Bishop Allen singer Justin Rice is following up the band’s appearance in Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist with a starring role in indie film Harmony And Me. The movie’s director, Bob Byington, shot the video for “Shanghaied,” a song from this year’s Grrr… (Dead Oceans). Learn more about shanghaiing here and feel free to comment [...]
Sir Mix-A-Lot may forever be linked to 1992 mega-hit “Baby Got Back,” but you’d be off-base in labeling him a one-hit wonder. One of hip hop’s ultimate DIY practitioners, he was a platinum-selling artist long before “Baby Got Back” introduced suburbanites everywhere to the glories of the big, bad booty. He founded his own record [...]
Vancouver’s Japandroids are just two people on a drum set and a guitar, but Brian King and David Prowse manage to make a hell of a lot of noise on Post-Nothing (recently re-released digitally by Polyvinyl and available on CD and vinyl on August 4). “Young Hearts Spark Fire” conjures a couple of angsty suburban [...]
Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 25-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith. In our lecture How Art & Music Can Change The World, David and I reveal the behind-the-scenes workings of our creative partnership [...]
Sir Mix-A-Lot may forever be linked to 1992 mega-hit “Baby Got Back,” but you’d be off-base in labeling him a one-hit wonder. One of hip hop’s ultimate DIY practitioners, he was a platinum-selling artist long before “Baby Got Back” introduced suburbanites everywhere to the glories of the big, bad booty. He founded his own record [...]
Swedish indie-pop outfit Love Is All recently released the Last Choice EP (on What’s Your Rupture?), and here’s the art-camp (not like arty and campy, more like grade-school children making art at day camp) video for the title track. Notice that the talking cat has a Juno-like burger phone.
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): Regina Spektor New York’s anti-folk scenester Regina Spektor appears on Letterman promoting her latest, far. We bet she’ll do “Laughing With,” which has been enjoying oodles of airtime on [...]
Sir Mix-A-Lot may forever be linked to 1992 mega-hit “Baby Got Back,” but you’d be off-base in labeling him a one-hit wonder. One of hip hop’s ultimate DIY practitioners, he was a platinum-selling artist long before “Baby Got Back” introduced suburbanites everywhere to the glories of the big, bad booty. He founded his own record [...]
Johnny was a Skygreen Leopards friend who used to pretend to be part of the band; only his real name wasn’t Johnny, and his current whereabouts are a mystery. In memory of him, San Francisco’s Skygreen Leopards title their newest LP (due July 21 on Jagjaguwar) Gorgeous Johnny. Think of “Dixie Cups In The Dead [...]
Google “Golden Boots” and you’re treated to an only-on-the-Internet twist on Choose Your Own Adventure: Arizonan psych/rock or Singaporean line-dancing? “Maybe that’s where (bassist/engineer) Nathan (Sabatino) found it,” says Golden Boots co-founder and co-frontman Dimitri Manos. “This Eastern European line-dancing crew—he’s in the middle of talking to them now. He sent them (new single) ‘Country [...]
