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
Swan Lake's second album Enemy Mine is a dense, satisfying listen. If you've heard no more than the previously 'Gum Dropped Carey Mercer-penned opener "Spanish Gold, 2044," you've already heard no less than the album's best single song. The "supergroup"... CONTINUE READING NEW SWAN LAKE - "SPIDER"»
Posted on February 23, 2009 in (15 comments)
Tags: Destroyer | Mellowdrone | of Montreal | Sunset Rubdown | Swan Lake | Wolf Parade
Swan Lake, the Canadian power trio of Daniel Bejar (New Pornographers, Destroyer), Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown), and Carey Mercer (Frog Eyes, Blackout Beach), are releasing their second album Enemy Mine at the end of March (3/24, Jagjaguwar). It's... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP LXXVI: HEAR NEW SWAN LAKE, WIN A LONELY ISLAND IPOD & AUTOGRAPHED INCREDIBAD»
Posted on February 18, 2009 in , (11 comments)
Tags: Florence And The Machine | Passion Pit | Swan Lake | The Lonely Island
NAME: Spencer Krug (Swan Lake, Sunset Rubdown, Wolf Parade) PROGRESS REPORT: Releasing Enemy Mine with Swan Lake on March 24; editing untitled Sunset Rubdown LP for release this summer; recording a marimba-based EP for release in summer/fall; writing songs with... CONTINUE READING PROGRESS REPORT: SPENCER KRUG»
Posted on January 23, 2009 in , (36 comments)
Tags: Bumbershoot | Carey Mercer | Dead Confederate | Spencer Krug | Sunset Rubdown | Swan Lake | Wolf Parade
Blackout Beach's Skin Of Evil is a monster of an album, and not just because Carey Mercer often sounds like one while incanting his dark Bowie-on-Scott Walker woe. A month or so ago we gave you "Cloud Of Evil" from... CONTINUE READING NEW BLACKOUT BEACH - "ASTORIA, MENTHOL LITE, HILLTOP, WAVE OF EVIL, 1982" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on November 21, 2008 in , (1 comments)
Tags: Blackout Beach | Clipse | Frog Eyes | Kanye West | Sasquatch! | Swan Lake | The Dodos
Frog Eyes mastermind Carey Mercer also records as Blackout Beach: 2004's Light Flows the Putrid Dawn is an inky, dramatic Bowie-on-downers favorite. Judging from "Cloud Of Evil," the lead (and opening) track from the forthcoming sophomore followup Skin Of Evil,... CONTINUE READING NEW BLACKOUT BEACH - "CLOUD OF EVIL"»
Posted on October 14, 2008 in (2 comments)
Tags: Blackout Beach | Carey Mercer | Frog Eyes | Swan Lake
When last we checked in with Swan Lake -- the Canadian super-group comprising Spencer Krug, Frog Eyes' Carey Mercer, and New Pornographer Dan "Destroyer" Bejar -- we hoped for true collaboration (or a cappella anything), not just a Spence track... CONTINUE READING NEW SWAN LAKE - "CITY CALLS"»
Posted on September 25, 2006 in (8 comments)
Tags: Destroyer | Diablo Cody | Frog Eyes | Grammys | Patton Oswalt | Swan Lake | T-Pain | Wolf Parade
