There are few things in this world that make my brain quiver more appreciatively than news of a new Mark Lanegan album. So let’s all get a -quiverin’, because Hawk is released this week – his latest collaboration with the lady we music cricket types are mysteriously obligated to label “Scottish chanteuse”, Isobel Campbell. That his work with Campbell tends to paddle indifferently around the more insipid depths of Lanegan’ s catalogue matters very little…
This past weekend Thom Yorke made a surprise appearance on the Big Chill festival stage where he landed an almost brand new Radiohead song titled “Give Up the Ghost” (the track debuted live sometime in February this year, but it hasn’t been played since). The whole performance was dazzling, and as for the song itself – a real gem! Thom went up on stage, thumbed the mic to a beat, then looped one of his…
Simple, yet highly entertaining, Broken Social Scene video for “Forced to Love” taps into more high-tech grounds, depicting the band’s hologram playing the flying guitar rocker. Forced to Love is off the talented Canadian collective’s latest recently released full length, “Forgiveness Rock Record”, out now on Arts & Crafts.
If you have 17 months to spare that is… A certain crafty, passionate and, not lastly, obsessed individual took the liberty and time to recreate the famous Daft Punk helmets in the comfort of his own studio. The end-result is nothing short of spectacular, and can be seen in the YouTube video embedded below in all its 749 steps towards completion. [via Radio Exile]
Alright, this is one of those disturbing videos you run into, and immediately after hitting the play button through out the end of it all you’re left with that oh so familiar what-the-fuck feeling. One thing’s for sure with Ratatat’s latest video for “Drugs” – it’s damn well suggestive. Ratatat’s latest album “LP4” is out now on XL. DrugsRATATAT | MySpace Music Videos
Remember when your love alone (was not enough)? Well, now love is ending. But at least it’s not war. Such is the cheery outlook of the new Manic Street Preachers single “(It’s Not War) Just The End Of Love”, cunningly released to “radio” as a kind of “preview” of their upcoming “album”, Postcards From A Young Man. Never ones to be subtle where sledgehammer-like hyperbole would suffice, it contains such wonderful lyrics as “To feel…
Bubbly, seriously creepy eyes put in contrast crossed with trippy instances of various characters make the video for Chromeo’s latest single “Don’t Turn The Lights On” an enjoyable view. The solitary pair of eyes strolling around the scenery towards the end of the video is hilariously golden, and that, solely, is enough to hit the play button below. The Canadian duo’s third full length, titled “Business Casual”, is due September 14th for release via Electrofunk….
Chris Shiflett, the Foo Fighter-who-isn’t-Dave-Grohl (no, not Taylor Hawkins. And no, not the goofy-looking guy what used to play extra guitar for Nirvana – Dirk Gently, or whatever his name was. Because Nirvana songs totally needed two guitars. Not him. The other one. Anyway) recently released his first album with his new side-band, The Dead Peasants. Which is an awful, awful band name, I know, but let’s not let that derail the very point of…
Last year I was introduced to Clubfeet, a very promising three-piece electro band from Australia which marvelously fused ’80s disco pop with modern day synth pop. Today, I learned that Clubfeet is releasing their debut full length “Gold on Gold”. Upon further digging, I found “Count Your Lovers”, a sweet and soothing french disco song, beautifully arranged in hypnotic keys and uplifting synth lines.
Caribou’s latest full length “Swim”, released this April, is somewhere in my top 10 fav of the year so far. If you’re not that well impressed, it’s enough to sample Daniel Snaith’s Odessa or the techno infused, feel good track “Sun”, whose music video premiered earlier. While sub par compared with the quality of the song itself, the Simon Owens directed video however does a pretty good job in conveying the ecstatic nature of Sun….
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