Directing duo Hammer & Tongs have stepped to the plate to deliver the first official video for Vampire Weekend’s highly anticipated sophomore album ‘Contra’, due out January 12th on XL. The song, ‘Cousins’, features all the hallmarks of the Vampire Weekend sound we’ve come to either despise or love: Tongue-in-cheek lyrics, polyryhtm and the [...]
Japandroids are a Vancouver duo make anthemic garage-rock flooded with distortion, wild-ass drums and an overdrive approach to laying guitar brick. “Young Hearts Spark Fire” is one of the stars on an album of visceral and emotionally charged songs. Youth, beauty and death ignite in the hands of the duo’s bare-bones [...]
Weirdo pop is probably the most apt description of Yeasayer I’ve heard. Their music is full of polyrythmic dis-harmonies, pops, clicks, chirps, beeps, and bizarre reverb effects that cacoon the chanty vocals in a web of sound. Lilke most webs this one is sticky as hell, catching your ear and holding on until [...]
London electro-rock duo The Big Pink describe their debut album, self produced at Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland Studios, as encompassing “every different aspect of love… The good, the bad, the boring, the exciting, the dreams, the nightmares, the whole thing.” That’s a pretty bold statement and a pretty ambitious MO for [...]
When noise-poppers HEALTH debuted with their album “Get Color” waaaaay back in 2007 (I know, who rememebrs 2007, how ancient) they made a brilliant move and quickly followed up with an album of remixes that was arguably stronger than the debut disc. If you’re not familiar with HEALTH they make a plaintive brand of noise [...]
I’ve noticed a new trend in music vid production lately, the super minimal video. Whether its because the obsolete cash strapped labels are cutting costs by slashing promo budgets or artists are tipping their caps to the age of information overload there are a lot of videos dropping that feature establishes and emerging [...]
Warm and sunny, melodic and psychedelic are just a few words to describe Miracle Condition’s first single off their debut EP. The guitars on ‘The Wandering Y’ dive into pools of shimmering reverb and staccato drum rolls creating an aura of a romantic summer fling but the song is about a relationship falling [...]
I had to post this track from Big Boi’s perpetually delayed solo disc, ‘Sir Luscious Left Foot’, simply because he’s a rap great and this track is the jam. Who knows if Outkast will ever release ‘10 The Hard Way’ but this track, with a sped up sample inspired by The Bluenote’s classic ‘I Miss [...]
Claude Von Stroke is a San Francisco based producer, DJ, and record label impresario with a penchant for rocking the dance floor (see 2006’s smash ‘Who’s Afraid Of Detroit?’). His new album, ‘Bird Brain’, features a pretty broad range of bangers including ‘Monster Island’. Opening with a fog horn effect that will seriously [...]
When one pictures Philly they probably think of the Liberty bell, or the Phillies, or that scene from Rocky, but they probably don’t think of synth pop bands. I’m sure Wesley Eisold didn’t either when he was helming hardcore outfits like Some Girls, but now he’s flipped his own [...]
