top 10 albums of 2010

At the end of yet another great year in music, team discosalt has sat back, reflected and squared in with 2010’s “top 10” best albums of the year. So turn on some tunes, read through le lists and keep the discourse going! We want your feedback. Shoot us your album picks for the year and […]

Best albums of 2010

At the end of yet another great year in music, team discosalt has sat back, reflected and squared in with 2010’s “top 10” best albums of the year. So turn on some tunes, read through le lists and keep the discourse going! We want your feedback. Shoot us your album picks for the year and […]

THE DIG PERFORM SICK SAD MORNING @ MERCURY LOUNGE NYC

VVUSIC recently posted some exclusive and really well produced intimate concert footage of The Dig performing “Sick Sad Morning” at Mercury Lounge in New York for you to watch below. The no frills indie garage band will team up once more with Welsh rockers The Joy Formidable for a November tour.  This time Grouplove joins in […]

TOP TEN BEST BEARDS IN INDIE

We hate pushing the seasons, but with “Mustache March” now well behind us, we’ve started ruminating on beard season here.  While, musicians have always rocked out playoff whiskers, the chin muffler has advantaged some, and been the demise of others. Think Dennis Wilson, and Jim Morrison, respectively (sorry Jim). But what about the indie beard? […]

FREE SUMMER SHOWS: YEASAYER, THE XX, YACHT, SONIC YOUTH, BOY CRISIS, NEON INDIAN, THE ANTLERS, DEERHUNTER AND MORE…

There is an amazing lineup of free shows coming to New York City this summer. The Jellynyc pool parties are back on the Billyburg waterfront with 8 shows (not all of which have leaked yet), along side a ton of other free shows happening all over Brooklyn, Manhattan and Governors Island. So mark the calendar […]

PATRICK WATSON AND THE WOODEN ARMS: LIVE AT THE BELL HOUSE

(All Photos: Jeremy Bold) It was one of those beautiful spring evenings, where being indoors feels like a travesty. The only thing keeping me from the fading sunlight was the promise of an incredible live show. Patrick Watson and the Wooden Arms delivered. The audience literally couldn’t get enough of Watson and his circus act […]

FUCK BUTTONS: OLYMPIANS

(Photo courtesy of http://www.fuckbuttons.co.uk) Discosalt Video of the Week 5/4/10: On April 12th, experimental, dance minded noise group  Fuck Buttons will digitally release their new single “Olympians“,  as well as release the song on limited edition 12” vinyl  in five different colors (one for each Olympic ring). While “Olympians” first appeared as a 10-minute track […]

GREAT MOMENTS IN MUSTACHE MUSIC HISTORY: 1991: ENTER SANDMAN

1991: Stache-Metal pioneer Judas Priest may have ushered the hardcore machismo aesthetic into metal subculture, but Metallica shanghaied the torch, taking the facial incarnation of anti-authority to the top of the charts…and into the suburban mall.  Metallica’s 1991 performance of  “Enter Sandman” in Monsters of Rock in Moscow is not only a consummate moment in the band’s epic stache-metal career, but […]

MEW: INTRODUCING PALACE PLAYERS

Introducing, “Introducing Palace Players”. Martin de Thura directs this video for Danish progressive indie rockers, Mew. Its a fairly offbeat video that features a 21st century forest, a possessed car, floating rocks that shoot laser beams, frogs, horses,and lots of fog. Mmmmmk. There is really no linear narrative here and the sooner you accept that […]