In a recent gig at Beck’s Festival Bar, in Sydney, The Decemberists played a brand new song, called “Springville.” Someone from the audience caught the song on tape being performed live solely by the band’s frontman Colin Meloy and his beautifully strung acoustic guitar. The sound is very folksy and warm, like much of their previous grand effort had to offer, last year’s critically acclaimed “The Hazards of Love”. Worth noting is that the video…
“The tambourine? I might as well play with dolls!” It seems last night’s television broadcast wasn’t entirely a musical fail fest *cough Grammys *cough. After American Dad had My Morning Jacket as guests for a feature episode, The Simpsons brought down Coldplay to the radioactive suburbs of Springfield, albeit for a short cameo. Check out the video bellow which features a short sequence of last night’s Simpsons episode where Coldplay get featured trying to play…
I first opened a facebook page for the blog maybe a year ago, but I didn’t promote it at all, nor did I update it with anything, let along something of interest – it was just a blank page. A few moments ago I came to realize this, and seeing how most of our readers are active facebook users, I see no reasons why we shouldn’t connect on the world’s greatest social network as well….
ODDSAC, a visual album by Animal Collective and director Danny Perez, is slated to premier tonight at the Sundance Film Festival, but while critics will have the chance to experience the full length of the acid trip, the rest of us will have to settle for the recently released 30 seconds trailer. As expected, it’s dark, eery and terribly confusing.
Coma Cinema is a very eery South Carolina collective project led by local scene figure, the talented Mat Cothran. The band just recently released their debut album, a free demo compilation of 14 songs recorded from 2005 to 2009, titled “Baby Prayers”, on their web site where it’s available for free download. There’s a certain vibe of nostalgia and dreamy atmosphere that revolves around their music, something I can’t really put into words. Heck, must…
Next week will see Beach House release one of our most anticipated releases of 2010, their third studio album, “Teen Dream”, via Sub-Pop. It’s an album I’ve been bugging everyone with for the past few weeks (seriously, I’ve been mistaken with the band’s PR on some occasions), with every chance I get. Today, it’s the duo’s latest video for Silver Soul, twhich was directed by the band’s frontwomen Victoria Legrand herself and features abstract lighting,…
Ever noticed how every town, big or small, has one of those lunatic false prophets that preach about the end of the world? You know, ZZ Top-like beard, a maniacal stare, a billboard/sign relating how terrorist monkeys killed his family and so on. Yeah, I’ve got one of those, too, but you gotta admit, they’re really fun. I mean, there’s something about prophecies of impending doom coming our way that really strikes a funny bone…
Coachella, the first major festival of the summer, just revealed it’s entire lineup earlier today, after a pretty long period of waiting and waiting. Headlining the event will be Jay-Z, Muse and the Gorillaz, joined by other incredibly talented acts like Them Crooked Vultures, Grizzly Bear, Yeasayer, The Dead Weather, Flying Lotus, Hot Chip, MGMT, Pavement, Ra Ra Riot, Vampire Weekend, The XX, Owen Pallett, Sly and the Family Stone or Thom Yorke???? (not sure…
I haven’t posted any illustrations for a good while now, but now is a good a moment as any, seeing how I just stumbled across this majestically drawn Andrew Bird poster. I’ll leave you to contemplate the illustration for a minute (hint: click on the image to enlarge it a bit). If you’re curious to see more similar work, the poster from above was made by The Little Friends of Printmaking, and they have a…
We’ve all seen some weird as fuck videos for some equally fucked up songs by Dan Deacon, but this one… Boy, all I can say is I don’t know what the music video producers for “Woof Woof” were on, but what I do know is I don’t want any of it. It’s a cute video and all, it’s just that most of it all is complete rubrish, with no disrespect meant for the Baltimore collective…
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