The brand-new video for Lyrics Born's "Pushed Aside, Pulled Apart," featuring Lateef The Truthspeaker, was premiered yesterday on URB.com! The video, directed and edited by Raphael LaMotta from ApSci, features cameos by Joyo Velarde, Zion I, Pigeon John, Trackademicks, Kat Ouano, DJ D-Sharp and ApSci. Check it out below. The track is available as a free [...]
Quannum duo ApSci, whose excellent sophomore full-length, Best Crisis Ever, came out digitally last week, have two very different upcoming shows in New York in the next couple of weeks. The first is next Wednesday, August 26, at Mercury Lounge. ApSci will be opening the killer triple-bill with their full-live band, followed by Michna (who [...]
Next Tuesday, August 25, is a big day for the Lyrics Born camp. Not only is his more recent mixtape, The Lyrics Born Variety Show: Season Pho (4!), going to be released physically (with a bonus track!), he's also dropping the next single, "Pushed Aside, Pulled Apart," which features none other than Lateef, and is [...]
DePedro, the first solo album from the man behind the name Jairo Zavala, and also the first full-length release for the newly minted Nat Geo Music label, comes out today. The album combines the Madrid native's varied influences with a particular North American bent. DePedro was recorded in Calexico's studios in Tucson, Ariz., and Calexico [...]
Lyrics Born has been busy! Besides releasing a mixtape and working on his next album, he's been playing a lot of shows, one of which, as part of the Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco last month, he both curated and headlined. Despite all of this, he still managed to update LBTV with some backstage and [...]
Jairo Zavala, aka DePedro, is getting set to release his solo full-length on Nat Geo, in just less than a week. DePedro combines Zavala's varied influences with a very particular North American bent, in part thanks to the fact that it was recorded in Calexico's studios in Tucson, and that the band themselves helped to [...]
Quannum duo ApSci's second full-length, Best Crisis Ever, is available today, August 11, on iTunes and other DSPs (it'll be released physically later this fall). Recorded in both New York City and Australia – and spots in between; "'Til the Windows Rattle Off," for example, was recorded and programmed in Malaysia, during some downtime at a [...]
Beginning the week of August 10, IFC.com will be featuring the video for "And Then I Dreamt of Yes." Directed by Mark Helfrich and inspired by Robert Wiene's German Expressionist classic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, among other things, and shot in black and white, the video combines the surreal and the erotic into something [...]
It's your lucky month, Bay Staters! Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens have two dates in your fair state. The first, with the Holmes Brothers at the MFA in Boston already passed (sold-out in fact!), but next Saturday, August 15 she and her band will be at the Mountain Park Festival in Holyoke. They're set [...]
In an exclusive interview with AOL Spinner, Courtney Taylor-Taylor talks about the brand-new cover of the Beatles' "Blackbird" the Dandy Warhols just released. You can read an excerpt below, and the whole thing here. "'I wrote a very short little song making vague references to how gross the business side of making music is,' Taylor-Taylor - who [...]
The story of Na Teef Know The Road of Teef could have ended 35 years ago. Fela Kuti conga player and background singer Nicholas Addo-Nettey, or Pax Nicholas (he appeared on all of Fela's Africa 70 albums between 1971 and 1978), released two LPs for the Tabansi Label with the Martin Brothers Band from Portharcort, Nigeria: [...]
Brazilian chanteuse Céu recently released her sophomore full-length, Vagarosa, here in the US, but the album was actually recorded in her native São Paulo with the cadre of talented musicians make it their home. The sessions were videotaped, which allowed for some really great behind-the-scenes footage. YOu can check out the making-of the lovely "Cordão [...]
New album from NYC's best party band, featuring contributions the Brazilian Girls' Sabina Sciubba and singer-songwriter Jesse Harris now out October 13 (previously September 29) on Nat Geo Music. DOWNLOAD "Perro Loco" HERE From the opening drum rolls of "Bandinha" to the last swinging guitar chords of "Just Like Any Other Night," it's clear that Light A [...]
Montrealer Tiga will be back in the US next Saturday, August 8, for a performance at the much anticipated Summer HARD Fest in Los Angeles, alongside Underworld, Crookers, Rye Rye, Crystal Castles, Busy P, Chromeo, the Bloody Beatroots, A Trak, and more! He'll be playing songs off his new album, Ciao! (what allmusic.com calls "...one [...]
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings may be laying down tracks this summer for their upcoming album, but that doesn't mean they don't have time to, well, tour the continent. The band has been busy, spending each of the past weekends in a couple of different locations. Don't think all this traveling has made them tired, [...]
For the past month now, Youth Group's piano-and-guitar-playing frontman Toby Martin has been playing solo shows at New York's Living Room. He's been performing a variety of Youth Group songs as well as new songs he's written which may or not become Youth Group songs, so if you're any sort of Youth Group fan, you're in [...]
Quannum duo ApSci are releasing their sophomore full-length in September, but the reviews for Best Crisis Ever are already coming in, most recently in SPIN and Mother Jones. You can read the SPIN piece here, and the MJ here. When ApSci were in San Francisco last, they stopped by Myx to chat. You can [...]
It continues to be a busy summer for Naomi Shelton, lead singer and frontwoman of Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens. TimeOut New York recently caught up with her at one of their rehearsals, where they filmed some songs and chatted with Naomi and bandleader Cliff Driver for a bit (check out the interview and [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Adam Goldberg - aka LANDy - and his band went to Ship Studio, located on the east side of Los Angeles and host to artists like Flosstradamus, She & Him, Ben Gibbard, and the Silversun Pickups, to perform for the recently created Ship Sessions. The series, which is curated by [...]
The last time Curumin was in the States, he stopped by Daytrotter with his band to record some songs of his latest album, JapanPopShow, for their famed Sessions. The fruits of this were just released, and you can hear whole thing here. Curumin only has four dates left in his Summer 2009 North American tour! He'll [...]
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