Diplo raises the bar on tour transport.
It's a life after death of sorts for Beirut 's The Rip Tide album, which reached our top spot this past year in terms of albums. As the album slowly slipped away from us in 2012, this video has rekindled our lost love for this remarkable collection from the indie scene's most treasured artists. Beirut's video for The Rip Tide 's title-track is one of the most beautiful and serene videos we've seen since Bon Iver's "Holocene" . As shown below, a ship slowly rocks in the [...]

“I’d have him love the thing that was before the world was made...” This line from William Butler Yeats' classic poem A Woman Young and Old has replaced sailboats as Tennis ’s main inspiration for “Origins,” a single off their upcoming sophomore album Young and Old . Since they released Cape Dory last January, the husband-and-wife Denverites (Denvertonians?) have been on a nearly 10-month hiatus, leaving my insatiable craving for maritime-inspired girl-pop jams unfulfilled. Propelled by the [...]
Stream Sailboat Bonnie Dune is now streaming their new track 'Sailboat' on Facebook .
( email | facebook | twitter ) New Field Rotation. Stream it just below. Acoustic Tales is still shortlisted for 2011 album of the year. Read our preview of that album here .
Try and wrap your brains around the following video from CocoRosie for "Lemonade" from the duo's recently released Grey Oceans ( Sub Pop Records .) Yes .. that was an Indian (Native American?) sitting in a sail boat .. indoors. Don't forget that you can stream all of Grey Oceans right here . -Mangtooth Filed under: Music , Random , WATCH THIS Tagged: CocoRosie , [...]
Yes, that's right! Today marks six months of me doing this. Of being dull (in print) and recording 6 months of songs in my head. Of inadvertently exposing my prejudices, lackings, my stick in the mud-ings regarding music and my commentary on it. Of playing this kind of roulette. It was really easy to do. I missed only those few days i was on holiday. There lies a testament to my ability to wake up in my own bed every morning. And to what a rut i am in. Sliding this experiment into such a rut was no difficult thing. [...]