Over the past week or so, we've gotten two really strange videos: Grizzly Bear's "Ready, Able," and The Most Serene Republic's "Heavens to Purgatory." Well, Themselves must of seen those two videos and were all "screw that noise" and went to work on the weirdest video (featuring cupcakes) EVER. Like, I can't even explain what goes on, or the techniques used to accomplish what the band does here. It's this really odd combination of clay and real people and mouths chewing cupcakes, and it's freaky. But at least they look tasty! [...]
Oberhofer sent me a rugged-edged demo a few weeks back, and being a sucker for nasty wild-boar sensibilities in rock (think Frog Eyes – longtime favorite), I was all over it. Unfortunately I was on an extended trip home and the article slipped through one of the many leaky fissures in my mind – so I was, in turn, relieved and then scared when he sent me a reminder email with cleaned-up versions of his tracks. I was scared of "cleaned up" because the messy charm seemed to be the whole point, but thankfully, the tracks nouveau [...]
Download Here 1 . We Were Promised Jetpacks - It's Thunder & It's Lightning ( Fat Cat ) This is one side of the new double AA sided single from the Jetpacks following on from their impressive "These Four Walls" album earlier in the year. The single will be released through Fat Cat on November 23rd on CD and [...]
Pursuit of Happiness (Benny Benassi Remix)-Kid Cudi, MGMT & Ratatat Benny Benassi has been in good form lately. Raven (Shaved Monkeys Remix)-Proxy In my eyes the only worthy remix of proxy.Dont be fooled Jeffer (Modeselektor Remix)-Boys Noize Morning Glory-DeltA To good for BVD Paris-Pornopink Same guys that brought French Ballad [...]
so i've just finished the third revision of my top 100 albums list - which to avoid confusion/arguments is a personal selection, not an attempt at a best of all time list - and to build some interest/excitement in the list beyond myself and the 1-2 other people that have traditionally cared about this i've decided to do a ten day countdown leading up to my number 1 album choice, vh1 best [whatever] of [decade] style. [100 - 91] [90-81] [80-71] [...]
Yes. This is a freaking Pitchfork re-post again. Don't hate the player hate the game. A list such as this is invaluable to avid music buyers, hence why we are imparting iy onto you, our loyal readers. Keeping it short, but some upcoming releases of highlight include: Alela Diane: Alela and Alina EP ; Blitzen Trapper: Black River Killer 12" EP ; Jemina Pearl : Break It Up ; Kurt Vile: Childish Prodigy; Music Go Music: Expressions and TONS more after jump. We conceited music bloggers sometimes [...]
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So, if one were to peruse all the way down to the LAST live review this blog did, one might get the impression that churches are the new 'it' venue. And while that review was done over a year ago and by someone not writing for this blog anymore, this impression would still be correct. Churches are in. Hip. Cool, even. Not so much when there's churchgoers IN them, maybe, but who can blame the indie scene for wanting to pillage those considered acoustics and (probably) lower rental fees in an almost *gasp* ungodly and impure [...]
A lot of the material we've heard from the new Raveonettes album, In And Out Of Control , is pretty bleak. It's all about sadness and rape (??) and stuff, all in the style of old 50s pop tunes revamped for the 21st century. So does the video for their new song, "Last Dance," match that energy of despair? Does it evoke a sense of longing and helplessness?? No. No it does not. Instead it features a cute couple riding a motorcycle, eating ice cream, feeding seagulls and surfing killer waves. Radical! It all concludes with an [...]
Sunny Day Real Estate is the crazy ex-boyfriend of indie rock. They have broken our hearts repeatedly, yet we continue to believe things can change. In 1994, they wooed us with their first album, Diary , one of the finest examples of raw, guitar-driven, emotion-fueled rock. As the band was working on their sophomore album, LP2 (aka, The Pink Album ), they freaked out and abruptly (and I do mean *abruptly*) split up the band when the stress of their quickly rising fame became too much to bear. Sub Pop eventually salvaged [...]
it was one of those tuesday mornings where the weight of the day bore down preternaturally beforeupon waking, where the grimness of the forthcoming billowed up, slack and wet round ankles like so much gas filled frog spawn, where the bilious puffs of traffic spew and jagged ragged ribbon of other conversations flighted face-wards with the unrestrained glee of mnemonic glassings. fog brained mumblemouths spouting unreconstructed adverbs down waxy canals numbing my brainerry and tightening my scrotal sac with unwarranted oh-pin-yon. blood roils and eyeballs mist with the unlife of living. some days are made for blanket cocooning [...]
That's right : ...(Mr. Johnston) has never owned any kind of cellphone, let alone an iPhone, and has no telephone at all in his house in a small town northwest of Houston. (To reach him you have to call his father, next door, who summons Mr. Johnston via intercom.) The game - called "Hi, How Are You," one of Mr. Johnson's catchphrases - was created by two designers in Austin, Tex., who said they had always been enamored of Mr. Johnston's music and wanted to find an entertaining way to use it while bringing [...]
È il mio velato gnosticismo a convincermi di non essere un Theotokos (ossia un Perfetto ) e che neanche dopo una catarsi purificatrice riuscirei a reincarnarmi in un altro tale. Si è proprio così! Magari fosse possibile diventare un musicista di Portland ed essere così invitato a queste mega jams che, aldilà del campanile, sembrano ormai essere divenute un must della scena indie americana? Sempre l'Oregon dunque a proseguire nel solco già tracciato anni orsono. Questa volta il musicista è Brent Andrew Knopf , il terzo Menomena , per intenderci. Ramona Falls è [...]
At about age 4, when asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I responded "Miss Piggy. Now that I'm grown up I'm sadly not a pig. Or a muppet. But not so in the Flaming Lips eyes. Nothing can stop them from imaging all the wild possibilities of what we can be. A frog! A bear! A helicopter! Anything is possible. Rainbows and ponies for everyone! And it's that whimsical spirit that makes me love "
Not only have I neglected my blog this last little while, but I've also been quite lax in my contribution to the Contrast Podcast. Last week I was all ready to return triumphant to an episode concerning The Hair , but I was scuppered by my cold and my subsequent croaky voice. I don't go all husky when I have a cold but sound more like a frog in the final throes of death. I was planning on contributing a gorgeous track by the now defunct Carissa's Wierd. You can check this out below, plus a couple [...]
For Stomp and Stammer: Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer [Jagjaguwar] If you can stand Spencer Krug's voice long enough to get through this whole album, then man, are you in for a treat. The solo recording project that has evolved into an honest-to-god band returns post-breakthrough with Dragonslayer, the follow-up to their 2007 release Random Spirit Lover . RSL was a leap forward for the band, compositionally, and while Dragonslayer demonstrates [...]
Over a crackly delayed phone line to Montreal, JP O Malley managed to catch up with Spencer Krug (of Wolf Parade, Swan Lake, Frog Eyes and Sunset Rubdown), the most prolific indie musician since Mark E Smith. Krug's band Sunset Rubdown have two Irish dates this weekend. How do you manage your time to write, record and tour with two bands as well as other side projects? I just plan way ahead. I only tour with two bands Sunset Rubdown and Wolf Parade and I suppose it's just a [...]
Spencer Krug pertenece a una generación que entiende cabalmente que la música es un proceso creativo en expansión constante, abierto e ilimitado, que no es necesario encerrar bajo normas concretas ni autoimpuestas. ¿Cuántas mentes brillantes del rock han sentido la necesidad de comulgar con un discurso único y/o lineal que no contravenga a las necesidades de expresión que el mismo artista se impuso sin plena conciencia?. Ciertamente la mayoría. Sin embargo figuras como Bradford Cox (Deerhunter, Atlas Sound) o Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys, The Last Shadow Puppets), por nombrar algunos, comprenden este dilema creativo y erigen agrupaciones, ya sea [...]
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Arlen's new project Wolf Parade 's members are among the most prolific musicians in the indie music community, for it seems that every time you turn your head, one of them has started yet another band. This time it comes from drummer Arlen Thompson. Thanks to Wolf Parade's unofficial fansite , we now have info on his new supergroup Treasure Hunt. Thompson is joined by ex-Hot Hot Heat member Dustin Hawethorn, and ex-Holy Fuck/Wintersleep members Mike Bigelow and Loel Campbell. For those keeping track, that's two bassists and two [...]
With the exception of perhaps Rob Crow, Spencer Krug is almost a shoe-in for the inaugural Pitchfork-backed 'Mr Prolific Indie Rock of the Decade'; while the perceived day job he holds down may well be as co-frontman of Wolf Parade, the busy Canuck also finds time for Frog Eyes, Swan Lake, and not least, Sunset Rubdown, who sound less like a side project by the day. Album number four for Sunset, Dragonslayer , takes off where predecessor Random Spirit Lover left off - awash with swashbuckling and elaborate instrumentation, chiming with giddy orchestration, and [...]
Guest submission by Tim Myers We live in an age in which corporations have the power to make and break the careers of whatever clean cut celebrity automaton that they see fit. These icons are packaged, marketed and, with the aid of relentless air time on local top 40 stations, sold to a public clamoring to latch on to the next big thing. In response to current trends, pop stars are branded with an often times ill-fitting image allowing, for example, Lady Gaga to [...]
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