New Track – The Vaccines : No Hope
The Vaccines Come Of Age is the follow-up to the bands’ unabashed, critically-acclaimed debut What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? Of the overall album, frontman Justin Young told NME earlier this year, “The record is a lot more intimate and close than the first record.” To capture this intimate sound the band worked with producer Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Kings […]
New MONO album promises tortured neo-classical music
MONO – the stylized instrumental rock / shoegaze band from Japan – have unveiled a trailer for their sixth studio album, which is set for release this Fall via Temporary Residence Ltd. Self-Titled has posted a teaser video of studio footage of the Japanese quartet crafting, what sounds like, their most beautiful album yet and another step towards […]
Catalpa Festival NYC Announces 2012 Lineup Featuring The Black Keys and Snoop Dogg
This summer promises an avalanche of free music events and heavy billed festivals. Popping the top – The inaugural Catalpa Festival – set to take place July 28-29 on Randall’s Island. Striving to be a pioneering NYC festival comparable to California’s Coachella and Chicago’s Lollapalooza, unique in its programming, atmosphere and aesthetic – Catalpa has secured an eclectic lineup […]
10 Amazing Collage Artists
1. Mowgli Omari – At only 20 years old, this Art University student in South East London, has already showcased his complex works at an international solo show in Zurich. His works combine simple geometric shapes with retro images to create very complex, futuristic looking optical illusions. 2. Matt Wisniewski – A web developer and collage artist based in Brooklyn, […]
Luminosity in the Dark Rift – Paintings by Doze Green
“Luminosity in the Dark Rift”, paintings by Doze Green. The show appears in Jonathan Levine Gallery.
43 Magazine – Issue 2 is now available for pre-sale
43 magazine issue 002 is now available for pre-order! Over the last few months, the 43 wizards have been ironing out logistics to keep 43 sustainable, and pre orders are essential! Order now to guarantee yourself a copy of the only skateboard maagazine based in New York City. Limited quantities will be printed. Check 43magazine.com for recent news & updates.
TORONTO NOISE MAKERS ODONIS ODONIS DEBUT NEW SINGLE: BUSTED LIP
Taken from the debut album ‘Hollandaze’ – a grimy, gum-splattered ménage of surf-gaze, punk and lo-fi – ‘Busted Lip’ is the latest single from noisy Canadian’s Odonis Odonis. Originally a solo project for prolific songwriter/ bandleader Dean Tzenos, Odonis Odonis has in the last year also become a formidable live concern. Based in Toronto, Odonis Odonis make […]
STREAM NEW MUSIC FROM METRONOMY: THE LOOK
Metronomy drops The English Riviera Unreleased Remixes on Big Beat/Because today featuring thirteen reworkings of tracks from the group’s critically acclaimed third album. They head stateside for a string of tour dates including a number with Coldplay later this month. You can listen to the band’s new Daytrotter Session clicking here. Stream ‘The Look (Two Inch Punch’s […]
NEW METRONOMY COLLECTION + PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED REMIX
Mercury Prize nominated indie-electro-pop quartet, Metronomy, are set to release The English Riviera Unreleased Remixes, via Big Beat Records and Because Music, on March 6th. As the title would suggest, the collection features thirteen reworkings of tracks from the group’s critically acclaimed third album, The English Riviera. The English Riviera, which has sold over 150,000 copies worldwide, was proclaimed by NYLON Magazine the 2nd best album […]
NEW MUSIC FROM SOUTHERN NOISE-POP BAND: MOONLIGHT BRIDE
If you’re into bands like The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, My Bloody Valentine and Los Campesinos!, check out Chattanooga based noise-pop Moonlight Bride and their new EP Twin Lakes (out feb 28th). Featuring the pop-gaze anthem “Lemonade,” Twin Lakes finds Moonlight Bride at their best, weaving brooding guitars with driving melodies and poignant vocals that drip with raw […]
RYAN ADAMS, CHILDISH GAMBINO + MICHAEL MCDONALD ON 30 ROCK
Michael McDonald, Cee Lo, Ryan Adams and Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover) share song cameos in this animated 30 rock webisode. Donaghy needs to find a Super Bowl halftime performer to replace an injured Madonna and the four singers must compete against each other, while singing NBC theme songs. Don’t miss the Michael McDonald Saved by the Bell theme […]
Watch – HYPE!: Surviving the Northwest Rock Explosion
Tracing the steps of “grunge” from its subversive inception, to its global rise, to the multimillion pop culture phenomenon Tracing the steps of “grunge” from its subversive inception in neighborhood basements to its global rise to the multimillion dollar pop culture phenomenon, HYPE! incorporates hilarious interviews with rare concert footage of bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, […]
SPACES: NOTHING EXISTS BUT ATOMS AND THE VOID
Celestial themes such as violent star systems and lunar tranquility set the groundwork for “Nothing Exists but Atoms and the Void”, the sophomore release from Brooklyn-based band, Spaces. Band members, Duke Ahrens and Franco Colon, continued with an unconventional approach to songwriting by building a recording studio in a decommissioned ferryboat. The pair drew inspiration from their […]
NEW MUSIC FROM CLOUD NOTHINGS: ATTACK ON MEMORY
Now under the direction of producer Steve Albini, Cloud Nothing’s sophomore album Attack on Memory is a crunchier, punchier sounding album than their first release and one of the first must hear albums of 2012. This album separates Cleveland front man Dylan Baldi from comparisons to bands like Waaaves and showcases Baldi’s Kurt Cobain like growl […]
NEW EP FROM METRONOMY + ENCHANTE REMIX
The new Metronomy EP Everything Goes My Way drops today (12/6) via Big Beat and Because Music. In anticipation for their upcoming Spring tour, the EP features the original single off their album “The English Riviera”, plus four new remixes including the below by Enchante. Feel free to share, after all – ’tis the season… […]
Double Exposure – Vintage Photos + Nude Models
Photographer Davis Ayer can’t get enough analogue. He shoots most of his projects on film and his photo essay series called Time Travel, combines two forms of film photography: vintage photographs of cityscapes and forests projected on nude models. The arcs of bridges and trunks of ferns hug the hip lines of partially lit girls. Autumnal foliage wraps […]
BURNING MAN: RITES OF PASSAGE: DAY 1
Part one (Day) of a two part short film series, shot in August/ September 2011, provides a short glimpse into the “Burning Man” experience. Shot entirely with a (very dusty) Canon 7D with 70-200 f.40L, a 50mm 1.8, and a 10-24mm Tamron and using music from “Layers of Generation Without Number” by Bichi. Part Two […]
NO SHAVE NOVEMBER: ESSAY WRITING CONTEST
NO SHAVE NOVEMBER ESSAY WRITING CONTEST: Whatever you call the Stache, Tache, Tash, Mo, Mouth Brow, Lady Tickler, Trash Stash, Crumb Catcher, Fanny Duster, Push-broom, Nose Bug, Cheech or the Selleck Sidekick, November is a month to celebrate the Nose Neighbor, in whatever way you see fit. This month discosalt Magazine salutes the mustache in […]
BUY ISSUE 2: DISCOSALT MAGAZINE NOW!
VOL.01, ISSUE 02: NEW YOUTH ISSUE COVER STORY: WU LYF And The new Cult of Unconditioned Youth FEATURES: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Regret; No Shave November; Inside the Bicycle Film Festival; Front Stage Pass EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Dragonslayer director Tristan Patterson; Take Away Show director Vincent Moonl; Teeel,; Uk’s Life in Film; urban artists Pam Glew; Bicycle Film Festival creator Brent Barber […]
LEMONHEADS ANNOUNCE NEW TOUR + ALBUM
THE LEMONHEADS announce an additional 50 U.S. tour dates in early 2012. The Evan Dando-led three piece will be performing their classic 1992 album, IT’S A SHAME ABOUT RAY, from beginning to end. Joining Dando on this tour will be guitarist Josh Lattanzi (The Candles) and drummer Brian Nolan (American Hi-Fi). It’s A Shame About Ray was released in 1992 and […]