Liars' Tom Biller-produced fifth album, the first recorded Stateside since They Were Wrong, looks at "alternate spaces people create in order to maintain identity in a city like LA ... where outcasts and loners celebrate a skewered relationship to society."... CONTINUE READING LIARS READY SISTERWORLD»
Posted on November 4, 2009 (1 comments)
Tags: Cold Cave | Liars
A couple weeks ago we gave you Rafter's remix of Asthmatic Kitty electro-pop labelmates Fol Chen's "No Wedding Cake." The Highland Park, CA sextet's AK debut Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made is out today, but before you hear... CONTINUE READING NEW FOL CHEN - "CABLE TV (LIARS REMIX)"»
Posted on February 17, 2009 in (1 comments)
Tags: Fol Chen | Liars
This weekend San Francisco hosted the first-ever Outside Lands Festival. We're still nursing hangovers from a long summer of fests, so in our stead we sent Heather of I Am Fuel You Are Friends to take it in, and take... CONTINUE READING OUTSIDE LANDS 2008 IN PHOTOS»
Posted on August 25, 2008 in (23 comments)
Tags: Beck | Bon Iver | CAKE | Coachella | Coup | Drive-By Truckers | Everest | Fucked Up | Liars | Matt Nathanson | Outside Lands | Primal Scream | Radiohead | Regina Spektor | Stars | The Felice Brothers | Wilco
Alan Vega and Martin Rev, aka dark lo-fi electro-duo Suicide, were amazing in their heyday, especially when you consider they formed in 1971, pre-dating and influencing a shit-load of post-punk, noise, no wave, synth-pop, and industrial acts that followed. (If... CONTINUE READING SPRINGSTEEN, LIARS, SPIRITUALIZED, GRINDERMAN, AND OTHERS COVER SUICIDE»
Posted on June 23, 2008 (3 comments)
Tags: Alan Vega | Bruce Springsteen | Grinderman | Liars | Lydia Lunch | Martin Rev | Nick Cave | Spiritualized | Suicide | Sunn 0))) | Vincent Gallo
Note to you concert lovers out there: If you want to see your favorite act over multiple nights, just become the biggest band in the world. Then you can invite them to tour with you and watch them whenever you... CONTINUE READING RADIOHEAD ANNOUNCE MORE NORTH AMERICAN DATES, ADDITIONAL TOUR OPENER»
Posted on April 7, 2008 in (23 comments)
Tags: Grizzly Bear | Liars | Radiohead
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
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
Liars fans take note: On Monday we unleash Enjoyed -- our tribute to Björk's Post -- and Angus & Co.'s take on album opener "Army Of Me" will bury you. Liars fans also take note: Along with liking Björk, the... CONTINUE READING LIARS KEEP ON TICKIN' WITH TIMEX»
Posted on March 28, 2008 in , (3 comments)
Tags: Liars
By Amrit Singh You could almost hear the collective moan come from Brooklyn when news broke that Liars's manic lead man Angus Andrew had thrown out his back a few weeks ago (picking up a pillow, of all things).... CONTINUE READING NO AGE/LIARS @ WARSAW, BROOKLYN 2/9/07»
Posted on February 11, 2008 in , (9 comments)
Tags: Liars | No Age
We mentioned Tiny Masters Of Today's remix of "Clear Island" yesterday when talking about Angus & Co's pet love video for "Houseclouds." Well, today we turn that reference into a listenable reality, pre-teen siblings Ivan and Ada unleashing a radio... CONTINUE READING NEW LIARS - "CLEAR ISLAND (TINY MASTERS OF TODAY REMIX)"»
Posted on November 2, 2007 (3 comments)
Tags: Liars | Tiny Masters Of Today
The driver-side projections and vehicular flicker of "Plaster Casts Of Everything"'s video were intense, so nice to chase the car ride with mellower fare like the Sonny Gerasimowicz-directed "Houseclouds," a cuddly video for another standout from Liars supremely claustro, Kraut-y,... CONTINUE READING NEW LIARS VIDEO - "HOUSECLOUDS"»
Posted on November 1, 2007 in (1 comments)
Tags: Liars
After getting his feet wet with Deerhoof album art and a Bonnie 'Prince' Billy video, the longtime writerly Scottish artist David Shrigley opted for full-on indie-rock submersion, turning his 2005 book Worried Noodles (The Empty Sleeve) into a 39-track compilation... CONTINUE READING NEW LIARS VIDEO SNIPPET - "PANIC BUTTON"»
Posted on October 2, 2007 in (3 comments)
Tags: David Shrigley | Liars
You kids are all savvy with your bittorrents and your internets and whatnots, but there may be a few of you still that don't realize your iTunes automatically networks with any old cyber-peeping Tom, Dick or Harry that's out there... CONTINUE READING HOW LIARS TAUGHT FALL OUT BOY TO ADJUST THEIR ITUNES PREFERENCES»
Posted on August 24, 2007 (2 comments)
Tags: Architecture In Helsinki | Fall Out Boy | Liars
Liars may not be a thematically epic collection ala Drum's Not Dead, but we love it all the same -- wedding dance-punk to a darker post-Kraut vibe, including psych-pop freak-outs, and the odd Spector-styled wall of sound. Lift off comes... CONTINUE READING NEW LIARS VIDEO - "PLASTER CASTS OF EVERYTHING"»
Posted on July 25, 2007 in (8 comments)
Tags: Liars | Patrick Daughters
Unlike Liars' last two albums, this new self-titled collection drops an overriding concept, unless it's love, youth, the ocean, and summertime nostalgia. More immediate and emotionally raw than past work, Liars' trim, submerged, clattering tracks aren't Drum's Not Dead epic... CONTINUE READING PREMATURE EVALUATION: LIARS - LIARS»
Posted on July 13, 2007 in (7 comments)
Tags: Liars
There's been rumbling about what the new Liars record might sound like, and though the band confidently claimed last time that Drum wasn't dead, he is definitely on hiatus. The first listen of the forthcoming Liars has Angus, Aaron, and... CONTINUE READING NEW LIARS - "PLASTER CASTS OF EVERYTHING"»
Posted on June 11, 2007 (7 comments)
Tags: Liars | The Real Housewives Of New York City
Not that the subsequent Beantown overreaction wasn't amusing, adult swim, but as far as publicity campaigns go, we prefer the release of a free album of indie cuts to guerrilla Lite-Brite-planting tactics any day. The off-kilter cartoon network offers up... CONTINUE READING WARM & SCRATCHY»
Posted on May 21, 2007 in (3 comments)
Tags: 120 Days | Broken Social Scene | Les Savy Fav | Liars | TV On The Radio
One thing to know about Oslo: Most people are honest (except cabbies), friendly (except customs agents), extremely beautiful (no exceptions), and obsessed with the export of their arts. So Øya is ostensibly an international festival, drawing on credible, on-the-rise indie... CONTINUE READING NOR-WAVE GOODBYE TO OSLO: STEREOGUM @ ØYA 2006»
Posted on August 15, 2006 (27 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | Beck | Cold War Kids | Doveman | Hot Chip | Les Savy Fav | Liars | Love Is All | Midlake | Morrissey | Snow Patrol | Spank Rock | The Smiths | The Twilight Singers | The Whitest Boy Alive | The Wrens | Yoko Ono
That Pitchforkmedia must be doing something right; 19,000 people a day hit up their Festival for 18 hours of music over two days, despite some serious heat and humidity. Whether that's a testament to the awesome lineup or the show-going... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2006 PHOTOS»
Posted on August 3, 2006 (42 comments)
Tags: Aesop Rock | Art Brut | Band Of Horses | Danielson | Destroyer | Hot Machines | Jens Lekman | Liars | Mission Of Burma | Mr Life | Os Mutantes | Silver Jews | Spoon | Tapes 'N Tapes | Ted Leo | The Walkmen | Yo La Tengo
From that Radiohead tribute album we were getting all excited about. rjd2 - "Airbag" (MP3 Link Expired) Shawn Lee - "No Surprises" (MP3 Link Expired) Still digging that Rhymefest contribuation more. You can stream the entire Exit Music tribute at... CONTINUE READING THOM YORKE LOVES LIARS»
Posted on April 17, 2006 in (13 comments)
Tags: Liars | Thom Yorke