstudio machte, schienen das einige als Bruch mit der Vergangenheit zu begrüßen. Schluss mit Lo-Fi, Schluss mit Schrägheit, Schluss mit der Unsicherheit, ob der Kerl es wirklich ernst meint und ob seine Songs auch in konventionellerem Format funktionieren würden. Nun ja, wenn die grenzchaotischen Liveshows nicht genügt haben sollten, zeigt sich Pink auf seiner diesjährigen Single wieder erfreulich widerborstig: Ein einziger 16-minütiger Patchwork-Song hookreichen, proppigen Blubber-Pops mit ebenso Dada-politischem Text wie einem Video, das die Weltberichterstattung des US-TVs mit absurden Collagen parodiert. Weil [...]
Perfectly timed for all your Sunday afternoon raging, here's part 3 of this lovely 4 part series! Hope you continue to enjoy. Frank Sinatra: You Make Me Feel So Young (1974/04/17 Live At The White House, Washington, DC) [Yes, as in THE White House. And, just in case you don't have your presidential chronology quite up to speed, that would be Nixon's White House. The recording of this show actually features a nice little introduction from Tricky Dick himself.] Simon & Garfunkel: Late [...]
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween -Jack Skeleton Enjoy our batch of tunes ranging from the dark and eerie, to the strange and scary. Have a great Halloween weekend! Quit Mumbling presents: Dead and Lovely // A Halloween Mixtape Click here to download individual tracks 1. This Is Halloween 2. All Tomorrow's Parties / [...]
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti gained a fair amount of attention with their wonderful 2010 release, Before Today, which sounds simultaneously fresh and familiar. Pink has a knack for bringing the past into the present, and the result is something that is both poppy and ethereal. Unlike some of his more popular work, Witchhunt Suite for WWIII is less like an EP and more like one long, convoluted song that is infused with samples of both a political and historical nature. Witchhunt serves as a social commentary, a bleak view of the future, [...]
Texto por Vinícius Cunha Fotos por Rodrigo Esper "Festa estranha com gente esquisita" é como os leigos, em palavras de Renato Russo , classificariam a noite da última sexta-feira no Circo Voador reunindo Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti e Pains Of Being Pure At Heart , além dos cariocas do Dorgas em mais uma mobilização do Queremos . Talvez pela grande maratona de shows internacionais no [...]
Texto por Liliane Rodrigues Fotos por Raphael Bispo Firme em sua vocação alternativa, a segunda edição do festival FourFest voltou a São Paulo trazendo os queridinhos da imprensa internacional Pains of Being Pure at Heart e Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti , além dos brasileiros do Some Community . Mesmo não lotando o espaço, os apreciadores de boa música e moderninhos em geral foram em bom número ao Clash Club, que recebeu o evento pela segunda vez - o que [...]
You know when you get in one of those moods? Well I'm in one. And not for any good reason at all, either, just in a mood. You know one of those situations where absolutely everything irritates you? People have been unduly enthusiastic about fucking crap music on the internet this week, and it infuriates me because they are obviously and clearly wrong. My back hurts again; fuck you, world. There's laundry to do; is there no end to the injustice? There's a new Florence and the fucking Machine album out soon and people are actually acting [...]
Like "Round and Round" before it, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti's "Witch Hunt Suite for World War III" has an extensive history: it began life on September 11, 2001, when Pink started recorded what would become a 16-minute synth opus. Fans of the superb Before Today will find plenty to love here - if it were released as a new five-track EP instead of a single "piece," no one would bat an eye - though, fair warning, between the '80s found footage of the accompanying video lies some fairly intense 9/11 imagery. The squeamish should skip [...]
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A decade ago, in the immediate aftermath of Al Qaeda terrorists commandeering passenger airplanes and piloting them into New York City skyscrapers, an unknown young musician cut a 17-minute-long, eer
If you are familiar with Ariel Pink you might understand his unyielding capacity for eclectic displays of wild, wild zaniness (a sort of less focused, modern day Zappa ?). This video is case in point, and I love the multitude of directions if takes. Created over the last 10 years and under the visual direction of Animal Charm , this 16-minute odyssey consists of music written by Pink in the wake of September 11 and is now available in full.
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A decade ago, as the saga of September 11 was unfolding, Ariel Pink got to work on a gigantic multi-part lo-fi trash-pop song called "Witchhunt Suite For WWIII." He first included it on the tour-only Yas Dudette CD-R in 2007. And yesterday, Pink released a single version of the 16-minute song as his tribute to the 10th anniversary of 9/11. But Ariel Pink is not exactly Bono, so his 9/11 tribute has its own twisted shape. Along with Animal Charm , Pink himself directed the new "Witchhunt Suite" video, which is heavy on [...]
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