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Fuck Buttons / Foto: Lucy Johnson Desde 2009 que lanzaron Tarot Sport , Fuck Buttons no mostraba señales de un nuevo material discográfico hasta ahora. El 22 de julio, el dúo inglés lanzará su nuevo álbum llamado Slow Focus , el primero que producen ellos mismos. En palabras de  Benjamin John Power : "'Slow Focus' parecía el título apropiado considerando el sentimiento de la música. Se parece mucho al momento en que tus ojos se están reacomodando justo cuando despiertas, y te das cuenta de que estás en un lugar extraño [...]

On May 14, 2009, Fall Out Boy played their last show at The Rave in Milwaukee, WI for the Believers Never Die Part Deux Tour. On May 14, 2013, Fall Out Boy finally returned to a sold out crowd. “We’ve missed you guys so much,” Patrick Stump tells the audience after the ending cords of 'Thriller' play. Gone are the sideburns, heavy eyeliner, and long hair (except guitarist Joe Trohman…mostly because it’s Joe) but in its place are four happier, healthier men that sound phenomenal. Their [...]

I don’t know much about Air Dubai other than the fact that they’re from Denver, there are six members, they’re opening for Marianas Trench on their upcoming US tour and they seem to be incredibly modest. How so? In the opening paragraph of their about section on Facebook, they proclaim that their appeal doesn’t lie in their music, but that it “lies in its members’ passion for the music they create, as well as their love for the people who come to see them perform.” Now, while this very well may be true to a point, upon listening to the [...]

In between running in to doors and flailing around an apartment with three other men, Zooey Deschanel still manages to attempt making music. Three years since their acclaimed sophomore record, folk-pop duo She & Him continue their love-sick journey in the latest edition, Volume 3. The doe-eyed Deschanel and folk master M. Ward explore aspects of regret and heartbreak with as much uke and acoustic flare as their previous works. If you're a lover of all-things-Deschanel, then you probably won't want to hear this, but the album opens with the shrillest, ear-grating whistles to have [...]

By this time next week, we'll already have (albeit only ephemerally) relocated to Barcelona for day upon day of decadent overindulgence and musical extravagance, for this year's edition of the quintessential left field festival,  Primavera Sound , is now upon us. I can practically taste the Estrella Heineken fizzling away at the rear of my palette and, truth be known, the way this British springtime's currently panning, out I'm almost relishing the prospect of inevitable sunburn. Almost... Storms are currently forecast for the week though that can't be right, right..? Anyhow – as is so often our wont [...]

• Fuck Buttons - Olympians (Radio Edit)
• Jesus And Mary Chain - Cracking Up
• Scottrek112 - “Monomania” - Deerhunter (Live)

TV On the Radio. El fin de semana pasado, TV On the Radio se presentó en el festival All Tomorrow's Parties en Inglaterra, mismo que ellos curaron en esta edición. Durante su presentación, el grupo de Brooklyn estrenó una canción nueva llamada "Mercy" en la que podemos escuchar guitarras más fuertes, baterías más rápidas y una esencia más punk que en sus grabaciones anteriores. Un fan de TV On the Radio grabó esta canción y la compartió con el mundo.

Well it's May now, which means that Justin Timberlake "It's gonna be May" joke was recently just worn out all over again. I wanted to use it too, but I fought myself not to... haha. Anyway, since it's finally becoming a beautiful Spring, I thought it's the perfect time to talk about my favorite beauty items, as well as some clothing, music, and snacks! Beauty: LUSH Celestial Moisturizer - Look guys, I know y'all aren't the biggest on buying beauty products, but this stuff will save your face [...]

For a band embarking on a major tour this year with the likes of Bullet For My Valentine and Halestorm, there’s a surprising lack of background available on Stars in Stereo. The mystery behind this band is unveiled unfortunately fast once the music starts however. For a band that claims to prove that rock isn’t dead, they conform pretty easily to the recent trends in the genre in general and in female-fronted bands in particular (sadly). Though the guitars and drums come heavy and fast enough to differentiate them, Stars in Stereo are more Paramore than Halestorm. [...]

Why ATP's demise comes as no surprise... - by Benjamin Bland

Albums set for release around this time of year are more or less required to have at least one song that can be blared through a car stereo while driving under the hot summer sun. (Or, if you’re some place that is still getting freak snow storms, blast from your home stereo system after being snowed in.) This Century, however, has managed to create a whole album of songs like the aforementioned with their second studio album Biography of Heartbreak. Not only do This Century manage to create a whole album of summer songs, [...]

Hey look, they’re alive! Plain White T’s are finally out of Chicago with more empowered love anthems than Delilah can handle. After being nearly off the radar for a couple years with Wonders of the Younger and contributing the Frankenweenie soundtrack, the quintet are showing that they really haven’t lost a step with this EP. Should've Gone To Bed opens with the title-track, which pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the EP: an alcohol fueled chant dealing with the complex emotions of getting over someone. In [...]

"Summer is coming, and I hope I feel better by the time it does" or so Charlotte Hatherley once sang some nine years ago and nothing quite makes you sense the onset of the at least purportedly sunniest term like a !!! show. Though how might a tout pronounce the purposefully unpronounceable, I hear you ponder? They don't, in response to said proposal. They instead skulk innocuously opposite the Village Underground in vain hope the oversized flashes of white protruding forth from clenched fists serve as magnetic beacons of intrigue. "Tickets for tonight?" they mumble, voices nigh on [...]

It'd been nigh on twelve long months since I'd last found myself clambering up the vertiginous inclines of Alexandra Park toward Ally Pally – a timescale no sooner contemplated than it'd been calculated, for each extreme was bookended by something utterly scintillating. Each was an I'll Be Your Mirror . This time taking place toward the beginning of an altogether merrier May, Karen O and her resurgent Yeah Yeah Yeahs plastered Saturday in a fluoro hue of glee, cherry-picking the likes of Dirty Beaches &  The Field &  Anika from a group filed [...]

It's with a faint sense of trepidation we hike forever upward toward Alexandra Palace, not least as the sweltering trudge seemingly represents the metaphoric arrival of festival season which begins in earnest in but a few short weeks' time. It's the time of the season for early starts and later nights, lager glugged from the moment morning stumbles into afternoon as liver, lobes and inner ears quiver as one. Which painfully reminds me I've neglected to bring the old in-ears. Shite. Though Karen O & co. haven't opted for anywhere near as ruinous a line up as ATP [...]

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1 Records to start the day... Photographer: Jason Williamson 2 Anika - Panorama Room Photographer: Jason Williamson 3 K-Holes - Main Hall Photographer: Jason Williamson 4 Outdoor retreat Photographer: Jason Williamson 5 Big [...]

As much as Valerie Anne Poxleitner aka Lights herself is the very image of perfection, sometimes it can be difficult to get past the whole "dance vibe" of her songs, if that's not your thing, and see them for what they are. Siberia Acoustic strips off the synths and eradicates the electro, but the leaves the simple structural beauty in tact, and this is where Lights truly comes into her own. Showcasing an incredible vocal range and complexity, the record blindly speaks for itself and the aural experience outshines the aesthetic. 2011’s Siberia [...]

The artwork adorning the sixth full-length studio effort from Atlanta, Georgia alt. stalwarts Deerhunter depicts its title, Monomania , aglow in igneous neon. Monomania is, as the dictionary duly informs, 'exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing' which, truth be known, is not altogether dissimilar to the reaction the band these days command as Bradford Cox & co. have become synonymous with both independence and invigoration. They're easy to fall for, in short. And we fell pretty hard for their previous – the oneiric, yet still lucid and direct Halcyon Digest . Thus [...]

Anyone who follows drummer Brittany Harrell (@brittanyharrell) of Georgia's pop-punk outfit, Veara on Twitter would know that her account is comprised of talk about WWE, music and things 99% food related. With that said, we invited Brittany to be a part of the Alter The Press team where each week, she will be writing a weekly blog talking about the best meals she has consumed and letting the world know about her love of food! May 2nd, 2013 - Pizza Hut Pizza Hut is always coming out [...]

She's taking aim at a fair few hoops this year, is the all kindsa rad  Kim Deal what with The Breeders of course celebrating the 20th anniversary of  Last Splash  and touring it extensively although far more intriguingly, she's currently kitting up for a solo musical voyage of self-discovery. She's outside the three-point line, and yet she's still smashing 'em home every goddang time: a short while back we were treated to the woozy, existential amble of the mildly surprising Walking With A Killer , and Deal here comes out with another commensurately stonking forthcoming single [...]

• Kim Deal - Hot Shot