Katy Goodman from LA Sera and Vivian Girls does the interview, OFF! is the band. Katy asks them about their histories in Black Flag and Redd Kross and the new album.
Katy Goodman from LA Sera and Vivian Girls does the interview, OFF! is the band. Katy asks them about their histories in Black Flag and Redd Kross and the new album.
Silversun Pickups performed “Bloody Mary” and “The Pit” on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. The Jimmy Kimmel appearance was to promote theit latest album Neck of the Woods, which was released this week on Dangerbird Records.
Has your faith in the power of live music ever been shaken? If so, watch the video for the live performance for “Time” by Ty Segall & White Fence. The lo-fi garage punk onslaught is enough to reaffirm your musical soul for at least the rest of the day, if not at least for the next ten minutes as you watch the video for “Time” repeatedly. | VIDEO
“Gloria” is the get up and go track of the week, and the perfect Summer jam, introduced nicely by Virals as Spring starts to tilt towards Summer. Virals is the musical project of Shaun Hencher, who used to front the band Lovvers. | STREAM
Citing influences as broad as Jesus and Mary Chain, The Pixies, Sleater-Kinney, The Breeders, and Juliana Hatfield; Fawn know how to do more than just fawn over some of the great names in 1990’s alternative music as well as indie rock in the 2000’s. | STREAM
Deadmau5 is back with a new song, “The Veldt.” This was the song that Joel Zimmerman, a.k.a. Deadmau5 collaborated on with Chris James. Anyone who follows the prolific Deadmau5 Twitter will know that Deadmau5 looked for a collaborator via Twitter, searching for someone who wanted to go beyond boring club lyrics and reach for something fresh and new. | STREAM
This has definitely been the week of My Bloody Valentine. First we had news from Kevin Shields that the new My Bloody Valentine album and EP would arrive this year and even a preview of the unreleased song “Good For You.” Now comes the long-promised reissue of the classic album Loveless, and you can preview it in full right now.
Raz Mesinai interviews producer and musician Daniel Martin-McCormick (Ital) from Mi Ami on new projects, punk influences like Fugazi and problems with MIDI. | VIDEO
Squarepusher aka Tom Jenkinson headlined the Creators Project in San Francisco earlier this year, and now they’ve put together a short movie/interview/featurette from the show. ALSO: check out the video for “Drax 2.” | VIDEO
It’s been a long time coming but it was worth the wait: new music from Atoms for Peace, the Thom Yorke-fronted project that includes Flea and producer Nigel Godrich. This is the first of what could be new music from a new Atoms for Peace album, and it’s laid bare with five videos from a MOCA afterparty in Los Angeles. | VIDEO
Friday night’s Jack White webcast was broadcast as a livestream via YouTube, which means ARCHIVED JACK WHITE WEBCAST. Missed it? Check it out in full, after the jump. | VIDEO
Kaskade and Skrillex have a lively new track and video for “Lick It,” a post-Girl With the Dragon Tattoo look at the Winter that never was, tracked through a body-mounted camera. | VIDEO
Beirut performed “Santa Fe” on The Tonight Show with Jay leno last night, off of their album The Rip Tide. The album was released last year to much acclaim and continues to impress fans with its combination of international influence and baroque style. | VIDEO
Take the desert-dwelling, raspy-throated vocals of Gonjasufi and lay them over a track from Humansuit (Isaiah Toothtaker and Mestizo) then throw Flying Lotus in producer and you've got the funky new song "Lawnmower Man." | STREAM
The band is from California but the video comes off as an arty black and white New Yawk-type of thing at times (with palm trees and surf, of course). The music is laid-back California beats and vibe, though, and is part of the album IF IT DIE which comes to life on May 1st via Neurotic Yell Records. | VIDEO
If you dig dub, dream pop or electronic music with a spirit of adventurousness, Peaking Lights is a good act to check out. They have a laid-back, slinky sort of vibe that's cool and casual while also being interesting. | STREAM
Jack White on Germany’s De Harald Schmidt Show. Harald Schmidt looks like the David Letterman of German TV as he introduces Jack White and his female band (he's touring with two bands, and decides every morning which one will perform that day). | VIDEO
The opera known as Dr Dee, first performed live at the Manchester International Festival and created by creative at large Damon Albarn and theatre Director Rufus Norris, gets a first listen starting today as a full album stream. The project is a bit of a serious and offshoot for Damon Albarn, who at this point has license to do whatever he wants whenever he wants. | STREAM
The b-side of the Sigur Ros Record Store Day release has surfaced online, and you can check it as a stream, it's titled “Kvistur.” Sigur Ros will release their new album Valtari in May. | STREAM
The new Django Django video for the song “Storm.” The band is a quartet from London, by way of an Edinburgh art school, and they're off to a the races with this track and album to be released later this year here in the US on Because Music. | VIDEO
The new Dirty Laundry TV interview with Karrie K and Blitzen Trapper. They talk about who can hold their liquor the best between The Hold Steady, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks and Wilco (Hold Steady wins); celebrity fans like Rainn Wilson, Reese Witherspoon and "Captain" Kirk Douglass from The Roots; and going "voluntary" homeless during recording sessions. | VIDEO
The Caribou Vibration Ensemble -- an indie super group of sorts that brought together Caribou as well as Kieran Hebden (Four Tet, Fridge), Koushik, John Schmersal (Enon, Brainiac), Kathryn Bint (One Little Plane), and Ahmed Gallab (Sinkane), among others at the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in New York. | VIDEO
The new video for the Exitmusic song "Passage" from the album "passage" It features lead singer / actress Aleska Palladino (HBO's Boardwalk Empire) in full cathartic cinema mode in the song that Spacelab's Jeff Daily called "seedy sexy modern L.A. noir music." | VIDEO
The awesome audio force that is Black Moth Super Rainbow ... known in the past for the sort of "Butterfly Effect" that the wall of sound synths can have coming out of loud speakers. Which is to say that it starts out small but eventually generates a LOT of momentum in terms of sound velocity. | VIDEO
"Temporary" indie pop vibes from White Rabbits in the new video. It's a technicolor feast of light and sounds -- the song is a nice blend of indie pop with an almost 80's new wave feel to the John Taylor-ish bass lines and pop synths. | VIDEO
Siddhartha ... the name alone is curious. A band that tags their Soundcloud songs with opposing forces like post-punk, shoegaze and my favorite - Black Hole Oscillators. | STREAM
It's the final wave of remixes before the full on release of the Dross Glop remix album. Check out remixes from Gang Gang Dance and Hudson Mowawke as well as previous remixes. | STREAM
They're a multimedia unit based in South East London who specialize in not only creating music but also video and film. It's the multimedia act of the new decade! | VIDEO
The steady and driving pulse of "Micron" from Max Cooper grinds its way along through a design-heavy group of animations, that move in perfect synch with both the rhythm and sounds of the song. | VIDEO
The Ultra Music Festival in Miami happend just over a week ago, and they've released a three-day wrap-up of video from the festival. It was exquisitely rendered in live during the festival, and the footage you see here was from the live webcast. | VIDEO
Chris Clark a.k.a. Clark releases Iradelphic this week via Warp Records. The electronic music / IDM musician travelled far and wide to record the sounds on Iradelphic, and you can hear the first song to be released from the album, “Com Touch” | STREAM
Check out the first new track from A Place To Bury Strangers' upcoming album Worship with the song "You Are the One. It features their patented "jet engine textures" aesthetic and was produced by the band. | STREAM
You dig the Pixies, Joy Division or Echo and the Bunny Men? Cold Showers "picked up where your precious Echo left off, and you're sittin' around complaining about no more Echo albums!" as one of the more memorable quotes go in the movie High Fidelity. | VIDEO
Seth Godin, the man, the myth, the legend ... on why the music industry is in a crucial transition phase that we all should all be excited about. Why should we believe him? He has a very good track record with being ahead the curve on this sort of thing. Check out the Seth Godin interview with Ariel Hyatt to find out why he thinks this is the best time ever to be an independent musician.
"Bright Night" is the first full-on song released from the album, and it's an almost new school jazzy take on electronic music. It has plenty of blips and stop-and-start action, but with a layer of something more energetic and sophisticated on top of it. | STREAM
The song sounds like the Louder Than Love-era part of the Soundarden discography -- thick and lively and more of a return to their roots than the big, bombastic Soundgarden machine that took over as Grunge moved from a mainstream big recording label phenomenon to post-phase, big sounding metal. | STREAM
The shoegaze revival lives on! Swervedriver drove it home on a performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night, performing the songs "Deep Wound" and "Son of Mustang Ford." "Deep Wound" is a new track, which according to the Swervedriver web site "has three different versions ... | VIDEO
Claire Boucher has more than just Grimes going on, as she's just unveiled a new side project called Membrain, a collaboration with Tim Lafontaine (Cop Car Bonfire) that will release a new EP titled Sit Back, Rewind at an as-of-yet unspecified date sometime this year. Check out the tracks "Airic," "Grime" and "Dream" | STREAM
Belle and Sebastian are curating a new edition of the compilation series Late Night Tales. Their playlist includes Toro Y Moi, The Lovin Spoonful, Gold Panda and Broadcast among 25 tracks. Today they released their contribution with the video for the song "Crash," originally by The Primitives. | VIDEO
Silversun Pickups will release their third full-length album titled Neck of the Woods on May 8 via Dangerbird Records, and today we get our first taste of the new music with the song “Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings).” | STREAM
The Ultra Music Festival kicks off tonight ... and if you're not going to be there ... we've gotcha covered. There's an Ultra Music Festival live stream webcast happening with a live video feed to cover the action. | VIDEO
Real Estate have offered up the song "Exactly Nothing" as a stream. It's the b-side to the song/single "Easy" off of the album Days. Domino Records suggests that it’s “best enjoyed outside, with sunglasses and an ice cold mug of your favourite American craft beer.” | STREAM
Check out the new video for "Hey Jane" from Spiritualized, off of the their upcoming Sweet Heart Sweet Light album due out this Spring (release date Apr. 17). The video is about as NSFW (not safe for work) as you can get ... so if you dig your paycheck, watch this at home or on your mobile phone. | VIDEO
"Passage" is the first single from the debut album by a duo who call themselves Exitmusic. Singer Aleska Palladino (HBO's Boardwalk Empire) and her guitar playing hubby Devon Church have crafted a dramatic five-minute mini epic with this song. | MP3
Check out Eric Bachmann (Archers Of Loaf, Crooked Fingers) being interviewd by Karrie K from Dirty Laundry TV. Eric and Karri talk about teching english to kids in Thailand (and hating it), reuniting Archers of Loaf and twenty years of playing music. | VIDEO
“There’s nothing like sitting in a completely quiet room, and then the strings start up. It’s like when you go to the cinema — the first two or three minutes of any film are amazing. Because the screen is so big. The scale. Directors can pretty much do anything for those first few minutes. It doesn’t matter how many films you see — it’s still kind of a moment.” | STREAM
Cubenx always throws down the best music ... a creative digital cocktail of a variety of influences, including post-punk, Eno, Slowdive, the 4AD label, and psychedelic influences. The video for "These Days" is nothing short of great on all of these fronts. | VIDEO
Slightly lo-fi and distorted, with a post-Misfits fetish to boot. Grave Babies are a Seattle-based band the Hardly Art label, and will release their Gothdammit EP on Apr. 17. | MP3
The new incarnation -- Dross Glop 3 -- features the Silent Servantt remix of the song "Inchworm," the Klanding Ray remix of the song "Toddler," and the Qluster remix of "Domincan Fade." | STREAM
The Shins are the musical guest on Saturday Night Live tonight, with host Jonah Hill -- The Shins are on SNL to promote their new album Port of Morrow. | VIDEO
Now that the Radiohead tour is under way, new Radiohead songs seem to be appearing as quickly as new dates for their tour ... today we find new videos for"The Amazing Sounds Of Orgy" and "Skirting On The Surface." | VIDEO
Neon Indian is jumping in the fray of Record Store Day with a 10" release for the song "Hex Girlfriend," which features the b-sid of the same song remixed Twin Shadow. | MP3
Radiohead started their tour in Miami last nith (link) one that will see them hit hotspots around the world throught the year. They ALSO played new songs, yes NEW RADIOHEAD SONGS called “Identikit” and “Cut A Hole.” You can freak out now. | VIDEO
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