Some 90 acts descended upon Champaign-Urbana, IL this past weekend, performing across 14 venues and four days for the fifth annual Pygmalion Music Festival. We sent photographer John Gitchoff to circle the fest, and he delivers this spread including shots... CONTINUE READING PYGMALION 2009 IN PHOTOS»
Posted on September 22, 2009 in , (3 comments)
Tags: Headlights | Iron And Wine | Japandroids | Low | Lucero | Maps And Atlases | Maserati | My Brightest Diamond | Owen | Pygmalion | Ra Ra Riot | RJD2 | So Many Dynamos | The Antlers | The Books | The Hood Internet | Wavves | William Fitzsimmons | Zach Hill
Tim Burton's cult stop-motion film turns 15 this year, and as previously reported a motley crew of indie and goth-pop acts have recorded covers for an updated soundtrack called Nightmare Revisited. It's fun to hear Polyphonic Spree and Album Leaf... CONTINUE READING DEVOTCHKA, SPARKLEHORSE, ALBUM LEAF COVER THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS»
Posted on October 28, 2008 (8 comments)
Tags: Danny Elfman | Datarock | DeVotchKa | RJD2 | Rodrigo Y Gabriela | Sparklehorse | The Album Leaf | The Polyphonic Spree
Get ready goths and Evanescence fans, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary. As part of the spooky fanfare, Billboard reports that Walt Disney Records is putting out Nightmare Revisited, a collection of covers, re-recordings, and... CONTINUE READING THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS REVISITED BY VARIOUS ALT AND INDIE ROCKERS»
Posted on August 13, 2008 (30 comments)
Tags: amiina | Bloc Party | Danny Elfman | Datarock | DeVotchKa | Evanescence | Marilyn Manson | RJD2 | The Polyphonic Spree | Tim Burton
As we made painfully clear during World Cup season, we know little of this soccer, and our news updates on the sport's attempt to woo the USofA revolve around the snore-worthy exploits of Posh and Becks. MLS is on it,... CONTINUE READING FREE FUTBOL JAMZ»
Posted on August 16, 2007 in (6 comments)
Tags: Bad Brains | RJD2 | The Polyphonic Spree | The Rapture
Ramble John's had a crazy stretch of late, going from tops of the Stereogum Catorce pops to hawking banana-infused rum concoctions in just three years. The DeeTwo's blue-eyed soul incorporation didn't come without its growing pains, but RJ's got good... CONTINUE READING NEW RJD2 VIDEO - "WORK IT OUT"»
Posted on July 13, 2007 in (6 comments)
Tags: RJD2
Come make a YouTube for Malibu Banana. Philly beatmaster RJD2 is teaming up with Malibu Rum to help promote their new banana-based spirit, and in keeping with the times, they're kicking it off the campaign a bizarre video contest. Head... CONTINUE READING NEW RJD2 REMIX - "DAY-O (BANANA BOAT SONG)"»
Posted on May 15, 2007 in (2 comments)
Tags: RJD2
Despite the excellent lineups all over town, our daylight hours on Friday had been spoken for well before we made the trek to SouthBy (and particularly after spending Thursday systematically missing a bunch of the acts we'd hoped to... CONTINUE READING SXSW: FRIDAY IN AUSTIN»
Posted on March 19, 2007 in , (5 comments)
Tags: Amy Millan | Amy Winehouse | Annuals | Apostle Of Hustle | Buffalo Tom | Deerhunter | Do Make Say Think | Earthless | Fucked Up | Gruff Rhys | Kings Of Leon | Lisa Jen | Menomena | Nuno Bettencourt | Perry Farrell | Peter Bjorn And John | Peter Buck | RJD2 | Robyn Hitchcock | Sean Nelson | Simian Mobile Disco | SXSW | The Dears | The Walkmen | Thurston Moore
This little project Ramble John has going with IMEEM is a remixers delight. RJ's offering up the isolated audio to The Third Hand standout "Sweet Piece" for fan reinterpretations -- which in itself is nothing new. The D2 twist, though,... CONTINUE READING PREMIX RJD2»
Posted on February 6, 2007 (2 comments)
Tags: RJD2
Ramble John's back, and on next year's The Third Hand, the man behind Stereogum's favorite album in '04 is kicking the samples to the curb and going the self-recorded, live instrumentation route. But that's not the only switch for RJ;... CONTINUE READING NEW RJD2 - "BEYOND THE BEYOND"»
Posted on December 19, 2006 in (5 comments)
Tags: RJD2
As usual I was unable to narrow down my favorite releases of the year to just ten. So here are Stereogum's 14 favorite discs of 2004. To make it easier for myself, I arbitrarily disqualified compilations, reissues, and Brian Wilson.... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM'S TOP CATORCE OF 2004»
Posted on December 23, 2004 in , (62 comments)
Tags: Air | Aloha | Annie | Arcade Fire | Drive-By Truckers | Dungen | Joanna Newsom | Lambchop | Madvillain | of Montreal | RJD2 | Sufjan Stevens | The Go! Team | Wilco
