When leaving the apartment the other night, I was stopped in my tracks by a strange noise emanating from our living room. Or rather, it was the source that was strange. The TV was on, and behind some whiny teen drama on the CW (Gossip Girls?) was “Time to Pretend,
Daedelus has pulled an increasingly common move to promote his upcoming album, Love to Make Music To: If you release the remix, they will come. The new single, “Make It So (featuring Michael Johnson)” has become irresistibly dance-worthy in the hands of Spank Rock’s XXXchange, who have yet to
The Foals may be the most prematurely remixed indie band ever, thanks mostly to The Lemur, who I recently encountered on a net surf-ari. The Lemur Blog was host to a pair of Foals remix competitions that yielded dozens of results of varying successes. That’s a whole heck of
The Black Ghosts are also the subject of premature hypulation. They’ve been generating heat since the release of their EP last fall, and are now releasing exclusive music videos (on Big Stereo and Missing Toof) for every track on their self-titled debut before it’s out on July 8.
On Nov. 14, Lupe Fiasco released the tracklist to his sophomore effort, The Cool. The tracks themselves will remain in a tightly guarded lockbox until the album hits stores Dec. 18. Or will they? Over Thanksgiving break, I got my hands on nearly half of Lupe’s precious material. It
About a decade ago it became common to say about new movies that were good, but not that good: “I’ll wait for it to come out on DVD.” If they were that good, it’d be worth it to deal with the inability to lay in front of the
While I can’t personally relate to “a mescaline freakout at an off-Broadway show / in the morning,”* there’s something familiar and friendly about Luke Temple’s “Saturday People.” Its folksy feel and tripped-out lyrics make you want to gather on a big ol’ front porch in the country with
You've seen his endearing drawings in brother Wes's The Royal Tenenbaums; catch more of Eric Chase Anderson's work in his new "novel with maps," Chuck Dugan Is AWOL. A couple steps up from Lemony Snicket, the novel takes its reader-viewers along for
