This is the first installment of Cover Up!, something we hope will become a regular feature here at TWJ, where we examine covers that - albeit debatably - surpass the original. The first album I ever bought, consciously thinking it was an Important Album, was Peter Gabriel’s Us (1992). It was also the second [...]
Phoenix's new album Bankrupt! is out today on V2 Records. Matt has some thoughts about the record, and so does Sean. Read both viewpoints below! Matt - 4/10 We might be seeing Phoenix's obligatory 'experimental phase' in their 2013 album, Bankrupt!. Even during their United (2000) and Alphabetical (2004) days, the French band has never been so...inclusive. Over the course [...]
(photo by Brooke Smith) Bonobo - "Stay The Same" Because: This is very much the most perfect song at this point in time. Mr. Little Jeans - "Oh Sailor" (ft. The Silverlake Conservatory of Music Youth Chorale) Because: I wouldn't mind a class of kindergarteners having my back when times get rough. Small [...]
I’m not a morning person. At all. It’s hard for me to fall asleep and it’s hard for me to wake up. What happens in between those two moments, however, pretty much encapsulates the gauzy meanderings of Kurt Vile’s latest album, Wakin On A Pretty Daze (Matador Records) is a winsome, deceptively breezy album that [...]
It's been a few weeks since I posted about Brooklyn-based band Haerts and their song "Wings," and my love for the song hasn't faded one bit. I've been putting it on mixes for people I know, blaring it on long drives and repeating it in my headphones while at work. There's something about "Wings" that [...]
When I think French Pop/Indie tunes, I immediately want me some glitz and uptempo jams, like Phoenix and Yelle. The Dancers should start being included in those wants, because they're on par and rising. They've been the band on small stage at a music festival, the opening act for the Subways, and the subject of [...]
Love is beautiful, love is kind. Love is awfully messy. And when you're young, everything about love feels life-changing, whether it's the first kiss, the first break-up, or all the invigorating, frustrating, mushy stuff in between. Perhaps a part of each of us yearns for those early versions of attraction and devotion, before we'd fully [...]
I'm on Spring Break (kinda sorta), but I still can't get away from great music. Only fair to share it with you fine, fine people. Please enjoy. A Mighty Wind - "God Only Knows" (Beach Boys Cover) Because: In the opening moments of a gorgeous game, we get a barbershop-quartet version of a gorgeous [...]
I’ve wanted to see The Men live for quite some time now. They have made four albums in four years, each one morphing their post-punk sound into traditional indie rock, and succeeding unbelievably well. The few videos that exist of them playing live look to be chaotic, intense and ridiculously fun. Add in the fact [...]
My love affair with Australian quintet Cub Scouts continues thanks to the band's latest single and video "Pool!" Have you ever watched a band you love perform and thought "I wonder what they'd look like as a synchronized swimming team"? No, me either, but in this lighthearted video, the band goes up against some seasoned [...]
The new video from Mellowdrone vocalist/bassist Jonathan Bates has M83 professing his love, and viewers wishing Fred Astaire was born in the age of Tron as Big Black Delta illustrates so well for us in "Side of the Road." It's digital art, taking frames and motion captures, and splicing and mixing them into an amazing dual-tone treat for [...]
Colin Caulfield started off peddling his musical wares alone in his bedroom, and then branched out to produce his own YouTube channel like so many of the pauper singer-songwriters seek to do. What set Caulfield apart -even then known as Young Man- was his consistency, doing David Bowie covers, and producing his own brand of [...]
If one is to believe the backstory of Amethyst Amelia Kelly, aka Iggy Azalea - Australian-born, came to the States on holiday at the age of 16 and stayed to pursue a pipe dream that has become a reality - then a close listen to "Work" reveals a largely autobiographical tale. Scrubbing floors to survive, [...]
Maybe it's that bouncing piano melody, or maybe it's the way it hides the somewhat somber mood of the song. Or perhaps it's the rumble of the drums and that lazy guitar floating through the mix. More than likely, it's all those elements and the way they're blended together nicely on "Ritual Mask" with the [...]
(photo by Andrew Collins) This week's episode of Bestest Songs is dedicated to one of my literary heroines, Wendy Roby, who wrote her last singles column this past Monday after four years of highlighting. I've mentioned her a few times before in this feature's short run, always borrowing a song or a video from her handpicked [...]
Haerts may be based in New York, but its members hail from Germany and England as well as the U.S. I have to imagine the appeal of"Wings" is universal, because the song manages to uplift while delivering its melancholic message - refusing to let someone go, wishing for wings to follow as they fly away [...]
Only one slight note here; the new Foals video for "Late Night" features child birth, some spirited fornication, self-asphyxiation, and one big Russian getting sloppy drunk. If any of those things have the possibility of offending you, or if seeing the band oozing blood disturbs you, best skip that one. Otherwise, watch on for fireworks, [...]
It doesn't get much better in the land of music videos than this; however tongue-in-cheek the new video for Beach House is, the end result is glorious and a downright tearjerker. Directed by Eric Wareheim (of Tim And Eric fame), the official clip for "Wishes" off of 20122s Bloom features Ray Wise, in all his glory, serenading an [...]
If you're a proper human, you enjoy the occasional breeze through your hair/sun in your eyes. If we get neither, we get all seasonally disaffected and needy for some UV, so it's only (literally) natural. Small Black have just announced a new record, all ready to be placed in a box and shipped to you [...]
(photo by Nathaniel Shannon) We won't go on TOO long about just how the fantastic synths in Caveman's "In The City" should be considered the chorus, and repeated over and over again, regardless of how great the vocals are (live even). The band was named one of Stereogum's 40 Best New Bands of 2011 (so long ago!) [...]
The Wounded Jukebox
The Weeknd - Kiss Land
Holy Ghost! "Dumb Disco Ideas"
MØ - Waste Of Time (Audio)
Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action - Album Trailer
Kanye West - New Slaves
Baauer knocks trap music out of the park with Disclosure ‘You & Me’ remix
Talking Heads interpretando Psycho Killer con Arthur Rusell en el cello
Alabama Shakes – “Pocket Change”
Listen to Pharrell Williams’ new song “Happy”, off the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack
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