Posted on 12 March 2010
If you needed new reasons to join us at Range Life down at SXSW, you’re welcome. First and foremost is this engrossing and gently saxophoned(!) keyboard-centric track from twangy Baltimore dreamers Wye Oak, the band sandwitched between Ben Gibbard and the morning benders at our show and highly capable of turning out memorable sets at […]
Posted on 12 March 2010
At ten minutes, the video for the Gaga & Beyoncé track “Telephone” is maybe too long and definitely too heavy on the referencing Tarantino, but at least they get the important business out of the way upfront with a closeup and commentary on Gaga’s disco stick.
Posted on 11 March 2010
Moon Duo is the San Francisco twosome of Sanae Yamada and Wooden Shjips’ Erik Johnson. It’s not surprising they mention Suicide, Silver Apples, and Royal Trux as influences. As the last name in that series hints, they’re also into soulfully noise and jazzed-out experimentation (Coltrane, Rashied Ali show up in their one-sheet). They recently released […]
Posted on 11 March 2010
While you’re waiting for Eric Wareheim to take Dr. Steve Brule’s catch phrase to the realest level with his his next video directorial assignment for your HEALTH, there’s this new remix to keep you busy. Because all you do is track down Tim & Eric news and wait for HEALTH jams. The band’s called this […]
Posted on 11 March 2010
After a 10-year hiatus, Alec Empire & Co. are getting together for a one-off show at London’s Electric Ballroom on 5/12. The anti-Fascist “anarchist” techno-heads recorded a new single “Activate” for the occasion. It’ll be out 5/17 on their Digital Hardcore label, but there’s currently a free remix at NME.
Posted on 11 March 2010
Annie Clark doesn’t mention the album they tackled, but the St. Vincent mastermind did Tweet that she teamed up with Tropicalia stalwarts Os Mutantes and Liars for one of Beck’s Record Club collaborations and that it’ll be online “soonish” and was “serious fun.” (Guess: First Suicide record?)
Posted on 10 March 2010
It’s been a while since we checked in with mellow Jersey Shore/Galaxie 500 fans and BTW Real Estate. Turns out they were hiding in an actual real estate office and performing “Suburban Dogs” for the company holiday party. Pass the spiral ham, please.
Real Estate is out via Woodsist. While we’re here, revisit “Green River.”
Real […]
Posted on 10 March 2010
I gave an abridged history of High On Fire when posting “Frost Hammer,” the lead single from the Oakland trio’s fifth album Snakes For The Divine, because they’re a band who inspire detailed contextualization. Not just because main man Matt Pike was a member of Sleep or that HoF’s released some certified classics (Death is […]
Posted on 09 March 2010
In their words, UK twosome Peepholes is the result of Katia Barrett and Nick Carlisle trading off “singing, drumming, keyboards, Kaos pad, guitar etc” duties. In our words, “etc” should include writing hooks because while noisy duos are nothing new — hell, by 2003 there was already an we-are-not-Lightning Bolt glut — noisy duos writing […]
Posted on 09 March 2010
Nice job on rushing the Range Life RSVP, you guys. It’s true, our party’s guest list is totally closed at the moment … closed to everyone except the person that wins this contest. Nice! That lucky person + guest will not only gain access to an intimate show with B. Gibbs, the morning benders, and […]