VIDEO: Spiritualized – “Little Girl”
It’s only fitting that on a dreary Monday, SPIRITUALIZED would return with a new cinematic clip for “Little Girl”, a track off of their recent rock classic Sweet Heart Sweet Light. Directed by Vincent Haycock, the video speeds past contemporaries with an outline that follows “a young female runaway who steals her dad’s money and motorcycle to escape the god-forsaken, post Soviet demise small town in which she lives”.... Read More
REVIEW: The Walkmen – “Heaven”
[May 29th 2012 - Fat Possum Records // Find it at: iTunes | Insound] ______________________________________________________________ Even in its most tender, lovesick heart-dusting moments, Heaven unravels in your arms to show it’s mature. Compared to the rest of the east coast band’s 2000s’-riddled career, it might be The Walkmen’s most sincere effort. From the sting of the twanging guitars to the constant quiver of percussion... Read More
REVIEW: El-P – “Cancer For Cure”
[May 22nd 2012 - Fat Possum Records // Find it at: iTunes | Insound] ______________________________________________________________ If hip-hop is a poetic form of culture, is there a limit on how creative you can be? If there is one, Brooklyn mic wrangler El-P knows how to warp the limitations into an imaginative thud that provides a brace for the stories behind Cancer For Cure. His first album in five years rarely touches a club joint as his imagery’s... Read More
TRACK/MP3: Melody’s Echo Chamber – “Crystallized”
Recorded and mixed in Perth and at her grandparents’ beach house in Cavalière, “Crystallized” is the debut recording for Parisian psych-pop songbird MELODY’S ECHO CHAMBER. The track just touches four minutes and with help from Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, fuses her influences of Spiritualized and Pram to create a lush kaleidoscopic rock jam that throttles the senses. If only we could lose ourselves in this in the south... Read More
GOING LIVE: Tennis
TENNIS THE HORSESHOE TAVERN, TORONTO / FEB. 29TH Underneath a dark red light and in front of a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, Denver indie rockers TENNIS displayed what they do best. While most may think it’s redesigning indie to be a style that tip-toes into lo-fi, hip hop and retro pop, the band’s front duo of Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley – along with James Barone on drums – quietly use their... Read More
REVIEW: Tennis – “Young & Old”
[Feb. 14, 2012 - Fat Possum Records // Find it at: Insound | iTunes] ______________________________________________________________ Love can be a fickle thing, but in the case of Denver’s Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley, it’s not. Since their seven month sailing trip, the husband and wife duo have been able to take stories, feelings and a relationship and pen legitimate pop songs that bend styles and fuse a chemistry that’s nearly... Read More
Q&A: Youth Lagoon
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BLARER OF THE MONTH: Tennis
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REVIEW: Smith Westerns – “Dye It Blonde”
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