Twenty-three-year-old Londoner Esser may look like a roadie for the Smiths circa The Queen Is Dead, but he’s got more electro/hip-hop moves than an entire club full of Salford lads. Esser has already opened for the Kaiser Chiefs, and he’s slated to produce Cee-Lo’s next album. Here’s the video for “Headlock”; full-length Braveface is out [...]
“We’re going to party like it’s 1699,” sings Nina Persson on Colonia, the second album the Cardigans frontwoman has released under the A Camp name with husband Nathan Larson (Shudder To Think) and Niclas Frisk. As the lyric and album title imply, the ornate Colonia is loosely based on the theme of love in the [...]
Brooklyn dream-pop trio School Of Seven Bells features some familiar faces: Benjamin Curtis from Secret Machines and twin sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza (both of On!Air!Library!). They pull in another known quantity—Jesu’s Justin Broadrick—to remix the following track, also featured on the “Cabal” single. School Of Seven Bells is currently on tour with fellow fuzz [...]
Don’t be a Bonnarube: This year, stainless-steel water bottle manufacturer Stanley is helping Bonnaroo go a little greener by providing free drinking water to all festivalgoers and selling a limited-edition nineteen13 bottle (pictured, $22). The water is free regardless of whether you buy the bottle, and $1 from each purchase goes toward the Global Water [...]
They don’t care about your flat-front khakis and they don’t want to know about your slim-fit jeans; they are Men Without Pants, the duo of Dan “The Automator” Nakamura (Gorillaz) and Russell Simins (Blues Explosion). Debut album Naturally (Expansion Team) is out now, featuring guest musicians Sean Lennon and members of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, [...]
“We’re going to party like it’s 1699,” sings Nina Persson on Colonia, the second album the Cardigans frontwoman has released under the A Camp name with husband Nathan Larson (Shudder To Think) and Niclas Frisk. As the lyric and album title imply, the ornate Colonia is loosely based on the theme of love in the [...]
We were just thinking about Jay Bennett, who passed away last weekend. Below is a 1999 clip of Bennett and Tweedy performing on alt.rock, a program on the now-defunct Austin Music Network. It’s a cover of 1927 song called “James Alley Blues,” and it’s particularly bittersweet. For all the real and staged drama between the [...]
“We’re going to party like it’s 1699,” sings Nina Persson on Colonia, the second album the Cardigans frontwoman has released under the A Camp name with husband Nathan Larson (Shudder To Think) and Niclas Frisk. As the lyric and album title imply, the ornate Colonia is loosely based on the theme of love in the [...]
Tortoise—that lighthouse of Chicago post-rock so towering it rivals the Sears Tower—has seen five years pass between proper albums, and June 23 will see the release of Beacons Of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey). Tomorrow, the band embarks on a summer tour that takes it from Buffalo to Belgium, with stops in between. Fun Fact: In France, [...]
“It’s Enough To Leave You” is the opening track on Dim The Aurora, and it packs about a quarter-century of alt-rock reference points into its four-minute running time. From the awkwardly soaring chorus and the chunky, quirky, handclaps-and-piano rhythm line to the dynamic buildup that goes nowhere but is expansive and elegant getting there, “It’s [...]
