May 2010
Photos: Rando on April 27 →
Sorry for the delay on this you guys. It’s been a pretty rough week around here, juggling the site redesign and new posts, content, etc. etc. More on that in June. Anyways, this past Tuesday for…
April 2010
News: The Joy Formidable touring North America +... →
Soaring guitars and emphatic vocals run amok in the EP called A Balloon Called Moaning from the Wales-based indie rock act The Joy Formidable, which is finally seeing its US physical release…
Video: Mogwai's new teaser for Burning live CD/DVD →
We weren’t able to attend any of the three nights in April of last year where the boys in Mogwai all but destroyed Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s Music Hall venue, but thanks to a new live CD/DVD…
Download: Mr Vega - "Mac Attack" →
The B-side to Mr Vega’s newest single on Subdrive called “Whopper Junior”, “Mac Attack” is another gem of a dancefloor destroyer, with heaviness in the bassline but lightness in the heart. Vega has…
Live: The Wake formed in 1982; are playing their... →
Twenty-eight years since Scottish post-punk act The Wake debuted with Harmony (with future Primal Scream lead Bobby Gillespie playing sharp basslines throughout and leaving the group shortly after…
Adolf Bieber →
News: Rod Azlan is releasing an EP next week with... →
UK-based dub and dance resident and MC for many a great dub war/dubstep set Rod Azlan has a six-song effort coming down the pike next Tuesday via the Scion label, complete with 3 original songs and a…
Download: Everything Everything - "Schoolin'... →
Spacious and sizable, this excellently arranged remix of the Everything Everything single “Schoolin’” comes from Visions Of Trees, a UK-based duo of jungle enthusiasts and minimal touching producers….
Scarlett Johansson Make-Up Party →
Video: AutoKratz - "Kick (US tour video version)"... →
Sometimes DJing and sometimes giving a full-on rock ‘n’ roll performance but always giving 100%, the guys in AutoKratz have just dropped a new EP of material today—for free. The Kick EP is the…
Download: Jokers Of The Scene and The Golden... →
Nouveau synth-laden goth rock four-piece O.Children create swatches of “Transmission”-ripped themes and contain some of the most froggy vocals since Glenn Danzig. They’re tracks are filled with…
Cat Gives a Cardiac Massage to His Injured... →
This is the saddest fucking thing anyone maybe has ever seen.
Video: Booka Shade - "Bad Love" →
German-based synthetic producers Booka Shade are back with this incredible new video clip for “Bad Love”, proving that stellar visuals and a not-so-apparent theme at all can still make for a…
Web: Hussle Club included in the "Best of MySpace"... →
We all realize that the only reason MySpace still exists is for musicians, right? We’re not alone in thinking that much is true. But sometimes, the stars align and MySpace begins to make a fair…
Download: LCD Soundsystem - "Dance Yrself Clean... →
(photo by Natalie Seery) People complain all the time that bloggers like us and everyone we know fail to get creative and always reach for the same key words in describing a band/artist/producer….
Babelgum: Kids Reenact: MTV’s "The Hills" →
Live: Lookbook head out on a string of US dates →
Minneapolis synth pop duo Lookbook are heading out on a tour of their own, playing sixteen dates in the US in a span of only seventeen days. The band, who’ve cut their teeth in opening slots for the…
News: New Boys Noize EP out today + Tiga remix →
Uni-brow king Boys Noize is dropping his latest EP of head-banging beats and robotic remixes today called Transmission, but not via his own label but rather through Last Gang Records, who’ve so…
Download: Crystal Castles - "Empathy (10,000 Volt... →
(photo by Ryan Muir) Let’s give this unknown, unsigned, completely unhinged producer from San Francisco, 10,000 Volt Ghost, a bump, shall we? He’s taken the instrumental from the spacey, darkwave…
Photos: Punches debut show at Public Assembly on... →
Funky disco house abounded on Saturday night in Brooklyn, as the four piece of Brooklyn kids known simply as Punches made their first-ever show full of movement, beats and capital-F fun, debuting all…
Live: Atlanta transplants to Brooklyn are starting... →
In celebration of all of the golden things to emanate musically from the great city of Atlanta and Georgia as a whole, newly transplanted to Brooklyn impresario Preston Craig (KISS Atlanta and now…
The Ultimate Goldman Sachs Metaphor Reel (VIDEO) →
Download: Penguin Prison - "Something I'm Not... →
(photo by Bjorn Iooss) Total tape hiss love affairs here, with this remix from the UK producer Entrepreneurs (one dude, plural noun), who cut his teeth a bunch already—filed, even—with edits for…
Photos: Girls & Boys on April 23 →
Webster Hall was lit up with funky house tunes, excellent vibes and sweaty messes on stage this past Friday night, as special guest DJ sets from Hot Chip (or a bunch of them at least) and The Juan…
Dubstep-loving bird is the greatest thing ever.... →
Download: Pallers - "The Kiss" →
Sweden’s ambient pop act Pallers are back with another great, spacey track called “The Kiss” today. The latest output since the excellent (and excellently-received Humdrum EP) is as engaging a song…
Web: The Plug Five Project shares music... →
With the aim to help clear landmines and assisting in a new non-profit initiative to promote the work of the anti-landmine charity MAG (Mines Advisory Group), a new and secret email-based blog called…
thoughts on bouncers
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the white ones are the mean ones.
Photos: Hussle Club and more played The Loft At... →
This past Thursday night, the ladies and gents in one of our favorite new acts to emerge from the embryonic stage of excellent rock ‘n’ roll music, Hussle Club, took part in another edition of the…
Video: The Young Punx vs EMF - "Unbelievable Juice... →
A completely remixed, re-mashed and redefined version of the latest and pretty great record from the UK kids in The Young Punx, Mashpop & Punkstep (the duo’s sophomore studio package), Mashed Popped…
Video: Slow Club - "Willow Tree (Chad VanGaalen... →
Here now, for your enjoyment, a cover of Chad VanGaalen’s excellent song “Willow Tree”, performed while walking around a playground park in the daytime by cute-as-fuck Sheffield boy/girl duo Slow…
Download: Memory Tapes - "Bicycle (Little Loud... →
With this remix of the Memory Tapes song “Bicycle” (off the Seek Magic LP, which just got its second pressing topped off on stellar vinyl) from the UK’s Little Loud, we can honestly say that we’re…
100-Year-Old Woman With An iPad →
Totally cool that a brand is cashing in on stupid... →
CONTESTS: Mad Decent and Aviary are hosting a... →
Mad Decent and Aviary are combing forces and holding a remix contest for the next few weeks, where you can win some rad swag and get your remix (if you win, of course) featured on the Mad Decent site…
Photos: Rando on April 20 →
Look, the truth is, we don’t celebrate the whole 4:20 thing like most of the people who post shit about it on the Internet do. In fact, had this week’s Rando NOT fallen on April 20, we wouldn’t have…
News: Dutch Uncles are dropping their single next... →
(photo by Nina Kolle) Angular indie pop from Manchester—home to some of the greatest rock acts of the last 35 years, including The Buzzcocks, The Fall, The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, Happy…
Bitter Music Journalist Delivers Annual Anti-Music... →