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For more than 20 years now, the almighty Primus have served as one of rock’s quirkiest bands — and frontman/bassist Les Claypool, one of music’s most imaginative storytellers. The latest single from the group — rounded out by Larry “Ler” LaLonde on guitars and drummer Jay Lane — “Tragedy’s A’Comin’” also tells a story, as…
The tight knit LA bunch, Family of the Year, deliver their Beach Boys inspired sing-along as a giddy make out session. I nominate the chorus, “You bring the ocean, I’ll bring the motion, together we’ll make a love potion,” to be the heavy petting rallying cry of the season. “We didn’t want to be dramatic…
Hollywood is shifting its focus to The King. After many years of the film industry trying to put together a biopic about Elvis Presley, it seems like the time has final come for the famous rock’n’roll musician to get his time on the big screen. The Hollywood Reporter is running a story about the many…
In “Tornado ’87″ The Rural Alberta Advantage explores singer/songwriter Nils Edenloff’s memory of a disaster that struck his hometown when he was a child. “Being an Edmontonian, it’s impossible to understate the impact that the Tornado of ’87 had on the city of Edmonton,” Edenloff says. “A Tornado isn’t something that typically happens on the…
For Okkervil River’s deeply nostalgic song, “Your Past Life as a Blast,” director Isaac Ravishankara sought to capture a distant memory on video. “My initial inspiration came from some of William Faulkner’s novels, especially ‘The Sound and the Fury,’ where the same story is told from four unique perspectives,” Ravishankara explains. Also, I had been…
Natalie Portman wasn’t too keen on having a band named after her grooming habits with a debut album called “Glistening Pleasure,” so the band formerly known as Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head, re-emerged as Brite Futures. Their new album, “Dark Past,” came out last week. Part pop-party, part catharsis, the band’s guitarist Luke Smith describes it…
To herald a North American tour, Aussie quartet, The Jezebel’s have released this video for the single to their debut full-length, “Prisoner.” Singer Hayley Mary exudes a little Berlin-era Bowie and a lot of Siouxsie Sioux on “Try Colour,” with bandmates Heather Shannon, Sam Lockwood and Nik Kapoler. “We wrote this song quite quickly,” guitarist…
Move over “Noah,” Darren Aronofsky has another epic to attend to. The “Black Swan” director might be busy at work prepping for his “big event film,” but it was recently announced that he has a new side project that might take some precedence over bringing Noah’s biblical tale to the big screen. Associated Press has…
A version of this review first ran as part of our coverage of South by Southwest 2011. When Roger Daltrey first sang “My Generation” and said he hoped he’d die before he got old, just how old was he talking about? The guys’s 67 and not only is he not dead, he’s still singing that…
Monday we peeked behind the scenes of Moby’s new video for “After,” and saw lots of Austrians conspiring to attach a baby to things with gaffer’s tape. They also had an amazing spacecraft which appeared to be just a touch wider than the diameter of a 12 inch LP, they called the “helicopter,” rigged with…
We’ve been following the story of Grouplove as told through the lens of director Jordan Bahat’s “Bloom” for a couple weeks now. To review, the band formed on the isle of Crete during a romantic voyage undertaken by guitarist Christian Zucconi and keyboardist Hannah Hooper who’d just recently met at a show in New York.…
With Moby’s forthcoming “Destroyed Deluxe,” comes a new video for the single “After” by director Antonin Pevny. The Austrian director was a finalist in the Saatchi & Saatchi Vimeo competition launched earlier in the year, whose futuristic video was the lucky one Moby chose to go with out of the other nine finalists. We’ll have…
Young Man, aka Colin Caulfield, began to grow an audience for himself from a series of YouTube videos he did performing various covers of Ariel Pink, Bon Iver and Beach House. Eventually, his cover of Deerhunter’s “Rainwater Cassette Exchange” grabbed some real attention after it caught the eye of Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox, who hailed…
To bring their debut recording to life, Little Silver sought out visual artists, Peter Hamlin and Nina Frenkel, who teamed up on the exceptional animation for this little ditty. “This title song from the EP is about some kind of special, secret thing — the stolen souvenir is something just out of sight, just barely…
Graveface Records Halloween supergroup, The Marshmallow Ghosts, are back for their third year in a row with another macabre release, and this one also comes with an album-length music video series, “Corpse Reviver No. 2.” This time the spooky confections are made up of Lady Lazarus, Dreamend, Hospital Ships, Casket Girls and Black Moth Super…
“Martha Marcy May Marlene,” about a teenager named Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) who escapes a cult and helplessly tries to integrate herself back into normal society, is easily one of the most powerful films of the year and a breakthrough performance for its young star. But it’s the dangerous intensity of the group’s leader Patrick (John…
Deer Tick sought to harness the raw throated energy of their live shows for a record and the result, just yesterday was their fourth album, “Divine Providence.” Named sweetly for their hometown, the band also put together a short behind the scenes doc about their hometown recording sessions. Here they are in their element laying…
Dave Stewart has traveled the world and the seven seas and currently has his hands in a lot of projects, including composing the musical “Ghost” (hitting Broadway Spring 2012) and recently producing Stevie Nicks and Joss Stones’ new albums. Apart from starting the supergroup Superheavy with Stone, Mick Jagger, Damian Marley, and A. R. Rahman,…
When we left off with Grouplove last week in “Bloom part 1,” their interviewer was accusing their backstory of sounding like the set up to a bad sitcom. There’s no denying it is an awfully strange tale. What brought these strangers together on the island of Crete in 2009, who then started a band? Guitarist…
We have both good and bad news to report about Lia Ices and her intoxicating single, “Love Is Won.” The good news, aside from the free download below, is that Lia was in Rome shooting an intimate video for the song with her boyfriend — and today we’re announcing Jagjaguwar’s “Love Is Won” short video…
This song from Montreal’s Stars, comes from the upcoming “Like Crazy” soundtrack. The film tells the tale of star-crossed lovers, a British college student (Felicity Jones) who falls for her American classmate (Anton Yelchin) as they delve into the depths of youthful passion. But their soulful discovery takes a tragic turn when they are unwillingly…
Grouplove’s much beloved debut full length, “Never Trust A Happy Song,” is just a few weeks old and despite the cautionary title, it’s songs thrive on the seemingly unbridled joy the band exudes everywhere they go. Director Jordan Bahat created a mini documentary called “Bloom,” about the making of the album, which we’ll be premiering…
My Gymkommentary partner Chris Moreno first turned me on to the musical comedy stylings of Jon and Al Kaplan a few months ago. He figured I’d get a kick out of guys who write winking showtunes around the plots of schlocky 80s movies and then have dudes who sound like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone…
What if Jim Morrison did actually stage his own death in 1971 and was still alive today? That’s the possibility that The Doors co-founder Ray Manzarek explored in his novel “The Poet in Exile.” With this year making the 40-year-anniversary of Morrison’s death, “Chillerama” director Tim Sullivan has bought the rights to the story and…
The music of Syrian born songstress Boshra al Saadi may trace its roots to Damascus, but it has bloomed in the East Village. Brought up in Pennsylvania, she moved to New York where she’s been crafting her style for the past 15 years, finally emerging as the indie electro Goddess, Saadi. Her song “Bad Seeds,”…
