Truly sad news. Today we suffered yet another devastating loss of a great talent.
Usually around this time of year I am cursing the weather gods and awaiting the spring tour season to begin, however spring seems to have come early here in New York City. And so have the tours! Just...
This just in: the mastermind behind some of my favorite remixes (The Killers, Friendly Fires, Gwen Stefani, Madonna) has given Miike Snow‘s latest single Paddling Out an epic makeover. Check ou...
The time has come upon us New York City, ten glorious days of Björk‘s Biophilia live show. The sold out New York Hall of Science residency kicks off tonight for six nights before moving to Rose...
Without further ado, here is the football-infused video clip for the first single from Madonna‘s upcoming album, M.D.N.A. Pre-order the album HERE and receive the single now! Tune in for half-t...
It’s finally here, M.I.A.‘s first official single/video since 2010′s XXO (MAYA deserved more commercial singles IMO). Bad Girls was directed by Romain Gavras who did the unforgettab...
Miike Snow just shared the video clip Paddling Out, the first single from their sophomore album Happy To You. Check out the video below and find out more about Happy To You along with tour dates HERE.
The tracklisting for Madonna‘s twelfth studio album, M.D.N.A. was released at the stroke of midnight via her official website. Very interesting song titles for a 53 year-old but do we expect an...
Photograph by Holly Lucas I have become obsessed with the Young Turks Radio series broadcast over Australian radio station FBi 94.5FM. The week long take over has so far included live sets from Chair...
British electronic duo Orbital are back with their first offering in eight years…and they’ve brought Zola Jesus along for the first single New France! In addition to the new track, watch ...
After a successful jaunt of New York City (5 gigs in 5 days to be exact) in promotion of their Rough Trade debut album America Give Up, Minneapolis’s Howler have launched forth into their very ...
It’s been quite some time since we’ve seen or heard from the darling Lissy Trullie, but nearly three years since the release of her Self-Taught Learner EP she is back with her self-titled...
After scaring Interscope records with their sophomore offering, South African shockers Die Antwoord chose to distribute the album under their own ZEF Records imprint. The result is Ten$ion, an album ...
The 2 Bears are: DJ Raf Daddy (aka Raphael Rundell, Ministry of Sound radio host, label head and promoter) and Joe Goddard (who released this gem in 2011) of Tastes Like Caramel favorite Hot Chip. Yo...
YES AND YES. Purchase M.I.A’s Bad Girls HERE.
Ummm… how about we just let Ke$ha explain this one. On her YouTube channel, Ke$ha writes: “This video is the product of my friends seeing how sleazy the already monumentally Sleazy Remix ...
Jack Peñate live at Mercury Lounge, 2009 Somehow I missed the news of Jack Peñate releasing this one-take recording. Absolute stunning, can’t wait for more. Check out our 2009 interview with Ja...
photo by Ryan Barkan of Brooklyn Vegan This past Sunday I spent the afternoon pleasantly revisiting Feist‘s 2011 album Metals [see: Best Albums of 2011] as well as her 1999 debut Monarch (Lay Y...
Gearing up for her much anticipated sophomore album, Ladyhawke has employed The Big Pink to give her latest single Black, White And Blue the remix treatment. Stream The Big Pink‘s (who just rel...
Bad Girls was released this morning in its entirety via Pitchfork where they briefly mention the release of M.I.A.‘s fourth studio album in summer 2012. Further “research” brought m...
M.I.A. has kept good on her word and will debut the Danja-produced track Bad Girls on Monday, January 30th at 2:30PM EST via Pitchfork. Romain Gavras once again takes directing duties for the video w...
This afternoon Sleigh Bells released the music video for Comeback Kid, the first single from Reign of Terror, the follow up to their 2010 debut Treats . The video is airy, fun, summery, and pretty an...
Ladyhawke is finally back with Black, White and Blue, the first official taste of Anxiety (out March 19th on Modular Records). In an interview with NME, Pip Brown aka Ladyhawke described the record a...
After premiering Paddling Out to rave reviews last Friday, Miike Snow have shared yet another track this morning from their upcoming sophomore album Happy To You (out March 27th). By the look and sou...
Santi-land continues! Check out the music video for Big Mouth, the first single from Santigold‘s upcoming album Master of My Own Make-Believe directed by Cody Critcheloe of SSION (who also dire...
By now you already heard me gush about Santigold‘s first show of the year on Monday night at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in which she debuted brand new material from her urgently-anticipated...
I should have waited a few hours for that last post! Here it is, the music video directed by “Cody Critcheloe aka SSION and styled by M.I.A.’s /\/\ /\ Y /\-era stylist Haley Wollens. ” Ch...
Over the past couple of weeks @_VFILES has innovatively debuted original tracks from the likes Lemonade and MNDR via their 1-855-MYV-3800 hotline. The pre-recorded telephone service debuts one new tr...
I was so bummed out when the Afro-Punk Festival was cancelled back in August as a precaution for Hurricane Irene (which was all hype). The stellar line-up included Janelle Monae, Cee-Lo Green, Res, N...
This morning Sleigh Bells shared the first single aptly titled Comeback Kid from their sophomore album Reign of Terror. Check out a stream of the track below along with the first round of 2012 tour d...
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