Gang Gang Dance’s Eye Contact Hypnotizes
New York’s experimental sonic collective continues to make challenging and rewarding music on Eye Contact.
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Moby Makes Sense of Destroyed Media
Moby has been making music across media and genre for over three decades now. Which means he’s watched genres bleed into each other, technology kill the music industry as we […]
Must-Hear SXSW, From Yoko Ono to Ringo Deathstarr and Beyond
South By Southwest Festival stuffs a killer load of coders, filmmakers, musicians and more into the otherwise lame state of Texas.
The Go! Team Bestows Rolling Blackouts, Bids Adieu
For the last decade, the UK pop-hop collective has brilliantly (re)defined postmodern music. Too bad they might call it quits after releasing their kickass new album Rolling Blackouts. I talked […]
Australian Spacewalkers All India Radio Hypnotize On The Silent Surf
For Wired, I try to write about bands few have probably heard of before, but also have a gift for head-trip sonics. All India Radio fits both descriptions, so I […]
John Lennon, Working Class Mythmaker
Because he is unfairly lost to us now, all we have are mounting media replications to inform and console us.
Film School Breaks Down Cinematic Fission
One of my favorite cinematic bands is Film School, who are not cinematic at all, band leader Greg Bertens once told me for Wired. My latest chat with Film School […]
Autolux Is On Our Robot Overlord’s Playlist
“I’m not sure whether to view it as a disease or an evolution. I can’t imagine what the world is going to be like in 200 years.”
Getting Serious With Jared Leto
I asked Jared Leto’s serious brain some questions for Metromix about online crowdsourcing, 30 Seconds to Mars’ new American tour, playing John Lennon’s assassin Mark David Chapman on film, Kanye […]
Hip-Hop Lives!
[Rob Swift] July 8th, 2010 will officially go down in history as one of the most epic nights in NYC hip-hop. I mean, isn’t it obvious? It’s 10:00 am and […]
Absolutely Essential 90s Band Reunions
From the Cocteau Twins to Bowery Electric to the late, great Gravediggaz, we could really use some bands that were either born or broken in the 90s.
Best Album Art of All Time
By the time The Beatles got to their last proper album, 1969′s Abbey Road, they stripped themselves entirely of simulations and presented four friends parting at the road responsible for pop music’s most memorable sonics.
Neil Young’s Enviropocalyptic Comic, Greendale
Neil Young’s stirring Greendale started life in 2003 as a crunchy concept album about the enviropocalypse, and quickly became an indie film. The inevitable graphic novel arrives…
Hail the Coolest Two-Person Bands On Earth
Evidently, sometimes it does take two to make things go right, as the song and its famous simulations once said. There aren’t too many memorable two-person bands in musical history, […]
Geek The Beatles: Let It Be’s Recombined Reality Programming
Forty years ago, Let It Be closed out a decade of The Beatles’ artistic and technological influence.
Bonobo Wipes Minds On Black Sands
[Remy Schneider, Morphizm] The sonic ventriloquist Simon Green has worked his fingers into the Bonobo doll again and birthed Black Sands, his fourth full-length LP released on Ninja Tune earlier […]
Best Concert Films Ever? Screen These Legends
On Apr. 30, Phish 3D hit theaters in a limited engagement, taking concert films into the multiple dimensions of the post-Avatar era. But Phish’s 2D predecessors still have a serious […]
Meet the New Soul Stirrers!
What’s the difference between nu-soul and old soul? Terminology of course! Sharon Jones, at right, is proof of that thesis: She’s been around for awhile. It’s just us that have […]
Name That Film-Based Band!
Murder By Death is one of the most ridiculous, and ridiculously hilarious, spoofs of all time. A smoking cast, a conscienceless goof on mystery greats like Hercule Poirot and Sam […]
Dark Side Eclipses Concept Album Classics
On March 10, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon turned 37. So given that it is my favorite concept album ever, I decided to call it the overall greatest […]
In a Parallel Universe, These Songs Win Oscars
From “Purple Rain” to “Kickapoo” to “Always Look On the Bright Side of Life” to “Uncle Fucker”
My Favorite Album Covers? Check Filter
Hey pals, I’ve been reviewing for Filter Magazine for awhile now. As usual, they ask me what my favorite this and that is for each issue. This time? Album covers. […]
Lesson Up! Black History Month Revealed
African-Americans have contributed so much to popular music, it’s no wonder that many of them have never really received their proper due. February is Black History Month, so here’s a […]