Sia Announces Marquee Theatre Show
[jump] Sia will play the Marquee Theatre Tuesday, April 20. Ticket info can be found here.Here is the adorably charming video for “You’ve Changed”…
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You Asked For It: Eric Holland
Borders, Battles & Beers(Self-released)GRADE: D+Note: Michael Lopez is taking over our long-running You Asked For It review column.Music is a medium that comes to a particular person through inspiration. It is also a medium that inspires others to be creative and to perhaps make their own music. Sometimes a historical…
St. Vincent
It’s often difficult to easily describe just what makes a St. Vincent album such a special work of art. Annie Clark, the brains behind indie-rock act St. Vincent, gloriously stands out in the sea of female singer/songwriters. For one thing, her albums sound like nothing else released that year. She…
A Phoenix (Band) Rebuttal
Martin Cizmar’s review of the sold-out Phoenix show Monday night has raised some eyebrows, making a few good points about the current state of the French band. A lot of Martin’s opinions come from someone who isn’t the biggest fan of the band, and that is perfectly fine. I, on…
The Soft Pack: The Soft Pack
Rolling Stone: At a time when a lot of retro-garage types are playing it languid and low-fi, the Soft Pack exude wide-eyed angst — a sense of discovery that’s hard to put across with hand-me-down rock…
2010’s Best Album Cover Is Here; Everyone Else Can Stop Trying
[jump] Jokes.comPatton Oswalt – Metal-Maniacomedians.comedycentral.comRead Patton Oswalt’s biographyWatch Patton Live at the New York Comedy FestivalFind more from this comedian in the Shop.This bit, “80’s Metal,” is from Oswalt’s album Feeling Kinda Patton — which came out in 2004. It just took Jeff Beck 6 years to finally figure it…
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Surfer Blood To Play Trunk Space
2010 has been kind to West Palm Beach indie upstarts Surfer Blood. Their debut LP, Astro Coast, has found massive critical acclaim — even from “Nothing Not New’s” Jay Bennett — helping make a name for the Florida foursome. What spectacular start to a year, then, would be complete without…
Download Yeasayer’s New Single “O.N.E.”
It’s shaping up to be quite a 2010 for Brooklyn psychedelic indie rockers Yeasayer. Their second album, Odd Blood, will be released 2/9 and they have already locked down a Friday spot at this year’s Coachella. Their North American tour kicks off February 5 in Los Angeles and includes a…
Bowerbirds
Let’s face it, we’re in a new decade, and while some of the previous decade’s fads and styles will continue to trickle into 2010 and beyond, some of them need to respectfully wither away. There’s nothing wrong with that because it is simply the cutthroat nature of our culture’s sensibilities…
New Found Glory
Dear PopPunK: Let’s cut the shit. The previous decade was yours for the taking. And, for fuck’s sake, you took it. Hell, you had your cake and sang it in a song about a lame breakup, too. PopPunK, you started as a group of rambunctious bros who met in high…
Bowerbirds
Let’s face it, we’re into a new decade, and while some of the previous decade’s fads and styles will continue to trickle on into 2010 and beyond, some need to respectfully wither away. There’s nothing wrong with this idea, it is just the cutthroat nature of our culture’s sensibilities. Yesterday’s…
Insane Clown Posse Made a Movie? Really?
[jump] That’s right, you saw “Mouth of the South” Jimmy Hart in there right around the 28-second mark. The audacity of Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J to make an actual full-length feature film is absolutely remarkable. I could go on and on about that trailer and the idea of an…
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Karen Dreijer Accepts Award, Puts Gaga in Her Place
Karen Dreijer is one half of the Swedish sibling duo The Knife and the sole proprietor behind Fever Ray. She is a very talented musician who is not afraid to stretch the boundaries of what’s weird and rather odd. Her acceptance speech last week at the P3 Guld Awards –…
Enjoy a New Sondre Lerche Video: “If Only”
[jump] Lerche’s video for “Two Way Monologue” started what would be a tradition of silly, enjoyable videos, as I mentioned earlier. The Never-Ending Story vibe, coupled with the silly paper sets and a bunch of dancing hippies certainly makes this a one of a kind video — yet it fits…
Wednesday Album Stream: Beach House’s Teen Dream
If you listen to just one dream pop album this year, I implore you to make that album Beach House’s Teen Dream. The Baltimore duo’s second full-length comes out next Tuesday, but that didn’t stop those in the know over at NPR from providing us with an opportunity to give…
Coachella 2010 Lineup Announced
My head just exploded. Goldenvoice has finally revealed the Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival offical lineup for their 2010 edition. The lineup is usually announced this time of year, on or around the MLK Day holiday, and it comes 87 days before the festival kicks off on Friday, April…
Monday Album Stream: Four Tet’s There Is Love in You
It’s been almost two years since Kieran Hebden — better known to the world as Four Tet — released his last album. That wait will be over next week as his seventh Four Tet LP, There Is Love in You, will be released a week from Tuesday. Hebden, being the super-decent…
OiNK Administrator Cleared of Charges
For those not in the know, file-sharing is a pretty big way of life for some music fans. Shawn Fanning pushed the practice into prominence in the late 1990s with his super-slick software Napster (maybe you’ve heard of it). After Satan’s Lovechild Lars Ulrich bitched and moaned about the service,…
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Is Parks and Recreation the Wu-Tang Clan of Comedy?
[jump] Parks and Recreation is the Wu-Tang of Comedy – watch more funny videosI saw this video yesterday and foolishly didn’t post it up on here until today. It’s music related — enough so that Pitchfork decided to dedicate a post to it. It’s really saying something when anyone, especially RZA,…
Fleshmap Chart Shows Occurrences of Body Parts by Music Genre
[jump] Fleshmap analyzed samples of thousands of songs and calculated the percentage of instances in which a certain body part is mentioned in a particular genre. Genres such as alternative, folk, electronica, country, and hip-hop were included in the study. The results are fascinating, with hip-hop showing some of the…
R.I.P. These Arms Are Snakes
It’s with a heavy heart we tell you that These Arms Are Snakes is no more. It’s been a great run and we’d like to send out a very hearty “Thank You” to everyone that we’ve worked with or anyone that we’ve toured with.R.I.P., TAAS. “Big News” will always remain…
Beach House Announces Rhythm Room Show
[jump] Now, Teen Dream has yet to be released — it’s due for release on January 26 — but in the golden age of the Internet, that didn’t stop anyone from hearing the album and also enjoying it immensely. 2010 needed its early indie juggernaut — Animal Collective was 2009’s version –…