Courtesy: Pitchfork On the strength of one EP and one self-titled album, Seattle backwoods harmonizers Fleet Foxes have ascended to indie stardom. They’ve played festival stages and appeared on “Saturday Night Live”. They also won Album of the Year honors from Pitchfork and toured their hearts out. So how do you follow up a debut […]
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Robin Pecknold talks future Fleet Foxes material
December 4th, 2009 
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Comments Off on Robin Pecknold talks future Fleet Foxes materialAnimal Collective’s movie to premiere at Sundance, has name
December 3rd, 2009 Chris Courtesy: Pitchfork The years-in-the-making Animal Collective movie, directed by frequent collaborator Danny Perez, will finally debut at next year’s Sundance Film Festival, which runs from January 21-31 in Utah. It’s called ODDSAC. Talking about the name of the film to us earlier this year, AC’s Avey Tare said, “There’s a few titles we’re all psyched […]
Posted in News Tags: animal collective, avey tare, ODDSAC, panda bear, sundance Comments Off on Animal Collective’s movie to premiere at Sundance, has nameArcade Fire: New Album and Tour?
December 3rd, 2009 Chris Courtesy: Pitchfork Billboard reports that Montreal indie megastars Arcade Fire, the band responsible for Pitchfork’s #2 album of the decade, will have a new album on shelves around the time the weather gets warm again. They’ll also play some shows this summer, so get ready for a fresh round of epicness. None of this has […]
Radiohead’s Marching Band Collaboration Released
December 3rd, 2009 Chris Courtesy: Pitchfork Earlier this year, Radiohead performed on the Grammy Awards telecast, teaming up with the University of Southern California’s Trojan Marching Band for a sinuous rendition of the In Rainbows opener “15 Step”. The team-up between British art-rock geniuses and halftime-show entertainment was a particularly unlikely one, but it managed to overshadow everything else […]
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December 3rd, 2009 Chris Courtesy: Pitchfork The new clip for angsty Scottish mopers the Twilight Sad’s recent UK single “Seven Years of Letters” (from latest album Forget the Night Ahead) stars three kids wearing creepy, tattered, cut-out cloth masks. The last time we saw this mask it was being worn by a youngster trying to suffocate his mother on […]
Check out the new Shearwater Song
December 3rd, 2009 Chris Courtesy:Stereogum Jonathan Meiburg is an artist ahead of his time, titling Shearwater’s most recent release Snow Leopard well before Apple could get their paws on it. That said his band’s next release seems to recall the past instead, at least according to Matador, who offer up a free MP3 and promise that the forthcoming Golden […]
2010 Grammys Nominees
December 3rd, 2009 Chris Courtesy: StereoGum Contenders were revealed in a primetime concert hosted by LL Cool J and featuring the comedy of Smokey Robinson (“Don’t worry Taylor, Kanye’s not here.”). As expected, Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Swift, and Beyoncé made out well (they’re all up for Album Of The Year along with Dave Matthews Band for their worst […]
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December 1st, 2009 Chris Courtesy: Pitchfork Listen Here. Spoon’s new album, Transference, arrives January 19 in North America (via Merge) and a day earlier in Europe (via Anti-). You’ve memorized the tracklist and now you can stare at the cover. (Via Stereogum.) After using a photo by Italian lensman Ugo Mulas for the Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga sleeve, […]
The Scoop on Flaming Lips Dark Side of the Moon cover
November 30th, 2009 Chris Last month, we reported that the Flaming Lips were planning to pay tribute to their psych-rock forebears by covering Pink Floyd’s dorm-room classic Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety, probably as an iTunes-only release. The Lips’ version, a collaboration with the band Stardeath and White Dwarfs (which includes Wayne Coyne’s nephew Dennis Coyne […]
Bryan Ferry Works With Jonny Greenwood, Flea, Others
November 24th, 2009 Chris The last time forever-suave former Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry released a solo album, it was a collection of Bob Dylan covers, and we didn’t much like it. But Ferry’s forthcoming album looks pretty interesting. Rolling Stone reports that Ferry is currently at work on a new solo album, and he’s lined up an impressive […]
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November 24th, 2009 Chris Courtesy: Pitchfork In an interview with Pedestrian.tv, the man known as Panda Bear talked about his new solo album in a not-completely-concrete way. But still, new Panda Bear album info is new Panda Bear album info. And given that the Animal Collective member’s last solo album was our ninth favorite album of the decade, we’re […]
Rx Bandits on BBC Radio
November 23rd, 2009 Chris Source: Sargent House RX Bandits stopped by Westwood 1 Studios to record for the Punk Show with Mike Davies for BBC Radio 1 today, the program which contains 3 acoustic songs and interview will air at the following times and places. On BBC1 Radio in the UK – LISTEN HERE Monday 11/23 at 2am – […]