Asobi Seksu’s woozy, sugar-sweet pop songs sound as if they were built with a microscope, their lushness a product of singer/keyboardist Yuki Chikudate and guitarist James Hanna’s extreme attention to detail. When their UK label asked them to record ...
Access to music from the third world may be easy via the Internet, but Clayton’s discovery is often firsthand. In addition to DJing in over 30 countries now, he has spent much of the last decade living in Barcelona. It was his desire to be “caffeinated” ...
New York duo Chromeo know how to put together a mix. Their recent entry to the famed DJ-Kicks compilation series featured members Patrick Gemayel (P-Thugg) and David Macklovitch’s (Dave 1) favorite “leather pants” tracks and sex-soaked funk from from ...
From Patrick Wolf and Tilda Swinton to Lil’ Wayne and Weezer, 2009 is the year of surprising collaborations. Though previous years yielded some amazing partnerships (Johnny Marr and Modest Mouse, and Mike Watt with Kelly Clarkson), the past 10 months ...
Talking from a New York studio, where he’s working on a new record with jazz pianist Matthew Shipp, he’s also wrapping up his next solo record and thinking about the next Anti-Pop record — where he hopes the experimental hip-hop quartet will explore ...
It’s Yom Kippur, and many of us have the day off from work. You could spend the day atoning. Or you could check out some of best and least-MTV friendly music videos to come out over the last couple years. Just over a week ago, German ...
The debut album from Monsters of Folk melds the considerable talents of M. Ward, Conor Oberst, and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James. The Monsters moniker was given to the group by fans during a tour five years ago, and it fits: at nearly an hour, the ...
Yoko Ono was a musician long before she became Mrs. John Lennon. But Ono, now 76, never seemed very concerned with defending her own musical reputation, leaving it up to her detractors and cult fans to decide. Then, her 1981 dance-floor classic ...
The sixth annual Decibel Festival takes over Seattle next weekend, with more than 100 artists playing 14 venues over four days. Though it’ll be hard to top last year’s fifth anniversary event, the nonprofit music and art festival has done it with this ...
The second album from Brooklyn trio Vivian Girls is dark, moody, and just as indebted to Nirvana and the Wipers as ’60s girl groups. The threesome revels in its dark side on its punk-influenced sophomore release, Everything Goes Wrong. The signature ...
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