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 [...]
When I dropped a post about Mo0 this summer his track met TSS with a somewhat tepid response. I saw a modicum of potential in the kid but dude wasn't "there" yet in many respects. I knew that wasn't the last I'd hear from the kid so I kept him in the "wait and see" folder. Three months and a name change later, Moruf is back with a more focused attack. Garden State of Mind: The Prelude is a transformation of sorts [...]
Billy Jam says: New Jersey explorer, writer, photographer, filmmaker, welder, artist, skateboarder, avid Passaic River canoe traveler, graffiti lover, urban anthropologist, prankster, high school dropout, WFMU listener, Weird NJ contributor, and as he calls himself "run of the mill trespasser" are all titles befitting Wheeler Antabanez who will be a guest on WFMU today (Nov 20th 3-6pm) on Put The Needle On The Record when he will talk about his passion - New Jersey, especially the rundown abandoned funky parts - and take phone calls from listeners on exploring the abandoned buildings of [...]
You want the Pixies reunion tour? At-the Drive In is back together? Nix all that! I want The Get Up Kids back together, and fortunately for me, they temporarily are reunited, and for hundreds of fans in Austin, we got the chance to live in memory lane, at least for one glorious night. Mansions opened the evening, but the extensive line led to me missing their set, so I [...]
Will at WDUB interviewed Adam Wills, bass player for Bear in Heaven for their station blog, www.911-blog.com "911-Blog was fortunate enough to score an email interview with Adam Wills of Bear In Heaven, recent recipient of Pitchfork's "Best New Music" honor for their new album, Beast Rest Forth Mouth. If you haven't gotten around to listening to Bear In Heaven yet, their sound treads a unique path between electronica, prog, and southern rock. Look for downloads of their tracks "Wholehearted Mess" and "Lovesick Teenagers" (my new favorite song) after the interview. [...]
Not many Australian teenagers can claim to be Brian Wilson's pen pal and the son of a Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ex-gangster. Pascal Babare can. He releases his debut album 'Thunderclap Spring' on 23rd November through Tokyo and London based indie blackmaps. It includes an introspective cover of Joy Division's 'Ceremony', which you may sample below. Download 'Ceremony' . Buy at blackmaps .
BOY CRISIS "Dressed To Digress" TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB "I can talk" BEAR IN HEAVEN "Lovesick Teenagers" THE XX "Teardrops" O. CHILDREN "Dead Disco Dancer" SOUVENIR "Monkey see monkey do" ARMAND VAN HELDEN & A-TRAK PRESENT DUCK SAUCE "Anyway" LINDSTROM & CHRISTABELLE "Baby Can't Stop" O'SPADA " Ten Strikes" PARALLEL DANCE ENSEMBLE "Turtle Pizza Cadillac" (Yam Who Rework) WALE "TV [...]
Causing endless upset to untold thousands - admittedly, only amongst people trying to flog deodorant and cheap eyeliner to teenagers - comes the news that Fall Out Boy are calling it a day . Or, as they put it: "It's a break with an indefinite date when they're coming back," their spokesperson told NME.COM. In other words "we'll see how long Wentz can live on the royalties."
Let's go to the press release to tell you a little bit about Factory 25 and its latest releases on DVD... "Brooklyn based Factory 25 is bridging their love for independent cinema and music with three new releases available today. The film and music label has already unleashed 1001 Nights (staring Damon & Naomi) and Frownland onto the world in September and is continuing on their mission to get great films with limited vinyl packaging in the hands [...]
Celebrated as one of the first all-female hard rock groups, the Runaways were led by singers Cherie Curie and Joan Jett and the guitar shredding Lita Ford. Merely teenagers at the peak of their success, the band members were unfortunately marketed as jailbait (think Britney Spears circa "Baby One More Time"), but the Runaways nevertheless persevered as a group of bad ass rockers who could pen a classic tune or two (see "Cherry Bomb," "Midnight Music"). You can catch the whole story biopic-style next year with Kristen Stewart ("Adventureland") as Jett and Dakota Fanning ("Coraline") as Currie. [...]
Out next week through Artjam Records is " German Heart " the first single to be taken from Dead Kids debut album " Dark Party ". It's a beautifully crafted pop song that oozes attitude and funk, but with definite dark undertones. Comparisons can definitely be drawn with French synth pop group The Teenagers . [...]
By Lars Gotrich It's been a good 10 years, Music Internet. At first, our love was forbidden -- all your MP3 blogs were illegal. The RIAA would shut 'em down, and we'd keep making out in the backseat of our Napster sedan like hormonally addled teenagers. We coded Web sites with primitive HTML buckets all night, fueled by dorm food and two liters of the latest green, caffeinated abomination. It was a simple Web presence, but it was ours . And then there's you, [...]
CFCF RELEASES DEBUT FULL-LENGTH CONTINENT TODAY OFFERS COVER OF FLEETWOOD MAC'S " BIG LOVE " FOR FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD AND IF YOU MISSED IT, CFCF'S COVER OF OMC'S " HOW BIZARRE " COURTESY OF STEREOGUM Montreal-based DJ and electronic artist CFCF (aka Michael Silver) releases his anticipated full-length debut, Continent, today on Paper Bag Records! The twelve-track album (which features Silver's own spin on Fleetwood Mac's song "Big Love") is the followup to CFCF's set of celebrated EPs, Panesian Nights and The Explorers (featuring label mate Sally Shapiro), both released earlier this year. CFCF has [...]
You Say Party! We Say Die! XXXX Out 02/09/10 Listen to 'There is XXXX' and 'Dark Days' here As 2006 saw a new wave of indie dance-rock hit the radars, with bands like the Klaxons, CSS, Crystal Castles and The Teenagers quickly hijacking the attentions of music lovers and critics all over the world, an up and coming five-piece from British Columbia named You Say Party! We Say Die! (or YSP!WSD! for short) were quickly developing a name for themselves minutes over the Northern borders of Canada (where [...]
I suspect this might be a Tweet Darren Hayman wishes he'd never sent: I'm in nottingham. Most violent city in uk im told. Come see me play! A few hours later - on Saturday night - he and The Secondary Modern were attacked in the city. The Nottingham Evening Post reports: Members of the band, Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern, were driving along Curzon Street, St Ann's, in a Toyota Previa, at around 12.15am on Saturday when the suspects approached the car. A white teenager then dragged [...]
Modern electronic-rock music, inaugurated in the early 1960s, is, and always has been, a joint enterprise of British military intelligence and Satanic cults. On the one side, the Satanists control the major rock groups through drugs, sex, threats of violence, and even murder. On the otherside, publicity, tours, and recordings are financed by record companies connected to British military intelligence circles. Both sides are intimately entwined with the biggest business in the world, the international drug trade. The so-called "rock stars" are pathetic puppets caught in a much larger scheme. From the moment they receive their first recording royalties, the [...]
Fear Factory began in 1990 and were originally called Ulceration which didn't really mean anything apart from the fact that it sounded really cool being only teenagers at the time, they later on the same year changed it to Fear Factory as it closely represents the music they were projecting at the time.
Here are several remixes of "1901" and "Lisztomania" which are the two best tracks from Phoenix's latest release Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix . But to start off here's the band's live performance in the KEXP studios from early summer 2009. Okay, now that that's out of the way, you've listened and/or downloaded, let's get that great big ol' glitter ball out of storage and boogie (Jesus, I even feel stupid typing that, much less saying it aloud) . Phoenix Live @ KEXP (Thomas Mars, Christian Mazzalai) lisztomania [...]
I'm not sure how I feel about current 3D televisual material. Sure it's a gimmick but there's something kind of amazing in seeing things pop out the screen (occasionally - Note to 3D people: use sparingly). And of course there's the upcoming James Cameron film 'Avatar' apparently set to destroy all negative perceptions of 3D and launch a new cinematic revolution. Or something. Seeing as 3D is already having a minor renaissance toward the end of the Noughties, British television channel Channel 4 are having [...]
Attacking the Canadian band Rush is like attacking 80's pop music, which is akin to stabbing bodies in a morgue. In 1985, the progressive-metal band's 11th album, Power Windows , delivered its brazen sound to both Rush connoisseurs and less metal-oriented pop fans. Although the songs' subject matter coincides with Rush's usual, and welcomed, social commentary, the album takes the band in a completely new direction. From the song lengths to the delivery, "Power Windows" invites a larger audience to push past complaints of 20-minute epics and singer Geddy Lee's usual banshee-like wailing to appreciate Rush. A [...]
Beach House – “Norway” From the forthcoming Teen Dream, out 1/26/2010 from Sub Pop. More about Beach House
Yes, here it is people, the official extended remix video of Beyoncé's latest single 'Video Phone' featuring Lady GaGa that has been hyped up as the video of the [...]More about Lady GaGa
Just wanted everyone in L.A. looking for a to do this Thursday night, to check out a great show, from London-Transplant, now L.A. inhabitant Samuel Stewart. He is the offspring [...]More about Vampire Weekend
Beck pays tribute to sound architect Harry Partch with 10 minute opus, defends Radiohead who pay respect to WWII British solider Harry Patch. Beck -"Harry [...]More about Beck
I am still waiting to hear Animal Collective’s new EP, Fall Be Kind. In the meantime, we have the Brother Sport single to hold us over. It [...]More about Animal Collective
I hate that people expect a person to stay classy after a break up. Fuck that, I was never like that and I'm not going [...]More about Beyonce
Thirteen tunes that have entertained my ears over the past few months. Burn it to a CD and play it loud in your car. Enjoy. [...]More about The xx
Another track from Lil Wayne’s mixtape No Ceilings which is dropping on Halloween. In this one Wayne goes over Jay-Z’s Run This Town single that featured [...]More about Lil' Wayne
So here comes this freestyle or whatever it is from Kanye. No one seems to know if it is new or some unreleased stuff but [...]More about Kanye West
I’m not too familiar with Bubblegum Sci Fi. To tell you the truth, tonight was the first I’ve heard of them when this track showed [...]More about Passion Pit
The Cribs - We Share The Same Skies
k-os - I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman
nekocasefallon
Animal Collective - Graze (Fall Be Kind)
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
The Beach House Theory of 2k10.
Friday Five: Surf Songs
