Tagged: movingpictures

While "Black Smoke Rise," isn't big on expanding the sound of Wooden Shjips - Take one part krautrock and one part west-cost psych and blaze away - It still has some thrills. Most notably, there's a nasty, stinging guitar riff that hits around the 2:30 mark and it shoots straight for your spine with the type of high-pitched screech that can absolutely paralyze. Think Jesus and Mary Chain, Spacemen 3, A Place to Bury Strangers and metal machines munching on metal. Thank the rest of the band for keeping the groove together, for if it wasn't for that [...]

Let's take a trip back to May 2011, for it was during that month I reviewed The People's Temple debut record for Hozac Records and noted, "(On 'Axe Man') The Peoples Temple, incorporate elements of early 21st century garage rockers like The Strokes or Franz Ferdinand into their mix. The bass line is positively danceable, as is the beat, and the guitars alternate between short, pointed bits and looser, dangling rhythms. It all culminates in a huge, memorable chorus that is both agitated and delightful to sing. Give this one a quick studio [...]

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the weeknd makes his debut performance. read about it here & watch some of the performance below. "Any question that House Of Balloons’ woozy, lustful atmospherics should be chalked up to slick studio wizardry vanished when The Weeknd and his three-piece band launched into High For This, the album’s soaring opener. Tesfaye sent his falsetto sailing over a slow-building militaristic beat, crashing dramatically into a guitar riff and dark, bristling bassline. The audience sang a long to every aching word - as they [...]

Pusha T and Tyler the Creator together on moving picture film for their track “Trouble On My Mind”.

Although I included a link to the Flaming Lips' new collaboration with New England, noisemakers Lightning Bolt in my Facebook feed late Friday, this video is one which deserves a second look and listen. In one word, it's weird. I don't know if any of us knew what to expect when this pairing was first announced - A rickety, blasted out stomp with everything recorded way loud, teetering on discomfort would have been a good place to start. And, that's exactly where "I Want to Get High, But I Don't Want Brain Damage," does begin. Mixed [...]

2 extra because everything about the 1st is fountain-ic.  More Bachelorette here.

slightly stoopid featuring ian neville at the harmony festival in santa rosa, ca.

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james blake making his american tv debut. i wonder how the masses will like him?

BRAG ALERT: Maybe five people were able to catch True Widow, Dunes, The House Harkonnen and Fair to Midland all on Tuesday night, and I was one of them. It made for an awesome day, let me tell ya... Continue reading "(Moving) Picture Show: Tuesday with Fair to Midland, The House Harkonnen, True Widow" >

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The magnitude of The Horrors' transformation from goth-punk, buzz band to one of the most innovative UK rock bands cannot be understated. There was a time, let's say 2007, when this gangly bunch of lads camping the Cramps seemed destined to be forgotten by 2008. Not so today. With a little help from Portishead's Geoff Barrow, the band, led by Faris Badwan, reinvented themselves on 20092s Primary Colours as a fascinating hybrid of post-punk, new-wave and krautrock. There were mind-buzzing dervishes of sound and low, brooding melodies; Grand swooshes, whirs, beeps and creaks, and when you [...]

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new london produced by philly's own zeb of popo .