What the hell happened? While we were basking in the glow of our lopsided annihilation of the Wakey!Wakey! kids in billiards, they went all famous and got “War Sweater” featured on One Tree Hill. Way to go guys! It’s time to get these pictures up, so this review is going to be succinct: you already know how much we love these guys and gals. They are without doubt making some of the best musi
Juiceboxx’s video for Thunder Jam #5 riffs off their ‘80s rap sound with a fresh VHS look. Milwaukee hip hop never had it so good. Looks like they’re going to be at Bonnaroo.
We may be a little late in posting this groovy remix of Tiga’s Mind Dimension, but late is better than never, right? The Disco Villains deserve a round of applause for some Sunday morning beats.
Emilie Simon, she of March of the Penguins fame, treats us to a live performance of “Le Vieil Amant” on TV5 in France. Check her out at one of her 3 upcoming tour dates in New York or at a handful of shows on the west coast.
As part of its Grizzly Bear week celebrating the release of Veckatimest, Drowned in Sound has posted notes from singer/guitarist Daniel Rossen’s mother Wendy to the band, serving as GB’s own indie news aggregator. Read it here. It’s hilarious and warms the heart.The site also features the band members favorite covers of their own tracks.
Kevin Devine is touring in support of his new album Brother’s Blood released last April on Favorite Gentlemen. Check out this live recording he made for KEXP of “Another Bag of Bones.” He’ll be in Cambridge at TT the Bear’s on June 6, 2009.
Not long ago we posted a video for “Percussion Gun,” the first single from White Rabbits’s recently released, It’s Frightening. Here they are performing the song on The Late Show and it sounds like Dave is pretty into it.
Due to a legal dispute with EMI records, NPR reports, the anticipated Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse collaboration Dark Night of the Soul may never officially receive a release date. Meanwhile, Danger Mouse says he plans to release the companion book--which contains over 100 pages of David Lynch photography--with a blank recordable CD-R labeled: “For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no musi.
Rio en Medio, which gained some attention in 2006 when the group’s first LP landed in the hands of Devendra Banhart, is giving its follow up Frontier a wide release on July 14th. Check out the video for “Umbrella,” which follows around a rather fat butterfly.
The video for Cage’s “I Never Knew You” is the directorial debut for actor Shia LaBeouf and features cameo appearances from fellow labelmates and collaborators El-P, Aesop Rock, Yak Ballz, F. Sean Martin, and Alex Pardee. Download the I Never Knew You EP for free here courtesy of Subterranean Blog.
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