Vampire Weekend have been laying low as of late, though Rostam Batmanglij released single “It’s All Up To You” earlier this year. Last night, VW played their first American show in nearly two years. Even better, they debuted a brand new–as of yet untitled–song. Watch it below and catch them live at Pitchfork Festival this […]
Regardless of your opinions (or lack thereof) concerning Pitchfork, they’ve got a pretty great festival running in Chicago this weekend. The full line-up poster is below, but the likes of Vampire Weekend, Hot Chip, Dirty Projectors, A$AP Rocky, Cloud Nothings, Real Estate, Cults, Ty Segall and more will be playing in Grant Park. Best of […]
Los Angeles-based band Liars put out a hell of a record with WIXIW earlier this year. It’s been likened to “the best Radiohead record since Kid A”. That’s a bit of journalistic hyperbole, but it’s a damn good record and the similarities to Radiohead do abound. In fact, that’s how I first heard of Liars–at an In Rainbows tour show. Liars […]
Cloud Nothings took a definite sharp turn with their new LP Attack on Memory earlier this year (stream it here). Dylan Baldi and Co veered towards harder and darker tunes on the new record. We caught them at Austin’s Red 7 (photo/video) earlier this spring, and the live show certainly translated the record well. Anyhow, Cloud Nothings took […]
“Museum of Flight” was a track released earlier this year on Damien Jurado’s excellent album Maraqopa. Tyler Kalberg is an incredible videographer based out of Seattle who’s done beautiful work for Seattle’s Sound on the Sound and many other projects in the Northwest. Together, they’ve created a new video for Jurado’s “Museum of Flight”. It chronicles Jurado […]