Iggy Pop – Apres album review
At 65 years old, Iggy Pop is up there with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan as one of the oldest people in rock n’roll. This is probably a weird position to assume in any industry (“Shouldn’t you have retired by now?”), but it’s especially so in one primarily concerned with youth. That awkwardness is multiplied when you‘re known primarily for two things: 1) being the frontman of one of the first punk bands ever and 2) extreme rock star [...]
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Mind Games – Silent Descent album review
We live in a ‘cross-over’ world now; the Canadian acoustic/indie band Walk Off The Earth can cover “The Backing Up Song”, a song that is nothing more than a news report that someone Auto-tuned, and get over four million hits on Youtube. If that is popular, it is possible for death-metal and trance/electronica to jump into a pool together and come out dripping gold. Silent Descent, from Dartford, England, are this exact combination. Their album Mind Games features Petrucci-esque guitar [...]
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Grouplove – Never Trust A Happy Song album review
Following in the footsteps of acts such as The Fratellis and Feist are Grouplove, the latest band to get a jumpstart courtesy of an iPod spot. With the success of tracks “Tongue Tied” and “Colours” already firmly cemented, the Los Angeles group emerged in late 2011 with their debut full-length offering, Never Trust A Happy Song. No matter how much the band claims to abhor happy songs, it’s apparent that they are by no means averse to upbeat tracks at [...]
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DIIV shares video for “How Long Have You Known?” + New Tour Dates
DIIV DROPS “HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN?” VIDEO ON YOUTUBE TOUR W/ UNKOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA + NXNE + RECORD RELEASE SHOW OSHIN DUE JUNE 26 FROM CAPTURED TRACKS Following the success of recent singles “Sometime”, “Doused” , and “How Long Have You Known?” (All three earned Best New Track from Pitchfork) you may be asking yourself, what kind of drugs do I need to take to make music that good? Is it really that magical ratio of one part THC [...]
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Serj Tankian – Figure It Out video
Serj Tankian Releases Official Music Video for “Figure It Out” Harakiri, New Studio Album, Out July 10th Today Serj Tankian released the official video exclusively on AOL for his first Harakiri single, “Figure It Out.” The video was directed by Ara Soudjian. “It’s a comical political song talking about abusive capitalism and the differences created in economic stature and the reaction to it” says Tankian about the video. “CEOs have gotten away with murder, until now…”
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Sasquatch 2012 Daily line-up preview Friday May 25th, 2012
If you’re lucky enough to be a part of the sold out 2012 Sasquatch! music festival, there are a couple of things you need to know and understand. Firstly, analyze and decide on the schedule. There will be conflicts with regards to which artists you want to see and when. You’ll be able to find out schedules from the guides at the various booths, but plan ahead and get to the front of the stage by quickly checking below. You [...]
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Beat Connection Premieres First Single Off Debut The Palace Garden LP | Performs at #Sasquatch Music Festival this Weekend
Readies First Headlining North American Tour “[Beat Connection] finds the warm, quivering heart of electronic music…equivalent of a sunset-to-sunrise ecstasy trip and the wistful day after.” MTV Hive Download ‘The Palace Garden, 4am’ Seattle-based Beat Connection has debuted “The Palace Garden, 4am,” the first single off of their debut LP, The Palace Garden, out June 19 with Moshi Moshi / Tender Age. This single follows the album’s expansive track ‘Think/Feel’, an early introduction to the album which The FADER dubbed, [...]
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Best Coast – The Only Place album review
First off, I love this kind of music: cohesive instrumentation, good production, ambient extras and most of all, sentient lyrics and harmony. New or old, it’s what speaks to my heart and mind and gets me to relate to what the artist is trying to say. Bethany Cosentino’s voice is mid-pitch comfortable on the ears, even in the longer-than-really-necessary refrains in songs like Why I Cry. The title track opens brightly, moving along and introducing Cosentino’s followup album to 2010’s [...]
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Future Sounds of Buenos Aires album review
I’ve never thought South America to be a hotbed for emerging artists. Argentina’s ZZK Records and LA based Waxploitation Records have come together to produce this compilation record of the best emerging artists from Buenos Aires: Future Sounds of Beunos Aires. This compilation features a lot of electronic music is not the kind most North Americans have grown accustomed to for the past few years. Sure, there are a lot of similarities: synths, bass, and just pure garbled sci-fi sounds, [...]
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The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Aufheben album review
Every band, every musician, every artist has a certain uniqueness about them. Every band has that little something that at first glance is unexplainable as to what it is that makes them stand out above the rest and to a particular crowd. How is the crowd you want to appeal to chosen? And what is it about the certain kinds of music out there that appeals to certain kinds of people? The Brian Jonestown Massacre is a band that has [...]
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