As talented and capable as Dirty Projectors certainly are, occasionally I just wish they would venture into less complicated territory, much like they did on their excellent 2012 effort Swing Lo, Magellan. They offered another good taste of that wish during a recent visit to Austrailia’s Triple J station. They performed a pretty damn great on-the-spot cover […]
My Bloody Valentine–the Irish, seminal shoegaze band responsible for one of the 90’s better records–has been working on their follow-up album record to 1991’s Loveless for what seems like eternity. They’ve made recent mention that the album was all mastered and nearing its release. Well this weekend, frontman Kevin Shields told a London crowd that the […]
Oxford, England’s Foals will be releasing their new album Holy Fire on Warner Bros on February 12. “My Number” is the quite catchy single off Holy Fire, and now that jam has it’s own video. It’s a creative take on a live Foals concert. I wonder if those dancing girls have ever actually done that at a Foals […]
While I’m still bummed about the recent Das Racist breakup, members Heems and Kool AD have hardly stopped with music. Both released quality mixtapes last year. Kool AD was back in the Bay performing with his former punk group and he actually dropped by my house in early January (#humblebrag cuz I was giddy) and […]
After touring heavily to promote their new, debut album A Thing Called Divine Fits, Divine Fits has released a new video for the single from that record, “My Love Is Real”. Basically, if you were lookin’ for a fix of band members Sam Brown, Dan Boeckner and Britt Daniels getting into backyard swimming pools, your week will […]