As I said back in September on the WLFY Soundcast ( Episode #10 ),the biggest problem with Lana Del Rey has nothing to do with the singerherself. The debate has beenfurious and SNL only poured more gasoline on the fire, but while others talkabout authenticity, plastic surgery, and talent (all valid conversations) thereal problem in my mind is clear and simple...yet, it's never part of thediscussion. Lana Del Rey has received more coverage from independentmusic websites than any other [...]
Stereogum has been known for giving us the rundown on the most NSFW videos of every year, and 2011 was no exception. While we agree with more of their list ( shown here ) we want to point out two memorable videos that if we were to sort them based on AWESOME FACTOR they would rank to the very top. When a director presents nudity or extreme violence on a music video, it is important to incorporate these NSFW scenes with an artistic or valuable context to the story being narrated. A lot of indie bands favor [...]
As they say, the last week of the calendar year is the most wonderful time of the year to engage in the age old Stereogum tradition of finding out which compressed music files you most prolifically snatched. They are always saying that, every year, right around now. And we oblige: This is a purely data-driven rundown of our "most popular MP3s," based on download counts, aside from our original tribute to Is This It , Stroked , which we are no longer hosting because we ran out [...]
I enjoy Stereogum 's mixes better than most of the other indie-oriented blogs on the web. Their latest mix collects some of the newest and best indie Christmas songs that were released this year (many were featured in our Christmas Selections throughout the month). Check out the tracklist and download the mix as a zip file after the jump. Read more » http://rpc.blogcatalog.com/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ ping
In what's become something of an annual holiday tradition, Norwegian artist and Stereogum buddy Sondre Lerche has once again gifted us with a cover of one of his favorite songs of the year. In previous years, he's taken on Animal Collective's " Bluish " and Owen Pallett's " Owen Takes Off His Shirt ." This year, though, he's applied his talents to something considerably more populist: Beyoncé's fizzily dizzy "Countdown." Here's how Sondre picked the song: This year, it's officially a tradition: for the third time my annual Christmas gift to you is my humble solo [...]
Previously on Stereogum , we caught up with Stereogum40 alumnus Caveman as they reminisced about the formation of the group, stopping by instrumental old hangs like Sin-é and The Library. Today we introduce the second part of that feature, which captures Caveman's recent Stereogum-presented gig at the Echo as well as the band talking a little more about their chemistry and their process. Check it out after the jump. Read More...
We've paired with W Hotels for an intimate performance video series starring some of our favorite artists. Our first installment featured Active Child playing "Hanging On" in the W San Francisco . Today's episode has DOM performing "Damn," one of the standout tracks from their recent Family Of Love , in the DC W Hotel . Check out the performance after the jump. Pretty suite. Read More...
Llega fin de año y las listas se vuelven inevitables. Muchas veces sirven de guía para descubrir nueva música, satisfacer la curiosidad o perder un poco de tiempo. Aquí te dejamos con el top 10 de algunas de las más influyentes magazines de la blogósfera. Prefix Mag 1. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up 2. Destroyer - Kaputt 3. Danny Brown - XXX 4. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life 5. Kanye West & Jay-Z - Watch the throne 6. Tune-Yards - w h o k i [...]
I would be remiss not to inform Los Angeles readers of the awesome and TOTALLY FREE show happening tomorrow night at The Echo . Caveman all the way from New York City will be performing live with RACES , Hands , The Bins , and Keegan Dewitt . I had the pleasure of seeing Caveman live at CMJ this year and they are a truly wonderful band. Download music from all the acts below! To RSVP for next Thursday's show [...]
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E começam a pintar as listas de melhores do ano. Aqui, os 50+ álbuns, via Stereogum : 50 Youth Lagoon – The Year Of Hibernation 49 Toro Y Moi – Underneath The Pine 48 Oddisee – Rock Creek Park 47 Wilco – The Whole Love 46 tUnE-yArDs – w h o k [...]
2011 was the year music learned to float. Actually, that's not true at all; music has been reaching for feelings of tidal drift since the first Gregorian monks figured out how to chant, or maybe since the first caveman licked a frog and figured out that his grunts got extra-spacey. But surveying our 2011 top 50, ethereal haze is something that's reached across genre lines to touch all corners of the musical globe. In indie rock, Bon Iver's slippery blend of smooth-rock sounds and abstract-jazz ideas shared a certain starry-eyed afghan-rug appeal with Gang Gang Dance's worldly stoner [...]
Stereogum and Chevy Sonic will put on a free show in Los Angeles next week featuring Stereogum40 alums Caveman, who recently starred in the first edition of the Getting Started series. To RSVP for next Thursday's show at the Echo, send an e-mail to chevycaveman@buzz-media.com .
Though Feist's worldwide tour of Metals won't wrap up until next March, Leslie, tourmates Mountain Man and the gang took some time out to document the first leg with a Polaroid camera and film supplied to us by the Impossible Project . Special thanks to Graeme Flegenheimer for facilitating the project. Check out Leslie's shots and captions above.
I can't tell you how excited we are for this Hospitality record. When we first run their track "Friends of Friends," RayRay and I were so excited, that we both wanted to post it, almost letting us post it twice. So yesterday when Stereogum ran the second single from the group's upcomingself-titled album, I got super stoked all over again. Merge Records is going to put it out on January 31st, and it just can't get here soon enough. This band is clever and whimsical, but there's [...]
From the upcoming (together) EP from Antlers , here's the band doing a dreamy cover of the The xx track "VCR". The EP also features remixes, plus songs performed with Nicole Atkins, Bear In Heaven and Neon Indian. Download "VCR" from Stereogum here .
In Danish popsters Datarock's new video for "California," a haggard young office functionary disguises himself via red sweatsuit and oversized shades and becomes some sort of freestyle-walking dervish, eventually finding himself at an open-air Datarock show. Someone should let this guy know: Certain neighborhoods in L.A., it's not a great idea to wear all red. Andreas Trolf co-directs alongside music-video legend and Devo collaborator Gerald V. Casale. Watch it below. Read More...
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UK youngsters the History Of Apple Pie have some messy fun to the tune of the upbeat, shoegazey " Mallory ." Whoever the curator of the food items used for the food fight is, A+, some truly great/gross textures and colors in the mix here. May it enter the pantheon of indie rock food fight videos ! Check out the clip after the jump. Read More...
Alongside chief collaborator Noah '40' Shebib, the just-leaked Take Care represents the culmination of everything Drake has done to this point, a career that already spans dozens of hits and a stranglehold on influential radio stations like Hot 97. Though the Twitter hordes keep stacking Take Care up against Jay-Z and Kanye's Watch The Throne , itself already a contemporary monument to rap world spoils and sufferings, Take Care 's more immediate comparison is West's 2010 opus My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy . Both records are expansive and, in [...]
Alright, y'all know what time it is. It's the Halloweekend, and today we've got some of the best tracks from the last month that fit nicely into whatever theme-heavy environment you're trying to create. Whether it's a spare spectralness (Atlas Sound), a haunted heaviness (Crystal Stilts), or just some aggro rap music with a titular affiliation to the Antichrist ("6663), here's to hoping these 13 tracks hit home on some level. And, apologies in advance: " Werewolf Bar Mitzvah " did not make the cut. I can't believe they recorded that, until I remember that it's Tracy Morgan we're talking [...]
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