The Happy Hollows’ video for “Death to Vivek Kemp” beat out of handful of other newbies’ in an online contest to earn a spot in regular rotation starting Monday on MTVU. The video, the work of Benjamin Hoste, was hand-animated, with the trio’s silhouettes traced from a video shot at band practice – more than […]
Your favorite Cure-channeling Swedes, the Shout Out Louds, are on their way back. The Stockholm quintet has released a new digital EP, with a new album, “Works,” the band’s third full-length and first since 2007’s “Our Ill Wills,” to follow on Feb. 23. The new album was produced by Phil Ek (the Shins, Fleet Foxes, […]
In case you missed the premiere Friday on Pitchfork, Spoon has released a video for “Written in Reverse.” It was shot by Danny Clinch in black and white, with the band performing the song against a large mirror. … Oh, I get it. The tune is the first single from the Austin outfit’s seventh album, […]
Update: Thanks to everybody who watched. I hope to post a link to the complete show (with a surprise) soon. Here’s the link to Spaceland Recordings’ webcast of the performances by Warpaint (8:30 p.m.) and Yeasayer (about 9:30) from tonight’s First Fridays event at the Natural History Museum. We had some tech problems last month […]
Jaguar Love is back – leaner, meaner and every bit as disquieting. The post-Blood Brothers duo of singer-keyboardist Johnny Whitney and singer-guitarist Cody Votolato, now without drummer Jay Clark (machines take over), will release their sophomore album “Hologram Jams” on March 2 via Fat Possum. The follow-up to 2008’s “Take Me to the Sea” features […]
Buzz Bands doesn’t usually do cute, but since we shared the title track of Lucy Schwartz’s EP “Help Me! Help Me!” a couple of weeks ago it seems appropriate to share the L.A. songstress’s cute video. It’s fun, and maybe you can hip your daughter or kid sister to it. Besides, with a voice (and […]
“Open your heart, and your mind,” Mia Doi Todd sings on her new single, and after hearing the song and watching this day-brightener of a video by esteemed director Michel Gondry, you can’t help but comply. The song, among the material on the Los Angeles songstress’ forthcoming ninth album, sprang from a demo version recorded […]
Here’s Bradford Cox as Atlas Sound doing his thing Jan. 8 at the Natural History Museum – all 75 minutes of it. Cox was the first headliner of 2010 in the First Fridays series, which continues this week with music from Yeasayer and Warpaint and discussions with Caltech professor Dr. Nathan S. Lewis titled “Where […]
It all looks so serious, this stuff from Broken Bells – the collaboration between Brian Burton (aka Danger Mouse) and the Shins’ James Mercer. (They talk about the project in a video interview with NME, in two parts.) The debut album is coming March 9, and this video for “The High Road” is the work […]
If you haven’t live this moment, you’ve witnessed it: Singing with the headphones on, consumed by the song, oblivious to your surroundings. The scenario makes for an interesting conceptual video for Fol Chen’s song “The Longer U Wait” (off 2009’s Asthmatic Kitty release, “Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune’s Made”). The piece, filmed in India […]
