Tibi PuiuNada Surf’s sixth studio album, “If I Had A Hi-Fi”, which is actually a cover album, will be out in less than two weeks. If your bristling with anticipation for the this latest effort from one of the few bands that can be annoyingly boring, yet strangely awesome at the same time, you’re more than invite to appetize on this recently released video for “Electrocution”, the cover of Bill Fox’s 1998 single.
Scissor Sisters: Positively Flaming
Al Byrne
Kids: a helpful tip. Despite what the cool kids at your school, or your drunken, vigilante-justice-espousing father might have you believe, fighting fire with fire is rarely an advisable tactic. In actuality, what’s likely to happen is the fire you’re wielding so triumphantly will team up with the existing fire to betray, and you’ll end up just fighting fire. With your bare hands. Better to take your cue from those handsome fire engines you admire…
[VIDEO] Tame Impala – ‘Solitude is Bliss’
This year’s psychedelic sensation, the Australian three piece psych-pop band Tame Impala, have apparently rose from virtually nowhere, impressing everybody with their druggie beats, busy drums, stoner riffs – a totally narcotic atmosphere, basically. The 2010 MGMT, if you will. I had no idea this band existed until a few weeks ago when I first started reading about them on blogs, but since then I’ve ferociously digested every leak and stream I could find on…
Ex-Exile Excerpt Excavated – “River” Rejiggered by Jagger and Richards
It’s always slightly disappointing writing a news item about The Rolling Stones. It’s not their fault – not really. It’s just, y’know, nothing can ever top Keith Richards falling out of a coconut tree. It happened four years ago last month, and still, nothing will ever be quite as hilarious or memorable or interesting as that ever again. HE FELL OUT OF A COCONUT TREE. Here is a joke you could have made if Richards…
Drive-By Shooting: “This Fucking Job” Video
Man. That headline pun is so good, it’s like Mega-Butter. Mmmmm. Yes, the news is this news: the always-reliable Drive-By Truckers have gone and made a video – but no! Wait! – TWO videos for the chunky riff-o-rama of “This Fucking Job”. But rather than documenting the tawdry and lewd world of the “professional night-time escort” business – as the song title would misleadingly suggest – it instead shows us a man losing his job…
[VIDEO] LCD Soundsystem – ‘Drunk Girls’ (live @ Later With Jools Holland)
LCD Soundsystem’s highly anticipated third studio album, “This Is Happening”, is just one week away from its official release date. As such, seeing how live performance broadcasts on national television of the band were just waiting to occur, James Murphy and co. stepped by Jools Holland’s show where they simply rocked the house with their latest single, “Drunk Girls”.
Heavy Petty-ing (Sorry)
Everyone still likes Tom Petty, correct? His Mudcrutch CD, as much as it was really just a Heartbreakers CD with a slightly different haircut and a trucker’s hat on, was quite excellent, and he does have the most hirsute of faces. Shaggy beards are always rock n’ roll (except, naturally enough, when it’s a rabid tramp whose face is housing the beard, and that face is currently knawing at your knees. But since, as far…
And Bob’s Your Sweethead
News for our several States-side chums today. Desert rock propagators with potential, Sweethead, are releasing their unimaginatively eponymous debut album on your side of the Atlantic today. Sweethead, of course, are the pet project of dapper sometimes-Queen of the Stone Age Troy Van Leeuwen, who beefs up his back end (oo-er) with the dab hands of Mark Lanegan Band alumni Norm Block and Eddie Nappi, and also unleashes the vixenly stlyings of singer Serrina Sims…
Interview with “Nirvana Baby” at 19
Steve Lampiris
Spencer Elden, the kid on the cover of Nevermind, is now 19. He’s a starving artist – of course he is – and, in this candid three-minute interview, admits, “Everyone out there in the world has seen my penis.” In the short piece, Elden explains how the photo shoot went down for the iconic album cover, as well as his own art and style. It’s a good way to spend a few minutes. Nirvana Baby,…
New The Black Keys video: ‘Next Girl’
Frank, the Funkasaurus Rex, is back once with his latest feature in The Black Keys video for “Next Girl”, a very low and sexy song off the band’s upcoming new album. While Frank is always a joy to watch dance and lipsync, the whole take goes to the gorgeous ladies in the video this time. Watch out for the cat fights! The Black Keys new album, titled “Brothers”, is due May 18 on Nonesuch Records.