Music video for "You" by Atmosphere, off the record When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That S**t Gold. Released in 2008 by Rhymesayers Entertainment.
Atmosphere is playing Fun Fun Fun Fest this Saturday. Get your tickets here.
Video for Kings of Leon's latest single "Use Somebody" from Only By The Night (RCA)
Excerpt from Alan Yentob's "The Story of the Guitar" featuring Johnny Marr.
Revival Tour featuring Tim Barry, Ben Nichols, Chuck Ragan and Tom Gabel
Performing Sunday on Stage Two at 3:00
Old punks don’t die; they just reinvent themselves as tattooed
troubadours. That seems to be the motto of the Revival Tour. Tim Barry,
Ben Nichols, Chuck Ragan and Tom Gabel are arguably four of the best
wordsmiths of their generation, so it seems only natural that they
would shed the boom and bang of their full-time bands for stripped-down
solo settings, flirting with bluegrass, country and folk.
Music video for "Summer Song" by YACHT, off the Summer Song EP. Released in 2008 by DFA Records.
YACHT plays Fun Fun Fun Fest this Saturday. Get your tickets here.
It’s Wednesday, and that means it’s time for Nick Courtright’s
weekly first glance at music discovered in the last seven days, whether
it be just-released, just-leaked, or some long-lost gem that has
remained under the radar. Click here for other recent editions of Hot Off the Press, featuring acts such as
TV on the Radio, Deerhoof, Cold War Kids, of Montreal, Juana Molina,
Crystal Stilts, Final Fantasy, Peter Bjorn & John, White Denim, and
Grizzly Bear.
Deerhunter – Microcastle & Weird Era Cont.
officially released October 28th on Kranky
Report Cards: A & B+
It’s easy to understand renowned freak-out Bradford Cox’s recent freak
out regarding Deerhunter’s unenviable history with internet leaks.
After all, Microcastle was perhaps exhibit 1A of the potential
terribleness of leaks and their ability to diminish the significance of
an actual release date: while Microcastle finally hit the
shelves of your favorite indie record store just last week, the
intrepid web scourer probably stumbled upon the album more than five
months ago. Yeah, that’s a long time, and the result was that a
healthy dose of the excitement surrounding what would have been a
highly-anticipated third release was diluted by the spread out nature
with which listeners encountered the work. Of course, you could make a
counter-argument that the seemingly interminable delay for the album’s
actual release date (why did it take so long, after all?) lent
enough separation for those who listened to and enjoyed the album
months ago to now be reintroduced to it, with greater perspective and,
really, a much more refined ear for just how excellent the album ended
up being.
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