Tibi Puiu\ 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…
Download: Oh No Ono – ‘Eleanor Speaks’ (Caribou remix)
One of my favorite Danish up and going bands, Oh No Ono, just released their third studio effort, titled “Egg”, an album bristling with tight synth lines and pop goodness. Today, Caribou released an incredible remix of “Eleanor Speaks”, the opening track for Oh No Ono’s Egg, which totally turned the original at 180 degrees “into a fantastic slice of shuffling, four-to-the-floor techno complete with Caribou’s keen ear for arrangements and ear-tickling sound.” A great…
White Stripes live album full stream
Steve Lampiris
So the ‘Stripes made a live document of their 2007 tour of Canada (where they played every single Province), entitled Under Great White Northern Lights. It’s gonna be a film and an album. The important part here is the album portion. It’s out next week, but you can hear it now over at NPR’s website. Notable inclusions are the blistering duo of “Seven Nation Army” (duh) and the title track from Icky Thump, as well…
LCD Soundsystem still in ‘fashion’ with new song
After “Bye Bye Bayou”, we’re treated to yet another James Murphy brand new delight, this time under the form of this brilliantly re-arranged version of experimental composer Peter Gordon and Love of Life Orchestra’s 1979 songs “Beginning of the Heartbreak” and “Don’t Don’t.” The arrangement was used as the soundtrack for Yves Saint Laurent’s fashion show, which just took place a few days ago in Paris and where LCD Soundsystem played a live set. Old…
[VIDEO] White Hinterland – ‘Amsterdam’
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…
3rd new Smashing Pumpkins song…of 44
Yes, track number 3 from the proposed 44-song, 11-EP “album” Teargarden by Kaleidyscope has been released. This one, called “A Stitch in Time,” is about as left-field as the title suggests. There’s sitar over acoustic indie-pop flair, as well as swirls of guitar here and there that float around the simple ditty. Think the lighter side of Mellon Collie if Billy had pulled a Beatles trip to India. This is easily the best of the…
MGMT Congratulations Cover Art
“it’s us trying to deal with all the craziness that’s been going on since our last album took off. Sometimes it just doesn’t feel natural.” – MGMT, a few months ago when talking about the band’s new album. The cover art has just been released today, but even though the band stated it’s gonna be whole different album than Oracal Spectacural, judging from it, I have a feeling we’re still gonna be in stored for…
New Age scores soundtrack for ‘high-fashion techno-thriller’ short-film [slightly NSFW]
Guinevere van Seenus stars in Aanteni, a high-fashion techno-thriller from CFDA award-winning design sisters Rodarte, shot by their friend and frequent collaborator, the photographer and video artist Todd Cole. Set in the deserted grounds of Paypal founder Elon Musk’s Space X jet lab in Hawthorne, California, the film was inspired by the pioneering spirit of the space race, which, according to Rodarte’s Kate and Laura Mulleavy, “has defined generations of artists in their desire to use new…
Download: Titus Andronicus – ‘A More Perfect Union’
The Glen Rock, New Jersey five piece of Titus Andronicus have made a name for themselves across the years for delivering indie rock with an actual attitude. The band’s debut record, titled “The Airing of Grievances”, was released in 2008 and was immediately met with highly positive reviews. It was loud, heavily distorted in sound, very intelligently written and most of all fun as hell! In only a few weeks Titus Andronicus are set to…
Hear new Gorillaz album one week early
Yes, the forthcoming Gorillaz record, Plastic Beach, can be streamed in its entirety here. Go listen to it now. It’s that awesome.