March 2010
Culture: Chew Lips playing first-ever NYC show... →
And it’s in Brooklyn. Chew Lips, as anyone whose ever heard them on their debut album Unicorn or seen them live or just been wowed-to-death by the Terri Nunn meets Kylie Minogue yelping, belting…
Download: Ali Love - "Smoke And Mirrors (Alive... →
There might not be anyone doing the whole “pop” thing better than the London, UK born-and-bred Ali Love, as every track that comes from his stable seems to just build on the previous ones, cycling…
Download: Get your hands on the entire Leg Lifters... →
Leg Lifters, the thrilling, snarling kid brother production project from All Leather’s Justin Pearson and Nathan Joyner, have gone and embraced this whole “Generation Free Download” demographic in…
Culture: Alkaline Trio cover Archers Of Loaf's... →
Seventeen years later, the song (though acoustic in this rendition) still has the same power, fervor and venom as the first time we’d ever heard it. Bravo to Dan Andriano and Matt Skiba from Alkaline…
News: AutoKratz set to drop their new single next... →
Now that Russell and David aka AutoKratz have finally released their debut album Animal everywhere they could’ve possibly planned to have it out, they’ve, well, gone ahead and finished up a new EP…
Video: The Happy Hollows - "Big Bad Wolf" →
We’ve been all over and crushing out on the shimmery, art pop/rock Los Angelenos The Happy Hollows for quite some time now and with this new animation-meets-live-action video for their song “Big Bad…
News: Suckers released a new single from Wild... →
It’s no doubt shaping up to be a tremendous year for New York-based rock ‘n’ roll to come back to the forefront of the collective pop consciousness (we’d name all of the bands we’re talking about,…
Video: Grum - "Can't Shake This Feeling" →
We have no idea how we could have missed this tremendous new video from Grum for his latest track “Can’t Shake This Feeling”, directed by those deft near-geniuses in The General Assembly, but we did….
News: Emperatron debuts two new club-worthy tracks →
Helsinki electro kids Emperatron are back with two truly slamming new jams, each with their own tint on the old is-it-going-to-be-four-on-the-floor-or-derivate-from-that question. The answer, of…
Download: Drop The Lime - "Doomsday Device (Mr... →
Spirited, spooky and altogether tense, the latest release from Drop The Lime as part of the first volume of the new Trouble & Bass compilation series Heavy Bass Champions Of The World, “Doomsday…
News: Alexis Gideon prepares multimedia opera... →
(photo by Faulkner Short) Portland, Oregon’s resident vanguard computer nerd Alexis Gideon is back with some pretty rad news for anyone pretty much anywhere. The first piece is a free-to-download…
8th Graders need to back off 9th grade guys... →
dzj:
I think all of you should immediately join this facebook group.
News: Marina And The Diamonds already prepped for... →
It’s been just a week since the worldwide launch of The Family Jewels hit shelves and Marina Diamondis aka Marina And The Diamonds is already prepped for single number three’s debut, this time for “I…
Hayley Williams of Paramore covers "Bad Romance" →
Not bad.
Books: Justin Pearson wrote his autobiography →
Words like “epic”, “legendary”, “hero” and “icon” are tossed around all too much lately (we’re a little guilty of that too, naturally) and we wanted to take this opportunity to apologize to those who…
Video: YACHT - "The Afterlife" →
We guess you can just go ahead and get baptized wherever you damn well please these days, as that’s the gist and collective tone of the newest YACHT video for the Psychic City anthemic stomper “The…
Blast in Moscow metro kills 26 →
We were already on the overnight train back to St. Petersburg being annoyed by a young couple trying to seduce each other on twin beds across from us when this happened. HOLY FUCKING SHIT.
Download: LCD Soundsystem - "Bye Bye Bayou... →
Danielle “Danzie” Johnson is a NYC up-and-comer in the nightlife world, as an acting resident for the Friday night “Germs” party. The Brooklyn native (age withheld to protect the innocent) is also…
News: Herve to release the "Zombie" single right... →
(photo by Tobias Harvey) Ripped from the mixtape he’ll release on April 19, the Cheap Thrills label honcho and current bass producer du jour Herve is dropping the “Zombie” single, alongside remixes…
Video: Juice Aleem - "Rock My Hologram" →
Taking off where a Gorillaz video or “Rocket” or something, the new clip from Juice Aleem for “Rock My Hologram”, directed by Ben Lister, is straight up like “Grime In Space” or “Where No Rapper’s…
Photos: 408 Hours in Russia, part 1 →
So as you may or may not have guessed, dear readers, we’ve been on a trek/sabbatical/welcomed “vacation” for the last 4 days in the Motherland. Yes. We’re writing to you from an apartment unit that…
News: Snowden are back; offer up pay-what-you-want... →
It’s been a few long years for the fuzzy, gloomy, danceable (yes, those three adjectives in succession do actually make sense) indie rock act Snowden, what with the period of time between 2006’s…
Julia Allison • Nonsociety • Goodbye, for now. →
Wonder how #thelovelygirlfriend is going to react to this news.
Listen To New Broken Social Scene →
Download: Team Ghost - "Colors In Time" →
Another great sign of life from the former M83 member Nicolas Fromageau’s new project, Team Ghost, who you’ll remember are dropping their first-ever EP on limited edition vinyl with digital download,…
To the high school kids that just hit me up to buy...
chamberlain:
Cherish these days. Cherish your youth. Cherish the heady irresponsibility of school half days, and the hours spent bullshitting with your friends. Cherish a life without rent, ConEd, and careers. Your lives lay ahead of you yet, and soon, days like today will be but ghosts.
The least you could’ve done is offer me some weed you fucking vultures.
Download: Penguin Prison - "The Worse It Gets" →
(photo by Bjorn Iooss) If you believe that “everything important has already been written” and all of the lack of merit that that entails, in that there are no longer original ways to…
News: Get the free EP from Rx Bumble now courtesy... →
More heavy bass from those rascals at the Nightshifters label, this new, free EP courtesy of Philly bounce and house producer Rx is called Bumble, and it’s got all the honey you bees could want…
Video: Database post trailer for their US tour... →
Last year, the electronic dance music destroyers from Sao Paulo, Brazil, Database’s Lucio and Yuri, took to the stages for a quick hop, skip and jump in the US for a tour that is now the subject of a…
OMG Cat →
News: Blende premiere "Iratus", a song to be used... →
Blende, the UK-based duo that create mind-melding instrumental bangers, have just released this new track called “Iratus”, as it’s being featured prominently in the new documentary film we told you…