photo by Morgen Schuler In addition to producing about three months of shows and two new songs, The Postal Service reunion can now add a video to the list of things its produced. The AB/CD/CD-directed clip for the new song "A Tattered Line of String" finds a man fighting off a laundry machine that's trying to suck him in. So, in other words, they're still making quirky videos to go with their mostly melancholy music. (It's like ten years never went by!) Watch the clip below and if you haven't [...]
Douglas Martin is a pioneer of modern National Basketball Association fashion. For this piece, I was considering a long-ass intro, detailing the dearth of Dirty Shoes this year. I could claim to have taken a mental health day - er, half-year, but that’s not the whole truth. I could claim that I was busy getting ready for the NBA Playoffs as Russell Westbrook’s body-double , but anybody who cares about basketball knows I got taken out of that job way too early. (Plus, I’m a little soft in the middle to [...]
London post-punks, Savages have been confirmed as the support act for a series of dates with Queens of the Stone Age . The fourpiece will open for Josh Homme and co, their labelmates on Matador, at a string of North American shows during October this year. These include gigs in Texas, Nashville, Arizona and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Savages recently released debut Silence Yourself during May, while QOTSA's new record ...Like Clockwork is [...]
Savages at Coachella 2013 ( more by Dana [distortion] Yavin ) As mentioned , Savages are going on a tour this summer, which includes a NYC show happening at Webster Hall on July 11 (sold out). The band is coming back to North America in September to play Detroit's Laneway Festival and will be stopping in NYC on the way there for their biggest show here yet: Terminal 5 on September 12 . Tickets [...]
A few days late but stacked with excellence, here is your collection of May's absolute jams. For optimal ease of consumption, you'll find it here in three forms: a 12-track downloadable zip of the month's best free MP3s, a 15-song Spotify playlist of May's finest Spotify-enabled tracks, and to close it out, a 46-track Soundcloud set of the essential songs you ought to have in your ears and under your belt before moving your mind onto June. For your weekend: Read More...
Savages' intense and severe live show is the first thing anyone noticed about the band, but it's the type of live show that doesn't seem like it should translate to a late-night TV stage. Last night, however, the band made their American TV debut on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and gave an absolute shitstomper of a performance, the type of thing that makes the entire setting look completely different. On the show itself, they bashed out the icily electric " She Will ," and they also did the darkly clanging "City's Full" as an online bonus. And [...]
Optimus Primavera Sound to propozycja dla czujących pewną więź z mieszkańcem okolic Pilton, który spytany w „Glastonbury” Temple’a, czy wybiera się na festiwal odpowiada: „Tak!”, by po chwili dodać: „Ze strzelbą!” Festiwale nie są dla samotników, festiwale nie zapewniają idealnych warunków do obcowania z muzyką, festiwale nie polegają wyłącznie na koncertach. To fakty, lecz jeśli tłum mniejszy wydaje ci się bardziej przyjazny niż tłum większy, chcesz - mimo wszystko - w parę dni posłuchać wielu artystów, a twoje [...]
Post-punk fourpiece, Savages celebrated their recent debut album release with a promotional outing on last night's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon , where they run through 'She Will'. You can watch a typically blistering performance of that below, along with a web exclusive of fellow Silence Yourself number 'City's Full'. Stream both beneath: [via Pitchfork ]
Facebook Like the act they're frequently compared to - The Knife circa Silent Shout - Aussie-fronted Swedes Kate Boy put a lot of stock in image and mystery, and the intersection of the two. And so while assumptions might be that the band's name is a pseudonym for frontwoman Kate Akhurst, they in fact insist it represents an entirely fictional fifth member because why not. Their visual aesthetic also speaks to the strength of the concept behind it, their greyscaled, silhouetted, and baseball-capped guises being well-maintained through their press photos and three [...]
Optimus Primavera Sound 2013 - #2-3 , a set on Flickr. Prezentujemy Wam zdjęcia z drugiego i trzeciego dnia festiwalu i już teraz zapraszamy na pofestiwalową relację. Do przeczytania!
¿Está de regreso el post-punk? No podemos decirlo con exactitud, pero podemos decir que en Inglaterra una joven llamada Jehnny Beth está emulando a la perfección el tono de Ian Curtis para transformarlo en un grito de guerra feminista posmoderno. Silence Yourself , el debut de la banda formada en 2011, ya se está perfilando como uno de los discos del año gracias a la frescura de su sonido, que al mismo tiempo irradia una ira despreocupada a base de sanguinarias líneas de bajo y guitarras infecciosas. Enmarcadas dentro del post-punk, [...]
Primavera Sound Festival took place over multiple days in Barcelona last week, hosting acts including Blur, My Bloody Valentine, the Knife, Phoenix, the Postal Service, the Breeders, and many more. We sent Autumn Andel to capture the sights. Check out her pics in the gallery above.
I had taken a hiatus from writing for a while due to a lack of inspiration/motivation. After a while of sitting on the sidelines, I've finally gotten back into the swing of things and like the direction of some of the new music being released. The only time I spent inside my house this look Memorial Day weekend was to sleep. Kind of reminded me of the days when I was a young one leaving the house at 7am and only coming back to eat and leaving again and not returning till the sun went [...]
Soso, vier zornige Frauen im strengen Schwarz, das Debtalbum "Silence Yourself” von Savages ist die Tage erschienen, groe Aufregung. Sie sind wtend, sehr ernsthaft, England geht mglicherweise langsam aber sicher den Bach runter, dem theoretische berbau aus Wut und tdlichen Ernst der Londonerinnen kann ich dennoch nichts abgewinnen. Vielleicht weil es mir ziemlich gut geht. Fresse halten, zuhren und wagt es nicht auf unseren Konzerten mit Handys zu fotografieren. Dazu zorniges Geplrre ber Komunikationsterror mobiler Welten , Facebook wird gedisst und dort natrlich eine fette Fanpage ins Netz gestellt. I like it. Das beeindruckt mich fr keine zwei Cent und [...]
photo by Brittany Bollay More than a band, Savages is an idea. Guitarist Gemma Thompson said it herself during an in-studio session at KEXP: "We had the idea originally and wanted to put everything we'd all accumulated individually into creating a performance that had a sonic representation of the name Savages." Their deliberate intention tends to separate them from many of their contemporaries and actually puts them closer in touch with their inspirations (like Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, The Cure and Wire), so it's not surprising Savages spent a year developing their ferocious [...]
Frank Yang 2010 wasn't really that long ago, but apparently it was long enough that I'd just about forgotten about Oxford, England's Stornoway despite their debut Beachcomber's Windowsill making it onto my year-end list , helped along by a stellar local live debut that December at the El Mocambo. Which is not to say that I had forgotten them completely or that I liked them, but by the time their follow-up album Tales From Terra Firma came out in mid-March, they'd [...]
Last night, London's great Savages celebrated the release of their album Silence Yourself , easily the year's best debut LP thus far, by playing an in-the-round show at the legendary London dance-music superclub Ministry Of Sound. And for the occasion, they violated their own no-cameras policy, letting the Creators Project livestream the entire show. Today, we can watch the whole replay back again, and it's shot in dark, disorienting, jagged close-ups, which is the way to shoot a Savages show. Savages are an absolutely ferocious live band, and there's obviously no substitute for actually being [...]
Inizia con un estratto di “Opening Night”, film di John Cassavettes del 1977, “Silence Yourself”. E quei quarantanove secondi lasciano in eredità un’atmosfera tagliente e dark, che contagia l’intero disco d’esordio delle Savages . Quartetto di Londra tutto al femminile (alla frontwoman Jehnny Beth , che fa anche parte del duo John And Jehn oltre ad essere attrice part-time, si affiancano Ayse Hassan al basso, Fay Milton alla batteria e Gemma Thompson alla chitarra) che, grazie al magnetismo mostrato sul palco e a un riuscito mix di sound [...]
Savages @ MHOW in March ( more by Wyatt Marshall ) As mentioned , you can watch a live Savages concert from London club Ministry of Sound today at 5 PM EDT. (Opener Johnny Hostile is on at 4:15 PM EDT.) Stream it below or here . And you can see them live in person when the band come back to NYC playing Webster Hall on July 11. Tickets are currently on AmEx presale with the general on-sale happening Friday [...]
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