When MTV's college-obsessed little sister station mtvU announced the nominations for this year's Woodie Awards, we had some fun trying to make sense of the logic underlying the way in which they had grouped together bands and pit them against... CONTINUE READING PHOTOS, VIDEO FROM THE 2009 MTVU WOODIE AWARDS»
Posted on November 19, 2009 in (13 comments)
Tags: Alexa Chung | Alison Mosshart | Amber Tamblyn | Asher Roth | Ben Gibbard | Chris Walla | Clips | Cyndi Lauper | David Cross | Death Cab For Cutie | Diplo | Fall Out Boy | Jack White | Leighton Meester | Mary-Louise Parker | Matt And Kim | mtvU Woodie Awards | Passion Pit | Pete Wentz | Rick Ross | The Dead Weather | Zooey Deschanel
Passion Pit's astrologically inclined "Little Secrets" video features a giant disco ball afloat in the Milky Way. The bug-eyed bald guy who lives there takes his diamond-esque rocket for a ride in a meteor and finds himself in some sort... CONTINUE READING PASSION PIT RELEASE "LITTLE SECRETS" VIDEO, SOUNDTRACK PALM PIXI AD »
Posted on November 17, 2009 in , (1 comments)
Tags: Golden Silvers | Passion Pit
In addition to including Final Fantasy's justifiably hyperbolic promotional blurb when first posting on the excellently kinetic synth-pop of "Which Song," we added this bit from Ben Jacobs aka Max Tundra himself on the process and equipment used to achieve... CONTINUE READING PASSION PIT REMIX MAX TUNDRA (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on November 3, 2009 in , (2 comments)
Tags: Free Energy | Max Tundra | Passion Pit
Except Carson Daly, but he doesn't really count. The roll call: Fallon, Conan, Letterman, Kimmel. Hell even SNL. So in the interest of exhausting Phoenix's every move, here's their performance of "Girlfriend" for Craig Ferguson last night, including two more... CONTINUE READING PHOENIX HAVE NOW PLAYED EVERY LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW THIS YEAR»
Posted on October 12, 2009 in , (6 comments)
Tags: Craig Ferguson | Cryptacize | Passion Pit | Phoenix | Shuttle | The Soft Pack
As advertised, Phoenix treated Central Park's Summerstage to two sold-out nights of their danceable and occasionally epic insouciance this past weekend. The lineup was a synth-lover's delight, pairing the Frenchmen with the more sugar-rushed and helium-voiced keyboard pop of Massachusetts... CONTINUE READING PHOENIX/PASSION PIT @ CENTRAL PARK SUMMERSTAGE, NYC 9/26/09»
Posted on September 28, 2009 in , , (13 comments)
Tags: Devendra Banhart | Neighbors | Passion Pit | Phoenix
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
Already hitting a boat, the clubs, and most recently, Jimmy Fallon, the Cambridge, Mass synth-poppers performed stripped-down takes on Manners and Chunk Of Change tracks at Transmissions. Because there can never be too many versions of "Sleepyhead." Download at MySpace.... CONTINUE READING PASSION PIT MAKE SOME MYSPACE TRANSMISSIONS»
Posted on July 31, 2009 in , (1 comments)
Tags: Oneida | Passion Pit
The Massachusetts synth-pop outfit has taken its Manners pretty much everywhere this year -- in the club, on a boat, etc. -- but until last night a network television performance eluded them. Jimmy Fallon's crew continues to pick up the... CONTINUE READING PASSION PIT BRING "THE REELING" TO FALLON»
Posted on July 30, 2009 in (36 comments)
Tags: Bridezilla | Jimmy Fallon | Passion Pit
After Passion PIt impressed doubters and synth-pop lovers and graphic designers alike with the early release of their video for "The Reeling," it is simply sensible that their second Manners video doesn't even vaguely aim for hip or hipster points.... CONTINUE READING NEW PASSION PIT VIDEO - "TO KINGDOM COME"»
Posted on July 17, 2009 in (14 comments)
Tags: Passion Pit | Wild Beasts
Though Karen's "Off with your head" evokes Alice In Wonderland, the "Heads Will Roll" video played on the spooky synthesizer line via a well-dressed and (sorry) Michael Jackson-style werewolf's solo dance routine. The beloved wolfman shows up again on the... CONTINUE READING PASSION PIT REMIX YEAH YEAH YEAHS»
Posted on July 1, 2009 (16 comments)
Tags: Passion Pit | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Last night Passion Pit celebrated their debut LP release by cruising New York Harbor on the Rocks Off boat cruise. Rest assured the event was thoroughly Tweeted. Fans boarded the Temptress yacht at 8PM for the three hour tour during... CONTINUE READING PASSION PIT ON A MOTHERFUCKING BOAT, NYC 5/18/09»
Posted on May 19, 2009 in , , , (19 comments)
Tags: Cymbals Eat Guitars | Passion Pit | The Very Best
Drummer Nate Donmoyer's "The Reeling" remix is a goof (it's titled Shuttle's Super Club Mega Mix '99) but that doesn't mean you can't dance to it. MP3's at NME (and LP stream here).... CONTINUE READING PASSION PIT GIVE THEMSELVES A CLUB MIX»
Posted on May 15, 2009 in (1 comments)
Tags: Passion Pit
We're already two solid listens into Passion Pit's debut LP Manners, which means, in promo-cycle terms, it is peak time for the remixes that nobody asked for. Enter the UK's preeminent responsible partyer Calvin Harris, who tries to give the... CONTINUE READING CALVIN HARRIS REMIXES PASSION PIT»
Posted on April 29, 2009 (10 comments)
Tags: Bear In Heaven | Calvin Harris | Max Tundra | Passion Pit
If you're behind on your RSS, you missed the collective realization that Passion Pit are appearing as more than a one-hit-EP wonder, when Scott highlighted the Boston synthpoppers stuck-on-repeat song/video "The Reeling." Would it be too much to ask for... CONTINUE READING NEW PASSION PIT - "MOTH'S WINGS"»
Posted on April 27, 2009 in , (31 comments)
Tags: Passion Pit
Incorporating a few releases with relatively bigger labels into his extensive discography of limited-edition 12"'s, 7"'s, etc., Brooklyn BTW Blank Dogs is quite literally getting easier to watch. See, for instance, the forthcoming In The Red-imprinted Under And Under which... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP LXXXV: HEAR NEW BLANK DOGS, WIN A TURNTABLE & PASSION PIT PRIZE PACK»
Posted on April 22, 2009 in , (2 comments)
Tags: Blank Dogs | Passion Pit
Although the Cambridge quintet was pretty green when Amrit and I checked out its Pianos residency last summer, kids were going apeshit for Passion Pit's synthpop hooks and helium vocals. MTV got on board during CMJ and these days a... CONTINUE READING NEW PASSION PIT VIDEO - "THE REELING"»
Posted on April 20, 2009 in , (9 comments)
Tags: Passion Pit
They're from the wrong coast, but if ever a band were built for Josh Schwartz's indie-rock web soap Rockville, CA, at least one of them would be Passion Pit. Watch the guys perform between a really weak storyline at thewb.com.... CONTINUE READING PASSION PIT PLAY ROCKVILLE, RELEASE NEW SINGLE»
Posted on March 24, 2009 in , (10 comments)
Tags: Passion Pit | Peter Bjorn And John | Rockville, CA | Sufjan Stevens
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.
It's a match made in blog heaven, these two getting together on a track like this: "Ghost Under Rocks" sees Ra Ra Riot at the height of their melodramatic, orchestral pop powers; Passion Pit are an ascendant band that make... CONTINUE READING NEW RA RA RIOT - "GHOST UNDER ROCKS (PASSION PIT REMIX)"»
Posted on January 26, 2009 in , (6 comments)
Tags: Bumbershoot | No Age | Passion Pit | Ra Ra Riot
