Posted on 11 March 2010
I’m into different kinds of music for different reasons. Not everything goes down easy, so it’s a treat when something’s as unabashedly catchy and straight-up fun as 17-year-old Tampa rapper Dominique Young Unique’s “Show My Ass.” And it’s a plus when a summer jam involves this much (actual) personality and skill. The video was shot […]
Posted on 10 March 2010
Actually, on latenightwithjimmyfallon.com. This hasn’t even aired yet. “Terrible Love” is our first listen from and the first track on the National’s forthcoming LP High Violet. Are you ready for some good music?
The band will play Brooklyn’s Bell House tonight and tomorrow. Tickets sold out in less than a minute.
High Violet is out 5/11 on […]
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 10 March 2010
Over the past few months, Alan Palomo, aka Neon Indian (et VEGA), went from the bedroom to Late Night television. Now he’s also passed through Chris Taylor’s Brooklyn-based Terrible Studios: Palomo wrote and recorded “Sleep Paralysist,” his first new post-Psychic Chasms track, and received mixing/mastering help from the Grizzly Bear. He’s described Neon Indian’s sound […]
Posted on 10 March 2010
It was the first single, then the first video, now “The High Road” gets its late night debut via The Late Show. Letterman introduced the band with a little misinformation — he promised that their self-titled album came with balloons and other prizes. No prizes or balloons, but it is really smart packaging. Brian Burton […]
Posted on 10 March 2010
NAME:Robyn
PROGRESS REPORT: Mixing the first of three mini-albums she will release this year.
A big part of Robyn’s story is how, when she felt frustrated with her former label, the Swedish singer started Konichiwa Records and decided how she would write and market her music. The downside of all that control? Everything takes so much time. […]
Posted on 10 March 2010
A couple days ago we heard Devendra Banhart inhabit Liars’ excellent “The Overachievers,” reversing the frequency of the opposites attract/urban cynic vs. L.A. hippie love song for the deluxe edition of Sisterworld’s Reinterpretations disc. Various able-minded individuals also helped build the “reinterpretation” collection’s intriguing tracklist, but Radiohead fanatics have inevitably zeroed in on Thom Yorke’s […]
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
Conor Oberst is all grown up — after listening to Monsters Of Folk you might even think he’s your dad — but Omaha’s favorite indie-rock son still slides into his Bright Eyes angst rather easily. See, for instance, “Happy Accident,” which appears on the reissue of the 2004 One Jug of Wine, Two Vessel six-song […]
Posted on 09 March 2010
Chaz Bundick took us to a mellowed-out, red-eyed “chillwave” house party then headed-up the entertainment and inhalations in the Jon Casey-directed video for “Blessa.” Bundick and Casey are together again in this summery “Talamak” clip, which takes place in the sun-dappled great outdoors and features a few really beautiful explosions. Right, still plenty of smoke. […]