It's no secret that Brooklyn and Manhattan are growing further apart these days, and less of a secret that the increasing divide makes for fun media pieces. The NY Post ran a piece on the schism, nabbing this quote from... CONTINUE READING MTV ON THE 2008 BROOKLYN SCENE»
Posted on January 11, 2008 in , (51 comments)
Tags: A Place To Bury Strangers | Billy Corgan | Dirty Projectors | Grizzly Bear | MGMT | The Muggabears | The Smashing Pumpkins | Yeasayer
If you really had the power of foresight, and its outer limits were the ability to predict next year's breakout music artist, in this fiscal climate it'd be about as lucrative or useful as Isaac's albino-eyeballed painting-predictions about people you... CONTINUE READING BRITISH EXPERTS PREDICT 2008'S BREAKOUTS»
Posted on December 21, 2007 (47 comments)
Tags: Adele | Duffy | Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jongs | MGMT | Patrick Wolf | The Ting Tings | Vampire Weekend | Wavves | Yeasayer
This past summer Yeasayer's kid-choired "2080" made a lot of noise, oiling a few hype machines, but the quartet took their sweet old time releasing a proper debut. (I remember researching a piece on the band in July and having... CONTINUE READING QUIT YOUR DAY JOB: YEASAYER»
Posted on November 7, 2007 in , (4 comments)
Tags: Yeasayer
While we were taking in No Age and White Williams, witnessing Deacon's Ballroom-sized dance-tag, and hitting the streets with the W.K., Abbey was representing Stereogum's best interests across the river by hitting the second-best bill on the evening, brought... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: YEASAYER/ALBERTA CROSS/SAM CHAMPION/FOALS/A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS @ MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN 10/18/07 (AFTER THE JUMP SHOWCASE)»
Posted on October 19, 2007 in , , (1 comments)
Tags: A Place To Bury Strangers | Alberta Cross | CMJ | Foals | Sam Champion | Yeasayer
