British electronic wiz Four Tet has taken his own crack at Grimes’ “Skin”, off of her 2012 album Visions. It’s ripped from a Rinse.fm stream. But overall, the quality is still high. Maybe we’ll see an official track release for this puppy. Enjoyable, anyhow.
Grimes has no problem pulling all sorts of creative or–depending on your take–weird shit. And it comes as no surprise that her latest video for “Genesis” follows suit. Watch the video for yourself, but it features sword fights, pythons, elfven-like frolicking in the forest and futuristic, metallic space suits. Stream Grimes’ Visions album, if you haven’t […]
While Saturday of Capitol Hill Block Party 2012 offered the first full day of acts and near-perfect weather, it also happened to be the most crowded day I had ever seen in four years of attending Block Party. More about this and the overall festival experience can be found in our Thoughts on Block Party […]
While listening to the new DIIV album on my way to Seattle’s Capitol Hill Block Party, I was trying to imagine the perfect complementary tour for hazey, summer, guitar-driven band DIIV. Real Estate, Surfer Blood and War on Drugs came to mind, but DIIV had just announced a tour with Wild Nothing. And that seems […]
Jack Tatum’s musical project Wild Nothing will release a new album, Nocturne, on August 26 via Captured Tracks. They’ve also released the first single off that album, “Shadow”. Stream that below and check out upcoming Wild Nothing tour dates with Beach House, Grimes and Walkmen (damn, not bad, boys…)