Five short years after Songs About Jane swept the airwaves and ruled the TRL set, Maroon 5 are back to work. It won't be long before It Won't Be Soon Before Long is out soon. (Believe it or not, that...
...and we defer to Hater Tuesday:thou shall not read and record pretentious self-important ramblings and call them songs just so you can post them on youtube in attempts to get laid (finally!) by girls who are dumb enough to think...
Time Out New York has an article exploring the newly fertile intersect of indie rock and food, pulling quotes from indie-foodie expert Kara Zuaro (author of rocker recipe book I Like Food, Food Tastes Good), Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste, and...
You guys watching This American Life now that it's a full-blooded television show on Showtime? Last week's premiere was a great start to the series, and one of the segments chronicled the infamous gag pulled by comedic chaos-creators Improv Everywhere...
The biggest story from this year's SXSW was that there was no big story from this year's SXSW. Few bands seemed to catch show hoppers off guard, but we were taken by the pop-noir stylings of The Hylozoists, a multi-instrumental...
This has been making the rounds lately, but it's so good that I feel like we should post it, too. It's the video for the new Low song "Breaker," from their new record Drums And Guns. Go Minnesota!
Twice a week, we dig in the archives for videos that we find noteworthy, memorable, or just unbelievably stupid. And then, we break 'em down for you. Why Video Hangover? Because when you watch as many videos as we do,...
Some stills from upcoming vids for ya. Next up for the Shins after their history-depicting school play clip for "Phantom Limb" is "Australia," and Subterranean posted a pic that to has the Sub Poppers in lovely shade of prisoner orange...
Who needs Lisa Hannigan when you've got Ray LaMontagne? Ajee alerts us to the kings of coffee shop troubadours' cover of Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody," performed for French television show Taratata. Beautiful -- but then again, Ray could cover...
With Lesbians On Ecstasy, I have never quite been able to tell where the joke starts and where it stops. They’re a bit of an enigma. And depending our your personality, you could take them very serious — like woah, this is so political — or just laugh along and dance and enjoy them on a total surface level. The ability to enjoy them on multiple levels may be why they work so well. Their self titled debut earned them a lot of praise though it was a bit too experimental for most to really “get it.” Giggles In The Dark, the remix album that followed not long after, was a bit more straight forward and easier to listen, but it was a remix album — and as we all know, remix albums are often reserved for the fans.
Lesbians On Ecstasy is set to drop their sophomore album, We Know You Know, April 10th on Montreal’s Alien8. From the couple tracks I’ve sampled it seems like the band has ventured into more traditional songwriting. For example, “The Cold Touch Of Leather” is a bit singy-songy — like a classic protest song — it could easily be adopted by Take Back The Night on college campuses regardless of its darker, suggestive title.
“Party Time” sounds a bit like the other drug infused girl womyn band, Chicks On Speed — but with the smuttiness of the dirtiest Peaches lyric. The dance rap arena is definitely an area that I’m happy to see LOE exploring.
