There's a progression at play here. There was Sigur Rós filming hairless young things frolicking in the woods for "Gobbledigook," surpassed many months later by Girls' XXX "Lust For Life" video featuring Hunx's junk, which itself was trumped by the... CONTINUE READING YEASAYER TAKING THIS NSFW VIDEO THING TO THE NEXT LEVEL, TECHNOLOGICALLY SPEAKING»
Posted on November 18, 2009 (17 comments)
Tags: Golden Silvers | Yeasayer
Here's yet another look for Yeasayer's excellent Odd Blood-teaser track "Ambling Alp," courtesy of the magic seeking Philadelphia sound man Dayve Hawk aka Memory Tapes. It's an official remix, joining DJ /rupture & Brent Arnold's anxious take on the song's... CONTINUE READING MEMORY TAPES REMIX YEASAYER»
Posted on November 12, 2009 in (2 comments)
Tags: Laura Marling | Memory Tapes | Yeasayer
Last Friday, Yeasayer offered the first drop from their forthcoming Odd Blood LP in the form of "Ambling Alp," a chirping and fuzzing, horned and harmonized left-field upper that's as polyrhythmic and propulsive as it is poppy. Maybe you could... CONTINUE READING DJ/ RUPTURE & BRENT ARNOLD REMIX YEASAYER (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on November 5, 2009 (6 comments)
Tags: Brent Arnold | Broadcast | CMJ | DJ Rupture | Yeasayer
On the same day they unleashed the rather awesome "Ambling Alp" MP3, Yeasayer headlined the latest installment of the Guggenheim museum's It Came From Brooklyn series. Opening were Tanlines (the Brooklyn production/guitar/vocal duo who moonlighted as Glasser's backing band at... CONTINUE READING YEASAYER/TANLINES @ GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NYC 10/30/09»
Posted on November 2, 2009 in , (3 comments)
Tags: Max Silvestri | Tanlines | The Decemberists | Yeasayer
The chanted, harmonious Brooklyn-via-Baltimore psychedelic-pop troupe told Jessica in a Progress Report that they were, essentially, trying to "make you feel inadequate, like you're not cool enough to be listening to [this] music." Tough to say where their tongues and... CONTINUE READING NEW YEASAYER - "AMBLING ALP"»
Posted on October 30, 2009 in (40 comments)
Tags: Treasure Island | Yeasayer
Save for "Tightrope," it's been a while since we've heard anything from Yeasayer beyond its members' cameos (SMD, B4L), production work, and remixes. That'll change in early 2010 (not 2080) when the Brooklyn group releases LP2 Odd Blood. (Still no... CONTINUE READING YEASAYER'S ODD BLOOD REVEALED»
Posted on October 21, 2009 in (10 comments)
Tags: The Flaming Lips | Yeasayer
Simian Mobile Disco's second album Temporary Pleasure includes guest spots from Beth Ditto, Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor, Gruff Rhys, Telepathe, and others. One of these others, Yeasayer's Chris Keating, adds his pipes to the collection's first single "Audacity Of Huge."... CONTINUE READING NEW SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO (FEAT. YEASAYER'S CHRIS KEATING) VIDEO - "AUDACITY OF HUGE"»
Posted on June 19, 2009 in , (13 comments)
Tags: Chris Keating | Simian Mobile Disco | Yeasayer
So far the group-chanting Brooklyn BTW Suckers are best known for their outfits, a self-titled EP produced by Yeasayer's Anand Wilder and Chris Moore (TV On The Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs), and a lineup featuring fellow BTW Quinn Walker. That,... CONTINUE READING QUIT YOUR DAY JOB: SUCKERS»
Posted on May 13, 2009 in (0 comments)
Tags: Dirty Projectors | Quinn Walker | Suckers | Yeasayer
While Yeasayer is slowly progressing on their followup to All Hour Cymbals, the band's stayed in sight with one of the many standouts on the Dark Was The Night comp, and via some noteworthy extracurricular activity: guitarist Anand Wilder produced... CONTINUE READING YEASAYER'S CHRIS KEATING REMIXES FANG ISLAND»
Posted on May 1, 2009 in (2 comments)
Tags: Chris Keating | Fang Island | Yeasayer
If you haven't yet, get a listen of Natasha Khan's excellent Two Suns LP at MySpace. For those seeking collab tracks, "The Big Sleep"'s got Scott Walker and Yeasayer bassist Ira Wolf Tuton is on "Daniel" an "Pearl's Dream."... CONTINUE READING STREAM BAT FOR LASHES' TWO SUNS»
Posted on March 31, 2009 (2 comments)
Tags: Arctic Monkeys | Bat For Lashes | Grizzly Bear | Scott Walker | Yeasayer
When posting about favorite Two Suns moments -- opener "Glass" with its Brian Chippendale drums, "The Big Sleep"'s Scott Walker turn, and the new single "Daniel" -- I called the latter a "chilly, running-in-the-dark dance-floor love song." How about a... CONTINUE READING NEW BAT FOR LASHES VIDEO - "DANIEL"»
Posted on March 12, 2009 in (16 comments)
Tags: Bat For Lashes | Florence And The Machine | Tegan And Sara | Yeasayer
NAME: Yeasayer PROGRESS REPORT: Recording their followup to 2007's All Hour Cymbals in Woodstock, New York. "There's some music that can make you feel happy and good, and there's some that can make you feel inadequate, like you're not cool... CONTINUE READING PROGRESS REPORT: YEASAYER»
Posted on March 6, 2009 in , , , (46 comments)
Tags: Spinnerette | U2 | Yeasayer
After listening to any of the four tracks on Brooklyn quartet Suckers debut self-titled EP you won't be at all surprised to learn that Yeasayer's Anand Wilder produced it, along with Chris Moore (TV On The Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs).... CONTINUE READING BAND TO WATCH: SUCKERS»
Posted on February 3, 2009 in , , (16 comments)
Tags: Bumbershoot | Quinn Walker | Suckers | The Dutchess And The Duke | Yeasayer
Yesterday the National delivered "So Far Around The Bend," Dark Was The Night's most immediate track to date in a lineup that's also brought us Dirty Projectors + David Byrne, the Books with Jose Gonzalez, Feist + Ben, Bon Iver,... CONTINUE READING NEW YEASAYER - "TIGHTROPE"»
Posted on January 21, 2009 (14 comments)
Tags: Cake | Dark Was The Night | Yeasayer
Pretty much everybody went batty for Natasha Khan's breathtaking, updated Kate Bush thing on Fur & Gold, and now the woman who wooed Thom Yorke, Mercury Prize voters, and a league of Donnie Darko fans has set aside the covers... CONTINUE READING BAT FOR LASHES RETURNS WITH TWO SUNS»
Posted on January 12, 2009 (4 comments)
Tags: Bat For Lashes | Scott Walker | The National | Yeasayer
Happiness is a guy pogoing down the street in white formalwear. With legs where the pogo stick should be. Will and Alison took some chances with the smoothed and yes happy new record, and it hasn't been to everyone's liking... CONTINUE READING NEW GOLDFRAPP VIDEO - "HAPPINESS"»
Posted on April 2, 2008 in (3 comments)
Tags: Goldfrapp | Spiritualized | Yeasayer
SXSW is way over, and we have no intention of posting about it anymore. Except for oh yeah this last splurge of live videos that never made it onto these pages last week. The final crumbs from our SXSW '08... CONTINUE READING LAST OF OUR SXSW VIDEOS, PROMISE: EVANGELICALS, HIGH PLACES, YEASAYER»
Posted on March 25, 2008 in (12 comments)
Tags: Evangelicals | High Places | SXSW | Yeasayer
Welcome to our night one photo spread. Every year we forget that we can't be in every place at once ... until we wind up waiting in line for two hours. But at least for last night, the lines were... CONTINUE READING SXSW: WEDNESDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on March 13, 2008 in , (3 comments)
Tags: Emmy The Great | Lightspeed Champion | Simian Mobile Disco | Sons And Daughters | SXSW | The Kills | These New Puritans | Times New Viking | Yeasayer
After I interviewed Yeasayer in November '07, they took off way beyond the low-level buzz the song "2080" was creating at that time. In the last few months, the guys have become key spokespeople for the Brooklyn scene on MTV... CONTINUE READING QUIT YOUR DAY JOB - SXSW EDITION: YEASAYER»
Posted on March 12, 2008 in , , , (0 comments)
Tags: SXSW | Yeasayer
Yeasayer know how to rise (and dress) to the occasion. Their national TV debut on the back of All Hour Cymbals was a smash, and amidst offhand comments that they "didn't even know this was supposed to happen tonight," the... CONTINUE READING YEASAYER DO LA BLOGOTHèQUE AND DISRUPT THE NEIGHBORS»
Posted on March 10, 2008 in (5 comments)
Tags: Yeasayer
Stereogum's tag cloud hovers above The Paper Of Record today, with profiles on Brooklyn alt-rockers in Arts & Leisure and an indie rock dress-up cheat sheet in the Men Styles Magazine. Consider it a print version of the story run... CONTINUE READING NY TIMES PROFILES BROOKLYN'S EXPERIMENTAL (AND STYLISH) INDIE ROCKERS»
Posted on March 8, 2008 in (47 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Battles | Beirut | Deerhunter | Dirty Projectors | Dragons Of Zynth | Gang Gang Dance | Grizzly Bear | High Places | MGMT | Vampire Weekend | Yeasayer
President's Day is becoming a big going away party for Yeasayer. Tomorrow, they're off to conquer Europe with their chants and yearns and hipster-hippie preaching, and already we paused to marvel at their powerful Conan performance. Now we get a... CONTINUE READING NEW YEASAYER VIDEO - "WAIT FOR THE SUMMER"»
Posted on February 18, 2008 in (7 comments)
Tags: Yeasayer
Yeasayer made the long commute from Brooklyn to 30 Rock on Friday night, coming armed with background singers, new agey mysticism, and let's face it, lots of swagger. "2080"'s the tune they deemed fit for their live national television debut,... CONTINUE READING YEASAYER PERFORM CONAN'S "FAVORITE SONG IN A LONG TIME"»
Posted on February 18, 2008 in (12 comments)
Tags: Conan O'Brien | Yeasayer
We'll always remember Yeasayer as the ones who taught us about the post-Kokie's Brooklyn scene and for their jam-tastic, psych-choral live shows. Here the boys are, all the way on the left coast at the Echoplex in L.A., asking us... CONTINUE READING NEW YEASAYER LIVE VIDEO - "WAIT FOR THE SUMMER"»
Posted on January 28, 2008 in (8 comments)
Tags: Yeasayer
