Video: Perfume Genius - 'Hood'

Perfume Genius - Hood

Every Friday we feature a music video in a feature called Video Of The Week. It’s always fun to watch a classic video from one of your favorite artists, or to watch a new video from a new band. Some of the videos listed here were featured as our video of the week during the past year, while others were just posted, and yet others were just discovered recently. Video killed the radio star a couple decades ago, and forever changed music and the industry as we know it. And now with easily access to high speed mobile internet, smart [...]

Let's take a break from business and start the survey of the best - subjectively speaking of course - music of the year. And this year, I'm stretching to a Top fifty (!) as if to hammer you over the head and say "music's brilliant!" 21-50 brings us the Big 3 Globeconquering Enormohits , Olympics memories, Swedes aplenty, respect for Tulisa, decent cover versions and a gay porn star in a video. 21. Caliban’s Dream - Underworld feat. Dockhead Choir, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Only Men Aloud, Elizabeth Roberts, Esme Smith and [...]

As voted for by State's ever expanding team of writers and photographers, this year's end of term album report continues with a mix of British and US names - along with one notable Irish entry. We'll be back in the morning with the top 30. 40. Mystery Jets - Radlands Esoteric Londoners head west. 39. Lianne La Havas - Is Your Love Big Enough UK soul takes another leap. 38. Field Music - Plumb [...]

WEINLAND, DENVER, THE LOWER 48 ( Mississippi Studios , 3939 N Mississippi) Read our article on Weinland. The Battle by Boy Eats Drum Machine NIGHT OF THE LIVING ALES: BOY EATS DRUM MACHINE, OH DARLING ( Burnside Brewing , 701 E Burnside) Dodging the dictates of fashion, Boy Eats Drum Machine's sixth album, The Battle , is aurally overwhelming, with all the layered abundance of 2005. This is not to say that [...]

Venku dnes ráno byla nepropustná mlha. Nad ní šedivá obloha zakrývající slunce o kterém ale víme, že tam někde za mraky je. A podobné je to i s hudbou seattleského písničkáře Mikem Hadreasem, který si říká Perfume Genius . Po debutu Learning, kde řešil svá osobní traumata kolem drog a pití, přichází s jejím následovníkem Put Your Back N 2 It , kde již chvílemi prosvítá světlo naděje. Na ploše 32 minut nabízí dvanáct písní, které propojuje jeho ztišený, jakoby nesmělý a někdy až téměř do šepotu přecházející hlas, který je ale velmi příjemný, s pěknou barvou, chvílemi [...]

Singer & songwriter Mike Hadreas started writing songs a few years back during a self-imposed recovery period, after he quit partying and made the effort to sober up. Writing intimate piano compositions and singing into a webcam microphone, he assembled the collection of tunes that would ultimately become his first album, Learning . For his latest album, Put Your Back N 2 It , he made the decision to take his songs into the studio-a dramatic shift from the process of producing the first album, which after having lost the original recordings was mastered from [...]

Perfume Genius - Hood

Perfume Genius, Hanni El Khatib e Tono são as mais recentes recentes confirmações para o festival do Meco, avançados hoje pela Antena 3. Podes consultar todo o cartaz aqui.

After last week's nonstop slate of amazing indie shows, it's hard to image it could happen again this week.  And yet, we do live in New York City so we can't be all too shocked.  Make sure you catch either Fenster , Perfume Genius , Lost Lander  (pictured above), or Of Monster and Men .  Or maybe you should see them all! Thanks for checking out our suggested New York City indie concerts list!  We won't list everything that's going on - just a short collection of great shows happening in [...]

Estamos a punto de cerrar el primer trimestre de este 2012, que no deja de dejarnos muy buena música. Esperamos mucho de este año, Beach House , The xx ,... Y aunque solo tenga 3 meses de vida, ya nos ha dejado joyas. Nos gustaría recomendar 5 álbums, que deberíamos escuchar si o si. Solo son 5, así que no nos tengáis muy en cuenta que nos hayamos dejado algunos en el tintero( Grimes, Kiwanuka, Shins, Lana del Rey ,...) pero es que la competencia es muy alta! y no nos olvidemos de los EPs de [...]

Wow, wat is Put Your Back N 2 It van Perfume Genius een prachtig album. Breekbare, hypnotiserende korte liedjes. Ik hield het, tja, bij het nummer Hood niet droog. De stem van Mike Hadreas doet denken aan die van Antony Hegarty , maar dan minder beverig - veel aangenamer. Put Your Back N 2 It op Spotify [...]

Wow, wat is Put Your Back N 2 It van Perfume Genius een prachtig album. Breekbare, hypnotiserende korte liedjes. Ik hield het, tja, bij het nummer Hood niet droog. De stem van Mike Hadreas doet denken aan die van Antony Hegarty , maar dan minder beverig - veel aangenamer. Put Your Back N 2 It op Spotify [...]

Maybe the accepting and open-minded world that Perfume Genius's Mike Hadreas imagines in his music isn't yet a reality, but it takes socially conscious artists like him to push such a vision forward. Sometimes the personal can't help but be political, when the way you choose to express yourself ends up taking a social stance, whether you mean it to or not. That's one way to describe what Perfume Genius's Mike Hadreas faces up to when making music, as the kind of artist who transforms his most private and intimate reflections into something much more. So while Hadreas has [...]

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One of music's most hyped acts of 2012, Perfume Genius has been getting tons of attention over the past few months, not only because he's got a fantastic new album out, Put Your Back N 2 It , but because he and his label have fought a very public battle with YouTube over a relatively tame music video in which the artist cuddles with a (mostly clothed) porn star. Rallying gay rights activists, music bloggers, and even Michael Stipe to his cause, he has brought queer issues to the forefront of indie rock - a [...]

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The words 'piano balladeer' are enough to strike fear into the heart of many a music fan and have them ducking for cover behind a stack of Stooges LPs, but things are a little different when it comes to Seattle ivory tinkler Mike Hadreas, whose plaintive compositions arrive from a different dimension to vulgarities such as 'Candle In The Wind'. His 2010 debut album as Perfume Genius brought with it a succession of gushing reviews, both of the record and of his live performances. For a brief period you could barely move in the music press without bumping [...]

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Photo by Angel Ceballos Mike Hadreas of Perfume Genius is still the precocious, extremely approachable character he was when he shot to acclaim following the release of his debut album  Learning through  Turnstile in 2010. Clad in a plaid shirt, faux fur coat and what he regales as his best London purchase yet - a pair of horsehair Dr Marten style boots - he seems at ease though still coming to terms with the appeal of his stark, deeply person and honest art to the independent music world. When [...]

Every 30 days we bring you our five favorite music videos of the month gone by; if you missed any of last year's entries,  click here . The music video is off to great start in 2012, and there were many fantastic entries that could not find room on the list.  If you take a look at some of them, head over to our tumblr  where we have posted several (and where we frequently post new music and videos).  In the meantime, enjoy the months' best, featuring shadow puppets, action figures, dangerous car stunts, and gay porn stars.  [...]