There are a lot of little indie labels doing great things these days, but one of the most consistently impressive is What's Your Rupture? Records based in NYC. Run by Kevin ("no big deal") Pedersen, the label has remained defiantly independent and impeccably curated since its inception in 2003. Iceage. Cold Cave. Love Is All. Comet Gain. These are all bands that bear the What's Your Rupture? imprimatur. When asked what makes him decide to sign certain bands, Kevin once said it's when, "You're sure that a song is the best thing [...]
Zulu Winter have been gaining an insane amount of 'buzz' recently. Presumably because they're managed by the team behind The Vaccines and White Lies. Still, they make quirky pop rock that isn't in the same mould as every other British indie act so the hype isn't completely unfounded. zuluwinter.blogspot.com http://www.facebook.com/ZuluWi nter https://twitter.com/zuluwinter
Quer ouvir uma coisa um pouco mais diferente hoje? Então clica aí embaixo e ouve o novo single do Extra Life . Righteous Seed está em Dream Seeds , terceiro e próximo álbum da banda liderada pelo vocalista e guitarrista Charlie Looker . Se você não conhece a banda, tem só uma chance para adivinhar de onde eles são: isso, do Brooklyn. O som é uma coisa meio White Lies, só que um pouco mais experimental. Eles listam várias coisas como influência, incluindo pop, música clássica e medieval. A ideia [...]
Garage Rock, Female Vocalist, Indie Rock - From Jack White's Third Man Records come The Black Belles who dress like gothic witches and have mesmerized audiences with their gothic-tinged '60s inspired garage rock riffing and harmonies. The four-piece is touring America in February and March in support of their 2011 self-titled debut on vinyl. Lies [...]
When we started our New Artists, Old Songs series back in 2008, the goal was to feature otherwise-unknown artists who were just starting to hit the proverbial radar. And though we still try to balance ourselves between the new and the longstanding - knowing that introduction of the new and reframing of the familiar better serve us all if grounded in the depths of history, concerned that the temptation to tip into the world of mere promo passalong could trap us yet - since then, we've returned to the premise numerous times, cautiously optimistic about that [...]
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Tweet [In the first half of 2011 we ran a few "Flashback" posts giving a little hindsight loving to great/underrated/forgotten albums from 10 years ago. We didn't really have a plan or timetable for those posts, but we loved writing them, and from our ongoing photo series of great albums on Facebook it's clear that you guys like a little reminisce about old greats too, so for 2012 the "Flashback" is being resurrected as a fully fledged feature. We'll be [...]
For those who went into withdrawal without a weekly dose of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), Season 2 of AMC's Breaking Bad returned a year later to take its viewers to all new highs... and devastating lows. While the nerve-racking drama never misses a beat, this season just might make your heart skip one. From the mysterious foreshadowing of what's soon to come to new love, lies, and life - Breaking Bad Season 2 will leave you confused, anxious, restless, and yet itching for more every week. However, there's no denying that the [...]
Band'its At Ten O'clock is another 101 release that came out the same year as Live Letters . Unlike that album, this record is a collection of studio cuts and not live records. But it's equally, if not more so, impressive and well worth the listen today. The Scene All People Go Mad You like mod music? These guys sure did. This album came out in 1980, but this song sounds like it was ripped straight out of the late-60s. Great stuff, very [...]
Everyone's got something to say about Lana Del Rey . In Late June, the cut-and-paste clip for the singer's "Video Games" -then just a buzz track-dropped with a thud onto YouTube. Spliced between old movie sequences, paparazzi clips and fuzzy home videos, we watched as a husky-voiced, otherworldly chanteuse pouted emphatically while cooing a dreary, vintage-sounding ode to her beloved: "It's you, it's you/It's all for you, everything I do," she begs. The song's haunting melody, coupled with Del Rey's bombshell looks and curious mannerisms, drew curious adoration and eager anticipation from countless bloggers worldwide, [...]
Gothic garage rockers The Black Belles will embark on a U.S. tour next month in support of last year's self-titled debut album . The tour kicks off on February 5th in Muncie, IN, runs through February 16th in Farmington, MO, and picks back up in March for a series of shows around South by Southwes t. Along the way, the band will share the stage with Bleached and The Strange Boys. Check out the tour schedule below, along with the Jack White-directed video for "Lies". The Black Belles 2012 Tour Dates: [...]
Sono due i live dei The Duke Spirit annunciati dalla Dna Concerti per marzo 2012. La band inglese capitanata dalla bionda Liela Moss sarà il 14 marzo 2012- Magnolia di Milano e il 15 marzo al Locomotiv di Bologna . Al centro dei concerti del quintetto londinese ci saranno i brani del loro ultimo cd Bruiser pubblicato a settembre per Fiction/Universal. Si tratta del loro terzo cd arrivato a sei anni di distanza dall'acclamato debutto Cuts Across The Land e a 3 anni dal successivo Neptune, che li ha consacrati come [...]
Anyone who has found themselves (spiritual and physically) in Byker, Newcastle, will testify to the fact that it's truly where dreams are made... or something like that. Last night amongst the homely confines of The Cluny I witnessed an undeniably glorious ceremony; celebrating the marriage of two of the North East's finest independent publications, collaborating under the Remember Media banner. KYEO.tv and NARC have long been integral parts of the cultural scene in this part of the country and what better way to honor their new partnership than [...]
I've been on hiatus for a bit. But Los Angeles has been cold and rainy for a while. There was a nut burning cars in Hollywood. The Clippers became the best basketball team in the city. Everything was flipped upside down. But today the sun came out. Starting out last night at sunset approximately 23498239487 people tweeted photos of one of the better sunsets in recent memory. Today we all woke up to an 80 degree masterpiece of an LA winter's day. This evening, we were treated to another sunset fit for a postcard or a Night Rider montage. [...]
Este año la banda inglesa de synth pop Talk Talk cumple treinta años y recibe un tratamiento digno de la realeza. No sólo se está preparando un disco de covers, sino que se espera la salida de un libro. El ilustrador y responsable de las tapas de los discos de la banda, James Marsh ha coleccionado todo el trabajo artístico que ha hecho durante todos estos años para la banda y lo compiló en un libro de edición limitada llamado Spirit of Talk [...]
Photo Credit: Carrie Musgrave - livebabylive.com There are thousands of great local bands playing every week in our fair city. Some you might know and some you might not. Seeing as it's the beginning of a brand new year, we thought we'd point out some local bands who we think you might want to keep your eye on in 2012. And isn't it always cool to say you were a fan of popular act back in the day when they were playing for eight people in a crappy dive bar? Yes, it is always [...]
Aunque su periodo de actividad se extendió a tan solo diez años, en 2012 Talk Talk celebraría su treina aniversario. Su influencia en el mundo del synth pop es tan grande que varios artistas han decidido unir fuerzas para crear un disco tributo a esta banda inglesa. Se llamará Spirit Of Talk Talk y se publicará el próximo 28 de mayo a través del sello inglés Fierce Panda . Todavía no se ha dado a conocer un listado de canciones definitivo, aunque sí sabemos que, por ejemplo, [...]
Ville Kiviniemi, aka The Mattoid , has learned that crude humor and Christian hazing are taboo in any language, but this Gothic world traveler from Finland has not let that stop him with his second release, Glory Holy EP, available online under Infinity Cat Recordings . Hailing from the cold shores of Western Europe, with stints in Mexico, Thailand, India and Egypt, The Mattoid has brought the show back to Nashville after an eight month hiatus spent in his homeland of Finland. It was his first time back home in 20 [...]
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Tweet Music can be a funny thing. You can go years not knowing that a song you heard way back happens to be the same band that you are currently digging. For me, the track was "Lassoo" off 2008's "Neptune" . I probably heard it at some party held by someone more musically inclined than me at the time. Fast forward to the November 2011 release of "Bruiser" . I'm listening to this fantastic new offering from a band I'm having trouble [...]
There's been such an avalanche of hyped-up remixes of Lana Del Rey 's "Video Games" that everyone has probably grown a little tired of the song's bare melody and icy vocals. From Balam Acab to Jamie Woon, from White Lies to Hannes Fischer, everyone and their brother has had a good crack at remixing "Video Games". But while many of these reworkings might not be worth your time, a few of them definitely manage to take the original to the next level. The two remixes you will find below come from Iranian duo Take It Easy [...]
With a career now spanning 40 years — and nearly double that on disc — Miami's own Joe McPhee is still a woefully underrated leader here in his native land. So perhaps that's why his latest free-wheelin', forward-thinking quartet is three-fourths Scandinavian. Taking their name from that Don Cherry tune , The Thing is reed specialist Mats Gustafsson, idiophone extraordinaire Paal Nilssen-Love and the heady low end theories of one Ingebrigt H. Flaten. Gustafsson you'll know from high-profile gigs with l'éminence rousse Thurston Moore and a cadre of other Jazzmaster masters, but it's Nilssen-Love who truly makes The Thing. A bleeding heart [...]
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