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Apr 29th 2 Comments
The Knife are not exactly road dogs. Before last night, the mysterious Swedish electronic duo hadn't played a live show in seven years. And, arguably, they still haven't. On Friday night, the group…   Read Story »
Apr 18th 2 Comments
Thus far, the Knife's massive and intimidating new double album Shaking The Habitual has produced two videos, for "Full Of Fire" and "A Tooth For An Eye," that serve and gender-play mini-manifestos.…   Read Story »
Apr 9th 4 Comments
Today, the Knife release Shaking The Habitual, their dark and overwhelming new double album. And now they've teamed with director Marit Östberg, who also helmed their "Full Of Fire" video, to make a…   Read Story »
Apr 4th 28 Comments
On "Raging Lung," a little more than halfway through the Knife's gargantuan new album Shaking The Habitual, a few familiar words show up: "What a difference, what a difference a little difference…   Read Story »
Apr 2nd 90 Comments
Awww shit, it's finally here. Seven years after releasing the stone-classic Silent Shout, the Knife are about to drop their rabidly anticipated follow-up album Shaking The Habitual on the world.…   Read Story »
Mar 18th 8 Comments
In anticipation of their upcoming album Shaking The Habitual, Sweden's the Knife have given UK record shop RISE a massive missive regarding the tenor of the release. With the video for "A Tooth For…   Read Story »
Mar 8th 9 Comments
Yesterday, Beach House and Phoenix both dropped mindbending, huge-budgeted videos at basically the exact same moment; as soon as I got done writing up one of them, I had to launch into the next one…   Read Story »
Mar 8th 26 Comments
The Knife's first video from their forthcoming Shaking The Habitual took heteronormative attitudes and attire and turned them inside out. As of today, that sort of radical stance on gender-based…   Read Story »
Feb 14th 8 Comments
Last year, the Knife announced Shaking The Habitual, the long-awaited full-length follow-up to 2006's Silent Shout. A small clip of a new track "A Tooth For An Eye" has surfaced on the web -- a much…   Read Story »
Feb 1st 8 Comments
This is the week the music-video gods finally awoke from their slumber. I had to leave so much good stuff off the list this week: self-deprecating superstar send-ups, excitingly one-note punk-rock…   Read Story »































