Every once in awhile a video will pop up that will be NSFW (Not Safe For Work) in hopes of raising eyebrows and being risqué for the sake of being risqué (check out the latest Rammstein video for that). It'll get the blogs talking and cause some media-friendly commotion, all before ultimately disappearing quietly into the night. Well, no longer as this phenomenon is slowly working its way into the mainstream. Get ready to get dirty, because CoS is about to get NSFW. As a disclaimer, if you're reading this at work, you shouldn't. Unless you [...]
Real Ones are childhood friends from Bergen, Norway who have apparently been performing together since their teens. In listening to them, you would never guess they're Norwegian. Their lyrics are all in English and their music is part country, part psychadelic pop, with hints of influences from around the world - Africa, China, India, and more. Often compared to The Flaming Lips, I think that's
by marisa brown I'm focusing on vinyl this week in A Fistful of Dollars , which is - let's be honest, one of the main reasons to seek out buying music these days. ► Nite Jewel - "I Was Born" b/w "Suburbia" ($4.99) First up is the Nite Jewel, whose 73 is now available on the Stones Throw site but put out through the [...]
From now through the New Year, we're pleased to offer up the WOXY HOLIDAY MIXER ! This special collection features hundreds of seasonal tunes and is filled with unique renditions of your holiday favorites by modern rockers from around the globe. We have a little bit of something for everyone. You'll hear modern rock faves like Sufjan Stevens, Belle and Sebastian, My Morning Jacket, The Flaming Lips, and Yo La Tengo heavily featured in the music mix along with some things you might not expect (like tracks from "A John Waters Christmas", Pee Wee Herman, or Spinal Tap). [...]
I've been posting a lot more NSFW things this year. First it was Girls' video for 'Lust for Life' and The Flaming Lips' video for 'Watching the Planets', now the video hasn't even been released but the preview is very NSFW. Like the other videos it would be a surprise if it... Click the link to read more
Vampire Weekend is back, everybody! They're going to be releasing the first big album of the new decade, Contra , on January 12, but for now they're teasing the eager fans with singles. We first heard the softer side with "Horchata," a pretty good little song . And now we have the faster-paced "Cousins." And awww the video is adorable! It's just like, these happy white kids from New England in a colorful back alley being silly! Stuff White People Like for sure (that reference is still hip, right?). While [...]
The musical year of 2010 could very well be like the year 2012, that is if John Cusack cuts a record with a multi-million dollar budget leaving critical audiences with a collective "Oy" escaping their lips. However, what 2010 lacks in apocalyptic CGI effects it more than makes up for in fantastic music releases. Perhaps an LP not as anticipated as the LCD Soundsystem's and The New Pornographer's of the world, but exciting (to me) nonetheless. London's Flotation Toy Warning released their debut LP Bluffer's Guide To The [...]
These days, indie rockers aren't allowed to make a video where people have clothes on. It's just a rule. Matt and Kim did a censored version, then Girls went XXX . Then The Flaming Lips shot a nudie clip with about a million friends. (Wayne got naked, too! Like I didn't already have a big enough crush on him!) And now it's Yeasayer 's turn. But their entry certainly raises the stakes. When you visit amblingalp.com , you'll find an extremely NSFW video. But it's isn't [...]
Sensual Harassment is a Reptilian Humanoid alliance utilizing sonic mind control through beat-driven psych-pop. In their debut broadcast, the scaly Brooklyn trio seamlessly shape-shifts from reverb-drenched post-Apocalyptic new wave to epileptic space disco. The band wisely recruited Jesse Cannon (The Cure, Animal Collective and The Misfits) to help engineer the cerebral revolution. 2 tracks they have made caught our ears and in particular " Daddy Long Legs ", a cosmic dance party that combines grimy Moroder arpeggiators with the the throbbing funk and aggression of Afrika Bambaataa. [...]
Since forming in 2007, the Monolith Music Festival has brought the likes of Spoon, The Flaming Lips, Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio, Justice, The Mars Volta, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Phoenix to the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. However, as revealed in a open letter posted on the festival's website late last night (Nov. 19), the future of Monolith is now "very grim." The letter reads, "A tough economic year and an opening day of chilling rain combined to put a serious dent in our humble operation. We have continued [...]
- T'as vu ça ? - Quoi ? - Ben le truc là ! La planète HAT-P-7b ! - Hein ? http quoi ? - Pas http, HAT-P-7b ! C'est une planète qui tourne autour de l'étoile HAT-P-7... - Ça y est, tu recommences à parler en Canal+ crypté ! T'es malade ? - Mais non, c'est toi qui comprend rien ! C'est une planète de la constellation du Cygne, à plus de 1000 années-lumière de la terre, qu'on a découvert par la méthode du transit... [...]
Tickets are now on AmEx presale for the two just-announced February Yeasayer album release shows. Like before, they're still giving away the song "Ambling Alp", but now you download it while listening to trippy background music and attempting to get naked people in focus with your mouse in a new interactive video they just posted . Like The Flaming Lips , Matt & Kim , Sigur Ros and others before them, the band knows that sex sells appreciates the [...]
BEST ALBUMS OF THE NOUGHTIES The daunting task of putting together something that you know lots of readers won't agree with is never easy, but then we thought you could always go make your own lists. At least we had the balls... So the 50s had rock n roll, the 60s had it's pop and folk, the 70s it's punk, disco and glam, the 80s it's pop, hip hop and hair rock, the 90s it's grunge, brit pop and dance music. It begs the question - what standout genre defines the [...]
There's a progression at play here. There was Sigur Rós filming hairless young things frolicking in the woods for " Gobbledigook ," surpassed many months later by Girls' XXX "Lust For Life" video featuring Hunx's junk, which itself was trumped by the Flaming Lips' " Watching The Planets " which was a showcase for Wayne's coyne. The untapped avenue for flesh-tones? Interactivity, no doi. Enter Yeasayer. The band released a great single with two great remixes so I think we can all agree it's time to take all your [...]
Highlights from the Voodoo Experience: 30 October - 1 November 2009 - New Orleans / In its 11th year the festival welcomed a plethora of musical greats to help embrace New Orleans under Halloween's spell. It has been two weeks since the Voodoo Experience and I finally feel that my life is back in order. As New Orleans' premiere fall music festival, it's geared to worship music and showcase New Orleans all while embracing the Halloween spirit. In its 11th year the festival welcomed a plethora of musical greats including, but not limited to: Ween, the Flaming Lips, [...]
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 [...]
Orbital are one of those outfits that are a great many things to a lot of different people; ambient music with personality for those with an ear for pop. Sufficiently cerebral noodlings that appeal to those with a penchant for classical music. Punk-pop for dedicated electro fans. Anthemic, Kraftwerk-infused techno that indie kids can get down with. Tonight, the Brothers Hartnoll's wide palette of sounds and influences has drawn out a curious crowd of clubbers, revellers, hipsters and the plain nostalgic. By turns touching, bracing, energetic and joyous, Orbital can easily be relied to put on a [...]
The new Flaming Lips video clip is a celebration of a back-to-nature/back-to-the-wom b fantasy. The one above is not that video. This is one of their previous one, but it give a sense of where the Watching the Planets video came from and what stands behind it. In my opinion though, it's much better. You can catch the Watching the Planets video here . Sorry, but it technically not possible to embed.
As part of our ongoing end-of-the-decade coverage, we sent out a survey to various people in the music, arts and entertainment communities. Here is another question we asked: What does "indie" mean to you? Discuss our respondents' answers and leave your own in the comments section. Douglas Wolk, writer: That's very simple. "Indie" is short for "independent." Independently released music is not directly financially dependent on any of the four major labels (WMG, Sony BMG, EMI and Universal). "Indie" does [...]
It's almost cliché, but after college I drove cross country with a few friends and, literally, filled out a Relix internship application in the parking lot before a Deer Creek Phish show. I sent it off at a local Kinkos and after some persistent nudging scored an interview that fall. I interned for Aeve Baldwin, who was the editor at that time, and after a few months that turned into a part time job at the magazine. I did pretty much every job under the editorial sun except—luckily for Relix—copy editing, including project coordinator, staff writer, Jambands.com contributing editor, staff [...]
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