I don’t know what to tell you to do with this other than read the quoted blurb and play it loud on this wintery Sunday eve whilst sipping some cognac pretending that you’re cultured (that’s what I am doing, anyway).
“Commissioned by Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma to write the music for their opera based [...]

This is my favorite song on It’s a Blitz mostly because it’s the only one on the album that is intrinsically Yeah Yeah Yeahs sounding; drums up-front in the mix driving the sound with Nick Zinner on the guitar as opposed to being relegated to the synthesizer. You know – rock and roll. The video [...]

Sample One Life Stand, Hot Chip’s latest offering, in its entirety on their MySpace page. It’s vocal/synth heavy with a just about even split between ballads and dirty disco ditties featuring smatterings of steel drum and 90’s dance beats (Ministry of Sound ahem… cred where cred is due). The album’s title track has gay dance [...]

Most of the extant comments about this track involve some kinda of Alvin and The Chipmunks reference. It starts getting palatable around 1:45, if you wish to save yourself the childhood nostalgia. The dance beat is very C+C Music Factory circa 1992 which I dig. I keep holding my breath for more from Le Gaga [...]

Animal Collective and director Danny Perez team up for the cinematic endeavor Oddsac. Being billed as a “visual album”, Oddsac is currently being screened at Sundance Film Festival to an average 3 out of 5 star rating. Not bad. From the trailer (below) this trip down acid flashback lane looks like a Lynchian attempt at [...]

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Thus far, The Telethon for Haiti has garnered $3 million in iTunes sales from the performances that night on an album entitled Hope For Haiti featuring the likes of Jay-Z, Rihanna, Madonna, Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera, Neil Young, and U2.
A few nights ago Thom Yorke played a benefit show at The Music [...]

I was in Panama visiting best friends and vacationing on private islands (really). So forgive me. Mea culpa mea culpa mea culpa. I will buy a new laptop so this will never happen again; I promise (wink). A long game of catch (up) begins tomorrow in the a.m. Til then sweet dreams and enjoy Van [...]

OK — so we know that Marion Cotillard can sing. Mademoiselle won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, in which she nailed the chanteuse’s delivery and signature rapid vibrato; no small feat. But often times things shouldn’t be a question of can; they should be a question of [...]

The line up looks a little something like THIS:
FRIDAY APRIL 16: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Deadmau5, Public Image Limited, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Benny Benassi, Fever Ray, Grace Jones, She & Him, Erol Alkan, The Avett Brothers, Calle 13, The Whitest Boy Alive, The [...]

What do y’all think? I think…
Listen to a live version of Widow Wake My Mind from August 2009. Enjoy.

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I have to say, the thought of someone else ripping him away from this world gives me more comfort than thinking he played Russian roulette with heroin.
“According to Fox, police are now searching for a possible suspect and asking the public to come forward with any information. Tips can be submitted via phone at [...]

One more Jay post. Watch, discover and/or remember. “It’s kind of like anything else in life that’s ugly that you like; it just makes you comfortable.” Gibson should copyright that sh*t quick.

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Beck.com posted Jay’s cover of “Gamma Ray”, hands-down one of my favorite songs of all time. I had no idea Jay even covered it as I listened to it today previous to knowledge of his passing. We are all connected. Remember that in reference to Haiti. For Jay.
Come on little gamma ray/standing in a hurricane
your [...]

Jimmy Lee Lindsey A.K.A. Jay Reatard passed away last night in his sleep. He was 29 years old. Watch “It Ain’t Gonna Save Me” whilst you say a prayer and shed a tear.

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So Girls released a new American Apparel advert video for the track “Morning Light“. Enjoy it below.

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Contra, the long awaited follow up to Vampire Weekend’s eponymously titled debut album, drops tomorrow. I’ve had it for a little while and it doesn’t disappoint. Toe-tappingly good,  all 30 + minutes of it. Pick up a copy here. Below are their New York tour dates beginning this Sunday. Start hitting the refresh button on [...]

Illustration by Mike Allred (Red Rocket 7 #4 November 1997)
I am counting this as an early birthday present. Check out the alleged line up of said Bowie tribute on Manimal Vinyl (via Pitchfork) featuring the likes of Devendra Banhart (Megapuss), Warpaint, Chairlift along with Carla Bruni and Duran [...]

Happy 63rd  Birthday, Davie Jones! Bowie is the air I breathe.  I challenge you to find a more versatile artist. The man has 25 studio albums and 8 live albums in his oeuvre, one of which, A Reality Tour, is due for release January 26th. Bowie is the genesis from which Madonna begat Gaga. A [...]

Methinks Electric Literature is the most proactive endeavor taken by any entity within the realm of publishing. Translated into hepcat speak: they bring the cool and they bring it via technology. The cool being 5 short stories delivered quarterly that you can procure in the form of an ebook, a kindle/iphone friendly download, or for [...]

Mademoiselle Gainsbourg has 2 upcoming shows at The Bell House January 19th and 20th. Buy tickets here.  This post is really just pretense to play the new song off IRM Looking Glass Blues (via Fluxblog).

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