Showing All "Grimes" Posts
Jun 8th, 2012 Comment
Grimes is busy! Claire Boucher has been having a moment all year, and she'll spend the next few months touring relentlessly, taking her zeitgeist-grabbing show to various different corners of the…   Read Story »
May 30th, 2012 4 Comments
Blood Diamonds -- AKA Vancouver's Mike Tucker -- will put out a 12'' this summer, and today yields that release's vivid lead cut, the tropical electro-dance groove "Phone Sex." It features vocals…   Read Story »
May 24th, 2012 1 Comment
Talented Canadian MC Cadence Weapon will put out Hope In Dirt City next week, an LP from which we've already heard the hypnotic single "Conditioning" (as well as its Grimes remix). Now, another remix…   Read Story »
May 10th, 2012 34 Comments
The first video from Grimes' breakout album Visions was "Oblivion," a seriously unforgettable piece of work that stands as, perhaps, 2012's best music video to date. She's now followed it up with a…   Read Story »
May 8th, 2012 8 Comments
The best live act I saw at SXSW is touring Canada by train, and he's taking Diplo and Grimes with him! By now, the fact that I love Skrillex has passed into some sort of Stereogum-infamy history, but…   Read Story »
Apr 27th, 2012 33 Comments
Grimes continues her life as a human meme today by announcing that she's got a new line of jewelry with jeweler and sculptor Morgan Black. The first thing that they'll sell together: "pussy rings."…   Read Story »
Apr 25th, 2012 Comment
Fiercely intelligent Canuck rapper Cadence Weapon already delivered the intense video for "Conditioning," and now he's made that lead single available for download, as well, alongside a remix of the…   Read Story »
Apr 25th, 2012 8 Comments
TV doesn't have the stranglehold on adolescent imagination it once did, but still it is fun to think about impressionable adolescents sitting up in their parents' living rooms fighting sleep, stuck…   Read Story »
Mar 28th, 2012 3 Comments
In February, Grimes stopped into Seattle's KEXP to record a live session in celebration of her new LP, Visions. KEXP recently posted footage of the performance, which includes live takes of…   Read Story »
Mar 27th, 2012 10 Comments
Everybody's favorite Human Serviette had a busy SXSW, taking time to interview A$AP Mob, Danny Brown, Kendrick Lamar and Action Bronson. Just as his hyper-researched, quirky interview series starts…   Read Story »
































