This Saturday, as part of Record Store Day, Radiohead released two new songs titled “Supercollider” and “The Butcher”, the last two remnants from the King of Limbs sessions, and highly likely the last material the band will churn out this year. While Supercollider is very laied back and chilled, “The Butcher” simply blew me away with its haunting instrumental, stellar percution and an implacable as ever Thom Yorke. The two tracks are out now at…
Justin Vernon’s second full length studio installment has long been awaited, as anticipation grows ever thick in the wake of the release of “For Emma, Forever Ago”‘s follow-up. Reports have it Bon Iver’s sophomore yet untitled release will be out this June, although a shroud of mystery is wrapped around the project, fact amplified by a recently unveiled teaser video. The very short 50 seconds video features interesting instrumentals overlapped by Vernon’s unmistakable haunting vocals…
Album name: In Love With Oblivion Artist name: Crystal Stilts Genre: Noise Pop Released: April 11, 2011 Label: Sumberland Records/Fortuna POP! ZME Rating: 7/10 Website: myspace.com/crystalstilts You remember the 2003 film Lost In Translation don’t you? Yeah. Fantastic wasn’t it? Too flippin? right it was! The film was directed by Sofia Coppola and starred the greatest actor (although perhaps not technically) in the history of American cinema: Bill Murray. Fact. If you can also remember…
Alex caught up with Manchester’s Help Stamp Out Loneliness, a promising dream pop outfit whose debut album is slated for release on May 9th. Read, listen and order. Help Stamp Out Loneliness by Help Stamp Out Loneliness 1. I’m very excited to finally get to know you guys a little better. So band members, please introduce yourselves! I would really appreciate it if each of you could give us his/hers specific character description in no…
Mainly due to frontman Jónsi Birgisson’s focus on solo projects in the past few years, there’s been little insight, let alone new material, surfacing from the Icelandic dream-pop experimentalists. Sensing this, who knows, Sigur Ros has uploaded to its SoundCloud a slew of new unreleased tracks, like demos, alternate versions or rare lives, which never made the final studio draft for one reason or another, but which are now up on the web for your…
TV on the Radio will release their new album, “Nine Types of Light”, next week and wouldn’t you know it, you can stream all the ten tracks entirely for free down at Rhapsody (with your 25 tracks trial account and granted you’re on an US ip, of course). The follow-up to the exquisite Dear Science will land officially on April 12th via Interscope Records. For a quick feel of Nine Types of Light, check out…
The fairy tale screening of Red Riding Hood has been stirring a lot of waves recently, none that will probably find any echoes past 6 months from now, but nonetheless Twilight fans will definitely devour this up. And although I have little faith in the movie itself, I find the soundtrack much to my interest, being scored by Brian Reitzell (30 Days Of Night, Beginners) and Alex Heffes (State Of Play, Inside Job). Joining them…
In preparation for the band’s upcoming, yet untitled, forth studio release the Arctic Monkeys recently unveiled online the first single off of it, called “Brick by Brick”, which now has a music video penned to it as well. The sunny waves, lazy afternoons and palm trees do well to hint to the fact that recordings took place in LA, at Hollywood’s Sunset Sound Studios by longtime collaborator James Ford. Further details regarding the follow-up to…
The Oklahomans are no strangers to all sort of oddball endeavors, be it their ridiculous on stage antiques or various other promotion techniques; the latest – an upcoming commercially available gummy bear skull with an equally delicious gummy bear brain in it, ultimately inside of which you’ll find a flash USB stick with three new Flaming Lips songs. Oooook… “We found this guy in Raleigh, North Carolina, who makes all these gummy bear things– even…
Although Nathan Williams can be safely considered a dickhead, I’ll have to grant it to the man that he’s indeed very talented, but what I really like about him is that, like most stoners, he has a well developed sense of humor and doesn’t shy away from self-deprecation. It’s enough to follow his twitter stream to get a glimpse of what I’m talking about, but besides dicking around on the web, it seem Wavves is…
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