Cometh the hype, cometh the backlash. Like a lot of the music press, Flavorwire has been enthusing over London four-piece Savages ever since they emerged last year. Out this week, their debut album, Silence Yourself , delivers on the promise of their first singles and killer live show . But with the release of that album, a counter-narrative is emerging, especially in their native UK. It stems largely from the sort of contrarians who haunt Internet comment sections (and celebrity Twitter feeds ), but also appears in the occasional [...]
Late last week, we read with interest in the NME that Nick Cave the musician was exhibiting at Grand Central. How was it, we wondered, that it had escaped our notice that Cave was working on an immersive site-specific sculpture featuring dancing horses? Happily, over the weekend we did some research and brushed up on our Cave biography, along with that of some of our other favorite musicians. Read on, and learn some things that you'll never have imagined could possibly be true! [...]
A couple of years back, the Guardian published an article called "The Lost Art of the Pop Manifesto," bemoaning, well, the lost art of the pop manifesto. The article harked back to the golden age of punk, when bands published manifestos as often as they made records, and lamented that bands these days just don't seem to do the same thing. We're not so sure, though — so in honor of The Knife's recently published manifesto, which did the rounds earlier this week, here's a look at some of our favorite manifestos past and present, from [...]
New Richard Law -directed video from Kyoto psych-pop weirdos Hotel Mexico , for their woozy, Ariel Pink-indebted new single " A.I. in Dreams ," taken from the band's new record Her Decorated Post Love ( listen to the whole thing on Spotify ).
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I was very jealous that I couldn't get my hands on Domino Records' Smugglers Way FlexiZine that was specially made for Record Store Day 2012. It featured this Dirty Projectors track, this John Maus track, this Real Estate tune, and a Cass McCombs cover of Leonard Cohen. You can find [Read more]
Estamos a tan sólo unas horas de que este 2012 le llegue por donde vino de manera oficial, y a lo largo de esta semana les he estado haciendo llegar cada una de las ligas para que chequen los listados de fin de año que me encargue de armar para recapitular algunas cosas que me dejaron muy feliz durante estos 12 meses. Obviamente hay quienes han estado de acuerdo, y otros que han estado en total desacuerdo conmigo, pero eso es lo bonito de este tipo de listados... Ya saben? compartir. Pero bueno, siempre es imposible incluir toda la [...]
For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2012, leading up to our 2012 Top Album Countdown , as voted on by our listeners! Tune in on Friday, December 28th to hear if your picks made the list! Grimes at KEXP, 02/20/12 // photo credit: Morgen Schuler ( more photos ) Sean's 2012 Top Ten Albums 1. Grimes -- Visions (4AD) I don't [...]
So weird to think 2012 is coming to a close. It doesn't feel like it at all, what with no Holiday break, no Christmas stuff, no New Years parties to look forward to, etc. They just don't care about New Years here in Israel. Kind of a shame...BUT what's not a shame, is how many awesome albums came out this year.So today I'm dropping the Gold Soundz pick for 10-6 and tomorrow 5-1. Originally this was a lot longer, but I didn't have time to write long things for all of them so it's just like [...]
This isn't exactly a regular "favorite tracks of the year" post. The title should really be: "A somewhat random collection of tracks and remixes that 1) we can remember playing repeatedly over a certain period of time in the past twelve months, and 2) are not featured on the records from our forthcoming albums and EPs of the year lists because we will include some songs into those posts too, and we wouldn't want to repeat ourselves or bore you with extensive 100 items lists". But I don't know, that just sounded a bit too long... ~ Why you have [...]
Segunda parte de lo mejor del año por cortesía de tu blog favorito. Stop, Collaborate & Listen! 26. Sidewalk Safari - Chairlift. Cualquier otra canción de Something podría haber servido pero esta ya la conocíamos por el blog así que no está de más recordarla en este repaso. 27. Happiness - Sam Sparro. Esta canción puede curar la depresión más profunda durante 3 minutos y 5 segundos, otra opción es reproducirla en bucle ad infinitum y [...]
Segunda parte de lo mejor del año por cortesía de tu blog favorito. Stop, Collaborate & Listen! 26. Sidewalk Safari - Chairlift. Cualquier otra canción de Something podría haber servido pero esta ya la conocíamos por el blog así que no está de más recordarla en este repaso. 27. Happiness - Sam Sparro. Esta canción puede curar la depresión más profunda durante 3 minutos y 5 segundos, otra opción es reproducirla en bucle ad infinitum y [...]
As we noted yesterday , we've been going quietly gaga about the new Scott Walker record ever since we got a copy of it a few weeks back. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Bish Bosch is that, weird as it is — and, mark our words, it's really fucking weird — it's still not as strange as the career trajectory of the man who made it. Walker's journey from the fresh-faced MOR pop idol of his Walker Brothers years to the experimental maverick who's just made what's arguably his best album yet at the age of [...]
Logistically speaking, Miami has always been an expendable stop for independent touring artists. Its geographic location renders it an official pain in the ass to drive to, with no real guarantee of a successful or profitable show. This being the case with many acts, South Florida has over the years been deprived of a healthy flow of out-of-towners, in comparison to those cities whom are not nestled on the STD-riddled penis tip of the grand ol’ US of A. Enter Swedish-born, Berlin-based lo-fi pop songstress Molly Nilsson, who is making her first Miami appearance [...]
Jens Lekman's new record I Know What Love Isn't is out this week, and on the whole it's a pretty morose affair, as befits its status as a breakup album. Still, even on a record this subdued, Lekman's signature humor can't help but shine through, despite the fact that he's left some of his funniest recent songs (namely "Waiting for Kirsten" and "An Argument With Myself") off the tracklisting. The fact that Lekman's songs are often as witty as they are moving is something that we've always liked about him — after all, love is frequently as bewildering, ridiculous, [...]
Ever since I was old enough to complain, my dad took great pleasure in the act of dragging my always-resistant ass to music festivals. A summer full of glorious music for him meant a summer full of unstifled groans from me. His taste in music back then - folk, folk, and nothing but folk - meant we hit folk festivals exclusively, and he wasn't shy about tackling the big, multi-day camp-out fests that separate the men from the meek. I have fond, fuzzy memories of trying to enjoy the Philadelphia Folk Festival and basically roasting alive under an angry sun [...]
[Photos and capsule reviews of selected sets from the Broadway Street Stage (The Tent) at Saturday's FYF Fest:] Dam-Funk, Tycho, Tanlines, Nite Jewel, John Maus, Doldrums [...]
You may have read recently that Mitt Romney Paul Ryan is the world's most unlikely Rage Against the Machine fan, and the spectacular WTF-ness of his inexplicable declaration of fondness for left-wing agitrock will endure as one of the stranger moments of the 2012 campaign trail. The whole strange business also got us thinking: well, there are plenty of features around wherein artists have been asked to choose a selection of their favorite albums or songs. Surely there are some wacky choices in there? We got reading, and yep, there are some real winners to be found… so here's [...]
With Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti finally falling off the wall with last week's unspeakably atrocious Mature Themes , there's never been a more crucial time for Gary War to take up arms, preferably in the pacific form of the guitar. Having squinted to read from the same bittersweet acid tabs as Rosenberg in the basket case's touring entourage, New Raytheonport was reportedly – or so dreampop and lo-fi folklore would have us fantasise – written one inspired eve, the band also comprising sermonising erraticist John Maus having been refused entry into these [...]
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