Progress Report: !!!

NAME: !!! PROGRESS REPORT: Recording the last guitar and keyboard tracks for their fourth, still-untitled LP, recorded at "The basement of the club Festaal Kreuzberg in Berlin, The Hangar in Sacramento. The one in Greenpoint [Brooklyn] doesn't have a name,... CONTINUE READING PROGRESS REPORT: !!!»

Posted on September 2, 2009 in Progress Report (3 comments)
Tags: Chk Chk Chk

Pitchfork Music Festival 2008: Saturday In Photos

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»

New Free Blood Video - "The Royal Family"

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 Tour Dates, Video (4 comments)
Tags: Chk Chk Chk | Free Blood

Stereogum's 30 Favorite Live Shows Of 2007

We saw a lot of concerts this year! You probably did too, if you're the sort to be checking music blogs on your downtime over holiday break, so let's all trade notes. Stereogum's Amrit Singh kicks things off with a... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM'S 30 FAVORITE LIVE SHOWS OF 2007»

Radiohead.tv DJ Sets

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»

New !!! Video - "Yadnus"

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 MP3, Video (8 comments)
Tags: Chk Chk Chk | M83

Lollapalooza '07: Sunday In Photos

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»

New Maserati - "The World Outside"

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 MP3 (5 comments)
Tags: Chk Chk Chk | Maserati

!!! Video - "Must Be The Moon"

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 Tour Dates, Video (5 comments)
Tags: Chk Chk Chk

Coachella: !!! Deliver Saturday's Finest

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 Concert (8 comments)
Tags: Chk Chk Chk | Coachella

New !!! - "Yadnus"

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 MP3 (2 comments)
Tags: Chk Chk Chk

New !!! Video - "Heart Of Hearts"

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 Video (11 comments)
Tags: Chk Chk Chk

Hello From Oslo

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 Concert (14 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | Chk Chk Chk | Spank Rock