May 2012
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March 2012
7 posts
Silly, catchy hipster anthem L’Homme by Boy Crisis gets suitably silly, flowery video 3 years after the track first appeared online (via disconaiveté).
Plenty of old-school Peter Jackson gore and zombie babies in this slowed-down rave take on Madonna’s Give Me All Your Luvin’ by Mater Suspiria Vision (via D).
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Like a three-minute tantric tease, this new Usher song, Climax, produced by Diplo and magically enhanced by Nico Muhly, constantly builds yet never actually climaxes. What a glorious treat.
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Watch Perfume Genius perform Hood and Normal Song for La Blogothéque’s A Take Away Show, both taken from his latest full-length Put Your Back N 2 It (out now on Matador/Turnstile), via disconaivete.
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Grimes takes her sunnier Salander self to a football stadium in this rather enchanting video for Oblivion.
February 2012
1 post
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January 2012
1 post
Recommended for Hot Chip fans with deadlines: The 2 Bears’ Work.
December 2011
3 posts
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November 2011
3 posts
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October 2011
6 posts
In which B’s choreography, costumes, and blinking reach yet greater heights.
September 2011
5 posts
Fanfarlo’s back! and Replicate’s certainly a promising first single.
August 2011
11 posts
In this Far Away performance for Yours Truly, Washed Out roll out a rather pleasant amount of sax.
June 2011
5 posts
“I knew that cyberspace was exciting, but none of the people I knew who were actually involved in the nascent digital industry were exciting. I wondered what it would be like if they were exciting, stylish, and sexy. I found the answer not so much in punk rock as in Bruce Springsteen, in particular Darkness on the Edge of Town, which was the album Springsteen wrote as a response to punk- a...
The Antlers, Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out
May 2011
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(Trials, Troubles,) Tribulations is one of my favorite songs ever, and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon here cooks up a stirring version with Megafaun, Fight The Big Bull, and Sharon Van Etten.
What a way to open an album; using the words of Essex Hemphill, Justin Vivian Bond delivers an American Wedding unlike any nuptial march ever recorded, also thanks to some stunningly dread-full saxophone work (From the album Dendrophile by Justin Vivian Bond).