By Scott Lapatine & Amrit Singh Saturday was mostly just your standard, hot, sold out, music-filled day at Lolla. Until Rage. Wilco were great and photogenic in the Nudie, but after getting texts about some hairy stampede action at the... CONTINUE READING LOLLAPALOOZA 2008: SATURDAY IN PHOTOS, RAGE DELIVERS BRUISES»
Posted on August 3, 2008 in (16 comments)
Tags: Battles | Booka Shade | Explosions In The Sky | Foals | Jamie Lidell | Lollapalooza | Lupe Fiasco | MGMT | Okkervil River | Rage Against The Machine | The Cool Kids | The Ting Tings | Uffie
Yes, it is a new MGMT video for "Electric Feel." But it is not the first video for "Electric Feel." That one was interactive and came with the ability to adjust the color schemes and can still be downloaded if... CONTINUE READING NEW MGMT VIDEO FOR "ELECTRIC FEEL" FEATURES "VERY SEXY GIRLS WHO CAN DANCE FOR REAL"»
Posted on May 30, 2008 in (14 comments)
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Stereogum's tag cloud hovers above The Paper Of Record today, with profiles on Brooklyn alt-rockers in Arts & Leisure and an indie rock dress-up cheat sheet in the Men Styles Magazine. Consider it a print version of the story run... CONTINUE READING NY TIMES PROFILES BROOKLYN'S EXPERIMENTAL (AND STYLISH) INDIE ROCKERS»
Posted on March 8, 2008 in (47 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Battles | Beirut | Deerhunter | Dirty Projectors | Dragons Of Zynth | Gang Gang Dance | Grizzly Bear | High Places | MGMT | Vampire Weekend | Yeasayer
Well now the imagery on the Oracular Spectacular cover that prompted Letterman to remark what a "good time that looks like" at the top of the show makes sense. Cue up the psychedelic colors and return to paradise setting as... CONTINUE READING NEW MGMT VIDEO - "TIME TO PRETEND"»
Posted on January 24, 2008 in (30 comments)
Tags: MGMT
It's no secret that Brooklyn and Manhattan are growing further apart these days, and less of a secret that the increasing divide makes for fun media pieces. The NY Post ran a piece on the schism, nabbing this quote from... CONTINUE READING MTV ON THE 2008 BROOKLYN SCENE»
Posted on January 11, 2008 in , (51 comments)
Tags: A Place To Bury Strangers | Dirty Projectors | Grizzly Bear | MGMT | The Muggabears | Yeasayer
It's really nice to have these late night live performances to post again, and in the case of Worldwide Pants wearing Letterman, it can be done without an ounce of Writers Guild guilt. After watching Dave make Lucy Liu speak... CONTINUE READING MGMT SWING BY LETTERMAN WITH "TIME TO PRETEND"»
Posted on January 9, 2008 in (23 comments)
Tags: David Letterman | MGMT
The BBC conducted a poll of 150 music critics regarding the new bands they see breaking out in '08. For those of you who read the lists by British experts we posted a couple weeks ago, the top 10 shouldn't... CONTINUE READING BBC POLL PICKS 2008'S BREAKOUT ARTISTS»
Posted on January 7, 2008 (15 comments)
Tags: Adele | Black Kids | Duffy | Foals | Glasvegas | Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jongs | MGMT | Santogold | The Ting Tings | Vampire Weekend
If you really had the power of foresight, and its outer limits were the ability to predict next year's breakout music artist, in this fiscal climate it'd be about as lucrative or useful as Isaac's albino-eyeballed painting-predictions about people you... CONTINUE READING BRITISH EXPERTS PREDICT 2008'S BREAKOUTS»
Posted on December 21, 2007 (47 comments)
Tags: Adele | Duffy | Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jongs | MGMT | The Ting Tings | Vampire Weekend | Yeasayer
