The best music videos that crossed my video screen this week -- the top three on the list you'll find below -- are paranoid little masterworks of dread and disorientation and confusion. I have no…   Read Story »

Between MS MR's clip for "Hurricane" yesterday and this, the Soft Moon's video for "Want," I'd like to suggest to Tom that perhaps this week's video wrap-up be about the most unsettling visuals of…   Read Story »

Last year, Bay Area postpunkers the Soft Moon released a tough, terse album called Zeros. And now here's director Jacqueline Castel's eroding black-and-white video for the brooding single "Insides."…   Read Story »

The Soft Moon's "Die Life" is a breathy, fuzzy track and the band has crafted a jarring black and white clip featuring a wall of snowy televisions. The backdrop is well suited to the track, almost…   Read Story »

Here's one of those moments where the remixer and remixee are perfect complements to one another: Bleak Bay Area postpunkers the Soft Moon taking on "Ice Age," the skeletal, insinuating dark-folk…   Read Story »

Fall has fallen, as they say. As a result this month's mix of ten tracks delivered right on time for September's grand finale has all the classic ingredients of a prosperous autumn: rap, punk,…   Read Story »

Stereogum40 Class of '11 alum the Soft Moon are set to release a new LP, Zeros, this fall. This single "Insides" is one of its contents, and it's another steamy, Factory Records-redolent post-punk…   Read Story »

Yesterday, Portland's MusicFestNW wrapped up five days of concerts at over a dozen venues throughout the city. Among the acts who performed were Passion Pit, Beirut, Girl Talk, Dinosaur Jr., Flying…   Read Story »

Summer is ending! And you have some work to do. Did you experience that season-defining moment? That rooftop conversation, that carefree weekend of intense interpersonal bonding? Did you find the…   Read Story »

The clangorous San Francisco postpunk group the Soft Moon have made a name for themselves with 2010's self-titled album and last year's Total Decay EP -- two excellent examples of dark, feral,…   Read Story »