This year's bundle of holiday sounds
Gallery: This year's bundle of holiday sounds Dan DeLuca, Inquirer Music Critic Posted: Thursday, December 13, 2012, 3:01 AM Sufjan Stevens is this year's undisputed Christmas music champion. The...
View ArticleThe Playlist: Frank Ocean / Katy B ft. Jessie Ware / Sufjan Stevens /...
------ Frank Ocean Fake Plastic Trees The Odd Future man delivers a warm, atmospheric version of Radiohead's melancholic hit. Ocean's trademark croon hits all the right notes. ------ Katy B ft....
View ArticleDeconstructing: How Can Indie Musicians Break Even?
David Thomas, the singer of Pere Ubu, once said that “Rock music is mostly about moving big black boxes from one side of town to the other in the back of your car.” I love this line because it...
View ArticleR.I.P. Ravi Shankar
Indian classical composer and virtuosic sitar ambassador, Pandit Ravi Shankar, died on Tuesday, December 11th, in San Diego, near his home in southern California. According to a statement issued by...
View ArticleMixtape Of The Week: Meyhem Lauren Mandatory Brunch Meetings
A few minutes into the new mixtape Mandatory Brunch Meetings, the Queens rap bruiser Meyhem Lauren joins a very small circle: The tiny club of rappers whose between-verses shit-talk is as much fun to...
View ArticleThe Gummy Awards: Your Top 10 New Acts Of 2012
The Gummys! We’re still in it! So far this week you’ve crowned M.I.A. & Romain Gavras’s “Bad Girls” with this year’s Gummy for Best Video, and Japandroids’ “House That Heaven Built” as this year’s...
View ArticleFucked Up – “Inside A Frame” Video
The brand-new video for “Inside A Frame,” one of the prime ragers from Fucked Up’s great 2011 album David Comes To Life, mostly takes place at a tough-kid dance-crew choreography practice, and it’s...
View ArticleReunited Nirvana To Perform With Paul McCartney Tonight
Among the many types of rock-band reunions, there are a few notable ones: The reunions we all wanted that end up being worthy of our interest (Dinosaur Jr., Mission Of Burma); the reunions we all...
View ArticleWavves – “Sail To The Sun” Video
Wavves are coming back with a new album this spring, and they worked on it with pop producer John Hill. First single “Sail To The Sun” is a fast, snotty rager that sounds a lot like the songs Williams...
View ArticleA-Trak – “Piss Test” Remix (Feat. Juicy J, Jim Jones, Flatbush Zombies, El-P...
Earlier this year, A-Trak released his single “Piss Test,” a dance-inflected drug-rap banger that featured Danny Brown and Juicy J. And now, on the Fool’s Gold compilation Loosies, A-Trak gives us the...
View ArticleThe Knife Announce Shaking The Habitual
The dark and mysterious Swedish duo the Knife haven’t released a proper album since 2006′s Silent Shout, but they just announced, via cryptic teaser video, that they’ll be back in the earlier months...
View ArticleFIDLAR – “Gimme Something” Video
Hedonistic L.A. punks FIDLAR’s video for their strummy, catchy-as-fuck number “Gimme Something” doesn’t feature FIDLAR at all. Instead, it appears to be made up entirely of ancient footage from a...
View ArticleFIDLAR – “Gimme Something” Video
Hedonistic L.A. punks FIDLAR’s video for their strummy, catchy-as-fuck number “Gimme Something” doesn’t feature FIDLAR at all. Instead, it appears to be made up entirely of ancient footage from a...
View ArticleWatch Nirvana & Paul McCartney Debut “Cut Me Some Slack” At 12-12-12: The...
33 Photos » So last night the unthinkable happened: Paulvana, Nirmacca, Nicartney — whatever they’re calling themselves (Abomination is taken) — performed at the 12-12-12 Concert For Sandy Relief at...
View ArticleDownload Riff Raff & Dame Grease Hologram Panda Mixtape
Drug-gobbling Tumblr-rap attention-hog Riff Raff had a very big year in 2012, and now he tops it off with, amazingly enough, the first full-length non-cobbled-together mixtape he’s managed to release...
View ArticleDirty Projectors – “Offspring Are Blank” Video
A few months ago, Dirty Projectors frontman Dave Longstreth released his Hi Custodian short film, which used a bunch of songs from the band’s Swing Lo Magellan album. And now, like the “About To Die”...
View ArticleWidowspeak – “The Dark Age”
Brooklyn dream-rock duo Widowspeak will release their sophomore album Almanac next month, we’ve already heard their “Ballad Of The Golden Hour.” Now here’s the spindly, breathy “The Dark Age,” which...
View ArticleToro Y Moi – “So Many Details” Video
Home-studio memory-manipulator Toro Y Moi releases his new album Anything In Return next month, and now the awesomely squirmy plastic-soul first single “So Many Details” gets a video. In the...
View ArticleFrightened Rabbit – “The Woodpile”
The video for “The Woodpile,” a swollen and emotional song from braying Scottish rockers Frightened Rabbit’s forthcoming Pedestrian Verse, is a single-shot tableau of a bloody scene in a New York...
View ArticleThe Pretenders’ 10 Best Songs
If there had never been such a thing as Chrissie Hynde someone would certainly have needed to invent her: The Ohio born singer-songwriter and frontwoman of the Pretenders emerged from the teeming...
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