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This is majestic and proud. Will Oldham is like a bald eagle with a beard and a Guns 'N' Roses-sized appetite for destruction.
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Video: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "I See A Darkness" (live, 2007)
Stick To Your Day Job, Krasinski
John, you're awesome at being Jim from The Office . Remarkable, even. Keep cracking those big smiles and making faces at the camera. But singing with Aimee Mann? Leave that one to the pros . Then again, dude might sound better if his video wasn't playing on YouTube through my laptop speakers. Verdict, folks?
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Best of 2008: Ed Droste's Top 5 Recipes I Learned To Cook This Year
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Photo by David Greenwald All in all, 2008 was another great year of music, but as we look back at the year that was, we're reminded that it was good for more than just new tunes. Over the next few weeks, some of our indie rock pals will tell us about their year-end favorites in the form of, of course, top 5 lists -- and who better to start with than Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear , who chose to ...
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More Mt. St. Helens
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Photo by David Greenwald The full Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band gallery is up at the original post .
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Live: Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band @ The Echo, 12.03.08
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Photo by David Greenwald Let's get it out of the way: Wolf Parade. Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band -- a Seattle act -- sure sound a lot like their Montreal peers, all fits and starts and yowling vocals. It's a good thing: Wolf Parade's own lineage goes back to Modest Mouse, of course, who we can trace back to the Pixies, and so on -- and in any case, I'm happy to hear an '08/'09 band playing t...
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Live: Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band @ The Echo, 12.03.08
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Photo by David Greenwald Let's get it out of the way: Wolf Parade. Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band -- a Seattle act -- sure sound a lot like their Montreal peers, all fits and starts and yowling vocals. It's a good thing: Wolf Parade's own lineage goes back to Modest Mouse, of course, who we can trace back to the Pixies, and so on -- and in any case, I'm happy to hear an '08/'09 band playing t...
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Guys, No Age Got A Grammy Nomination
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For Best Recording Package. That's pretty punk of them, huh? Other signs of the Apocalypse: Radiohead and Coldplay duking it out for album of the year, Katy Perry not getting a Best New Artist nom, Al Green getting a few nominations for his stellar Lay It Down but not an album of the year nod (Robert Plant and Allison Kraus picked up the obligatory "Old People" spot in that category) and a co...
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Coming Soon: Pitchfork Magazine
Apparently Pitchfork and the Fader are partnering up -- what this means besides having greater clout to have energy drinks and jeans brands sponsor their various festivals and fund their ads is beyond me, but I can't help thinking that The Fader magazine could use a legitimacy boost and Pitchfork would love to get off the Internet. Guys, print is dying! Don't you read Gawker?
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Neko Case's New Album: Fuck Art, Let's Joust
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This is making the rounds this morning, but if you haven't yet seen the album cover for Neko Case's upcoming Middle Cyclone -- now you have. Her follow-up to still-awesome '06 album Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (made my top 25 of that year ) is due March 3 on Anti-.
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Video: Stevie Wonder Invents Auto-Tune
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This moment in history via, ahem, Kanye West , whose exceedingly captivating 808s & Heartbreak is climbing my year-end charts.
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New Music: Ryan Adams - "Annihilator"
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Proving that his demos are as good -- and sometimes better -- than his studio albums, Ryan Adams ' latest release is a tune called "Annihilator." Though it starts out with "Cinammon Girl"-y chords, the song's not out to destroy anything, except its singer's sad memories. "When I dream, I wake the second you see me," Ryan sings with a melancholic warble, more Love Is Hell -lorn than Cardinolog...
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Listwatch '08: Gorilla Vs. Bear
Head over to Gorilla Vs. Bear for Chris' top 20, a feast of dance/lo-fi/bizarro sights and sounds that culls the best of 2008's zeitgeist. Not a single one of his picks will make my sure-to-be Blanda Bear top 30 (dropping next week), but diff'rent strokes, right? Previously : Paste's Top 50 (No Age photo by David Greenwald)
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Video: Hold Steady - "Killer Parties," 11.25.08
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On the last night of the epic, opposite-of-disappointing Rock And Roll Means Well tour, the Hold Steady and the Drive-By Truckers closed out the extravaganza with "Killer Parties." It was glorious. I was there. And thanks to YouTube, you can be too -- most of the show is here . File firmly under: things I'm giving thanks for this year. See you next week, folks, and have a happy holiday.
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If Barack Obama Can Win The Presidency Of The USA,
Then surely you hard-Rawkers can elect The Rawking Refuses To Stop! in Stereogum's Gummy Awards. Let's get out the vote, people -- apparently I Guess I'm Floating and I Am Fuel, You Are Friends already got some warm 'n fuzzy e-mails from the 'Gum crew saying they're off to early leads. I'd like to feel warm 'n fuzzy too, but remember, this election has never been about me -- it's about you....
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Hear Kanye West's "808s & Heartbreak"
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Go stream it , yo. I could do without some of the sillier shit ("Robocop's" absurd Stephen King references and the Dido-ready strings [Jon Brion's lingering influence?]) but dude's take on New Age dystopia is surprisingly, well, heartbreaking. Jam City, Yeezy's the mayor, etc. etc.
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Listwatch 2008: Paste's Top 50
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It begins! Paste 's year-end top 50 is typically, well, Paste-y -- the No. 1 spot goes to She & Him (an upset pick, but not an unexpected one) and strummy, folky fellas like Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes placed top 10. Vampire Weekend was high as well, as it's likely to be on every list this year. So let's pick out a few of the surprises: 2. Sigur Rós - Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust This..
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First Look: Leona Naess - "Thirteens"
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Note: Google/Blogger decided to delete my original post and not e-mail me about it, apparently. Here it is again sans MP3. The legacy of Lilith Fair, much like the remnants of grunge (now billed as "flyover rock "), is a disappointing one. The grunge-infused feminist folk-rock of the mid-90s sounds dated, same-y and trapped in a four-chord box in 2008; its daughters are wafer-thin pop props...
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Danger Mouse and The Shins' James Mercer: Bros!
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Spotted these guys walk in and sit together in the VIP balcony, complete with matching beards, at the Los Angeles premiere of the Flaming Lips' cinematic opus Christmas On Mars last night. Reasonably sure they were right next to Shirley Manson, too. Given the hi-fi, watery quality of the production on the Shins' last album, Danger Mouse might be a good fit for their next effort, which reporte...
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I'm Glad Johnny Marr Is Still Cooler Than Vampire Weekend
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At least according to The NME, who placed the former Smiths and current Modest Mouse guitarist at #15 on their 2008 "Cool List" -- V-Dubs' Ezra Koenig was #16, and neither is apparently as cool as Lil Wayne. I guess that's OK with me. Stereogum has the full list . They've also got the Rolling Stone top 100 singers (embarrassing) and the Pitchfork 500 (right artists, wrong songs; misguided re...
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