Last year, San Fran's inaugural Outside Lands festival featured Radiohead, but also power outage issues. This year: No Radiohead, but abundant electricity. Trade-offs! While Thom was twisting words at the Reading and Leeds fests in the motherland, Golden Gate park... CONTINUE READING OUTSIDE LANDS 2009 IN PHOTOS»
Posted on September 1, 2009 in , , (0 comments)
Tags: Alison Mosshart | Atmosphere | Band Of Horses | Bettye LaVette | Black Eyed Peas | Built To Spill | Calexico | Dave Matthews Band | Fergie | Heartless Bastards | Jack Black | Jack White | John Vanderslice | M.I.A. | Maserati | Mastodon | Matt And Kim | Os Mutantes | Outside Lands | Pearl Jam | Q-Tip | Tenacious D | The Dead Weather | The Dodos | The Duke Spirit | Thievery Corporation | Tom Jones | Vau-De-Vire-Society | Ween
Canadian songstress Serena Ryder's had a productive decade, releasing four albums and three EPs of original material, alongside working as a lead vocalist on this year's Great Lake Swimmers LP Lost Channels, since debuting in 1999. She's marking ten years... CONTINUE READING SERENA RYDER COVERS BAND OF HORSES »
Posted on April 27, 2009 in , (10 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | Serena Ryder | Smith Westerns
By Amrit Singh & Brandon Stosuy The weather's getting hotter by the day, but we refuse to cave: We arrived at the grounds when the sun was at its peak. Amrit's given to wearing shorts at this point, but Brandon... CONTINUE READING COACHELLA 2009: M.I.A., SUPERCHUNK, AND SO MUCH SUN»
Posted on April 19, 2009 in , , (15 comments)
Tags: Amanda Palmer | Ariel Pink | Band Of Horses | Bob Mould | Calexico | Coachella | Fleet Foxes | Glass Candy | Ida Maria | Jake Gyllenhaal | Mastodon | Paris Hilton | Perry Farrell | Reese Witherspoon | Superchunk | The Chemical Brothers | The Killers | Tinariwen | TV On The Radio
Refresher: Starbucks is a company that is in the business of selling $5 cups of coffee. Starbucks is also a company that is in the business of selling music. Basically the best business plan imaginable in 2009, good job guys.... CONTINUE READING DEATH CAB, DEPT OF EAGLES DO STARBUCKS COVERS COMP»
Posted on January 22, 2009 (14 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | Carl Newman | Death Cab For Cutie | Department Of Eagles | DeVotchKa | Richard Hawley | Rogue Wave | She And Him | Ted Leo
According to a dispatch from the Band, it's time to start looking forward to the next record. With no shows lined up until April, they're now headed to Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, NC, to work on new material --... CONTINUE READING BAND OF HORSES WORKING ON A NEW ALBUM, PLAYING NEW SONGS IN CONCERT»
Posted on January 15, 2009 in (12 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | Tyler Ramsey | Ween
In this live footage of Band Of Horses testing out a new track during their set at Sweden's Accelerator Festival, a guitar-less Ben Bridwell, wrestling with shirt buttons, looks like he's not sure where to put his hands when he's... CONTINUE READING BAND OF HORSES PERFORM A NEW SONG IN SWEDEN»
Posted on June 27, 2008 in (9 comments)
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No, we didn't think Cease To Begin was the greatest album of all time, but it definitely has plenty of beauty tucked in that underwhelming shell, including the first single "Is There A Ghost" and the lovely, sentimental, emotionally drenched,... CONTINUE READING NEW BAND OF HORSES VIDEO - "NO ONE'S GONNA LOVE YOU"»
Posted on May 22, 2008 in , , (13 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses
Last Saturday night, while out in Brooklyn, we met a PA who worked a T-Mobile video shoot with of Montreal, also mentioning that Art Brut shot a commercial for the same campaign earlier in the day. oM's went down at... CONTINUE READING OF MONTREAL TALK T-MOBILE: "SELLING OUT ISN'T POSSIBLE"»
Posted on November 16, 2007 in , , (211 comments)
Tags: Art Brut | Band Of Horses | of Montreal
Asheville-based fingerpicking multi-instrumentalist Tyler Ramsey reminds us of both Ryan Adams and Red House Painters, depending on his intonations and the sorts of sadness he weaves into his instrumentation. Or, in his cover of Nico's "These Days," he conjures the... CONTINUE READING ARTIST TO WATCH: TYLER RAMSEY»
Posted on November 8, 2007 in , , (11 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | Tyler Ramsey
This morning the Late Show site site posted up a couple of web exclusive Ry clips, presumably filmed after his Misfits-tee toting performance of "Everybody Knows" on last night's show (missed "Halloweenhead" by a day). Nellie McKay didn't pop up... CONTINUE READING RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS (FEAT. NELLIE MCKAY) PLAY DAVID LETTERMAN'S DESK»
Posted on November 2, 2007 in (9 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | David Letterman | Nellie McKay | Nicole Atkins | Ryan Adams
Walked into Irving tired, walked out in desperate need of another party; such is the rejuvenating power of Santo/Rock. We were more thinking "dance" than "soaring reverb rock," but it didn't take much prodding to get us to hit Band... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: BAND OF HORSES @ BLENDER THEATRE AT GRAMERCY, NYC 10/20/07»
Posted on October 21, 2007 in (9 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | CMJ
In which we learn "Is There A Ghost" is short for "Is There A Ghost Stealing Everybody's Pillows? Or Just A Trespassing, Pillow Pilfering Insomniac In A Hoodie?" Cease To Begin is out via Sub Pop.... CONTINUE READING NEW BAND OF HORSES VIDEO - "IS THERE A GHOST"»
Posted on October 15, 2007 in (13 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses
Not watching Chuck? That's for the best, although the suits at NBC would be shocked and saddened to hear it, especially since they've decided their 40 Year Old Virgin-meets-The Bourne Ultimatum (but not as good as that sounds) comedy appears... CONTINUE READING NBC'S CHUCK IS TRYING REALLY HARD TO WOO YOU AND ACCORDING TO THE RATINGS, IT'S NOT WORKING»
Posted on October 9, 2007 (55 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | Beck | Chuck | Gomez | Spoon | Teddybears | The National | The New Pornographers | The Shins
Imagine, if you will, the Wal-Mart board meeting, in which this new ad campaign was pitched full of discussions of what it really means to be Wal-Mart, the finest of the discount retail behemoths, the purveyor of everything, all... CONTINUE READING BAND OF HORSES HELP WAL-MART EXPRESS THEIR MISSION STATEMENT»
Posted on September 12, 2007 in (98 comments)
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Might not be the best sign that after listening to Cease To Begin a handful of times we were pretty convinced we were missing a couple tracks. Turns out Band Of Horses' follow-up to Everything All The Time just lacks... CONTINUE READING PREMATURE EVALUATION: BAND OF HORSES - CEASE TO BEGIN»
Posted on September 10, 2007 in (68 comments)
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We've always had trouble sleeping in haunted houses, but seems like it's no big thang for Mr. Ben Bridwell. Unsurprisingly, the first single from our favorite digicam-dissing, art-auctioning reverb-rockers' Cease To Begin is a dynamically rich, melancholically sound anthem with... CONTINUE READING NEW BAND OF HORSES - "IS THERE A GHOST"»
Posted on August 29, 2007 (17 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses
Rev up the reverb and put away the digicams: Band Of Horses are back this fall with Sub Pop LP2 Cease To Begin. Returning for production duty is the mighty Phil Ek, who will guide the relocated-to-South-Carolina rockers through the... CONTINUE READING BAND OF HORSES' CEASE TO BEGIN ALBUM ART»
Posted on August 21, 2007 in (26 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | Poor Baby Bree
At Hiro Ballroom last week, on the same night Zach Galifianakis accepted someone else's bid on an ostrich-man painting just 'cause they offered more money than us, Band Of Horses closed out the night with a set showcasing some new... CONTINUE READING BAND-AID ON HORSESHIT?»
Posted on July 20, 2007 in (46 comments)
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Tuesday night's New York x New York party was another fine hybrid of boozy, indie/comic goodness: Amidst a sea of free, Pom-based cocktails, Hiro Ballroom patrons flexed their checkbooks in hot pursuit of the donated, aesthetic abominations, auctioned off by... CONTINUE READING ZACH GALIFIANAKIS INTERVIEWS MOBY, AUCTIONS BAD ART WITH BAND OF HORSES»
Posted on July 12, 2007 in , (9 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | Moby | Zach Galifianakis
New York Mag's six-part New York x New York experiment in vegan cookery, karaoke, and indie rock's finest is up to its event-blending best with their next get-together. So far it's been singing with Of Montreal and contortionist/vegan-dining with Man... CONTINUE READING BID ON BAD ART WITH ZACH GALIFIANAKIS, STAY FOR AN INDIE ROCK AFTER PARTY»
Posted on June 26, 2007 (6 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | Zach Galifianakis
The night before the mainstream music industry self-fellated on worldwide television, the indie scene had a little backslapping of its own at Irving Plaza for the PLUG Awards show which, despite being rough around the edges, was a decent time.... CONTINUE READING 2007 PLUG AWARDS»
Posted on February 12, 2007 (13 comments)
Tags: Arctic Monkeys | Band Of Horses | David Cross | Neko Case | Stephen Malkmus | Sufjan Stevens | Yo La Tengo
Here are a few choice selections from the list of what rocked Oh My Rockness this year. They're representing with a group of Stereo-faves and perfectly articulate those tough-to-pinpoint things that make us love these bands so.Best Rock Band Full... CONTINUE READING REMINISCE WITH OH MY ROCKNESS»
Posted on December 14, 2006 (3 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | Goes Cube | Serena-Maneesh | The Big Sleep | Tokyo Police Club
