By Amrit Singh & Brandon Stosuy After a night of "classic" recreations, it was nice to dive into the current state of the indie landscape. Yesterday's lineup was stacked, and we spent the day scissoring back and forth catching... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2008: SATURDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on July 20, 2008 in (35 comments)
Tags: Abe Vigoda | Animal Collective | Caribou | Chk Chk Chk | Dizzee Rascal | Fleet Foxes | Fuck Buttons | High Places | Jarvis Cocker | No Age | Panda Bear | Pit Er Pat | Pitchfork Music Festival | Pulp | The Hold Steady | Vampire Weekend
Word broke after Lolla last year that John Pugh was permanently breaking ranks from dance-punkers !!! to focus on another act. And you didn't think an ex-!!!er would turn himself over to introspective singer-songwriter fare, right? Pugh was last seen... CONTINUE READING NEW FREE BLOOD VIDEO - "THE ROYAL FAMILY"»
Posted on February 19, 2008 in , (4 comments)
Tags: Chk Chk Chk | Free Blood
Radiohead.tv brought us heads in boxes, Björk and Smiths covers, a live "Reckoner," and that surreal have-we-all-gone-deaf performance, among sundry other goodies ... like those DJ sets. When we live blogged the event, we were particularly taken by the spinning:... CONTINUE READING RADIOHEAD.TV DJ SETS»
Posted on November 19, 2007 in (2 comments)
Tags: Burial | Chk Chk Chk | Iron And Wine | Jorge Ben | Juana Molina | M.I.A. | Radiohead | Will Oldham
John Pugh is dead to Chk Chk Chk. How dead? Here, he's singing roadkill. As confirmed by Nic Offer at Lolla, dance-punk octet !!! had been pared to a lean and mean dance-punk septet when other lanky vocalist/drummer Pugh left... CONTINUE READING NEW !!! VIDEO - "YADNUS"»
Posted on October 23, 2007 in , (8 comments)
Tags: Chk Chk Chk | M83
Sometimes you have great intentions of diligence and punctuality, and sometimes your airline decides to be late, sloppy, and in love with sitting on the runway. The terra blue chips and (congratulations!) 36 channels of DirectTV didn't quite make... CONTINUE READING LOLLAPALOOZA '07: SUNDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on August 7, 2007 in (20 comments)
Tags: Amy Winehouse | Chk Chk Chk | Juliette Lewis | Kings Of Leon | Lollapalooza | Modest Mouse | Perry Farrell | Peter Bjorn And John | Rodrigo Y Gabriela | Smoosh | The Cribs | TV On The Radio | VHS Or Beta
Five years is an epoch in 'net music time, but Athens, Georgia boys Maserati are dialing up another dose of post-rock that should capture the Tortoise in you. For Inventions For The New Season, their first outing since '02-released The... CONTINUE READING NEW MASERATI - "THE WORLD OUTSIDE"»
Posted on June 20, 2007 in (5 comments)
Tags: Chk Chk Chk | Maserati
Now that we've finally recovered from the desert blast of our trek to Indio and restored health after the week-long Coldchella that's had us couch-ridden ever since, four sets stand up in memory as festival defining: Björk, Cornelius, Spank Rock,... CONTINUE READING !!! VIDEO - "MUST BE THE MOON"»
Posted on May 8, 2007 in , (5 comments)
Tags: Chk Chk Chk
If you ask your Indio-bound buddies which band delivered The Set Of Saturday and they answer with anyone other than !!!, we can explain: They weren't at the Mojave tent at approximately 6:40PM, when the dance-punk octet brought fire to... CONTINUE READING COACHELLA: !!! DELIVER SATURDAY'S FINEST»
Posted on April 29, 2007 in (8 comments)
Tags: Chk Chk Chk | Coachella
There was only one place we wanted to be after Saturday night's Arcade Fire magic, and that was at !!!'s barely-announced show at a mysterious space in Brooklyn's Greenpoint. Instead, we hit Mercury Lounge for Snowden/Malajube (both great), secretly envying... CONTINUE READING NEW !!! - "YADNUS"»
Posted on February 20, 2007 in (2 comments)
Tags: Chk Chk Chk
Dirty dance (punk) parties are what !!! are all about, so it's fun to watch the sprawling crew turn a stadium crowd into a mass of shower-needing body movers. It's been months since last we saw 'em, but watching Nic... CONTINUE READING NEW !!! VIDEO - "HEART OF HEARTS"»
Posted on January 29, 2007 in (11 comments)
Tags: Chk Chk Chk
The world keeps getting smaller. Not just in that run-into-people-you-know-everywhere sense (by that logic, NYC is now subatomic -- although it is a trip running into familiar faces in Norway!). But people dress the same here. They have the same... CONTINUE READING HELLO FROM OSLO»
Posted on August 9, 2006 in (14 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | Chk Chk Chk | Spank Rock
