"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." -Willy Wonka Bruce Springsteen - "Rocky Ground" Typical Springsteen images of urban decay and social struggle are given a new context behind the hip-hop flavor of Wrecking Ball 's second single. CHAPPO – "Hell No" (NSFW) I would have loved to see the Craigslist casting call CHAPPO put out for this video. Hot Chip – "Night and Day" Now I know what all those [...]
Pop. 1280 put out a new music video directed by Jacqueline Castel, and all the lyrical references come together like a disturbing and horrifying puzzle. Yes, my review of the band's latest album, the Horror , acknowledged the music's dark, gritty edge; however, I never would have figured that this track was somehow in reference to the Long Island serial killer-who is still at large, I might add. Dark, dark, unsettling stuff. / via /
This weekend, we plan on getting Blacked Out at the Empty Bottle , do some Dumpster diving at the Burlington , make a Day of it at Cole's and so much more. Let's do this... FRIDAY HOZAC BLACKOUT FEST It has return..eth! The garage slash punk slash rock 'n' roll fest [...]
You'll all be proud to learn that I managed - just barely - to restrain myself from naming the rap video that stars the terrifying decrepit pro-wrestling quasi-legend as this week's #1 video. This took an incredible amount of self-control, and I'm still second-guessing myself about it. Just know that, if you're making a video, you will absolutely earn yourself a place on this list if you cast Sid or Spike Dudley or TAKA Michinoku or Glacier or the Disciples Of Apocalypse or Norman Smiley in it. This week's picks: Read More...
Cuando conocí a Pop. 1280 y bajé su disco me dio un poquito de miedo. El art-punk que manejan no es digerible a la primera, a menos que tengamos el oído acostumbrado a este tipo de música. Después de varias escuchadas, me empezaron a gustar más, pero por desgracia los había olvidado hasta ahora. Jacqueline Castel fue la encargada de dirigir el video de " Bodies In The Dunes ", el último sencillo de esta banda neoyorquina. Díganme qué les parece.
The punk rock machine known as Pop. 1280 have released a video for their grim single, "Bodies In The Dunes". Maintaining the dark aesthetic of the song, director Jacqueline Castel loosley based the video around a Long Island serial killer who was responsible for murdering four prostitutes in cold blood and dumping their bodies in "heavy underbrush along a beachfront causeway." Watch Pop. 1280's video for "Bodies In The Dunes" below. Pop. 1280's new album, The Horror , is out now through Sacred Bones. Read more »
The New York band Pop. 1280 make a grimy, scuzzy, entirely sinister variety of art-punk. So it only makes sense that director Jacqueline Castel would turn the video for their song " Bodies In The Dunes " into a '70s-style mini-horror movie about a serial killer who buries his victims on a deserted beach. The video isn't exactly NSFW, but there's a good chance it'll get under your skin. Watch it and download the song below. Read More...
What: This one takes the song's title literally. Based loosely on a Long Island serial killer, who killed prostitutes and dumped their bodies near the beach , Pop. 12802s latest video, as a press release indicates, "is not for the faint of heart." Can't argue that it doesn't work for the track, however. Directed by: Jacqueline Castel The band is currently on tour. Check out their complete itinerary below. Pop. 1280 2012 Tour Dates: 05/19 - Detroit, MI @ Jumbo's ! [...]
Jacqueline Castel tiene El Toque para crear excelentes videos que vayan muy de la mano con la tematica de las canciones a las que les ha llegado a dar vida y en su mayoria, pertenecen a proyectos de uno de mis sellos favoritos: Sacred Bones . Ella en compañia de Future Primitive han estado haciendo visuales y films bastante interesantes los cuales poco a poco se han ido haciendo de un enorme nombre dentro del under y toda la escena DIY de estos momentos. En su mas reciente trabajo, decidieron tomar la impecable y violenta pieza que encabeza [...]
Inter-band scraps, blatant sexuality and off-stage debauchery aside, we hardly ever associate beefiness with your average blog band these days, even less so if they're associated with Brooklyn. With No New York looking more like a fairytale, the bands that represent NYC are grown-ups like the National, Interpol and Animal Collective; all talented, but certainly not dangerous. It only takes one
Director James Cameron recently became the 3 rd human in history to explore firsthand the nebulous depths of the Mariana Trench . Despite the hope that he might encounter creatures strange and terrifying, what he found instead was a mostly barren landscape populated only by tiny, harmless, shrimp-like beings. It may be that we can't actually will sea monsters and the like into existence, but Pop. 1280's The Horror is a product of the same kind of twisted imagination that wishes that we could. And like the alien forms that still may [...]
Uh oh, looks I've found my new obsession. The Men's new album, Open Your Heart has been spinning pretty much constantly since it was dropped by the gods of music in to my lap a few weeks back. It's been a pretty non-stop The Men party, and I've set the satellites to detect anything The Men [...]
Pop. 1280 performs "Dead Hand" live @ Viva Radio : "Dead Hand" is off of Pop. 1280's great debut , The Horror , out now via Sacred Bones Records .
Man, these punks are all busy acting like punks. Who do they think they are...punks? Read more »
Out of the two dozen records I've heard in this young year so far, Pop. 1280's debut, The Horror is the one that stands out for me. Pop. 1280 plays a very atmospheric type of music—not dreamy and calming atmospheric like Grouper, but rather the opposite. Pop. 1280's The Horror is moody like a nightmare-ish soundtrack, think David Lynch's Lost Highway . The finest moments come from "Nature Boy", "Bodies in the Dunes" and "West World"—those are dark, sinister and chaotic noisy tracks... they add to the fascinatingly unique experience [...]
We didn't have a Pit Romney column up last week, a critical error since HOLY CRAPS SO MUCH HAPPENED! So without further ado, here's your latest round-up of the goings on in the wonderful world of hardcore festivals! The bilingual bunch behind Quebec's sixth Heart Fest recently revealed the full lineup for this three-day event, [...]
New York noise quartet Pop. 1280 gets their name from a Jim Thompson crime novel, and like Thompson, the band paints a bleak picture on The Horror , their full length debut. On opener "Burn the Worm", tension-filled guitar lines and savage drums unleash a primal, yet controlled fury, accompanied by hideously visceral lyrics such as "two dogs fucking/digging for gold." Forget foreboding; the danger is already here. On album highlight "Bodies in the Dunes", vocalist Chris Burg grimly chants the song's title with a completely desensitized affect, while rusted nail guitars screech in agony. [...]
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There have been so many notable new releases that dropped in the past week that music lovers have plenty of great, new music to keep them busy, and which explains partly why we're late with this post (this week's releases will be posted soon, but first the really good stuff). While January is usually a [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
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