Whoops, looks like two cultures just got shocked. Obviously that headline is a joke! Except that maybe it isn't? Rumors had been swirling about Thom Yorke and Bon Iver penning songs for the The Twilight Saga: Teen Vampires In Love... CONTINUE READING IS THE NEW MOON SOUNDTRACK THE BEST ALBUM OF 2009?»
Posted on September 21, 2009 in (160 comments)
Tags: Alexandra Patsavas | Alexandre Desplat | Anya Marina | Beach House | Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | Bon Iver | Death Cab For Cutie | Editors | Grizzly Bear | Hurricane Bells | Lykke Li | Muse | New Moon | OK Go | Radiohead | Sea Wolf | St. Vincent | The Killers | Thom Yorke | Twilight | Victoria Legrand
Their looks may have become a problem (or at least the envy of Chris Martin and Thom Yorke), but KoL's songs still speak to many, including Pharrell, Mark Ronson, Linkin Park, JT, and Ms. Li, all of whom remix the... CONTINUE READING KINGS OF LEON REMIX ALBUM FEATURES LYKKE LI, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE»
Posted on August 26, 2009 (1 comments)
Tags: Justin Timberlake | Kings Of Leon | Lykke Li | Mark Ronson | Weezer
Last fall Diesel celebrated its 30th birthday in Brooklyn with a concert by N.E.R.D., Franz Ferdinand, T.I., and a very pregnant M.I.A. So expectations for last night's Diesel:U:Music event and its promise of very special guests were high (like planes)... CONTINUE READING DIESEL:U:MUSIC FEAT. CLIPSE, KANYE, LYKKE LI, ROOTS, PASSION PIT @ WEBSTER HALL, NYC 7/30/09»
Posted on July 31, 2009 in , (8 comments)
Tags: Clipse | Cobra Starship | Esau Mwamwaya | Heartsrevolution | Kanye West | Lykke Li | Passion Pit | Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt | The Flaming Lips | The Noisettes | The Roots | Theophilus London
Coachella is already the most fashionable of the summer festivals by virtue of its proximity to Los Angeles, so this year the NYT ran with the glam, taking a bagful of high fashion garments and draping them on a bunch... CONTINUE READING INDIE ROCKERS PLAY DRESS-UP FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES»
Posted on July 17, 2009 (23 comments)
Tags: Ariel Pink | Beirut | Brandon Flowers | Coachella | Conor Oberst | Friendly Fires | Gang Gang Dance | Girl Talk | Ida Maria | Jenny Lewis | Lykke Li | Morrissey | No Age | Public Enemy | Robert Smith | Rye Rye | The Cure | The Killers | The Kills | Vivian Girls
The Spirit Of Apollo, N.A.S.A.'s LP featuring a comically overstuffed grab bag of cameo talent, just keeps on turning out the videos. This would be a much more impressive proposition were the videos actually to incorporate the featured artists, but... CONTINUE READING NEW N.A.S.A. (FEAT. SIZZLA, AMANDA BLANK & LYKKE LI) VIDEO - "A VOLTA"»
Posted on June 10, 2009 in (1 comments)
Tags: Amanda Blank | Dirty Projectors | Lykke Li | Modest Mouse | N.A.S.A. | Sizzla
This week (disco week) Lil and Anoop were eliminated. Sorry Lil and Anoop, pack your knives and go to graduate school. Before the curtain fell they hammed it up with Adam, Allison, Kris, Danny, and Matt in a contractually obligated... CONTINUE READING AMERICAN IDOLS COVER LYKKE LI IN A FORD FUSION»
Posted on April 23, 2009 in , , (18 comments)
Tags: Adam Lambert | American Idol | Lykke Li
Kings Of Leon covers, are they the new Britney covers? Well, no, because there is no irony implied by these Followill followers. Europeans take the boys very seriously. Lykke's interpretation of Because Of The Times' renegade parenting anthem first surfaced... CONTINUE READING LYKKE LI COVERS KINGS OF LEON IN A SNUGGIE»
Posted on April 17, 2009 in , (13 comments)
Tags: Carson Daly | Kings Of Leon | Lykke Li | The Fresh And Onlys
Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon get lonely, so as mentioned, their N.A.S.A. project includes more guests than Disneyland. So far they've paraded out M.I.A., Spank Rock, Santigold, and Nick Zinner for "Whachadoin" and "The People Tree" featured David Byrne,... CONTINUE READING NEW N.A.S.A VIDEO - "GIFTED" (FEAT. KANYE WEST, SANTIGOLD & LYKKE LI)»
Posted on March 27, 2009 in (3 comments)
Tags: Kanye West | Lykke Li | Monsters Of Folk | N.A.S.A. | Santigold
Yesterday we presented Robyn's Röyksopp assist "The Girl And The Robot." Today Lykke Li makes her previously mentioned Junior presence known via a vocal turn on "Miss It So Much," a bittersweet anthem about mechanical hearts, days turning into weeks,... CONTINUE READING NEW RöYKSOPP (FEAT. LYKKE LI) - "MISS IT SO MUCH"»
Posted on March 10, 2009 (20 comments)
Tags: I'm In You | Lykke Li | Röyksopp | The Very Best
Remember when Death Cab For Cutie played at The Bait Shop? Well, now Josh Schwartz is bringing that same kind of MAGIC to the internet with his new indie rock web series for the WB, Rockville, CA. Catch the wave... CONTINUE READING PASSION PIT, LYKKE LI BOOKED FOR O.C. DUDE'S INDIE ROCK WEB SOAP»
Posted on February 24, 2009 in (0 comments)
Tags: Daft Punk | DJ Hero | Lykke Li | Passion Pit | Rockville, CA | The O.C.
Since breaking out in '07, Lykke really hasn't stayed off our radar for long, all on the back of the steady burn of her debut LP Youth Novels. And the victory lap continues. Ms. Li's cutting a sizable swath through... CONTINUE READING LYKKE LI @ SIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE, WASHINGTON D.C. 1/31/09»
Posted on February 2, 2009 in , , (9 comments)
Tags: La Roux | Lykke Li | Mercury Prize | Wilco | Wildbirds And Peacedrums
We write about a lot of artists, some way outside, some deep in the main, but I could count on one those that could emote for four-and-a-half minutes into a camera fixed at point blank, and actually pull it off.... CONTINUE READING NEW LYKKE LI VIDEO - "TONIGHT" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on January 27, 2009 in , (10 comments)
Tags: Bumbershoot | Lykke Li | Romance
NAME: Röyksopp PROGRESS REPORT: Wrapping up their third studio LP, Junior, recorded "all over the world." As reported here a couple weeks back, Norwegian duo Röyksopp just celebrated 10 years together. And like good friends (or an old married couple)... CONTINUE READING PROGRESS REPORT: RöYKSOPP»
Posted on January 5, 2009 in (7 comments)
Tags: Lykke Li | Neverever | Röyksopp | Robyn | The Knife
For the third year in a row, we've turned to master bootlegger team9 to take some of our favorite songs of the year and mash them together. On Stereogum & team9 Present... MySplice III you'll hear familiar blog hits from... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM & TEAM9 PRESENT... MYSPLICE III»
Posted on December 16, 2008 in , , (56 comments)
Tags: Albert Hammond Jr. | Arcade Fire | Beck | Ben Folds | Bloc Party | Blondie | Britney Spears | Crystal Castles | Cyndi Lauper | Extreme | Guns N' Roses | Kanye West | Katy Perry | King Creosote | Lil Wayne | Lykke Li | Naughty By Nature | of Montreal | Regina Spektor | Rihanna | Rolling Stones | Stone Roses | T.I. | team9 | The Breeders | The Killers | The Sound | The Three Craws
Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon are close to releasing an LP from their N.A.S.A. (North America/South America) project. The duo cook the beats, and turned to their enviable contact list to collect a headspinning list of contributors, including Tom... CONTINUE READING NEW N.A.S.A. (FEAT. KANYE WEST, SANTOGOLD & LYKKE LI) - "GIFTED"»
Posted on December 11, 2008 in (9 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Chuck D | David Byrne | Dirty Projectors | Kanye West | Lykke Li | N.A.S.A. | Santigold
The Woodies happened, I was there, you didn't miss too much. This year's performance roster was interesting though, particularly for a couple of onstage collaborations. Vampire Weekend's "The Kids Don't Stand A Chance" with Chromeo was previously announced and a... CONTINUE READING WATCH THE WORTHWHILE MOMENTS OF THE WOODIES »
Posted on November 20, 2008 in (2 comments)
Tags: Asher Roth | Bjorn Yttling | Jarvis Cocker | Lykke Li | mtvU Woodie Awards | Peter Bjorn And John | Q-Tip | Santigold | The Cool Kids | Vampire Weekend
Over the past few years, mtvU's annual Woodie Awards have been unexpectedly bloggable. But last night we couldn't rely on Jordan Catalano picking fights since he was busy being king douche somewhere else, and Spank Rock seemed sober which meant... CONTINUE READING PHOTOS FROM THE 2008 MTVU WOODIE AWARDS»
Posted on November 13, 2008 in (12 comments)
Tags: A-Trak | Asher Roth | Bjorn Yttling | Black Lips | Chromeo | Kid Sister | Lykke Li | Mark Hoppus | mtvU Woodie Awards | Peter Bjorn And John | Santigold | Spank Rock | Trevor Andrew | Vampire Weekend
It's a match made in post-CMJ heaven. UK outfit Friendly Fires met the base criteria to have themselves a high profile last week by 1) playing many shows and 2) always packing them. Of course if you found yourself in... CONTINUE READING LYKKE LI GETS COVERED BY FRIENDLY FIRES, PLAYS ACOUSTIC FOR MTV IGGY »
Posted on October 29, 2008 in , (2 comments)
Tags: Friendly Fires | Lykke Li | Ponytail
Harlem-via-Cleveland's Charles Hamilton has been polarizing blog comments sections for a few months now. The self-promotional, self-referential rapper is halfway through a three month blog tour that finds him releasing eight, DJ Skee-assisted mixtapes "in an effort to reach close... CONTINUE READING CHARLES HAMILTON DROPS ANOTHER MIXTAPE»
Posted on October 28, 2008 in (2 comments)
Tags: Charles Hamilton | DJ Skee | Lykke Li | Tori Amos | Vampire Weekend
After stopping by the LES's various day parties on Tuesday, I had a few hours to kill before our Late Night stand at Webster, which made stopping by the swanky Tribeca Grand Hotel for V Magazine's get together a no... CONTINUE READING CMJ '08: MILES BENJAMIN ANTHONY ROBINSON & LYKKE LI ENTERTAIN THE FASHIONHEADS @ THE V MAG PARTY»
Posted on October 24, 2008 in , (1 comments)
Tags: CMJ | David Byrne | Lykke Li | Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
The earlier Sarah Chatfield-directed video version of "Breaking It Up" found Bon Iver and Heidi Klum collaborator Lykke Li making like Erotica-era Madonna. In this alternate live version, shot by Christian Haag in one take, she has her Late Night... CONTINUE READING NEW LYKKE LI VIDEO - "BREAKING IT UP" (ALTERNATE LIVE VERSION)»
Posted on October 17, 2008 in , (7 comments)
Tags: Lykke Li
Lykke Li is fast becoming the queen of the live video, or at least the queen of the live video that features her restlessly singing her songs while joined by other indie famous people and/or people in a watercloset. The... CONTINUE READING BON IVER "DANCE DANCE DANCE" WITH LYKKE LI»
Posted on September 30, 2008 (11 comments)
Tags: Bon Iver | Lykke Li | TV On The Radio
