When Kim Deal's not singing through a distorted mic with sister Kelley in an elaborate Mayan World Series in Brooklyn, she's back in the fold with the reunited Pixies. The group hit the Palladium in Los Angeles (for the first... CONTINUE READING PIXIES/NO AGE @ HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM, LOS ANGELES 11/4/09»
Posted on November 5, 2009 in , (4 comments)
Tags: Frank Black | Kim Deal | No Age | Pixies
Gil Kenan directs this video for "Losing Feeling," the title song from No Age's EP released this year. Dean and Randy wrap the track's underlying urgency in a luminous gauze, a cool effect that gets visualized by frantically chopped editing... CONTINUE READING NEW NO AGE VIDEO - "LOSING FEELING"»
Posted on October 29, 2009 in (1 comments)
Tags: MGMT | No Age
ATP was the year's finest festival. We've already covered that. But the band performances are only half the (All Tomorrow's) party. For a weekend, the mountain resort that inspired Dirty Dancing is a surreal estate, overrun by music-heads and artists;... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM SPENDS THE WEEKEND AT ATP NY»
Posted on October 9, 2009 in (9 comments)
Tags: All Tomorrow's Parties | Animal Collective | Avey Tare | Axl Rose | Boredoms | Bradford Cox | Deerhunter | Hisham Bharoocha | No Age | Panda Bear | Ponytail | Soft Circle | Steve Albini | Ulrich Schnauss | Volcano The Bear | Zach Hill
Dean and Randy made a free stream of their forthcoming Losing Feeling EP, now they're just like screw it, have 25% of it for free. "You're A Target" is ferociously fast and rides a lot of guitar noise with a... CONTINUE READING NEW NO AGE - "YOU'RE A TARGET"»
Posted on August 26, 2009 in (5 comments)
Tags: No Age
Since selling a ton of band t-shirts (and releasing a pretty great album) last year, Dean and Randy have remained busy remixing Bloc Party, staying out of one-way flame wars, playing dressup, going on the No Deachunter "round robin" tour... CONTINUE READING STREAM NO AGE'S LOSING FEELING»
Posted on August 5, 2009 in (5 comments)
Tags: Girl Talk | No Age
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
For 10 years now, Austin's Explosions In The Sky have been putting their stamp on a cinematic strain of expansive, chiming instrumental post-rock. This tour is functioning as something of a decade-anniversary celebration, then, with Munaf thanking the Palladium Saturday... CONTINUE READING EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY/NO AGE/ELUVIUM @ THE HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM, LOS ANGELES 6/27/09»
Posted on June 29, 2009 in , (11 comments)
Tags: Eluvium | Explosions In The Sky | No Age
It wouldn't be all that risky to say everyone of a certain age has a Michael Jackson moment. He was a cultural phenomenon on a much larger scale than almost anyone else making music today (in some circles he'd get... CONTINUE READING INDIE ROCKERS EULOGIZE THE KING OF POP»
Posted on June 26, 2009 in (81 comments)
Tags: Cold Cave | Crocodiles | Dave Sitek | Death Cab For Cutie | Frog Eyes | High Places | John Vanderslice | Michael Jackson | No Age | Sara Quin | Swan Lake | The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | TV On The Radio
Listen to bits of the Vitamin String Quartet's takes on "Eraser" and "Banshee Beat" (among other indie favorites) here and In Rainbows there. Nervous, Apocalyptica? ... CONTINUE READING STRING QUARTET COVERS ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, NO AGE, IN RAINBOWS»
Posted on June 5, 2009 in (5 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | No Age | Radiohead | The National | The Raveonettes | Vitamin String Quartet
Mike Miko are a fun live band, so they wisely made a fun live video for We Be Xuxa's "I Got A Lot (New New New)." Speaking of which: Much of the current DIY or lo-fi or "shitgaze" (or whatever)... CONTINUE READING NEW MIKA MIKO VIDEO - "I GOT A LOT (NEW NEW NEW)"»
Posted on June 3, 2009 in (12 comments)
Tags: Mika Miko | No Age
The Flaming Lips-curated ATP NY line-up gets some additions today, including sexy old timers Boss Hog, along with Boredoms performing Boredrum 2009, two different "Deer" bands, and No Age doing a complete Hüsker Dü LP with a guest vocalist (wonder... CONTINUE READING IRON & WINE, BOSS HOG, BOREDOMS ADDED TO ATP NY»
Posted on May 1, 2009 (2 comments)
Tags: All Tomorrow's Parties | Boredoms | Boss Hog | Deerhoof | Deerhunter | Iron And Wine | No Age
Well, at least main Horseshittter Matt Whitehurst does. The following interview he did with the Washington Post is a few weeks old, but Brooklyn Vegan unearthed it today and we thought it was too amusing not to share, especially because,... CONTINUE READING PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT HATES ON WAVVES, NO AGE, TVOTR»
Posted on April 24, 2009 in (133 comments)
Tags: No Age | Psychedelic Horseshit | TV On The Radio | Wavves
Two bands with arty punk in the blood going in two different directions, posing for a three-minute snapshot together in 2009. As previously discussed, Bloc Party are once again going full remix with their Intimacy LP, a move that's either... CONTINUE READING NEW BLOC PARTY - "BETTER THAN HEAVEN (NO AGE REMIX)" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on March 23, 2009 (8 comments)
Tags: Bloc Party | Flea | No Age | Port O'Brien
Last summer, "No Epiphany" was he first taste we got of Fucked Up's The Chemistry of Common Life. As you now know, the track's epic wall-of-sound is shared by the majority of the collection's other ten components via the subtle,... CONTINUE READING NEW FUCKED UP - "NO EPIPHANY (NO AGE REMIX)"»
Posted on March 13, 2009 in (6 comments)
Tags: Fucked Up | No Age
So far this week the NoisePop festival's brought us a taste of new St. Vincent and Deerhunter. Now we have the old performed in a new way: Hüsker Dü/Sugar frontman (and, now, Anti- solo artist and DJ) Bob Mould joined... CONTINUE READING BOB MOULD JOINS NO AGE ONSTAGE IN SAN FRANCISCO»
Posted on March 4, 2009 in (6 comments)
Tags: Bob Mould | Hüsker Dü | Maps And Atlases | No Age | Stephen Malkmus
On the eve of a trip to Australia, Dean and Randy from No Age threw a matinee house party at scene institution the Smell, inviting six bands and a sold-out crowd to come over for some blissed out punk and... CONTINUE READING NO AGE, ABE VIGODA, MIKA MIKO, WAVVES & FRIENDS @ THE SMELL, LOS ANGELES 1/25/09»
Posted on January 28, 2009 in , (13 comments)
Tags: Abe Vigoda | Bumbershoot | David Scott Stone | Fucked Up | Jennifer The Leopard | Mika Miko | Natalie Portman's Shaved Head | No Age | Rings | Wavves
Remember the 50th Annual Grammy Awards? Alicia Keys duetting with the ghost of Sinatra? Will.i.am rapping nonsense? Album of the Year River: The Joni Letters??? It's easy (and fun!) to make fun of the Grammys, but last year they really... CONTINUE READING RADIOHEAD, LIL WAYNE NOMINATED FOR ALBUM OF THE YEAR GRAMMY»
Posted on December 3, 2008 (64 comments)
Tags: Alison Krauss | Band Of Horses | Beck | Daft Punk | Death Cab For Cutie | Gnarls Barkley | Grammys | Hot Chip | Justice | Kanye West | Kings Of Leon | Lollapalooza | M.I.A. | Metallica | MGMT | My Morning Jacket | Ne-Yo | No Age | Radiohead | Robert Plant | Robyn | The Raconteurs | Weezer
Last night we finally hit Andrew W.K.'s recently opened venue. Nice space, clearly designed with acoustics in mind -- huge speaker blocks above the side bar, tweeters suspended over the floor for sound to surround -- although you couldn't say... CONTINUE READING TITUS ANDRONICUS/NO AGE @ SANTO'S PARTY HOUSE, NYC 11/9/08»
Posted on November 10, 2008 in (2 comments)
Tags: Crystal Antlers | No Age | Titus Andronicus
The RSVP list for No Age's show at Santo's Party House is closed, but after giving away a pair of last minute tix earlier this week we saw that there's still a bunch of you that want in. So we're... CONTINUE READING ONE MORE CHANCE TO WIN SOME NO AGE TICKETS»
Posted on November 7, 2008 (13 comments)
Tags: Jane's Addiction | No Age | Tiny Masters Of Today