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Millions of people celebrate Valentines Day with a special gift or gesture for our loved ones, however occasionally we find it difficult to think of Valentines gift ideas. The beginnings of this special day of affection are uncertain. One legend says St Valentine had been a Roman clergyman, famous for marrying youngsters contrary to the wishes of the emperor, who wanted all adolescent men to stay single and become soldiers. Another tale portrays St Valentine as being a prisoner in the Fifteenth century who fell deeply in love with his jailors female child and sent her the very first [...]

By Bruce Rave Dead Sara is a heavy LA band that absolutely shreds live. If you loved Wolfmother when they first hit the world stage a few years ago, I bet this is for you. They're starting to gain some national attention, so keep and eye and ear on them. Dead Sara - Weatherman Dead Sara ( Facebook ) Check out Bruce's [...]

Just like in high school and college sports, the music industry has become enamored and obsessed with discovering the next profound promise of potential. Originally started in 1987, SXSW has matured and blossomed into the premier talent showcase for musicians around the world. As we journey towards this incredible opportunity, we decided to take an in depth look at some of the thousands of up and coming artists who will be performing. Anyone that has ever been or considered going to experience a massive event like this knows [...]

We began to delve into the technical side of DJing with our DJing Made Easy feature, and we plan to expand our coverage of the production side of this business. In that technical spirit, we attended the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Show in Anaheim, CA earlier this month, which crams over 1,441 exhibitors into the West coast's largest convention center. While there was no shortage of new kit on display from companies like Numark, Pioneer, Avid, and Novation, one of the biggest trends from the show was the multitude of DJ solutions for the iPad. Think this device is just for media [...]

Neon Indian premiered his new video on Adult Swim's website and, appropriately, it is an animated clip directed by Lilfuchs. Check out "Fallout" below, as well as a wealth of Neon Indian tour dates, including shows with Purity Ring, Friends, and Lemonade. Neon Indian Tour Dates: March 7, New York, NY MOMA March 8, Richmond, VA The National * March 9, Knoxville, TN The Square Room * March 10, Nashville, TN Mercy Lounge * [...]

IODA at SXSW Opening Bash Wednesday, March 14th (Noon - 6pm) Red Eyed Fly | 715 Red River St [ RSVP ] Outside: 5:15PM - The Wedding Present (Scopitones) 4:30PM - Thee Oh Sees (Castleface / In The Red) 3:45PM - Pillow Fight (Bulk Recordings) 3PM - Tycho (Ghostly International) 2:15PM - Poliça (Totally Gross National Product / Poliça) 1:30PM [...]

In a profile of the chamber sextet yMusic that was published in today's New York Times , it's revealed that the group participated in a recording session with Trey Anastasio . Trey's new solo album, expected this fall, also contains contributions from members of the National and Mates of State as well as Anastasio's solo band. Noted producer Peter Katis is co-producing the album with Big Red, which was recorded at Katis's Tarquin Studios in Bridgeport, Conn.

The Mumbai International Film Festival will be held at the NCPA from Feb 3 to Feb 8. The festival will have simultaneous screenings of films at the Godrej Theatre and the Tata Theatre. The MIFF is one of the few festivals conducted by filmmakers and is only held once every two years. The festival will also feature various master classes and seminars with filmmakers and festival jury members, including classes and workshops on subjects such as script and commentary writing and how to use the HD-SLR camera into a filmmaking tool. The workshops will be held at the Experimental Theatre [...]

Ever wanted to know what goes on behind the scenes behind the broadsheet newspaper? Just yesterday it was revealed that the Guardian , incidentally a national publication whose music department has recognised our hard work here at TGTF, will be allowing the public behind their previously closed doors to find out. This 24-25 March at their offices in King's Cross, London, the Guardian will be holding their first Open Weekend , giving people the opportunity to participate in lectures and debates by their editors, writers [...]

It's been a compelling week of television on CBS's Late Show . On Tuesday, K-Pop's Girls' Generation made their American TV debut to the delight of all of us, and especially guest Bill Murray. Wednesday marked David Letterman's 30th year in late night, over which Howard Stern got all nostalgic, telling the host, "Back then, the fact that you asked me to be on a national television show was mind-blowing." And Thursday saw Lana Del Rey - perhaps you've heard of her - improve upon her much critiqued SNL bow [...]

As a Canadian, I often find it difficult to dissociate myself from my nation's past time: hockey (although, contrary to popular belief, it is not Canada's national sport). So this week I am bringing to you a little treasure that hockey brought to my attention. This season of the HBO show 24/7: The Road to the NHL Winter Classic followed the Philadelphia Flyers and the New York Rangers in the weeks leading up to the Winter Classic – an outdoor hockey match shortly after New Years. In the first episode, the Flyers returning to their dressing room after [...]

Three minutes and eight seconds into the video for Lana Del Rey's indie-hip single "Video Games," sandwiched between a shot of a pool and one of a wall, there are a few frames of Del Rey glancing away from, and then back into, the camera's lens. It's clearly meant to look casual in the way that videos often make use of an "I just happened to turn the camera on" conceit – i.e., we're meant to understand that we're watching performance or moment, per se. But the glance is just a hair too practiced, too calculated: her timing [...]

• Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans
• Lana Del Rey - Diet Mountain Dew
• Lana Del Rey - National Anthem

Young the Giant - "Strings" Three minutes on stage may have made the difference between emerging success and national attention, or a career as another relatively unknown alt-rock band for the members of Irvine's Young the Giant . Or, as guitarist Jacob Tilley recalls, it could have meant the end of the band itself, had Young the Giant not wowed national television viewers at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards with an electric performance of "My Body." "We were kind of getting to the point where [...]

• Young the Giant - Strings

On the heels of Jack White's new album announcement as well as the unveiling of Blunderbuss 's first single " Love Interruption ," we thought it was time to revisit the hits - not the literal ones , unfortunately - of White's wide-reaching, strange and prolific career so far. So, here's 13 of Jack White's most memorable collaborations. Sorry Bobby D . For once, you didn't make the cut. 13. Insane Clown Posse and JEFF The Brotherhood w/ Jack White Definitely one of the higher-ranking moments in Jack White's "WTF?" register, White [...]

Sometimes a song is so good you just want to cast its essence in bronze and hang it in the National Gallery where families of Taiwanese tourists can take illegal flash photos of it and fly them around the globe. Sometimes a remix does this for you, which is nice, because where the hell do you get tin anymore? Enter All Things Gold 003 alumnus Starsmith , whose reworking of St. Lucia's "We Got It Wrong" from Neon Gold Records elevates and pays tribute to the original with a mastery unseen since Donatello transformed raw molten metals [...]

Los Manic Street Preachers siguen promocionando su más reciente lanzamiento, National Treasures - The Complete Singles que, como su nombre lo indica no se trata de un álbum inédito sino de un recopilatorio de 38 canciones con el que la banda decidió celebrar sus más de dos décadas de trayectoria artística. Como parte de estas celebraciones, la banda ofreció un largo concierto en Londres el pasado diciembre y ahora acaba de confirmar una nueva gira por Europa. Lo interesante de esto es que será el primer tour que el grupo realice [...]

Brooklyn-based band Milagres don't have a groundbreaking sound but they've previously proven themselves adept in building indie-emotional-pop walkabouts in the same vein as The National or The Antlers on their first album Seven Summits in 2008. The group's second album Glowing Mouth attempts to immerse the band further into tension-packed melancholia and often end up reminiscent of Arcade Fire's obsessions ('Here to Stay', 'Gentle Beast', 'Fright of Thee'). Stadium-sized synthesizers and over-the-top drum sounds sometimes aren't enough and the lazy hopping in night-wonders of 'Lost In The Dark', the throbbing [...]

On the eve of Black History Month, the Kennedy Center announced a partnership with singer-songwriter John Legend on a campaign called What's Going On… NOW , a national arts and digital media initiative. It is designed to draw and engage youth while contemporaneously commemorating the 40th anniversary of Marvin Gaye's groundbreaking album What's Going On . The framework of What's Going On... NOW operates similar to YouTube. It allows its users to share their stories through sound, images, music and video. To whet users' inspiration, they are given exposition on selected [...]

Back in May we got all excitebike about the new band formed by Sacha Dunable (Intronaut/Graviton/MetalSucks columnist), Charles Elliott (Abysmal Dawn), Derek Rydquist (ex-The Faceless), and Derek Donley (National Sunday Law/Graviton), called Bewilderbiest. Then in September they announced they'd changed their name to Bereft and released their first song, causing our helpless minds to swell with heated anticipation. Now Bereft have announced [...]