Yep, that was "Two Weeks" you heard during the ad where Stevie Wonder hard-knock punched Tracy Morgan, Slug Bug style. But who were the old dudes covering the CSI theme at halftime? Check the Grizz and Arcade Fire spots ads... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR SOUNDTRACK VOLKSWAGON "PUNCHDUB" SUPER BOWL AD»
Posted on February 8, 2010 (0 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Grizzly Bear | Stevie Wonder | Tracy Morgan
The other day we heard the first sounds from Peter Gabriels' all orchestral indie rock covers LP, Scratch My Back, with his take on Arcade Fire's "My Body Is A Cage." Clearly we've turned a fine eye toward comprehensively covering... CONTINUE READING PETER GABRIEL COVERS BON IVER (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on February 1, 2010 in MP3 (64 comments)
Tags: Bon Iver | Peter Gabriel
The concept behind Peter Gabriel's forthcoming indie rock covers project is an intriguing one: it's a song swap, Peter singing over orchestral reinterpretations of songs from a staggering list of artists -- Bon Iver, Lou Reed, the Mag Fields, Radiohead,... CONTINUE READING PETER GABRIEL COVERS ARCADE FIRE (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on January 21, 2010 (28 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Peter Gabriel
We've spoken about Scratch My Back, Peter Gabriel's anticipated Bob Ezrin-produced orchestral covers collection featuring reinterpretations of Radiohead, Arcade Fire, the Magnetic Fields, Bon Iver, Elbow, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, Regina Spektor, David Bowie, etc. In a couple of interesting,... CONTINUE READING PREVIEW PETER GABRIEL'S INDIE ROCK COVERS LP»
Posted on January 13, 2010 in MP3, Video (9 comments)
Tags: Avi Buffalo | Elbow | Lou Reed | Paul Simon | Peter Gabriel | Talking Heads | The Arcade Fire | The Magnetic Fields
This is how you stunt for publicity: An unlikely assemblage of superstars have banded together to raise awareness about the global clean water crisis by climbing Africa's tallest peak, Tanzania's Mt. Kilimanjaro. That's 19.340 feet, the very typing of which... CONTINUE READING SANTIGOLD, LUPE FIASCO, JESSICA BIEL CLIMB KILIMANJARO»
Posted on January 11, 2010 in Video (8 comments)
Tags: Fergie | Jessica Biel | Kenna | Lupe Fiasco | Mick Jagger | Santigold
Maybe it was these tough economic times -- the sinking music industry, everyone downloading shit for free, rising unemployment. Or perhaps folks just are getting stir crazy from lack of fresh air, sitting in front of their laptops/4-tracks while their... CONTINUE READING THE 14 BEST BAND BEEFS OF 2009»
Posted on December 22, 2009 in Listomania, Where's The Beef? (50 comments)
Tags: Alice Cooper | Beck | Black Lips | Cat Stevens | Chris Cornell | Coldplay | Courtney Love | Ed O'Brien | Eminem | Fiery Furnaces | Get Up Kids | Jay Reatard | Joe Satriani | Lily Allen | Mariah Carey | Miley Cyrus | Nick Mason | Pink Floyd | Psychedelic Horseshit | Radiohead | Ryan Adams | Soundgarden | The Cure | The Flaming Lips | Trent Reznor | Vampire Weekend | Wavves | Weezer
Festivals curated, Arcade Fire beefed, great record released, pants optional: that's how you have a year. And before the page turns on 2009, the Flaming Lips are adding to that list of distinctions with one more bit via Tuesday's iTunes... The Moon Out Tuesday'">CONTINUE READING FLAMING LIPS' DARK SIDE OF THE MOON OUT TUESDAY»
Posted on December 18, 2009 in Video (14 comments)
Tags: Henry Rollins | Peaches | Pink Floyd | Stardeath And White Dwarfs | The Flaming Lips
The lovable pop of Love Is Not Pop may have been somewhat overlooked this year, although El Perro Del Mar's got fans in high places helping to rectify the situation with folks from Beirut, Fuck Buttons, and Arcade Fire singling... CONTINUE READING ROBYN WORKS ON NEW LP, REMIXES EL PERRO DEL MAR, SINGS WITH STING'S DAUGHTER »
Posted on December 17, 2009 in MP3, Tour Dates, Video (4 comments)
Tags: Coco Sumner | Diplo | El Perro Del Mar | Klas Åhlund | Kleerup | Robyn | Sting | Teddybears
Late last month we gave you our 25 Most Anticipated Albums of 2010 and promptly realized we were anticipating more than 25 albums in 2010. A lot more! So we put out some feelers and took some tips and added... CONTINUE READING 44 MORE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED ALBUMS OF 2010»
Posted on December 11, 2009 (0 comments)
Tags: Small Black
I read this New York Times piece about how we're frantically trying to find a pithy, reductive nickname for this decade that's closing. Some are proposing "The Noughties," others "The Naughties," so I'm gonna coin a phrase for this time... CONTINUE READING ROLLING STONE'S 100 BEST ALBUMS, SONGS OF THE '00S»
Posted on December 10, 2009 in List (168 comments)
Tags: Laura Veirs
An open mind helps when it comes to navigating lists -- especially because it's a year end and a decade end, which means a blizzard of albums with numbers next to them. In some ways this could be viewed as... The '00s'">CONTINUE READING ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S BEST ALBUMS OF THE '00S»
Posted on December 4, 2009 in List (107 comments)
Tags: Kanye West | Real Estate
A quick listen of London-via-Sweden sextet Fanfarlo suggests they're building from the finer stock of 2006's crop, with surging melodramatics and instrumentation in the Arcade Fire and Beirut vein, lead vocals that are something like David Byrne via Alec Ounsworth,... CONTINUE READING NEW FANFARLO VIDEO - "HAROLD T. WILKINS" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on December 3, 2009 in MP3, Tour Dates, Video (15 comments)
Tags: Fanfarlo | Local Natives
Aside from discussing how Norah wanted The Fall to tickle corners further from the country-jazz she'd been pedal-steeling of late, there's a lot in Norah's recording history that makes Santi White a perfect fit for the Chasing Pirates Remix EP.... CONTINUE READING SANTIGOLD REMIXES NORAH JONES (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on December 2, 2009 (11 comments)
Tags: Norah Jones | Rain Machine | Santigold | Snotty
This year in music was great and we'rea gonna let it finish (sorry), but in terms of notable album releases the ship has sailed. No offense, 30 Seconds To Mars. While the Gummys' virtual poll booth remains open for a... CONTINUE READING THE 25 69 MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS OF 2010»
Posted on November 25, 2009 in List, Listomania, MP3 (305 comments)
Tags: Aloha | Arcade Fire | Band Of Horses | Beach House | Beck | Born Ruffians | Cat Power | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Clipd Beaks | Danger Mouse | David Byrne | Dr. Dog | Drive-By Truckers | Dum Dum Girls | Fatboy Slim | Field Music | Final Fantasy | Fleet Foxes | Four Tet | Free Energy | Frightened Rabbit | Gorillaz | Harvey Milk | Hot Chip | Interpol | James Mercer | Jónsi | Jens Lekman | Joanna Newsom | LCD Soundsystem | Liars | Los Campesinos! | Massive Attack | Menomena | MGMT | Midlake | Miles Kurosky | No Age | of Montreal | OutKast | Panda Bear | Pantha Du Prince | Peter Gabriel | Pig Destroyer | Quasi | R.E.M. | RJD2 | School Of Seven Bells | Scissor Sisters | Serena-Maneesh | She And Him | Shearwater | Sleigh Bells | Spoon | Surfer Blood | Ted Leo | The Antlers | The Avalanches | The Hold Steady | The Magnetic Fields | The Morning Benders | The National | The New Pornographers | The Strokes | The Thermals | The Walkmen | The Wrens | These New Puritans | Toro Y Moi | Vampire Weekend | Wavves | Xiu Xiu | Yeasayer
There is no such thing a perfect list. There are lists, however, that love the Streets more than other lists. Stateside we've seen Paste hand the top spot to one of Sufjan's states and Pitchfork gave the nod to Kid... The '00s'">CONTINUE READING NME'S 50 GREATEST ALBUMS OF THE '00S»
Posted on November 17, 2009 in List (148 comments)
Tags: Thee Oh Sees
Good news for lovers of cantankerous, hyperacusis-afflicted songwriters (also, just plain old good news): Stephin Merritt and his Magnetic Fields will be back with their eighth LP Realism on January 26th. This comes after a year that offered a particularly... CONTINUE READING THE MAGNETIC FIELDS RETURN WITH REALISM »
Posted on November 10, 2009 in Album Art (8 comments)
Tags: Grizzly Bear | Stephin Merritt | The Magnetic Fields
The decade recounting started with Pitchfork handing top honors to Kid A and Uncut lusting after Jack White. Now it's Paste's turn to list their favorite albums of the '00s and, as you might expect, they add some different names... The Decade'">CONTINUE READING PASTE'S 50 BEST ALBUMS OF THE DECADE»
Posted on November 2, 2009 in List (134 comments)
Tags: Sufjan Stevens | The Decemberists
Peter Gabriel's first album in seven years is a Bob Ezrin-produced orchestral covers collection called Scratch My Back. It reportedly features reinterpretations of the folks mentioned above along with Elbow, the Kinks, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, David Bowie, and Neil... Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Bon Iver Covers'">CONTINUE READING PETER GABRIEL'S SCRATCH MY BACK FEATURES ARCADE FIRE, RADIOHEAD, BON IVER COVERS»
Posted on October 29, 2009 in Video (14 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Bon Iver | Paul Simon | Peter Gabriel | Radiohead | Spiral Stairs | The Magnetic Fields
Perhaps not content with inspiring Where The Wild Things Are or doing an original soundtrack for Richard Kelly's possibly ridiculous horror flick The Box ("I seriously thought Cameron Diaz was doing that thing where you put on an exaggerated Southern... CONTINUE READING LET THE ARCADE FIRE 2010 RUMOR MILL BEGIN»
Posted on October 23, 2009 (79 comments)
Tags: A Place To Bury Strangers | Arcade Fire | Owen Pallett | Richard Kelly | The Box
Buttery smooth Living Room darling Norah Jones has done many things in the years since releasing her Grammy-magnet debut Come Away With Me to suggest she wanted to be more than just the artist who puts out records the whole... CONTINUE READING NEW NORAH JONES - "CHASING PIRATES"»
Posted on October 12, 2009 (17 comments)
Tags: Norah Jones | Sufjan Stevens
It's 2009, so in addition to the usual year-end list, as fall turns to winter we'll be drowning in end-of-the-decade lists, too. It's only October, but you can add Uncut's Top 20 Albums Of The '00s to Pitchfork's Greatest Albums... The '00s'">CONTINUE READING UNCUT'S TOP 20 ALBUMS OF THE '00S»
Posted on October 8, 2009 in List (117 comments)
Tags: Toadies
When we looked at Pitchfork's 20 Greatest Songs Of The '00s, we also went through the entire list and found the 15 songs they included from 2009, noting that Animal Collective was far and away the the highest placer from... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK'S 20 GREATEST ALBUMS OF THE '00S»
Posted on October 2, 2009 in List (272 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Radiohead
Not one to hold his tongue, a new video finds Wayne Coyne backstage calling Bradford Cox (aka "Brad Fox," aka "Benny The Cocks") a dick. Cox returns the favor by explaining how "a magician guy" and "a guy in a... CONTINUE READING FLAMING LIPS & DEERHUNTER LOCK HORNS BACKSTAGE (PLUS PICTURES FROM THE LIPS' NAKED BICYCLIST VIDEO SET)»
Posted on September 24, 2009 in Video (20 comments)
Tags: Atlas Sound | Bradford Cox | Deerhunter | The Colbert Report | The Flaming Lips | Them Crooked Vultures
ATP NY was our favorite festival of 2008, and the only one all three Stereogum staffers attended. The draw? Partially the lineup, of course, but also the fact that it takes place in the hotel that inspired Dirty Dancing's summer... CONTINUE READING ATP ROCKS THE CATSKILLS THIS WEEKEND»
Posted on September 11, 2009 in MP3 (4 comments)
Tags: All Tomorrow's Parties
A few months ago he tore the group a new asshole, then backtracked. Now: "I know what I said was absolutely the truth. I run into people virtually everywhere we play and they're like, 'Wayne, you're the only one that... CONTINUE READING WAYNE COYNE RESCINDS ARCADE FIRE APOLOGY»
Posted on September 9, 2009 in Where's The Beef? (9 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | The Flaming Lips
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