Back in the late 80's we used to work in a surf shop up in the Bay Area. We had two TV's hanging over the cash register and used to play VHS tapes of videos we'd tape off of MTV and other local video shows.Deeper Shade Of Soul by Urban Dance Squad made it on every tape. Mini-dance parties would break out inside the shop and outside the front door. Lots of Cali kids grinding and rocking out
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If there's one thing we love just about as much as music, it's photography. Mix the two together, even better. Kevin Cummins, one of the greats and a favorite of ours, has a new book out documenting his amazing shots of the Manchester music scene. His work with The Smiths, and later with solo-Moz and solo-Marr, is now legendary. Anybody remember the infamous "tattoo" shot of Marr post-Smith
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We haven't yet talked about the excellent soundtrack to New Moon. The entire collection embodies a cohesive atmosphere that continues on a consistent path throughout. The gathering of previously unreleased tracks, by some pretty stellar indie artists, offers the ultimate mix tape. Our top selections include: Band Of Skulls, Friends - never paid them much attention, but we are now. Lykke L
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Goldfrapp recently wrapped their score to the new John Lennon biopic titled Nowhere Boy. Alison and Gregory recorded the strings with a full orchestra at Abbey Road Studios. The film, which tells the story of Lennon as a boy and a young man, debuted this evening at the London Film Festival. Release is slated for December 26th in the UK, no U.S. distribution has been set.We can't find any m.
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We've had a few requests to resurrect our "random video of the week" feature. It's been quite some time ( March 2009 to be exact) and we realized without it, the site is just way too serious. Our randomness usually leans towards the more obscure side of the fence, or at least the more random. About as random and jostled up as our musical taste. Anyway, let's jump right into the video, #37
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Robbie Williams is one of our big guilty pleasures of the year. We always like to keep a little fun in our musical landscape and Williams fits into that perfectly. He recently performed for the BBC at the Electric Poms festival. Check out the full performance of Bodies, complete with full orchestra, below:
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The annual Bridge School Benefit charity show was held this weekend at the usual location, Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View, Ca. Neil Young and his wife started the event back in 1986. If you've ever been lucky enough to attend one of these shows, then you know how powerful they are. Various musicians coming together for an amazing cause and an excellent night of mostly acoustic perf
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Finally! In This Light And On This Evening secures a proper U.S. release date via the FADER Label. The album will officially release on January 19th. The U.S. version will include exclusive bonus material not yet announced. U.S. fans can head to iTunes to purchase the record digitally for now. Our top three tracks from the album in order of preference:In This Light And On This Evening E
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Erlend and Eirik took part in a three-song session for Spin yesterday. Check out the guys performing The Power Of Not Knowing, Peacetime Resistance and It's My Party (yep, a random Lesley Gore cover), below:
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Damn it, a dream pairing for us for sure. Two of our favorites will once again share a bill for the first time in twenty years. Nitzer Ebb will open for Depeche Mode on the European/Russian leg of their 2010 tour. Click here for the full list of dates, venues, etc...Nitzer Ebb opened for Depeche Mode way back in 1990 during their World Violation tour. We are pretty bummed that we will mis
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The Trashcans released a video for People from their new album In The Music. We've got to say that over time the album has really grown on us. People is one of the catchier tracks and a song that we were instantly drawn to in the first few listens. Hear for yourself:
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Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool is our third favorite track (the first being Papillon, the second being the title track, In This Light And On This Evening) from the band's upcoming album. I don't think we can express how freakin' in love we are with this record. A beautiful dark synth landscape done completely right for a change. Check out the guys live at Studio Brussel doing a little acoustic
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MTV will premiere the new Death Cab For Cutie video for their New Moon soundtrack single, Meet Me On The Equinox, tonight. The video will air on the channel at 8:00pm in all time zones. Need something to tide you over? Check out the below behind the scenes footage from the video shoot, including interview footage with the band discussing the Twilight series, writing for New Moon, and filmin
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Paul Normansell created the art for Live From The Royal Albert Hall. He also created the cover art for Day & Age and the album's coinciding singles - remember all four band members done up mosaic style? Check those out on Paul's site here. The DVD release will also include a live CD (a first for the band).The Royal Albert Hall set list:HumanThis Is Your Life Somebody Told MeFor Reasons Unk
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Vampire Weekend's Contra is due January 12th, that's a long, long way off. To help tide us over, there's a free download of the album's first single Horchata being offered up on the band's official site. We don't know about you, but anyone who names a song after the infamous drink is pretty great in our book. Listen/download below:
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So much to post, so little time. We will occasionally run a little round up for you all on stuff we find of interest in the land of music.Ready, set, go...Actress will play the New Noise Festival in Santa Barbra on October 9th at Whiskey Richards. Julian Casablancas goes it solo. Listen to the first single 11th Dimension over on his MySpace profile. We kinda dig the opening beats. Full tr
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Our love affair with Editors continues...The guys performed for the Later...With Jools Holland audience last week. The clip contains the band's performance of single Papillon, followed by new album track Eat Raw Meat = Drool Blood, what a title, eh?We are really loving the new musical direction. Keep the synths coming:
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Pet Shop Boys will release an exclusive single in Germany on October 2nd for the track Beautiful People. The single will be available digitally and on CD. The four track breakdown plays out like this:Beautiful PeopleFugitive (7" edit)Beautiful People (demo version)Up and Down (Tom Stephan mix)Fans outside Germany can purchase one of 500 copies that will be made available on the Pet Shop Boys.
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