Posted on 17 June 2010
The lineup for the Voodoo Music Experience was just announced. Experience, festival, whatever — it’s a music festival. The annual music experience festival has tapped Muse, Ozzy Osbourne and Weezer to head up the lineup set for New Orleans on Halloween weekend. Read on for the full massive list of artists set to play. There’s […]
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Posted on 02 June 2010
You heard Vampire Weekend’s “Jonathan Low” (one of VW’s top three songs about vampires) and before that Muse’s “Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)” (inescapable at vampire proms this month). Now you can check out Beck & Bat For Lashes’ much anticipated collab…
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Posted on 01 June 2010
Metric’s Fantasies came out a little over a year ago, but the band’s still releasing new videos for the album. “Help, I’m Alive” and “Sick Muse” got videos last year, and they released the official video for album closer “Stadium Love” over the weekend. The video follows the spirit of the song’s lyrics, if not the letter — “Stadium Love” calls for match ups like “Spider versus bat / Tiger versus rat / Rabbit versus dove” and the video mixes footage of the band playing with clips of buffalo, seals, and bears fighting right when the song’s squelchy keyboard chorus hits. No human versus animal fighting though, just lead singer Emily Haines petting a lion.
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Posted on 09 June 2009
Metric’s tour on the back of Fantasies and its many videos brought them to L.A. last night, where the band played their biggest, most sold-out show yet. Props were paid onstage to the various Los Angeles venues they’ve performed and outgrown along the way — Silverlake Lounge, El Rey Theater, Henry Fonda Theater. It’s a good stage-banter device, simultaneously inviting, humbling, and self-congratulatory; it’s also one that their BSS-mate Feist loves whipping out whenever she’s in NYC (like at Town Hall and McCarren last year). Anyway the crowd ate it and their set up last night, including a theremin-ed “Twilight Galaxy,” the “summer jam” “Gimme Sympathy,” and the “Monster Hospital”/”Live It Out” encore. Opening the show was the non-MSTRKRFT half of DFA1979, Sebastien Grainger and his Mountains, along with Band Of Skulls, who our photographer Andrew Youssef tells us have been playing a slate of L.A. showcases over the past week. A few more chances to see Metric remain:
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