A quick note: Frank Ocean is appearing on Saturday Night Live, hosted by Seth MacFarline, this Saturday. Check out our review of his album Channel Orange and see him perform live on the show. He’s great.
UK-based band Alt-J are honored to announce their nomination for this year’s Mercury Prize, the annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland. Past winners of the Mercury Prize include PJ Harvey, Portishead, Pulp, Arctic Monkeys, and The xx. This year’s nominees include albums from Michael Kiwanuka, Ben Howard,
Thomas Azier is a Berlin-based electro-pop artist whose sound is both nostalgic and current; revisiting the sparkle and magic of the genre, so often ignored in the post-internet music era. Bridging the analogue and digital worlds with symphonic precision, his music is an anthem for the present, pulling from the past, looking to the future.
If you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to check out the music video from ARMY NAVY for their new single, “World’s End.” Directed by Mark Schoenecker and starring Martin Starr (Freaks and Geeks,Party Down) and Camille Cregan (The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks), the video for “World’s End” takes place in the television studio
“Running Red Lights,” a brand new track fromThe Postelles, was released today by +1 Records. Running Red Lights by The Postelles The Postelles will headline a pair of hometown shows this month, playing the MOMA PopRally in New York City on September 6th and the Cameo Gallery in Williamsburg on September 14th. They’ll be on
Dirty Ghosts‘ front woman Allyson Baker has been a guitarist in both Toronto and San Francisco’s hardcore scene for years, and now she’s stepped up to the microphone with Dirty Ghosts whose “Katana Rock” video directed by Derrick Beckles (creator of TV CARNAGE, Adult Swim’s Totally For Teens and the upcoming series Hot Package) marks
Delta Rae are proud to announce that they’ve been selected to perform at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina on Thursday, September 6th. Calling it a “tribute to the dynamic convention host state,” the Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) announced that the band will join the lineup of fellow North Carolina artist, James
“Like an invitation you weren’t expecting to get, Atlas Genius knocks on your door and creeps into your peripheries in stealth mode,” said Neon Gold shortly after the then-unsigned band put “Trojans“ on SoundCloud last year. “Fair warning: ‘Trojans’ will invade your head, all dressed up in a clever disguise of earnest vocals riding a hooky riff.”
Barsuk Records is excited to announce that Yellow Ostrich are heading out on a fall tour in support of their latest album Strange Land. The headlining tour begins October 26th at Kung Fu Necktie in Philadelphia and wraps up November 14th at the Bowery Ballroom in New York. The jaunt also includes dates with Sharon Van
We’re excited to announce the winner of a pair of tickets to see Field Report play at Hollywood’s intimate Hotel Café this Saturday, August 25. For those of you who are not familiar with Field Report, it is the solo project of Chris Porterfield. The musician got his start playing the pedal steel guitar in DeYarmond Edison, the