By William Cody Humston on August 13, 2010
The Swell Season tackles Neutral Milk Hotel this week with a slightly more aggressive — but mostly straightforward — cover of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea‘s “Two-Headed Boy.”
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Posted in New Music, Videos | Tagged Neutral Milk Hotel, The Swell Season
By Stephen DeFilippo on July 31, 2010
Earlier this month, Secret Cities stopped by the Elbo Room on Valencia St. in San Francisco. The band played a great show despite sound issues and a somewhat thin crowd, and here’s a video of the mellow Pink Graffiti album closer, “The End.”
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Posted in New Music, Videos | Tagged Secret Cities, Western Vinyl
By Stephen DeFilippo on July 27, 2010
Ever wonder what the Real Housewives of Orange County would look like sans Botox?
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Posted in New Music, Videos | Tagged Caribou
By Stephen DeFilippo on July 21, 2010
Soul revivalist Mayer Hawthorne gets jiggy at the pool side in his latest music video.
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Posted in New Music, Videos
By Jennifer Marston on July 19, 2010
Broken Social Scene’s new video is both the visual accompaniment to Forgiveness Rock Record‘s “Meet Me in the Basement” and a hefty political statement about the recent riot-addled G20 Summit in Toronto.
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Posted in New Music, News, Videos | Tagged Broken Social Scene
By Stephen DeFilippo on July 16, 2010
Watching the new Klaxons video, for the song “Echoes” is like taking a trip to the desert planet Tatooine from Star Wars, except there’s no pimpin’ Landspeeder or eerie little Jawas lurking around the corner.
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By Stephen DeFilippo on July 15, 2010
Back in June, Islands’ multitasking magician of a musician Nick Diamonds performed at a New York’s Radio Happy Hour, where he unwrapped three new songs which he “think[s] will be Islands songs.”
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Posted in New Music, News, Videos | Tagged Islands
By William Cody Humston on July 8, 2010
This week, Clem Snide frontman Eef Barzelay gives Journey’s life-on-the-road power ballad “Faithfully” an irony-free vocal-and-ukulele treatment. Whistling ensues.
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Posted in New Music, Videos | Tagged Clem Snide, Journey
By Stephen DeFilippo on June 29, 2010
Take a quick glimpse into the off-stage life of electronic musician Ernest Greene, a.k.a. Washed Out.
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By Stephen DeFilippo on June 21, 2010
See John Darnielle perform all 12 songs from the band’s 2009 Biblically inspired album, The Life of the World to Come. For the diehard Mountain Goats fan in all of us.
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Posted in Videos | Tagged The Mountain Goats
