How have we not posted about this already? The Hold Steady’s new album, Heaven is Whenever, is all set for release in May (the 4th in America, 3rd in Europe), and to set tongues a-waggin’, they’ve been drip-feeding songs from the album around the internet like delicious little morsels of heroin – seemingly innocuous, but so very more-ish. So, to start with, our pretentious chums over at Pitchfork have been kindly streaming “Hurricane J”. Go…
Official cover art for “Heaven is Whenever” Another highly anticipated LP this year is the allegedly ‘less anthemic’ “Heaven Is Whenever”, Hold Steady’s follow-up to the band’s previous incredible effort, the 2008 “Stay Positive”. ‘Less anthemic’ as Craig Finn puts it, though, since if I were to judge the new album by its first single, “Hurricane J”, which calls back to a recurring character named Jessie, I’d say it’s a pretty big understatement. Just hit…
The year of 2009 will remain one to remember for Phoenix and their fans, one that finally marked the band’s transcendence to worldwide success. Seeing how it was such a kind year for the French band, Phoenix have decided to give away a live album recorded during one of their performances in Sydnay from last month. Live In Sydney can be downloaded here.
“My Propeller”, the 3rd single off Arctic Monkeys’ latest album, the 2009 released “Humbug”, will get released next Tuesday. Until then though, I came across the B-side for the single, a brand new AM song titled “The Afternoon’s Hat”. I really like the somewhat nouvelle direction the band have taken with their new album, embracing a more confident and mature sound. Thank you very much, Josh Homme! [mp3 props to We All Want Someone to…
After two incredible albums, “Strawberry Jam” and “Merriweather Post Pavilion”, a lot of touring in between and beyond, and even the full length motion picture ODDSAC released at the beginning of this year, it seems Animal Collective has begun to show signs of growing weary. “There was just so much touring for us,” Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) told BBC 6 Music. “We’re not really road dogs. We were really happy with the record, so…
Beach House dropped by La Blogoteque’s latest live sessions outlet, the relatively newly added “Les Soirées de Poche,” where the band played the first five songs off their latest stellar album, “Teen Dream.” The elegantly performed set can be viewed bellow. You can shuffle through the songs by clicking the white dots in the player. Enjoy!
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…
\ 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…
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…
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