Losanjealous (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
HEADS UP Papa M (David Pajo) w/ Jason Simon (Dead Meadow) @ The Stronghold, Venice Fri 12/18 David Pajo, legendary guitar player of Slint, Tortoise, Stereolab, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Royal Trux and, currently, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs will play his record Live from a Shark Cage
Pedestrian.tv (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Fact: FBi Radio supports local music and in an economic climate where live venues are closing down like Starbucks franchises and independent musicians earn a pittance that's reason enough for everyone to support the Sydney radio station back. But how can I help the most awesome radio station ever you ask? Well you can sign up as a supporter if you're feeling extra generous but if you'd prefer a tangible...
blankanvas (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Good riddance to the still-growing little munchkin lesbians under twenty-one years of age. An all new adults-only girls party, LUST, has arrived and it kicks off this coming Sunday, 29 November 2009, at Stereolab.
The Decibel Tolls (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
No doubt you’re already all up on the double vinyl release Monoliths & These Flowers Never Die. The party for Phantom Family Halo goes down this Wednesday at Lisa’s Oak Street Lounge with openers Softcheque (for fans of Blues Control, Broadcast, Stereolab). I’ve got two guest list passes for the show. Want to go? Leave [...]
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Ever get the impression that The Postmarks' new LP, 'Memoirs at the End of the World' might be a touch sixtified? Is it the nice looking chanteuse on the front cover that does it? Is it the band name? Is...
Behind the Hype (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Back in 2008, a long forgotten year of people sitting in front of computers and listening to mu- oh wait, that was last year – Deerhunter’s frontman Bradford Cox found that his new solo work had leaked online long before it had even been finished, and his understandable outrage nearly convinced him to stop work [...]
The Decibel Tolls (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I was reading my buddy Nathaniel’s recent blog entry on a rad fan-made video for the Atlas Sound / Stereolab collab (rhymes lol) “Quick Canal,” featuring lots of retro kitsch stock footage. Broadcast, you need to find the dude who made this video. Anyway, seeing the video reminded me of something Lana discovered not too [...]
i guess i'm floating (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I really love Atlas Sound's latest LP Logos - it has terrific replay value that catapults the album into a list containing "best" and "2009" in the title. The video is for the epic eight-minute song "Quick Canal" featuring Stereolab's own Lætitia Sadier. Although the video surfaced on YouTube about a month ago, 4AD did not designate it an official music video but...
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
"Quick Canal," the second best track on Atlas Sound's great new album, Logos , just got a found imagery video, which is fitting, since much of Atlas Sound's work is built on found samples. In the clip, we watch a family do what families did back in the 1960s; barbecue, gather their cheap modern belongings, and demonstrate products (that's how the '60s were, right'). Stereolab's Lætitia...
gorilla vs. bear (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Directed by Fitz Vladich, this clip has become the 4 AD-approved (if not entirely "official") video for Atlas Sound's "Quick Canal," featuring the incredible Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab. [via yvynl] ******** click through for more...
Rock Sellout (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Atlas Sound is the solo project of Deerhunter vocalist and guitarist Bradford Cox. To date he has released two full-length records, Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel in 2008 and just last month Logos . Both records have been released on Kranky (and in some countries 4AD ), just like the Deerhunter catalogue. He has also released an impressive range of EPs and singles on the Deerhunter...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Mike was out fishing in Michigan this weekend. While you eagerly await his return, enjoy my favorite Stereolab song via a terrible placeholder video (so you can surf and listen!): -jb [...]
The Opening Acts (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
A band sent me a submission email last week (as did every band in the world, apparently, as my inbox is currently overloaded). As I listened to the first pair of (quite good) songs from their album, all I could think of was that it reminded me of Pram. Thing is, though, I couldn’t [...]
Sweeping The Nation (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
It started with a drumbeat. No, scratch that. It started with The Drumbeat. In the almost fifty years since Be My Baby first forced Brian Wilson to pull his car over and rethink his entire career, The Drumbeat has reared its head more times than it's worth counting; but, bearing in mind Just Like Honey's soporific come-on, and the happy-go-lucky cutesyism it introduced on Eighties Fan, it's rarely...
Gastronomic Ruminations (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
J and I met for Happy Hour and bar bites at Stereolounge in Pan Pacific before partying the night away in StereoLab some weeks back. We love Lychee Martinis so we were thrilled that they were giving out free Lychee Martinis to ladies during Happy Hour! :) Lychee Martinis Here's a pic of my partially drunk Lychee Martini and J's freshly made Lychee Martini. I don't drink much alcoholic beverages but...
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