In the world of Shannon Funchess and Bruno Coviello, "face down in the river my love" is a lyric that obviously should be depicted via lifeless bodies strewn about and soaked in a tar-black…   Read Story »

NYC twins Darin and Greg Bresnitz (Dinner With The Band, Finger On The Pulse) put out a live compilation companion to their web radio show, Snacky Tunes, last year, which featured live cuts from…   Read Story »

Today the third track from Light Asylum's forthcoming self-titled debut surfaced, the uptempo clapper "IPC." Previously we've heard "Shallow Tears" as well as "Genesis" from that affair. Hit the…   Read Story »

Hey, everybody, it's that time again! South By Southwest 2012. Are you ready? How's your hashtag game? Can you feel the early-onset FOMO? As the Austin institution grows larger and larger, with more…   Read Story »

Light Asylum will release their full-length, self-titled debut later this spring, and today yields that affair's lead single "Shallow Tears" -- a grandiose, starry industrial breakdown featuring some…   Read Story »

New Order drum patches, darkwave synths, black and white imagery, and a horse -- it's Shannon Funchess and Brother Bruno's Light Asylum dream bottled up in a single embed. I suggest putting this on…   Read Story »

Their 2011 album Channel Pressure was all queasy synthpop, like a bad-dream memory of '80s PBS science-film soundtracks, but Ford & Lopatin go in a couple of different directions on a new…   Read Story »

We're on the other side of CMJ now, which you could probably tell by the uptick in the music news cycle, or by some bloggers' (could be any bloggers, no way to know who I am talking about) bleary…   Read Story »

Last year, right around the time summer turned to fall, we at Stereogum published our list of the 40 best new bands of the year. The idea of a "new" band is a pretty nebulous one, since many of the…   Read Story »

This past weekend, NYC presented a number of only-in-NYC type concerts to help locals feel like they did some unique shit before the summer was over. For me, that meant seeing Lemonade, Reggie Watts,…   Read Story »