Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to announce the release of the new freely downloadable single 'Sea Years' by garage-dreampop trio The Caseworker , taken from their acclaimed 2011 album Letters From The Coast . 'Sea Years' is the follow-up to first single 'National Runner', showcasing another side to the band's trademark guitar surge. The song's insistent motorik beat, levitating guitar jangle and Eimer Devlin's gorgeous airy vocals create a very special blend of dreamy, hypnotic pop minimalism. Light as a feather yet crammed full of gutsy guitar sounds, 'Sea Years' is another earworm from [...]
Gigamesh, otherwise known as Matt Masurka, is the DJ and producer that has put the Twin Cities on the map with his eclectic remixes and electro Pop. This Hype Machine star is both a low key and mainstream kind of guy. He started DJing as a hobby back in high school, but soon gave it up once he graduated. He sold his equipment to his older brother who later became known as DiscoTech. While studying music in college he dabbled in a few groups and mostly stayed away from Dance music. Later on, Masurka got drawn back into [...]
Currently only European dates announced, but keep your fingers crossed.
Sólo un video muy peculiar podía encajar en la que es probablemente, la canción más peculiar de los Kills . Un clip nuevo nos muestra el making-of de ' The Last Goodbye ', video de 35mm en una cabina fotográfica, que pertenece su álbum del año pasado Blood Pressures . "En resumen, solo seguí a mi corazón, y eso es lo que ellos escogieron," comenta la actriz Samantha Morton, directora del video y reconocida por su actuación en las películas In America y Minority Report . El making-of también incluye entrevistas [...]
Joe writes: The BBC make such great trailers advertising themselves, especially when they draw on the songwriting of Lou Reed. The current trailer for BBC Radio features a man moved to tears firstly by The Velvet Underground's Pale Blue Eyes, and then by a football commentary as Blackpool gain promotion to the Premier League. For the original underground band, The Velvet Underground sure had some great tunes.
Had we been around for the time of Warhol's Factory, I could easily see LA natives Mini Mansions, trading slots with The VU. It's a tough task to seamlessly merge psychedelia with dance-pop, but Mini Mansions do just that. In fact, take one listen to "Monk" and imagine girls with bobs and mini-dresses, sipping martini's and getting down with the underground art crowd that Andy attracted. "Monk" starts with a walk down piano progression accompanied by a melody that, although catchy, makes you a bit uneasy. You can tell there is a sweet pop-core, but coated in a layer of basement [...]
Domino will be releasing a new EP from The Kills on February 21st promoting "The Last Goodbye" from their most recent LP Blood Pressures . The EP also includes three cover songs- The Velvet Underground 's "Pale Blue Eyes," Marilyn Monroe 's "One Silver Dollar" and Patsy Cline 's "Crazy." Available as either a 73 for $8 or a 103 for $10, you can preorder either direct from Domino . All preorders include the 16 page '144 Polaroids From The Road' booklet, featuring photography by the band. Check [...]
Sono tre i live che John Cale terrà in Italia a marzo. Il polistrumentista gallese co-fondatore dei Velvet Underground il 15 marzo sarà ai Magazzini Generali di Milano, il 16 a Roma e il 17 a Torino per tre appuntamenti in cui darà alcune anticipazioni del suo nuovo disco atteso per primavera del 2012 (Double Six/Domino Record). Continua a leggere John Cale in Italia: l'ex Velvet Underground sarà in marzo a Milano, Torino e Roma ... [...]
The Cat Came Back: Sleeper Albums Some albums drop to little or no fanfare, but slowly find and build their audience. They can become underground favorites, influential classics, [...]
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Filed under: News , Holy Hell Hayley Madden,Redferns/Verve Nearly 45 years after a banana appeared on their iconic 1967 debut album, the Velvet Underground are suing the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts citing copyright infringement and seeking unspecified damages. According to the New York Post -- and also reported by Exclaim -- Lou Reed and John Cale claim the image's use [...]
Se ve un tanto bizarra, pero no deja de lucir original la idea de recrear clásicas portadas del rock de todos los tiempos, como si hubieran sido diseñadas con los recursos amateur del Clip Art. Clipartcovers.tumblr es el responsable de este atentado visual tan raro como divertido. The Smiths Kate Bush Kraftwerk Joy Division [...]
Above is a trailer for the upcoming LCD Soundsystem documentary "Shut Up And Play The Hits." Directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, the film focuses on the band's breakup in 2011, in particular the days leading up to their last shows at Madison Square Garden . If you couldn't fly to New York and pay $957 to bid them farewell, this could be the next best thing. It will debut at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival . Heartfelt indie folkster Justin Vernon, also [...]
The Velvet Underground demanda a la Fundación Warhol alegando que usó la icónica banana de su LP debut de 1967 The Velvet Underground and Nico sin su permiso. El líder de la banda Lou Reed reclama que la imagen fue usada en diversos productos, incluídas fundas para iPad, engañando al públicohaciéndole creer que ellos habían dado su aprobación a estas mercancías. La banda busca demandar por daños y perjuicios por infracción de copyright y competencia [...]
Members of the band are trying to stop their iconic Andy-Warhol designed banana being used on covers for iPads and iPhones...
Longtime Everybody Taste favorites Luna have digitally remastered and released the LPs Romantica, Rendezvous and the 2002 EP Close Cover Before Striking over on Bandcamp . Word on the street is the band may even try and repress a few of these classic records onto vinyl (we've got our fingers crossed over here). If you're a fan of the band's dreamy and mesmerizing pop music, former bandmates Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips have also been keeping busy as the duo Dean & Britta with the acclaimed and spectacular 13 Most Beautiful: Songs [...]
The Youth skriver i en pressemeddelse, at de er fast besluttede på at prøve at få 60'ernes bluesprægede garagerock tilbage på teenage værelserne. På dette cover af Low's "Just Like Christmas" gør de en så god figur, at det ikke er usandsynligt, at de kan nå i land med den ambition. Bandet har rumsteret i undergrunden en rum tid og forsøgt at finde frem til deres udtryk. Efter en turbulent padlen mellem forskellige genrer — bl.a. den elektroniske musik, er The Youths endelige udtryk nu blevet etableret, bl.a. hjulpet [...]
He was the first president of the Czech republic. But what really marked out Vaclav Havel , who has died at the age of 75, was his passion for the Velvet Underground: -- Visit No Rock & Roll Fun to comment, complain and kvetch
Listen to new Christmas covers by the Civil Wars, David Bazan, Woods, Little Scream, the Bandana Splits, Saskatchewan, Coming Soon, and Aidan Moffat!
Human Switchboard's Who's Landing in My Hangar? is one of the few tenuously Cleveland connected punk/new wave classics to lack a proper reissues. Bar/None Records thankfully rescues this great album from a future of shitty YouTube vinyl rips. The reissue includes close to everything the band released. A droning John Cale type synth drones over
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