[It's Bjork's birthday on Saturday, celebrate appropriately. Here's my late-arriving weekend rundown:] Tonight: Alan Palomo's Neon Indian [pictured; download below] brings its multimedia synthscapes to the Echoplex for a night of cool electro that includes Keenhouse , Tigercity and Little Red Radio . ... Julian Casablancas hits downtown's Palace Theatre for Week 3 of his residency. ... Party guys Iglu & Hartly try to build on their U.K. buzz with a show in their home city at [...]
Tonight kicks off a nice run of holiday season benefit rock shows for good causes around town. Basically, you have no excuse for not coming out and digging some music and giving a little something back. Tonight, Friday 11/20 When You Awake & The Fold Present A Tribute To Neil Young w/Delta Spirit, Ferraby Lionheart, Jason "Dead Meadow" Simon, Leslie and the Badgers, Stevens, The Parson Red Heads, Restavrant, Chapin Sisters & more @ Bootleg Theater. Proceeds benefit [...]
Just in case there wasn't already enough reason to support this effort: We just added Band Of Horses and Sea Wolf to the bill that already includes Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Shirley Manson, Tom Gabel (Against Me!), Jarrod Gorbel (The Honorary Title), Charlotte Martin, Butch Walker and Songs for Kids. They will all be playing acoustic [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Ben Shaberman's essay collection The Vegan Monologues is more than a book about not eating animals. Sherman touches on political, social, and environmental issues while recounting his own experiences, always in his humorous yet poignant voice. In his own words, here is Ben Shaberman's Book Notes music playlist for his essay collection, The Vegan Monologues : [...]
Friday Five : \ˈfrī-(ˌ)dā,-dē ˈfīv\ : On the sixth day of every week I hit the shuffle button on my iTunes and share my five and drop a little knowledge and insight for each track. Sometimes there is a playlist involved, sometimes there isn't. Sometimes we have guest, but most of the time it's just me. The rest is up to you, our friends and readers! Fire up your media player of choice and share the first five random track of your shuffle in the comments. The Five : Foo [...]
We're very jazzed to inform you that we linked up with Dangerbird Records co-founder Jeff Castelaz recently, just as he was riding his bike across the country to raise funds for the Pablove Foundation . Along the way, Jeff recorded some video blog entries for us, talking a bit about what he was up to and what he was jamming. Check out the first installment above and if you're in LA, maybe try and catch a celebratory show at the Avalon tomorrow night as Jeff pedals back into LA. Band of Horses are headlining, Shirley Manson's going [...]
Dreamy indie pop quartet, The Sundays , had a uncanny knack for crafting charming, innocent and introspective tunes in th e early 1990s. The band was f ormed in London in 1987 by mutual friends and partners, Harriet Wheel er and David Gavurin at the University in Bristol. The Sundays were heavily i nfluenced by Th e Smiths and [...]
die dünnen, strohblonden haare lässig über die schulter geworfen, über die ohren große kopfhörer gestülpt, hockt laura gibson an der bar und schaut lächelnd in den vor ihr aufgebauten laptop. ein freundliches, flinkes wesen grüßt dort drüben also via oregon zu uns herüber. ein schüchternes treiben ansonsten in den kellerartigen gewölben der roten sonne. so bleibt mir zeit, die junge dame so genau wie möglich zu studieren, da ich in der ecke hockend mit einer flasche bier die zeit vertreiben muss. für manche ist es früher abend, für andere wie mich hat die nacht längst begonnen. 22:00 uhr [...]
Årtiet lakker så småt mod enden, og i den anledning har Frekvens kigget tilbage på de bedste plader fra perioden 2000 – 2009. Alle redaktionens medlemmer har således indleveret deres top 25 lister over årtiets plader, og de er nu blevet regnet sammen til Frekvens' definitive top 60 over årtiets bedste albums. Ikke mindre end 145 albums har været med i overvejelserne, men Arcade Fires debut endte med at blive den suveræne vinder, af et i øvrigt utroligt stærkt felt. Death Cab For Cutie forsangeren Ben Gibbards hyggeprojekt The Postal Service rendte med 2. pladsen, blandt andet foran to [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive This Saturday, Band of Horses will take another break from recording its much-anticipated third album to play a special concert at Avalon in Los Angeles. The show is a benefit to raise money and awareness of the children's cancer charity, the Pablove Foundation . Organized by indie label Dangerbird Records and also featuring stripped-down performances from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club , Shirley Manson of Garbage , Tom Morello , [...]
This Friday and Saturday at the Railway features music, visuals, and magic (yes, magic!) utilizing all three rooms. Fond of Tigers, the Sorrow and the Pity, Michael Red, No Horses, Cris Derksen, Mariachi Los Dorados, Phinder Dulai, and Hugenelk all play Friday and Main Offenders, Sangha, Cloudsplitter, October Trio, D Trevlon, Blind God, Ora Cogan, Chin, Teresa Trovato, Love & Electrik, and the Skinny on Saturday. Also tomorrow, Twin Crystals , Stamina Mantis , Shearing Pinx , and Ahna play 223 Main St. tomorrow. It's an early show, so get there by 8pm [...]
Twin Atlantic announce headline tour for the new year Plus: In-store appearances and tracklisting details for 'What Is Light? Where Is Laughter?' Acclaimed Glaswegian rock band Twin Atlantic are set to release the latest cut from their recently released 'Vivarium' mini-album on the 30th of November, in the form of "What Is Light? Where Is Laughter?" . Buy Music: Twin Atlantic [...]
"In the Know" is a recurring series on Stranger Dance that features the latest and greatest MP3s circling the web. If you think you've got a tip we should know about email Peter . His Clancyness - "Misinterpret My Words" Until a couple of days ago I had never heard of His Clancyness . I'm not sure why because "Misinterpret My Words" is easily one of the best tunes I've heard [...]
Short and Sweet: NYC interviews Alejandra Deheza of dream-beat trio School of Seven Bells . Band of Horses , Sea Wolf , BRMC and a few more mainstream acts you'll surely recognize will band together at Avalon this Saturday for the Pablove benefit concert. Everyone should be attending this. NME loves The Strokes' Is This It [...]
Album of the Quarter : A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar Runners up: Memory Tapes - Seek Magic , Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem I am well aware that this podcast is a good month and a half removed from the end of 2009's third quarter, and that we are balls deep in the year's capping three-month span. But, perhaps the extra reflection has further winnowed the included tracks down from the fickle week to week whims of the blogosphere? Let's just pretend that that's [...]
By Lars Gotrich As soon as a musical movement gets a name, someone is already declaring it dead. Sometimes you wonder about the people who coin the terms; whether they regret the mass categorization of a tight-knit group's creative output. It's almost baffling how quickly "hot new thing" status gets doled out, only to receive backlash, inspire an academic write-up in The New Yorker , experience backlash against the backlash, become loved ironically, and then wind up staunchly defended by those who've been there since the beginning. Because, you know, it's just rock 'n' [...]
The end of the decade is nearly upon us which inevitably means everyone is about to start rolling out their "best of" lists. This proved to be a rather arduous task, but at the same time I had a lot of fun during the process as it forced me to go back and listen to a lot of albums that I hadn't heard in quite some time. It seems like we tend to get so caught up on trying to hear as much new music as possible that we forget to go back and appreciate many of the [...]
The problem with a list like this is the "shoulds". You know, the albums you feel like everyone else will pick, so you "should," too? Well, this time I decided not to deal with those. My list is based on the number of times I listened to these albums since they came out, whether I love them so much I already know every word to every song, how much it moved me, etc. This is a personal list. It isn't intended to be complete or controversial. That said, I know I'll get crap for [...]
Wikipedia knows next to nothing of the Stockton-on-Tees noisenik quartet undulating the underground enough to crack Geordie pavements. Lead barker Kingsley Hall may well be the most articulate cult figurehead to shred the pages of NME with unequalled bravado and outspoken chivalry since Morrissey. Taking on the mainstream, one sycophant-smashing step at a time, The Chapman Family may well be the dark horses to back over the dingy, hurdled tracks of a recession-obsessed England. Brace yourselves- it's lenghty. But comedic genius shouldn't be abbreviated... Dots: The majority of those aware of the cataclysmic [...]
Pictured: Echtra I get sent a lot of stuff that's not metal, but may be of interest to metalheads. This includes side projects by metal musicians, non-metal releases by metal labels, dark ambient, noise, and so on. Some of this stuff is too good to keep secret, so I'm starting this column to feature it. It's not meant to be authoritative; plenty of dedicated resources already exist for dark ambient and noise, for example. This is more of a periodic [...]
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