Seattle’s Big Eyes just released their sophomore full-length Almost Famous via Grave Mistake Records. The group have been playing around in various cities since 2009, and in 2011 released a debut full-length Hard Life. That record was an instant classic no-filler collection of poppy rock and roll songs, and their new LP is just as [...]
Last month we all heard the noisy melodic punk track “Pyro Hippies” by Cincinnati trio Vacation, from their forthcoming full-length for Don Giovanni, Candy Waves. Now the band have released another track from the album, the title track “Candy Waves.” In a recent Q&A, drummer/vocalist Jerri Panic told us about the inspirations behind the Candy [...]
The first considerations when attending a music festival on the beach are sartorial. Do you opt for filp-flops to facilitate the inevitable footwear removal and thereby risk blisters from stomping on plastic slabs all day, or do you go with sneakers to account for all that pavement pounding and thereby risk carrying them around all [...]
Last month, Kurt Vile released his fifth studio album Wakin on A Pretty Daze via Matador. In support of its release, Vile and his band stopped by Late Show with David Letterman last night to play “Wakin on a Pretty Day.” Head to CBS.com to stream last night’s episode of Letterman; the performance is at [...]
Any Port In A Storm is the new record by Scott & Charlene’s Wedding, the noisy indie-pop songwriting project of Craig Dermody. On “Fakin NYC,” the native Australian deadpans lines about the confusion he’s feeling after moving to New York. He chronicles a firsthand experience working as a security guard at a super-exclusive nightclub, and [...]
On June 4, Queens of the Stone Age will release a new record on Matador, Like Clockwork. In advance of the album, the band played Jools Holland last month. They also played again last night. Below watch last night’s performance of “If I Had a Tail.” The band was accompanied by the artist Boneface, who [...]
Tonight Kanye West premiered “New Slaves,” the first single from his forthcoming LP, by projecting a video on buildings across the world. His site includes a map of times and locations for those projections, 66 in all. It’s the same song Hudson Mohawke spun in Poland recently. Earlier this month, the rapper previewed new material [...]
This was the week we finally got to hear Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories. As hosts of the album’s official launch party, the town of Wee Waa, Australia was especially excited. We also had a party (of the unofficial, digital kind), at which you guys shared your initial reactions to the set. The LP’s on [...]
Last night, Yo La Tengo performed at Portland’s Wonder Ballroom. The trio did two sets, including one acoustic. Check out our photos of the show shot by Colin McLaughlin.
The foreboding synth experimenter Laurel Halo named her new EP Behind The Green Door after a famed ’70s porn movie, and the latest track she’s shared from it is called “Sex Mission,” so maybe there’s a theme developing here. Or maybe not; the eight-minute “Sex Mission” — like “Throw,” the last track she shared from [...]
