No, this isn’t an outtake from The Real Housewives of New York. It’s the new trippy music video from Caribou for their track “Sun” off the latest album Swim released in April earlier this year. The video was produced by Rachel Dargavel at Steel Mill Pictures and directed by Simon Owens who also directed LCD Soundsystem’s “New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down” Kermit video. This vid features a pill poppin’ pilates class of cougs and young
Evan Dando and the Lemonheads played the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn last night (July 30) with Josh Lattanzi and The Candles. Both bands, whose front men oddly resemble one another, put on two great sets but what is most amazing, besides Dandos voice, is that he looks the same age as I remember him when I was in Junior High. Hard to believe he is 43.
Seeing Dando perform live is both nostalgic and strangely relevant at the same time. He
Arcade Fire’s third full-length album The Suburbs, recorded in both New York and Montreal, drops Monday (Aug 2), with eight different covers designed by Caroline Robert, Art Direction by Vincent Morisset and photos by Gabriel Jones. You can check out versions of each cover, front and back, on the bands website or in the image viewer below and pick a fave:
The new albums 16 tracks will also be released on vinyl, mastered to a 12 inch lacquer and then transferred
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The Drums: Self Titled
Label: Downtown
Release Date: September 14, 2010
“If you like The Smiths, you’ll like The Drums.” – anonymous indie rock guy
It’s a crass assumption, but it’s one supported by The Smiths Rule Of Averages, which alleges, “If a band claims The Smiths as a major influence, the average Smiths fan will like said band. The Drums wear their Moz & Marr-worshipping hearts on their sleeves and on their debut self-titled LP (finally released stateside) lead singer Jonathan Pierce,
Do you have what it takes to hit the skate park with Band of Horses? Then pull out some of your sickest tricks and enter The Band Of Horses Skate Contest
Watch Creighton’s video message and face the challenge.
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It seems to be a trend now that the early pillars of indie rock are picking up the axes and making things happen once again. That holds true for Versus – who after about 10 years of silence will release their latest album On the One’s and Threes. We’ll let you be the judge who decides if they’ve still got it.
Download the first track off the album, Invincible Hero, or you can stream the album for a limited time. The
STACKED #9 is taking on THE WHITE RABBIT w/ DJ Epidemic (AZ)!!!
This week, the scallywags behind Stacked #1-8 will be jumping ship and setting sail for the White Rabbit on East Houston. You have no doubt walked by it a million times and apparently they have a freshly tuned sound system as well, which is begging for something nasty. Enter Stacked, bringing out Arizona’s Best DJ, Epidemic, for a special NYC appearance!!!
THE DETAILS:
- $5 vodka drinks 10pm-1am and 2 for
Discosalt Video of the Week 7/25/10: New video from Fol Chen for their single ” The Holograms” off Part II: The New December which was released this month on Asthmatic Kitty Records. Directed by Keith Musil and starring actress Isabelle Albuqueruque, produced by Doomsday.
Yup! Guided By Voices will be heading off a Classic Line-Up Tour ‘THE HALLWAY OF SHATTERPROOF GLASS TOUR 2010‘ . At various legs of the tour they will be joined by such bands as Blitzen Trapper, Times New Viking and Sweet Apple. Front man Robert Pollard has enjoyed some success with his solo efforts over the past years which as we all know is often hard to do after involvement with a popular band.
Get tickets here because they will sell
West coast photographer Anthony George Noceti has just assembled a new series of landscape photo narrative’s on his website Esoteric Traveler. The images are taken from within vehicles along Anthony’s travels with a low resolution digital and 35mm camera. Read what Anthony has to say about his work:
“Conveying a detached and voyeuristic presence, the mode in the Esoteric Traveler is that of a passenger moving through an every changing landscape where the notion of reality is blurred. An onmiscient sort
Jeremy & Claire Weiss are far and away my favorite husband and wife photography team (ok, maybe the only one i know of) but they are two of the hippest photographers on the West coast with an amazing portofilio that dips into portraits of musicians, directors, actors, friends, hipsters and the girl next door. Based out of Los Angeles, CA, the couple, who also go by the name of their photo studio Day 19, have put together a really amazing
New Music Video for Klaxons‘ track Echoes off their upcoming ‘Surfing the Void’ to be released August 23, 2010 on Rinse/Polydor – give’r a listen: Tracklisting:
1 Echoes
2 The Same Space
3 Surfing The Void
4 Valley Of The Calm Trees
5 Venusia
6 Extra Astronomical
7 Twin Flames
8 Flashover
9 Future Memories
10 Cypherspeed
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