Mixing indie pop and interpretative dance is a great idea and Chairlift are known for their great ideas. In this treatment for "Ceiling Wax" (the Chairlift song most reminiscent of "In The Air…   Read Story »

MGMT follow their "Kids" harassing video with a song the kids don't seem to know: The YouTube header for this cover of 'Til Tuesday's 1985 hit labels it "another new song," because the person who…   Read Story »

No doubt "Bruises" is the song that made Brooklyn-via-Boulder trio Chairlift famous, but when they recently released a non-nano video for it -- Caroline Polachek watching, painting and rolling…   Read Story »

Chairlift have been making videos for Does You Inspire You since last summer, but that was before Apple made them nano-famous, so recent ones (like this eye-spinning Ray Tintori…   Read Story »

When not torturing children/proving they've never read Nietzsche, MGMT have been adding shakers and rain sticks and other trippy new elements to one-time tour and labelmates Violens' "Doomed."…   Read Story »

Glasser is L.A.'s Cameron Mesirow, with an assist from Foreign Born's Matt Popieluch. But essentially it's a one-woman bedroom project for now, driven home by this cloudy one-woman video. Except for…   Read Story »

One of the things I liked about early Telepathe was the spooky, hollowed, and echoing sound. While it's a fun record, the Dave Sitek-produced Dance Mother loses that vibe amid the hi-fi layers. Which…   Read Story »

Brooklyn-via-Boulder trio Chairlift moved from the indie promo piles to the Commercial Appeal archives when Apple tapped "Bruises" to be the Nano fight song. Now they're scooping Kanye on video…   Read Story »

A great song deserves a great video. Chairlift's Knife-inspired dance cut "Evident Utensil" satisfies its end of the equation, and director Ray Tintori's visual mind-fuckery here more than does its…   Read Story »

As the Times recently noted, bloggers are throwing shows and stuff! Ludlow Street during daylight hours on Tuesday was particularly rife with the Wordpressers and Movable Typers, courtesy of Pop…   Read Story »