Thao with the Get Down Stay Down have announced plans to release a new album this fall. The album will be titled Know Better Learn Faster and will be released on October 13 through Kill Rock Stars. Good news for anyone who, like me, thought We Brave Bee Stings and All was one of the [...]
We wrote just last week about the announcement of a new, biblically themed, Mountain Goats album about to be hitting stores. This week Darnielle and co. are announcing a full US tour with Final Fantasy and a few lose solo dates here (Ithaca, NY) and there (Berlin). Turns out that Owen from Final Fantasy loves [...]
Check out the new, Heath Ledger directed, video from Modest Mouse. It’s a bit of a gore-fest.
B. Lance’s Rollin’ Man album (from A List of the Lost)
Bad Veins perform on WOXY
Bad Veins did a Daytrotter Session
The Buddy System live at Caledonia on 07.11.09 (from Southern Shelter)
Delta Spirit live on KEXP (from FMA)
Floating Action did a Daytrotter Session
Hola Halo live at Tasty World on 07.14.09 (from Southern Shelter)
The Ironclads live on KEXP [...]
John Darnielle has officially announced, via The Mountain Goats website, that a new album, The Life of the World to Come, is forthcoming.
The album has a pretty overt biblical slant that Darnielle is already addressing (the first track has been available less than 24 hours!). All of the track titles are named after Bible verses, [...]
The Antlers perform “Two” from their forthcoming disc Hospice (being formally released on Frenchkiss in August). This is one of the best tracks off the album and this is a really special version of the track.
The Vivian Girls perform a track called “Wild Eyes” which is a little less stripped down than “Two” but really [...]
Paste Magazine is reporting that Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon refuses to stop working. In January of 2010 he and Chris Rosenau of Collections of Colonies of Bees will be performing a live score to Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush.This will be interesting. Will it be as quirky and laughable as other scores to Chaplin [...]
Check out the new video from the Fiery Furnaces below. The video is for their track “Charmaine Champagne” from their most recent album I’m Going Away. The video is full of some pretty wild animation and beautiful overlays. A favorite music video so far this year.
There’s a lot of hipster rage against Pitchfork for bringing to light things other people, without the inside track, might not know about, thus bringing music to a wider audience of appreciative ears. Bastards.
But, you have to admit even this newfangled Pitchfork.tv thing hits the mark sometimes. This is one of those times. Check out [...]
