The San Francisco duo's ragged, androgynous, carefree hit now has a third video in Focus Creeps' "Hardcore XXX Edit." Watch here.... CONTINUE READING NEW GIRLS VIDEO - "LUST FOR LIFE" (NSFW VERSION)»
Posted on October 27, 2009 in Video (0 comments)
Tags: Girls | The xx
San Francisco lifers Girls have given us the sentimental, slow-mo partying of "Hellhole Ratrace," the carefree apartment-and-rooftop lipdubbing in "Lust For Life," and today their Album yields this clip for "Laura" with lots of split screens, topless smiles, and citywide... CONTINUE READING NEW GIRLS VIDEO - "LAURA"»
Posted on October 14, 2009 in MP3, Video (12 comments)
Tags: Girls | Röyksopp
In a battle of colorful backstories, Girls' Christopher Owens offers up a lovely live rendition of Daniel Johnston's "True Love Will Find You in the End." Put down your Johnston App and take a look at magicrpm.fr (via GvsB).... CONTINUE READING GIRLS COVER DANIEL JOHNSTON»
Posted on October 7, 2009 in Video (5 comments)
Tags: Daniel Johnston | Girls
Like most of their laid-back, aesthetically sharp rock 'n' roll, this "Lust For Life" B-Side finds Christopher Owens and Chet "JR" focusing on "Life In San Francisco." Listen at HypeM.... CONTINUE READING NEW GIRLS - "LIFE IN SAN FRANCISCO"»
Posted on September 23, 2009 (0 comments)
Tags: Foo Fighters | Girls
San Fran's Great American Music Hall hosted a great bill the other night featuring hometown heroes and future Behind The Music candidates Girls, fellow local indie-pop champs Papercuts, and the always excellent Cass McCombs. We sent Paige Parsons to capture... CONTINUE READING GIRLS/CASS MCCOMBS/PAPERCUTS @ GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, SAN FRANCISCO 9/9/09»
Posted on September 11, 2009 in Concert, Photo (3 comments)
Tags: Cass McCombs | Girls | Papercuts | U2
A little over a year ago we gave Girls their NYC debut. Today we get a video in support of an old 7" track that shows up on their debut Album. If you're not familiar, yes it's a different "Lust... CONTINUE READING NEW GIRLS VIDEO - "LUST FOR LIFE"»
Posted on August 10, 2009 in MP3, Video (11 comments)
Tags: Girls | Hunx And His Punx
This past weekend, Seattle roped off a couple of blocks on Pike Street to host the Capitol Hill Block Party, inviting everyone from Sonic Youth to Micachu to the Jesus Lizard to help fill out a strong roster of artists.... CONTINUE READING CAPITOL HILL BLOCK PARTY 2009 IN PHOTOS»
Posted on July 27, 2009 in Concert, Photo (4 comments)
Tags: Black Lips | Built To Spill | Capitol Hill Block Party | Deerhunter | Girls | Hey Marseilles | Japandroids | Maldives | Micachu And The Shapes | Mika Miko | Moondoggies | Sonic Youth | Spinnerette | The Dutchess And The Duke | The Flaming Lips | The Gossip | The Jesus Lizard | The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | The Thermals | Truckasaurus | Wild Orchid Children
San Francisco's Girls have the worst backstory. Their backstory involves growing up in a cult, pills, suicides, and getting their first guitar from Fleetwood Mac. BOOORING. JK this shit is crazy. Definitely read the interview at The Guardian. ... CONTINUE READING GIRLS TALK»
Posted on July 17, 2009 (6 comments)
Tags: Girls | Jay-Z
Girls' pretty up-all-night video for "Hellhole Ratrace" captured the song's romantic somnambulance perfectly. The harmonica-lined "Solitude," which shows up as the "Hellhole Ratrace" 10" B-Side, conjures an after-hours feel, but with a prom-y two-step (a la Modest Mouse's appropriately titled... CONTINUE READING NEW GIRLS - "SOLITUDE"»
Posted on July 2, 2009 in MP3 (6 comments)
Tags: Girls
When we saw Girls at SXSW, we mentioned that their acoustic-tinged psychedelic felt like neo-grunge, not so much in the sound, more in the look and feel of the players. There's something equally anachronistic about the Aaron Brown-directed video for... CONTINUE READING NEW GIRLS VIDEO - "HELLHOLE RATRACE"»
Posted on June 18, 2009 in Video (5 comments)
Tags: Girls | Mastodon
By Amrit Singh & Brandon Stosuy The last day at SXSW is always tinged with a depressing end-of-the-summer vibe. (Or maybe end of the school year?) However you want to frame it, once the Saturday sun sets, the remaining hours... CONTINUE READING SXSW 2009: SATURDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on March 23, 2009 in Concert, Photo (4 comments)
Tags: Common | Dirty Projectors | Erykah Badu | Ganglians | Girls | Grandaddy | Jason Lytle | Kanye West | King Khan | Little Boots | Natalie Portman's Shaved Head | Peelander-Z | Perez Hilton | Real Estate | Rye Rye | Solange | SXSW | Theophilus London | Thom Yorke | Thunderheist | Victoria Legrand
By Amrit Singh & Brandon Stosuy On Friday we shook off the early-morning cobwebs and made a beeline to the Pitchfork/Windish Bash in time to catch the last couple tracks by psychedelic post-Vanishing Voice Brooklynites Woods on the outside stage... CONTINUE READING SXSW 2009: FRIDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on March 22, 2009 in Concert, Photo (6 comments)
Tags: Absu | Adam Schlesinger | All Points West | Beach House | Datarock | Department Of Eagles | DEVO | Dinosaur Jr | Dirty Projectors | Echo And The Bunnymen | Flea | Girls | Grizzly Bear | Handsome Furs | James Iha | Little Boots | Max Tundra | Peter Bjorn And John | School Of Seven Bells | Slough Feg | SXSW | The Hold Steady | The Mae Shi | The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | The Thermals | Tinted Windows | Tricky | Victoria Legrand | Wavves | Wolves In The Throne Room | Woods
Girls played a show we put on in Bushwick with MyOpenBar a couple few weeks ago. Not the Buzzcocks crew from Seattle, though those Girls do have an album Yes No Yes No Yes No out on Dirtnap this fall.... CONTINUE READING NEW GIRLS VIDEO - "GOD DAMNED"»
Posted on August 6, 2008 in Video (2 comments)
Tags: Antony Hegarty | Girls
Oh cool, now you know what you're doing tomorrow night. (If you're around NYC, anyway -- Everywhere Else, we'll get to you soon, promise.) We're proud to announce details on a concert collaboration with the free-booze slinging party people at... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM & MYOPENBAR PARTY TOMORROW NIGHT»
Posted on July 16, 2008 (11 comments)
Tags: Girls | Imaad Wasif | Quinn Walker
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