Out of a mixture of boredom and intrigue (but mainly boredom), I decided to dig into our post history and tally up the amount of times we’ve used various words and/or phrases as music descriptors. The results are both hilarious and terrifying. Remind us to never use any of these ever again. “Lo-fi” — 43 “Lovely” — 40 “Indie” — 28 “Chillwave” — 26 “Hook” (and all variations) — 25 “Hazy” [...]
Tweet OOIOO is the side-project of Boredoms drummer, Yoshimi. The band says that their songwriting process usually begins with improvisation sessions. You can almost hear that creative process in "Grow Sound Tree", from the album 'Gold and Green' (2000). It starts out a little weird but builds and comes together over the course of the song, culminating in a satisfying ending. This long spacey/psychedelic jam sort of reminded me of a Four Tet song in its punchy drums and the way that it grows and develops. [...]
Chissà perché, ma resta sempre difficile da raccontare - restando tra i parametri dell’obiettività – quello che si prova al momento e poi nella 'convalescenza' sensoriale con quello che ogni volta esce dalle casse mentre che il duo de La Blanche Alchimie espleta il suo compito primario, ovvero incantare, bruciare e plagiare con la sua riserva speciale di bellezza, quel tessuto pregevole e artistico di gamma che gentilmente violenta le brutture attorcigliate della non grazia. Jessica Einaudi e Federico Albanese fanno una scelta artistica ben precisa con le loro canzoni [...]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCEgPq aXBLY Butchy Fuego's clashing colorful clothes are a testament to his freedom and experimentation as a drummer and producer. The one and only fiery rhythm master is out of town at the moment, playing with Boredoms, ultimate drum corps of the universe. Here's a live recording of the group performing "Boadrum" at Studio Coast in Tokyo on February 27. According to Butchy, this is "Next-level transcendental geometric future drum in true BO style. EYE is using a new 'invisible instrument'." —Daiana Feuer
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Exclusive , Q + A Gemma Harris With a little help from taste-making Brooklyn promoter Todd Patrick, AKA Todd P, the Cleveland-based lo-fi pop band Cloud Nothings went from MySpace obscurity to buzzworthy up-and-comer, performing at last year's SXSW mere weeks after forming. With a full-length debut now under his belt, Cloud Nothings founder and sole original member Dylan Baldi talked with [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Exclusive , Q + A Gemma Harris With a little help from taste-making Brooklyn promoter Todd Patrick, AKA Todd P, the Cleveland-based lo-fi pop band Cloud Nothings went from MySpace obscurity to buzzworthy up-and-comer, performing at last year's SXSW mere weeks after forming. With a full-length debut now under his belt, Cloud Nothings founder and sole original member Dylan Baldi talked with [...]
Han pasado ya cuatro años desde que Battles lanzó su muy exitosa producción debut, Mirrored , pero es que el grupo no la ha tenido fácil. El afán de encontrar la perfección, combinado con la salida de su vocalista, Tyondai Braxton , ha ido retrasando la continuidad en la carrera discográfica de este grupo neoyorquino, pero afortunadamente esto está a punto de cambiar . El ahora trío ya anunció que editará su segunda placa el próximo 6 de junio bajo el nombre de Gloss Drop a través [...]
Cold is the word of the day and it's going to be the word of the week. In my mind February is always grouped with December and January and is still winter while March is nearly spring, not yet spring but nearly spring. Baseball fills the sports' pages, the bulbs are poking their heads out of the ground and the garden stores have seeds and starter boxes. We just can't plant outside. For that, we have to wait until it's really spring. Today is a full day. This morning I have to [...]
Ponytail Release Video Mash-Up of Forthcoming Album Do Whatever You Want All the Time Baltimore four-piece Ponytail is gearing up to release their third full-length, Do Whatever You Want All the Time , due for release on April 12, 2011 on We Are Free . Buy CDs, MP3s, more: Ponytail on Amazon.com In the meantime, Ponytail member Dustin Wong has [...]
Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe In "Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe," Will Robinson Sheff's lyrics saunter aimlessly around the absurd. It's wordplay for the sole sake of wordplay, acoustically pleasing phrases devoid of any meaning. " Where the lock that you locked in the suite says there's no prying / When the breath that you breathed in the street screams there's no science. " Lovely. Empty. During the four-minute and 26 second song, Sheff sings 216 words. Only nine of them matter. [...]
Australian rascal art rockers, Regurgitator , are in no way new to the music industry. In fact they are veterans of the Aussie scene spawning cult classics like 'Polyester Girl' , 'I like your new stuff better than your old stuff' and 'Blubber Boy' since their inception as a band in 1994. Over this time they have performed on numerous festivals, toured with the likes of Prodigy , Devo , and Boredoms [...]
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue. [...]
All Tomorrow's Parties' I'll Be Your Mirror event in Japan has confirmed the lineup that'll be appearing at at Studio Coast, Tokyo, Japan on 17th February 2011; and topping the bill will be Canadian post-rockers Godspeed You! Black Emperor. GY!BE are also curating ATP's In Between Days event from 6th-9th Dec. GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR [...]
On February 27th, 2011, All Tomorrow's Parties will launch their latest music festival, I'll Be Your Mirror , at Studio Coast in Tokyo, Japan. As announced today, the recently reunited post-rock legends Godspeed You! Black Emperor will headline, with acts like Boredoms, Fuck Buttons, Boris, Envy, Autolux, Melt Banana, and Keiji Haino filling out the rest of the bill. There will also be yet-to-be-announced Guest DJs, as well as art from James Jarvis of Amos Toys. So, yeah, not a bad first attempt. Tickets will be available starting Novemeber 20th via E+ , PIA , [...]
All photos from the The Vine Midnight - 10/10/2010 I’m standing in a darkened room. There are quite a lot of people around me and a pretty large portion of them are yelling. Or screaming. Unfortunately I’m incredibly tired from drinking in the unusually warm Melbourne sun all day but I’m fairly sure this will wake me up. It’s loud enough to wake up just about anyone [...]
Katsuhiko Maeda returns with his first album in three years. Seven Idiots heightens the emphasis on rock instrumentation by incorporating guitars and percussion more than his past efforts, but Maeda's idiosyncratic tendencies remain prevalent and he again creates an excellent addition to his vastly underrated discography. I doubt this is a sound you have ever heard before, so brace yourself.
The Boredoms ' 77 Boa Drum performance on July 7, 2007 was one of those shows that legends are made of. Maybe you were miles away from Brooklyn on that date, or maybe you were stuck in the insanely long line to get in as the 77 drummers performed in Brooklyn's Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park. The DVD gets put out by Thrill Jockey on September 7, but to truly capture this experience, you're going to need a bigger screen. Well, you just happen to luck. On Wednesday, September 1, the 77 Boa Drum documentary will be shown [...]
The insanely ambitious, and now annualized, 77 Boa Drums concert will be getting a proper DVD release this fall. Out September 7th on Thrill Jockey Records , the documentary will feature various Youtube videos along with the professional footage of Jun Kawaguchi and his crew. Unfamiliar with the now three year old concert? Well 77 Boa Drum was a concert held in the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, featuring 77 drummers all collaborating at the same time. The group included drummers for such bands as The Boredoms (whom the project was created by), Gang [...]
I know, in fact Radio Warschau is a radio station which adds 17,000 songs to the playlist, sets to shuffle, turns the xfader on and presses the play button... ..but this is much like it! Some songs Ive listened to lately, walking through the city, waiting for the metro to come, returning from a soccer play, going to my flatmate's farewell party or walking through a boring Baselitz exhibition. Some of it I finally found after long long internet exploring and got flashed. Or got shown by friends. Or have always wanted everyone to listen to. Be boring and [...]
We drank free beer and the bridge was behind us and then once people started drumming and Eye started jumping up and down, we just drooled. For probably the entirety of the performance. Drool for miles. That's literally the only clear memory we have of that very, very weird day. DVD's out September 7 on Thrill Jockey .
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