Snooty Lifestyle (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
THE FLAMING LIPS - WATCHING THE PLANETS (VIDEO) And I thought the video 'I Can Be A Frog' was weird. Furry egg-like objects, bubble boys, nudity, lots and lots of nudity. This video is fucked...
AlbumArtExchange Blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
American alternative rock band Vampire Weekend has released what is technically the second single from their forthcoming album Contra. The Cousins single follows the Internet release of Horchata (right), which was made available as a free download from the band’s...
Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Our Charles Poladian offers his thoughts...
i guess i'm floating (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The musical year of 2010 could very well be like the year 2012, that is if John Cusack cuts a record with a multi-million dollar budget leaving critical audiences with a collective "Oy" escaping their lips. However, what 2010 lacks in apocalyptic CGI effects it more than makes up for in fantastic music releases. Perhaps an LP not as anticipated as the LCD Soundsystem's and The New Pornographer's...
Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Someone want to help 'em out?
lost at e minor (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Boasting members of Serena Maneesh, Harry’s Gym and Danielson, revolving around frontman and songwriter Frode Stromstad — with the album’s supporting cast including Sufjan Stephens and Gary Olsen of Lady Bug Transistor — I Was A King are a misty eyed pop-gaze of West Coast harmonies and ringing Rickenbacker. They have just released a new [...]
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Tickets are now on AmEx presale for the two just-announced February Yeasayer album release shows. Like before, they're still giving away the song "Ambling Alp", but now you download it while listening to trippy background music and attempting to...
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
There's a progression at play here. There was Sigur Rós filming hairless young things frolicking in the woods for " Gobbledigook ," surpassed many months later by Girls' XXX "Lust For Life" video featuring Hunx's junk, which itself was trumped by the Flaming Lips' " Watching The Planets " which was a showcase for Wayne's coyne. The untapped avenue for flesh-tones?...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
In its 11th year the festival welcomed a plethora of musical greats to help embrace New Orleans under Halloween's spell. It has been two weeks since the Voodoo Experience and I finally feel that my life is back in order. As New Orleans’ premiere fall music festival, it's geared to worship music and showcase New Orleans all while embracing the Halloween spirit. In its 11th year the festival welcomed...
tinyways (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The new Flaming Lips video clip is a celebration of a back-to-nature/back-to-the-womb fantasy. The one above is not that video. This is one of their previous one, but it give a sense of where the Watching the Planets video came from and what stands behind it. In my opinion though, it’s much better. You can [...]
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Absorbing and rather excellent night with Wayne Coyne (Word cover star, man with beard etc) and co. Lots of the FL show in place - space ball (see clip below), confetti, balloons, strobe suits, sweat-soaked grey suit etc. All very enjoyable and put the crowd in a pretty fabulous mood. As for the music itself, they didn't play too much off the new album(no comment) and did do Race for the Prize, Yoshimi,...
Notes From the Muck (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
In line with Ben's proposed review of recent music, here is NPR's list of the "most important recordings" of the decade. I, for one, can't help but notice two things: 1) the noughties were an excellent time for music (perhaps superior to the 90s'), and 2) NFTM has been all over most of this shit. 01. John Adams: On The Transmigration Of Souls 02. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion...
The Music Lovers Monthly Review (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The Flaming Lips - Convinced of the Hex from Embryonic Dark Meat - When the Shelter Came from When the Shelter Came Califone - Alice Marble Gray from All My Friends Are Funeral Singers Built to Spill - Life's A Dream from There Is No Enemy Fruit Bats - Teguicigalpa from The Ruminant Band Ah Holly Fam'ly - All Unfolding from Reservoir Neon Indian - Terminally Chill from Psychic Chasms The Clientele...
The 'Dredge Report (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
To apologize for not posting in the past, oh, 10 years, I give you a special treat. A few months ago the Flaming Lips held an open casting call for their new music video, which they shot here in Portland at Mount Tabor (a lovely place to hike and bike, by the way). The requirements [...]
Daveportivo's Cultural EvaluationFacility (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
775. Roses - Outkast (LaFace 2004, Andre 3000 & Dojo5) So while Big Boi was making the hardest southern hip hop record of 2003, 3000 was erh...well I'm still not actually sure what he was going for on The Love Below; A sci-fi ladien players hip-hopera? Who knows, and who really cares because he unleashed a flurry of unstoppable lightening bolts. Roses sounded otherworldly in 2004, it had more humour,...
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