The ever-theatrical Cyndi Lauper joined the always theatrical Arcade Fire onstage last week at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest for a dose of "The Sprawl." Make the jump to take a look.
Death Cab For Cutie: The Taxi Has Crashed Is it crap dressed as art? Or art that sounds like crap? I tend to side with Antiquiet , who say: "What's that you say? You could have made this video yourself by taping a flipcam to your leg and walking around the city all day? How dare you. This is art, man! It's in the editing! The momentary street sign focus! The underlying impressionism and sociopolitical undercurrents are positively scathing! Who are we kidding? [...]
Alex Turner (Photo By Kyle Dean Reinford) Have a lick of the new Arctic Monkeys album, Suck It And See . Suck It and See was produced by James Ford at Sound City Studios in LA. If you like what you hear, you can pre-O the whole dozen tunes at Domino Records . Arctic Monkeys, Reckless Serenade by Daniyrselfclean
Boys That Get Pissed Together Usually Get Pissed AT Each Other. Libertines Barat and Doherty in "Happier Times" So says Carl Barat in the latest issue of NME . "We are all in very different places," he said, alluding the irreparable schism between him and band member Pete Doherty. "Right now is not the time for The Libertines. I thought the water under the bridge was under the bridge, but maybe it's not. It's a very fucking hard thing. Every time [...]
Ronnie Vannucci's side project, Big Talk , will release their eponymous debut album in July. Make the jump to hear the first single. Even though Vannucci will be touring behind the album, he'll be in the studio with his main band, The Killers, starting next Tuesday, to work on new material. "Tuesday I think we start doing some writing again, he told London's XFM . We have piles of songs we want to show each other. We're going to get back in that room and start [...]
What form! What energy! Have you ever seen someone recline with such workmanlike precision? I should think not! Inspired by Kim Kardashian, hard at work displaying purple in just the right light, I've scanned the globe for three perfectly purple pieces of music. The Violet Lights are a band out of Southern California, who invested their hard earned money into recording a five song EP at LA's famous Sunset Sound. It's an excellent record entitled Sex And Sound (coincidentally two of my favorite things, along with soft fuzzy [...]
Coney Girl By Jason Stillman Coney Island girls in the sunshine, a walk down Broadway in the rain, some Puerto Rican girls that's just dyin' to meet you... The brilliant New York singer and songwriter Garland Jeffreys has a great new album on the way called King Of In Between . It's rock, it's folk, it's reggae, it's clean, it's dirty. In short, [...]
"Hippy Chick" spans the globe for the universal vibe of Hippiedom. John Braheny was a singer and songwriter whose song, "Warm," appeared on his one and only album, Some Kind Of Change , which was released in 1970. He went on to write songs for others, including Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys. It's followed by "Make Your Own Kind Of Music," a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and originally recorded by the Will-O-Bees. When Cass Elliott made it a hit, it was [...]
"A race of angels, bound with one another..." Springtime = Steely Dan. UB40 - Red Red Wine Steely Dan - Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me) Bob Dylan - Jokerman
"Fragmented samples going off in your face. Almost dance-y, once in a while. . . " So says The New York Times Ben Ratlif about Junk Culture , JC is Oxford, MS, native Deepak Mantena, who draws from a lifetime worth of sounds he's collected to release his new album, Summer Friends . The Times ' Ratlif also said it's "phasey, woozy, wicky wacky." It's not something I could listen to more than once or twice - I'm just not that much into bleepy, bloopy [...]
"Fragmented samples going off in your face. Almost dance-y, once in a while. . . " So says The New York Times Ben Ratlif about Junk Culture . JC is Oxford, MS, native Deepak Mantena, who draws from a lifetime worth of sounds he's collected to release his new album, Summer Friends . Ratlif also said it's "phasey, woozy, wicky wacky." Try this on for size: The Jam - Start! Junk Culture - Summer Friends [...]
The Vaccines have announced their debut U.S. tour will kick off in May, in support of Arctic Monkeys. The May 17th date will be at the 9:30 in Washington; their last date will be at the Palladium in LA. In the middle of the tour, Columbia will release their US debut, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? , on May 31st. The Vaccines will also make their U.S. network television debut on the Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday June 7. Post Breakup Sex [...]
"Didn't we say we had a deal, didn't I say how bad I feel..." The Vaccines have announced their debut U.S. tour will kick off in May, in support of Arctic Monkeys. The May 17th date will be at the 9:30 in Washington; their last date will be at the Palladium in LA. In the middle of the tour, Columbia will release their US debut, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? , on May 31st. The Vaccines will also make their U.S. network television debut [...]
Fantomas - 4/13/05 Wednesday
Where's Your Star Positioned? Marcellus Hall - Star Position
Hey Bartender Hey Bark-tender The Blues Brothers - Hey Bartender
From their near legendary If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears - the one that showed the ultra-sexy, bathtub bound Michelle Phillips draped across her band mates - this tune is a pretty refreshing bit of pop music yumminess. Thanks to every adult contemporary station from here to Tupelo and back, we've heard Monday, Monday and California Dreamin' a hundred too many times. This one, the flipside to the later, has that swirling, "we're gonna be on Laugh-In " groove that I'm surprised hasn't been covered by at least one [...]
Marilyn Monroe's Famous Playboy Photo The Easybeats-Made My Bed, Gonna Lie In It VIDEO
The Cover Of Tahiti 80's New Album Tahiti 80 - The Past, The Present And The Possible
Fusion 45
The Shins: “September” (b-side of “Simple Song” 7”)
St. Vincent - 'Cheerleader'
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Ni**as In Paris (Explicit)
OK Go - Needing/Getting - Official Video
M.I.A. - Bad Girls (Official Video)
Miike Snow – Paddling Out (Jacques Lu Cont Remix)
Lana Del Rey covers Lovecat magazine!
