We’ve already heard a gang of songs from Valtari, the much-anticipated new album from Icelandic swoon-rock architects Sigur Rós. And right now, at this exact moment, the thing is streaming at the band’s website. So go! Hurry! Listen to it! It’ll make a good dinner soundtrack, we promise! It’s here. Valtari is out 5/29 on [...]
Holograms is a Stockholm quartet that crafts chugging rock around bleating synths and a whirlwind of guitar jangle. Their debut is out in July, and here’s the first look at that, the single “Chasing My Mind.” Download below. Holograms – “Chasing My Mind” Holograms is out 7/10 on Captured Tracks.
Earlier this month, we lost Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, and credit the government of his home state for knowing that they should probably do something to honor the man’s legacy. A couple of days ago, State Senator Daniel Squadron drafted a resolution to honor Yauch, and the state Senate adapted it. Below, watch video of [...]
Last night, the Blow took the stage in Manhattan to perform some new material, a topic which we discussed with the Blow figurehead Khaela Maricich in a recent Progress Report. Though Maricich’s gleaming banter was ever present, gone was the narrative structure and Lindsay Lohan-fascination of their recent Glasslands gig, replaced by Maricich and sound [...]
If synthpop royalty is a thing that exists, Vince Clarke is it, straight up. Clarke is a founding member of Depeche Mode (before they turned gothy), Yaz, and Erasure, and if you’re making a move toward keyboards on your new album, he’s probably the guy you want remixing it. Liars, who already had the Mute [...]
Name: The Soft Moon Progress Report: Luis Vasquez talks about the recording of the Soft Moon’s forthcoming sophomore LP. The Soft Moon’s 2010 self-titled debut was a thing of gothy delight — eleven tracks of spooky bedroom electronics that created such a powerful, singular vision — of something beautiful, harrowing, and more than a little [...]
Flying Lotus and Beach House both make supremely chill, critically acclaimed music. Both have probably soundtracked a whole lot of drug experiences. Also, FlyLo once remixed Gucci Mane, and Beach House once covered Gucci. But that doesn’t mean they’re best friends. As Pitchfork points out, FlyLo had some mildly critical words for Beach House’s new [...]
A while ago, the world was introduced to Oxford electro up-and-comer Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, a stylemashing performer that just happens to dress like a Stegosaurus at gigs. He’s got a new record coming out this summer — we’ve previously processed cuts like “Dream On” and John Talabot’s remix of “Tapes & Money” — and [...]
The New York band Pop. 1280 make a grimy, scuzzy, entirely sinister variety of art-punk. So it only makes sense that director Jacqueline Castel would turn the video for their song “Bodies In The Dunes” into a ’70s-style mini-horror movie about a serial killer who buries his victims on a deserted beach. The video isn’t [...]
Breezy NOLA rapper Curren$y — whose consistency is simply remarkable — will put out a new album this summer called The Stoned Immaculate, a release from which we’ve already heard the Wale-featuring “What It Look Like” and the Daz collab “Fast Cars Faster Women.” Today we’ve got another cut from the album where Spitta gets [...]
