Following The National’s previous two instant classics, “Alligator” and “Boxer”, the Cincinnati five piece will release their fifth studio full length titled “High Violet” on May 10th via 4AD. I know a lot of you are very curious, and anxious alike, to have listen to the new material, so I managed to find this great performance of High Violet’s opening track “Terrible Love” played by The National live just a few days ago on Late…
Seems like the whole iamamiwhowherehowthefuckami mystery has been unraveled once and for all, and the artist behind it all is quite the unlikely candidate, considering the whole blogosphere didn’t even mention her during the whole thorough teaser dissection process. The latest video proves it all, if you happen to have a pair of sharp eyes, revealing without a doubt once and for all that Swedish artist Jonna Lee and her band are responsible for the…
The SXSW week almost always coincides with modest releases, but this year it can’t get any better. The highlight of the week is without a doubt Drive-by Truckers’ highly anticipated eight studio effort “The Big To-Do”, which according to Patterson Hood is “very much a rock album. Very melodic and more rocking than anything since disc 2 of Southern Rock Opera.” Should be very interesting, to say the least. The Emmett Malloy directed rockumentary “Under…
\ Released just this week, Plastic Beach already has a slew of almost unanimous critical acclaim, but Damon Albarn isn’t sitting on his laurels yet, though. As a really sweet ‘thank you’ to all of their fans, the cartoon band will play intimate dates in Portsmouth, Bristol, Cambridge, Brighton, Birmingham and Lincoln as a warm-up for their headline slot at Coachella in California in April. Tickets for the shows are limited to two per person…
One of my favorite Danish up and going bands, Oh No Ono, just released their third studio effort, titled “Egg”, an album bristling with tight synth lines and pop goodness. Today, Caribou released an incredible remix of “Eleanor Speaks”, the opening track for Oh No Ono’s Egg, which totally turned the original at 180 degrees “into a fantastic slice of shuffling, four-to-the-floor techno complete with Caribou’s keen ear for arrangements and ear-tickling sound.” A great…
After “Bye Bye Bayou”, we’re treated to yet another James Murphy brand new delight, this time under the form of this brilliantly re-arranged version of experimental composer Peter Gordon and Love of Life Orchestra’s 1979 songs “Beginning of the Heartbreak” and “Don’t Don’t.” The arrangement was used as the soundtrack for Yves Saint Laurent’s fashion show, which just took place a few days ago in Paris and where LCD Soundsystem played a live set. Old…
A world of polygons, gradients and other pointy stuff is all that is present in White Hinterland’s latest video for her latest single “Amsterdam” – that doesn’t mean that all is as it seems, though. I’ve really just recently come across Casey Dienel’s (aka White Hinterland) work, but I can say I’m well already within her tight musical grasp. Who couldn’t love a voice like that? White Hinterland’s sophomore release “Kairos” is out now via…
“it’s us trying to deal with all the craziness that’s been going on since our last album took off. Sometimes it just doesn’t feel natural.” – MGMT, a few months ago when talking about the band’s new album. The cover art has just been released today, but even though the band stated it’s gonna be whole different album than Oracal Spectacural, judging from it, I have a feeling we’re still gonna be in stored for…
Guinevere van Seenus stars in Aanteni, a high-fashion techno-thriller from CFDA award-winning design sisters Rodarte, shot by their friend and frequent collaborator, the photographer and video artist Todd Cole. Set in the deserted grounds of Paypal founder Elon Musk’s Space X jet lab in Hawthorne, California, the film was inspired by the pioneering spirit of the space race, which, according to Rodarte’s Kate and Laura Mulleavy, “has defined generations of artists in their desire to use new…
The Glen Rock, New Jersey five piece of Titus Andronicus have made a name for themselves across the years for delivering indie rock with an actual attitude. The band’s debut record, titled “The Airing of Grievances”, was released in 2008 and was immediately met with highly positive reviews. It was loud, heavily distorted in sound, very intelligently written and most of all fun as hell! In only a few weeks Titus Andronicus are set to…
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