When of Montreal turned over their tunes to Outback, and their personae to T-Mobile, they calmly insisted that it would be the fans who'd benefit most from their cash-out. A horse on a stage and several freaky videos later, Kevin... CONTINUE READING NEW DODOS VIDEO - "FABLES"»
Posted on September 24, 2009 in (4 comments)
Tags: The Dodos | Them Crooked Vultures
Last year, San Fran's inaugural Outside Lands festival featured Radiohead, but also power outage issues. This year: No Radiohead, but abundant electricity. Trade-offs! While Thom was twisting words at the Reading and Leeds fests in the motherland, Golden Gate park... CONTINUE READING OUTSIDE LANDS 2009 IN PHOTOS»
Posted on September 1, 2009 in , , (0 comments)
Tags: Alison Mosshart | Atmosphere | Band Of Horses | Bettye LaVette | Black Eyed Peas | Built To Spill | Calexico | Dave Matthews Band | Fergie | Heartless Bastards | Jack Black | Jack White | John Vanderslice | M.I.A. | Maserati | Mastodon | Matt And Kim | Os Mutantes | Outside Lands | Pearl Jam | Q-Tip | Tenacious D | The Dead Weather | The Dodos | The Duke Spirit | Thievery Corporation | Tom Jones | Vau-De-Vire-Society | Ween
When Time To Die leaked last month, San Fran folkies the Dodos took a deep breath, cracked open some Miller Chills, and let everyone stream it free. About half of you guys seemed to like it! That half should check... CONTINUE READING THE DODOS VISIT THE INTERFACE»
Posted on August 28, 2009 in (0 comments)
Tags: The Dodos
So, the Dodos' new album leaked. Two months early. Of course it did. We don't have to be coy about it because they're the ones telling us, and are hoping instead of grabbing it you'll visit their new album mini-site... CONTINUE READING STREAM THE DODOS' TIME TO DIE»
Posted on July 14, 2009 in (23 comments)
Tags: Bumbershoot | Janelle Monae | The Dodos
Or at least want you and me and everyone we know to drink really bad beer. A year ago, when I interviewed the Dodos' about their day jobs, they offered up "Fools" to go along with the discussion. Fittingly --... CONTINUE READING THE DODOS DRINK REALLY BAD BEER»
Posted on May 13, 2009 in , , (32 comments)
Tags: Dirty Projectors | The Dodos
La La Blogothèque threw a party at the end of May and invited Fleet Foxes, the Dodos, Vandaveer, Essie Jaine, and Noah And The Whale to play. As that FF still suggests, it was a dark night, offering sharp contrast... CONTINUE READING FLEET FOXES AND THE DODOS PLAY A SHADOWY LA BLOGOTHèQUE SOIRéE»
Posted on September 3, 2008 in (12 comments)
Tags: Fleet Foxes | SXSW | Telepathe | The Dodos | The Shins
By Amrit Singh & Brandon Stosuy Aaaaand we're back. Quite a weekend in Chicago, and this is the post to put a Fork in our coverage of this year's party in Union Park. For day last, the threat of... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2008: SUNDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on July 21, 2008 in (20 comments)
Tags: Bon Iver | Boris | Cut Copy | Dinosaur Jr | Dirty Projectors | Ghostface Killah | HEALTH | High Places | King Khan | Les Savy Fav | Pitchfork Music Festival | Raekwon | Spiritualized | Spoon | The Dodos | Wu-Tang Clan
I couldn't make Siren Festival this year and Amrit and Brandon were at Pitchfork, so ... how was it? Based on the photographic display from Kyle Dean Reinford I guess sweaty? How was the sound? Did you shoot the freak?... CONTINUE READING ISLANDS AND ANNUALS AND JICKS: SIREN FEST 2008 IN PHOTOS»
Posted on July 21, 2008 in (5 comments)
Tags: Annuals | Beach House | Broken Social Scene | Dragons Of Zynth | Film School | Islands | Jaguar Love | Parts And Labor | Ra Ra Riot | Stephen Malkmus | The Dodos | The Helio Sequence | These Are Powers | Times New Viking | Victoria Legrand
We all need one more festival, right? Guess nobody sells records these days, so live shows are where it's at, etc. Anyhow, if you're in the Seattle area, you can just about ride SP20 into the Stranger's 11th annual Capitol... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND, THE HOLD STEADY, GIRL TALK TO CRASH 2008 CAPITOL HILL BLOCK PARTY»
Posted on April 16, 2008 (9 comments)
Tags: Chromeo | Girl Talk | Jay Reatard | Kimya Dawson | Les Savy Fav | The Dodos | The Hold Steady | Vampire Weekend
Just yesterday the Dodos stopped by to talk about the jobs they put on hold for their tour in support of French Kiss debut, Visiter. Today, they pass along the lovely, downcast, Nico and Animal Collective-tinted "Ashley" from said record.... CONTINUE READING NEW DODOS - "ASHLEY" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on April 3, 2008 in (6 comments)
Tags: The Dodos
On Visiter, San Francisco duo the Dodos wrestle flint-fingered jangles, busybody hardware-nicking drums, and '60s (at times, Animal Collective-lite) melodicism into catchy, insistent folk-pop. Or something. Singer/guitarist Meric Long and drummer Logan Kroeber also fit chicken roasting and letterpress work... CONTINUE READING QUIT YOUR DAY JOB: THE DODOS»
Posted on April 2, 2008 in , (4 comments)
Tags: The Dodos
Been a little remiss in not yet talking up San Francisco's the Dodos and their Frenchkiss debut Visiter, which has been survived the "maybes" promo pile and sort of blossomed into repeat-worthy listening. Changing that today, with the frantic strumming/drumming... CONTINUE READING NEW DODOS - "JODI"»
Posted on February 7, 2008 in , , (8 comments)
Tags: The Dodos
