Video – Dum Dum Girls : Lord Knows
Christin Turner directs this new Dum Dum Girls video for “Lord Knows” – out now on Sub Pop.
GIRLS: VOMIT
Promo video for Girls – ‘Vomit’ taken from the forthcoming album ‘Father, Son, Holy Ghost’ released September 12th in the UK on Turnstile and September 13th in the US on True Panther.
SNEAK PEAK: TOP SECRET SARA BLAKE PROJECT + 100 GIRLS
Before she heads over to Auckland, NZ to speak at the amazing We Can Create conference series, a 2 day conference for creatives, discosalt artist Sara Blake is sharing some new work. Not only can you can see more of Sara in the new issue of DISCOSALT Magazine, but she has been busy preparing new work […]
THE GET UP KIDS COVER “GIRLS AND BOYS” BY BLUR
The Get Up Kids recently dropped by The AV Club to contribute to their ongoing Undercover Series. The AV Club, in conjunction with their readers, picked a list of 25 songs for 25 bands to cover. Every time a band comes in, they pick a song from the list and cross it off. The Get […]
LISTEN TO “VOMIT” FROM THE NEW GIRLS ALBUM
Click HERE to get a free mp3 and exclusive listen to ”Vomit” from new Girls album – ”Father, Son, Holy Ghost”. You can also pre-order the album and get loads of unique offers and exclusives direct from Girls store HERE or from Girls Facebook Page HERE. And for those of you in the U.S. – exclusive offer from Insound […]
WATCH GIRLS PERFORM FOR MATADOR 21 EVENT
In a couple of days Girls are set to release a new 6 song album “Broken Dreams Club”. And in case you missed this a couple of days ago, Christopher performed a suite of songs he wrote at the Matador 21 event in Las Vegas in October. The video shows a big part of what […]
GIRLS IN BIKINIS!…OH, AND MAYER HAWTHORNE: NEW VIDEO FOR “YOUR EASY LOVIN AINT PLEASIN NOTHIN”
Haven’t heard of eclectic Motown crooner Mayer Hawthorne yet? Well, you might remember him after watching his new video for “Your Easy Lovin’ Ain’t Pleasin’ Nothin’”. When I watched this the first time, I didn’t even realize I had my speakers off. But it doesn’t really matter. He could sound like Justin Bieber, and I’ll […]
FREE MP3: DUM DUM GIRLS: BHANG BHANG, I’M A BURNOUT
“Bhang Bhang, I’m a Burnout” is the second shoegazy single from the California all girl band, Dum Dum Girls featured on their album I will Be . Directed by Christian Turner, the director behind their first video for “Jail La La”, the new video conceptualizes the bands lo-fi sound through a grainy kaleidoscopic haze of […]
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM: DRUNK GIRLS
Spike Jonze directs the new LCD Soundsystem video for “Drunk Girls”, throwing LCD band mates into a frat bear college haze, with pandas gone wild, frontman James Murphy being forced into drag, the band stripped down, fire -extinguished, egged, duct taped and covered in booze. Ahhh, college.
HARLEM, THE GIRLS AT DAWN: LIVE AT MERCURY LOUNGE
(photos courtesy: impose magazine) (Photo courtesy: mercurialn) Much hyped Texas trio Harlem graced New York with a quicky on Thursday (4/22). I can think of lots of adjectives to describe their show: silly, giddy, playful, unpretentious…the list goes on and on. They certainly don’t take themselves too seriously lending to a signature stage presence. A […]
GIRLS: LUST FOR LIFE
Discosalt Video of the Week 12/28/09: Girls- Lust For Life. Check out more on Girls and their most recent album HERE
GIRLS: ALBUM
[rating:4] Girls : Album Label: True Panther Sounds Release Date: September 22, 2009 When Girls’ Christopher Owens sings “Man I felt like I could lay down and die, then I found myself in a song” on “Darling,” there’s a palpable sense that rock and roll is salvation, and when he sings “Man I’m just crazy […]
Discosalt Holiday Mix: Volume 3
We are keeping our mix-giving tradition alive this year with volume 3 of the Discosalt Holiday Mix. Volume 3 is loaded up with new indie holiday tracks and old classics from artists like Paranthetical Girls, Chuck Berry, Deanna Kirk, Flowman, The Maytals, 44.1K and Postcode. Happy Holidays from Discosalt! and feel free to re-gift this link […]
New Track – Belle and Sebastian : The Party Line
Taken from the forthcoming Belle and Sebastian album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, “The Party Line” is the first radio single since “Come on Sister” from their previous album, 2010’s Write About Love. Stream it below: .
New Video – Bleachers : I wanna Get Better
Bleachers‘ debut single I Wanna Get Better is set for a July 14th UK release. The as-yet-untitled debut album will follow on August 4th though Columbia records. Watch the new video, directed by Lena Durham (Girls) :
Mac Demarco @ Sneaky Dees, Toronto
March 22, 2014 – Mac Demarco @ Sneaky Dees, Toronto And you’re opening for Phoenix on their European tour after this, that’s crazy! How the hell did that happen!? Demarco just kinda looks at me with a grin and a shrug. Oh, I donno. They just came to one of our shows in Paris and […]
Q + A : Night Moves
Night Moves Stir Colored Emotions by Discosalt Recent Domino signing Night Moves are one the best local act to emerge from the Twin Cities since Howler, and the first noteworthy band of 2013. The Minneapolis-based, classic-rock inspired trio sound like a cross between Gram Parsons, Supertramp and MGMT, with some falsetto Mick Jagger sweet talk mixed in. […]
Q + A : Tulpa
Q + A with Tulpa by Darcy darcy Ujjainwalla aka Kazabazua What were you doing when you were 15? When I was 15 I spent most of my time wearing ‘fashionable’ polo shirts, testing my drinking abilities in friends basements and making poor attempts at losing my virginity. I think it’s pretty safe to say that I […]
Like it was Yesterday with Brad Elterman
Like it was Yesterday with Brad Elterman by Discosalt Brad Elterman’s golden rule of concerts? “There’s always a party.” And if anyone is an authority on this, it’s Elterman. Around a curtained corner in the posh Le Parker Meridien hotel on Manhattan’s West Side, under a neon burger sign, I sit down with prolific rock […]
Q + A : Happy Lives
Q+A with Happy Lives by Discosalt Brooklyn’s Happy Lives trust themselves to get weird and succeed. Together, the intensely creative duo Mike Lande and Julian Beel) step deep into the absurd and unknown, using DJ software to play rock music to achieve a massive wall of sound. We recently caught up with Mike and Julian in New York […]