Light Asylum

It was clear things would be ending better than they began when I showed up in Williamsburg for the last day of Northside Festival. Everyone…

In the world of Shannon Funchess and Bruno Coviello, "face down in the river my love" is a lyric that obviously should be depicted via…

NYC twins Darin and Greg Bresnitz (Dinner With The Band, Finger On The Pulse) put out a live compilation companion to their web radio show,…

Today the third track from Light Asylum's forthcoming self-titled debut surfaced, the uptempo clapper "IPC." Previously we've heard "Shallow Tears" as well as "Genesis" from…

Light Asylum will release their full-length, self-titled debut later this spring, and today yields that affair's lead single "Shallow Tears" -- a grandiose, starry industrial…

New Order drum patches, darkwave synths, black and white imagery, and a horse -- it's Shannon Funchess and Brother Bruno's Light Asylum dream bottled up…

Their 2011 album Channel Pressure was all queasy synthpop, like a bad-dream memory of '80s PBS science-film soundtracks, but Ford & Lopatin go in a…

We're on the other side of CMJ now, which you could probably tell by the uptick in the music news cycle, or by some bloggers'

This past weekend, NYC presented a number of only-in-NYC type concerts to help locals feel like they did some unique shit before the summer was…

This month's Remixtape opens with a rework of the Miracles Club by Cut Copy, a pair of remixes by Grimes, a submission by Gwilym Gold…

Over the past two years, Brooklyn vet Shannon Funchess has gone from being Brooklyn's most recognizable backup singer (see: !!!, LCD, TVOTR) to fronting the…

This year was the L Magazine's third stab at its Williamsburg-based, CMJ-reminiscent Northside Festival. And from all accounts and perspectives, it was its most successful.