When's the last time you want to an actual record store? Like where you have to walk through a door and can't just click "download"? Yes, we live inside a blog, but record stores are pretty great. Brandon worked at... CONTINUE READING TOMORROW IS RECORD STORE DAY»
Posted on April 18, 2008 (31 comments)
Tags: Björk | Black Keys | Built To Spill | Dead Meadow | Death Cab For Cutie | Deerhunter | Grizzly Bear | Interpol | New Pornographers | Prurient | R.E.M. | Regina Spektor | Stephen Malkmus | Tapes 'N Tapes | Vampire Weekend
It's entirely possible you don't check Stereogum as often as we do, so drag your mouse to this link and click to download our tribute to Björk's Post. It's essentially a list of our favorite bands right now -- Liars,... CONTINUE READING ENJOYED: THE REVIEWS ARE IN!»
Posted on April 2, 2008 (40 comments)
Tags: Atlas Sound | Bell | Björk | Dirty Projectors | El Guincho | Evangelicals | Final Fantasy | Grizzly Bear | High Places | Liars | No Age | Pattern Is Movement | White Hinterland | Xiu Xiu
On this most Björk-y of days, Iceland's favorite daughter is also premiering her video for Volta's "Wanderlust." We've mentioned it previously, offering a few stills of the luxurious Isaiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch-directed landscape (yes, of Encyclopedia Pictura, the folks... CONTINUE READING NEW BJöRK VIDEO - "WANDERLUST"»
Posted on March 31, 2008 in (16 comments)
Tags: Björk
Stereogum's complete 12-track Enjoyed comp is live and ready to be downloaded (for free). Yep, 12. Because No Age cooked up an excellent alternate take on "It's Oh So Quiet," which we wanted to keep a surprise until ... now.... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM PRESENTS... ENJOYED: A TRIBUTE TO BJöRK'S POST»
Posted on March 31, 2008 (0 comments)
Tags: Atlas Sound | Bell | Björk | Dirty Projectors | El Guincho | Evangelicals | Final Fantasy | Grizzly Bear | High Places | Liars | No Age | Pattern Is Movement | White Hinterland | Xiu Xiu
On Monday 3/31, we launch Enjoyed, our song-by-song tribute to Björk's Post. (Click here for complete tracklist.) When we asked her about about the 1995 album she told us: I was very aware of it at the time that I... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP VOLUME XXVIII: HEAR DIRTY PROJECTORS COVER BJöRK, WIN AN IPOD NANO»
Posted on March 26, 2008 in , (12 comments)
Tags: Björk | Dirty Projectors
"Declare Independence" is undoubtedly one of the best tracks from Volta. Unfortunately, the technically complex Michel Gondry video fails to tap the track's emotional power, but when Björk performs the anthem live and does something as seemingly simple as give... CONTINUE READING BJöRK TALKS TIBET AND KOSOVO, RELEASES "WANDERLUST" VIDEO STILLS»
Posted on March 5, 2008 in (7 comments)
Tags: Björk
This past weekend a couple Big Days Out took pace down under (Friday in Aukland and Sunday at the Gold Coast) with LCD Soundsystem, Björk, Rage Against The Machine, Battles, Kate Nash, Billy Bragg, Silverchair, and Arcade Fire, among others. Rage's set (along with Tom Morello's solo turn as the Night Watchman) was expectedly political, but doesn't sound like Win Butler was caught making Obama orations -- or, at least not in the clip we found of "Black Mirror." As far as Björk and Co., they kept the ass-kicking on stage. The next Big Day stop's this Friday in Sydney.
Posted on January 21, 2008 (0 comments)
Well shit, this is pretty great. Michel Gondry tag teams with Björk for the seventh time (and first in a decade, taking it back to B's "Bachelorette" days) and he conjures a concept for the Icelandic queen and her army... CONTINUE READING NEW BJöRK VIDEO - "DECLARE INDEPENDENCE"»
Posted on December 6, 2007 in (10 comments)
Tags: Björk | Michel Gondry
After letting a fan conjure the atmosphere for mechanistic, hyper-percussive "Innocence," Björk enlisted old standby Michel Gondry to transform punky, flag-planting Volta standout "Declare Independence" into video form way out there in Long Island City. The French director, who's now... CONTINUE READING BJöRK "DECLARE INDEPENDENCE" VIDEO PREVIEW»
Posted on November 29, 2007 in (6 comments)
Tags: Björk | Michel Gondry
So Radiohead hosted a party yesterday (hosted, get it?). Everybody was invited, but not everybody could get in -- or get online, as it were. But here's some good news for those who found the party crashed due to tech/bandwith... CONTINUE READING IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: LAST NIGHT'S PARTY (FEAT. RADIOHEAD COVERING BJöRK)»
Posted on November 9, 2007 in , (13 comments)
Tags: Björk | Radiohead
This week's SNL got off to a rocky start when a cross-eyed and painful-to-watch Ritchie Sambora lost his next-to-only line during host Jon Bon Jovi's monologue (Sambora smiling blankly, mouthing "Oh shit, I lost it." To his credit, intended or... CONTINUE READING FOO FIGHTERS, JON BON JOVI GET PUNCHED JUST BEFORE EATING (AND BJöRK & CHARLES BARKLEY DO ICONOCLASTS)»
Posted on October 15, 2007 (20 comments)
Tags: Andy Samberg | Björk | Bon Jovi | Foo Fighters | Pat Smear | Saturday Night Live
Well we saw Björk's first US show in support of Volta (at Coachella -- SNL doesn't count), so it was particularly symmetrical of us to head uptown to MSG Monday night to check the last American date of '07.... CONTINUE READING BJöRK @ MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NYC 9/24/07»
Posted on September 26, 2007 in (4 comments)
Tags: Antony | Björk
Slow Fridays are good for one thing: studio progress updates! Although, today has been kind of special as far as non-news studio news goes. So, here's the trifecta... First up: Radiohead! LP7's like old faithful for reportage on the studio... CONTINUE READING UPDATE FOR CUTIE, RADIOHEAD, BJöRK»
Posted on September 7, 2007 (5 comments)
Tags: Ben Gibbard | Björk | Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie | Jonny Greenwood | Radiohead | Thom Yorke
There's a winner! Yes indeed, Björk's fan-made video contest has been won by the French duo Fred&Annabelle (their lack of spaces, not ours), whose visually explosive take on Volta's über percussive "Innocence" beat out almost 500 other entries to be... CONTINUE READING NEW BJöRK VIDEO - "INNOCENCE"»
Posted on August 8, 2007 in (5 comments)
Tags: Björk
After a sufficient amount of pre-release buzz and chatter, Björk's Volta finally sees release tomorrow, so we figured we'd remind you of that fact by announcing the winners of our Volta Photoshop This! Challenge. We relied upon your votes on... CONTINUE READING VOILà, YOUR VOLTA VICTORS»
Posted on May 7, 2007 in (5 comments)
Tags: Björk
Not that Coachella's a competition ... but of course it is. Who's gonna turn in the show to set tongues wagging (à la Daft Punk)? It's only been a day, we know, and there's so much left to see.... CONTINUE READING COACHELLA: BJöRK LAYS EARLY CLAIM TO SET OF FEST»
Posted on April 28, 2007 in , (11 comments)
Tags: Björk | Coachella
Thanks to all who took our Volta Photoshop This! challenge. As always, the graphic designers among you impressed us. Of course we received hundreds of thousands of entries, but sorted out the cream of the crop for your voting consideration.... CONTINUE READING YOUR PHOTOSHOPPED VOLTAS»
Posted on April 26, 2007 in (36 comments)
Tags: Björk
Björk handed the reins over to French director Michel Ocelot for the first official Volta vid, sorta like a mashup of the "Human Behaviour" forest during A Nightmare Before Christmas. Unlike Gondry's take, Ocelot keeps it linear, horizontal, two-dimensional ...... CONTINUE READING NEW BJöRK VIDEO - "EARTH INTRUDERS"»
Posted on April 20, 2007 in (21 comments)
Tags: Björk | Scarlett Johansson
This fan-made vid contest is all the rage these days, eh? Well, the best part about Björk's contest to let you create the video for "Innocence" is that, this time, everybody wins -- 'cause she had to let you hear... CONTINUE READING NEW BJöRK - "INNOCENCE"»
Posted on April 20, 2007 in (2 comments)
Tags: Björk | Scarlett Johansson
The viral Volta onslaught wasn't enough to appease Björk fans' appetites and impatience for the record's release, so the photoshop savvy among 'em have taken matters into their own laptops. Stereogum reader Kevin sent over a bundle of spoofs on... CONTINUE READING MAKE YOUR VERY OWN VOLTA COVER»
Posted on April 17, 2007 in , (4 comments)
Tags: Björk
Last year we posted about Warp Records' Born Ruffians in-studio performance at KEXP, covering Grizzly Bear's "Knife," giving the standard-in-the-making a pepped-up, jangly-guit R&B shuffle. The track got the Ruffians' some well-deserved blog love, and now they've memorialized their take... CONTINUE READING BORN RUFFIANS COVER GRIZZLY BEAR (STUDIO VERSION), ED DROSTE REVEALS HIS IDEAL»
Posted on April 17, 2007 in , (3 comments)
Tags: Björk | Born Ruffians | Grizzly Bear
Footage and interview from the Volta studio sessions and photo shoot. She had us at "Hello"! Someone should dress like this for the Of Montreal show this weekend. Most revealing for Björk heads is her comment towards the end, saying... CONTINUE READING BJöRK TALKS VOLTA, ADORABLY»
Posted on April 11, 2007 in (8 comments)
Tags: Björk
Those bits of cracked out audio that Gerome Voltaire was leaking crop up in the first single from Volta, streaming in this YouTube clip set to the true Volta cover (björk.com webmaster MWC clarified in the comments that the last... CONTINUE READING NEW BJöRK - "EARTH INTRUDERS"»
Posted on April 7, 2007 in (21 comments)
Tags: Björk
Most of you know Stereogum's mission to be Fair And Balanced™, so for every report of a fake Björk item, we endeavor to offer one grounded in reality -- any by "reality" we mean "booze." So here she is: in... CONTINUE READING BJöRK COVERS 2UNLIMITED ... DRUNK»
Posted on April 1, 2007 in (11 comments)
Tags: Björk
