Despite the Yankees hat he sports in it, you can still enjoy Lightspeed Champion‘s ‘80s throwback video for new single “Madame Van Damme.” Brit artiste Champion (real name: Devonté Hynes) dropped sophomore effort Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You! on Domino Records in February. He’s also toured with Bright Eyes and now is heading [...]
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): The Hold Steady The Hold Steady is supporting fifth album Heaven Is Whenever. The LP, due out next week, is its first sans keyboard player Franz Nicolay, who [...]
Not long after the release of their second album, 2007′s Our Ill Wills, and months of relentless touring, Sweden’s Shout Out Louds decided to take a six-month break, and its five members—frontman Adam Olenius, bassist Ted Malmros, guitarist Carl Von Arbin, drummer Eric Edman and keyboardist Bebban Stenborg—spread out between Melbourne, Los Angeles and Stockholm. [...]
Josh Schwartz sure gets around—musically, at least. He’s been involved with Beachwood Sparks, the Summer Hits, Further, Northern Lights and the Tyde; plus, he’s toured as a guitarist with John Cale, Tim Burgess of the Charlatans and John C. Reilly’s Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story band. (No, seriously.) Now, he fronts Sierra Madre, Calif., [...]
Not long after the release of their second album, 2007′s Our Ill Wills, and months of relentless touring, Sweden’s Shout Out Louds decided to take a six-month break, and its five members—frontman Adam Olenius, bassist Ted Malmros, guitarist Carl Von Arbin, drummer Eric Edman and keyboardist Bebban Stenborg—spread out between Melbourne, Los Angeles and Stockholm. [...]
Hailing from Sheffield, England, Slow Club released its debut album, Yeah, So (Moshi Moshi), last year. For “Giving Up On Love,” the duo created a video featuring actor Mackenzie Crook (The Office, Pirates Of The Caribbean), who sits on a Ferris Wheel, repeatedly going round and round until, at last, he becomes sick of the ups [...]
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): Broadway’s American Idiot Well, we’ll all remember 2010 as the year mainstream punk made it to Broadway, and tonight the cast of Green Day’s musical American Idiot makes [...]
Not long after the release of their second album, 2007′s Our Ill Wills, and months of relentless touring, Sweden’s Shout Out Louds decided to take a six-month break, and its five members—frontman Adam Olenius, bassist Ted Malmros, guitarist Carl Von Arbin, drummer Eric Edman and keyboardist Bebban Stenborg—spread out between Melbourne, Los Angeles and Stockholm. [...]
Cruel Black Dove offers a post-grunge sound unheard since the ’90s glory days of the likes of Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. The Brooklyn-based quartet has just self-released its second EP, The Myth And The Sum, and is planning to issue a third in the fall. “Isolation,” the first single from this sophomore release, provides a [...]
