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10. After noticing a spare copy of Pigeon Racer Digest: the Thinking Person's Journal of Racing Pigeons in the Hot Boys' trailer,* "that boy" decided to join the American Racing Pigeon Union and make a go of it in the wide world of ornithology. 9. Decided to leave Magnolia because hanging out wit ... More >>
In the flaccid world of indie rock, Will Oldham stands fully erect
What might the classical music establishment learn from pop?
How the paradigm shifted at Coachella 2007
The Arcade Fires modest grandeur
How the Arcade Fire died and went to heaven
What matters for buzz bands these days is becoming the next blog thing
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Or, black people dont like George Bush
Or, black people dont like George Bush
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The Arcade Fire tap into all the bliss running wild underneath
Last year when Sasha-Frere Jones wrote his now-infamous piece on the whiteness of indie rock, he repeatedly included the phrase "miscenegation" to describe the cross-pollination of sound between black and white music. The diction seemed deliberate, a molotov cocktail designed to rile up the chatte ... More >>
Bloggers are every journalist's favorite whipping boy. If a shitty band gets too popular, blame the bloggers. If the standards of professional journalism have eroded too much, blame the bloggers. If by 2010, Vampire Weekend has inspired legions of college freshmen to dress as ironic yachters, bla ... More >>
I actually own this on CD-single, which is either keeping it real, or keeping it really retarded. From the first moments of the reel, one can immediately infer that the film is going to be of quality. Why? The stamp of quality from Mo' Thugs Family Features. Like the ill-fated male fortunetelle ... More >>
The analog pleasures of Radiohead's digital revolution by Randall Roberts (Photo by John Spinks) There are a few different ways to get to Big Sur from Los Angeles, but in the big picture it doesn't matter which route you take, because regardless, you're leaving Los Angeles and going to Big Sur. You ... More >>
10. Spoon-Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga [Merge] Sasha Frere-Jones is a joke and Spoon can prove it. I mean, if all I had to judge indie rock on was the Arcade Fire and the Decemberists and Sufjan Stevens (all acts I like), maybe I might come up with something as hackish as his risible blow-up, but the best R& ... More >>
Animal Collective-Strawberry Jam Sounds Like Bad Acid Trip At arcade in New Jersey Let Panda roam solo. Arcade Fire-Neon Bible Right now in heaven Toole Composes Lengthy Indictment Against Neon Bible.
Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem and Wild Light Hollywood Bowl, September 20. By Randall Roberts There was a moment about three-quarters of the way through Arcade Fire’s victorious show at the Hollywood Bowl last night – I think it was during “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)” -- when lead singer Wi ... More >>
If you are the kind of person that actually pays attention to this kind of thing, then here's a full list of this year's Grammy nominees . Yes, Amy Winehouse got a ton of nominations, if she can hold it together until the awards area announced. Kanye West got eight, and we can only hope he gets sh ... More >>
Got in last night. Don't even ask about the airplane flight. OK, ask. Horrible, horrible drunk musician-esque type guy sitting behind me, using f-words muchly, trying to impress the unimpressed female next to him. He was under the unfortunate impression that everything he thought, and then said, was ... More >>
West Coast Sound reviews Dead Man's Bones debut album though the lens of the 17th century Japanese poetic form, the Haiku.
Arcade Fire Richard Kelly Team Up for the Box
Bowie also waited for his manPitchfork reports that Peter Gabriel will be releasing an album of covers, in which he will tackle hits and more obscure cuts by David Bowie, Paul Simon, Elbow, Bon Iver, Talking Heads, The Arcade Fire, Regina Spektor, Radiohead, Lou Reed ("The Power of the Heart" ... More >>
MTV is reporting that popular-yet-monotonous pop group Arcade Fire and eccentric trust-fund-skater director Spike Jonze are collaborating on a secretive movie project (a "short film"). That faint sound you just heard is the controlled explosion of thousands of heads of hipsters (aka Pabstafa ... More >>
Local NativesLife is apparently quite sweet for the young lads of Local Natives. The Silver Lake via Orange County quintet signed to French Kiss Records last year, and has been getting loads of winning press since releasing its LP debut, Gorilla Manor, in February. Among the comparisons tha ... More >>
Mumford & Sons don't add up. Four tidy West London boys doing achy, dusty Americana -- why, that's almost as suspect as four preppies from Columbia University embracing world beats in their pop music, isn't it? Indeed, Marcus Mumford and compatriots Ben Lovett, Country (!) Winston and Ted Dwa ... More >>
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Arcade FireNot much we can say here is going to change your mind about Arcade Fire. You're either a believer, or not. You've either dropped some paycheck/worked an angle/called in a favor to get a ticket to one of the next two nights' sold-out shows, or not. (Or, you'll wait for Coachella, w ... More >>
Timothy NorrisArcade FireIt doesn't seem all that long ago when we watched Arcade Fire play in front of a wildly exuberant crowd at Irving Plaza in New York City during the Funeral tour, with frontman Win Butler playfully apologizing for not having enough songs in the repertoire to play a lon ... More >>
Down in a Hole: Chilean Miner Mix Tape 2010
Jason ArthursSuperchunkThe most treacherous territory Superchunk had to negotiate to make Majesty Shredding, the band's first album in nine years, had nothing to do with music. It was -- and you aspiring rockers can relate -- those pesky day jobs. Frontman Mac McCaughan and bassist Laura Ba ... More >>
A Little Grouplove Feels So Good [MP3]
Haiku News: Wavves' Williams Arrested in Germany, Joan Baez Falls From Treehouse, Peter Hook Talks Joy Division Tour, Michael Jackson's Lost Video
Rumors about who will be headlining Coachella 2011 pretty much started the moment the last harmonics stop resonating at the Indio Polo Field last spring. With 2011 fast approaching, and Goldenvoice ticket layaway plan under way, the guessing game encouraged by the festival through its ever-ac ... More >>
Beatle Bones and Smokin' Stones: The Captain abidesIt is a widely known (and kind of sick) fact of the music business that nothing helps sales of the back catalog of an artist like the death of said artist. The massive sales bump caused by people rushing to online (and occasionally also to b ... More >>
Top 10 Cover Songs of 2010
lee.org With the lineup for Coachella still unannounced, rumors are flying as to the possibilities for the headliners. Here are the some unconfirmed (but widely rumored) potential headliners, as well as our best guesses as to why each will (or will not) make the cut. We'd like you to vote fo ... More >>
[UPDATE: Ed's note: We've received a freaked out message from people associated with OFWGKTA that implies that our little scoop might jeopardize the previously almost certain chance of Odd Future performing at the festival. C'mon Goldenvoice: let Odd Future play! And shouldn't you be penaliz ... More >>
This is the official press release: Coachella 2011. Music. Art. Culture. Community. With the Coachella line-up announcement serving as the official kick-off to the annual U.S. festival season, festival organizers Goldenvoice can now reveal details for the 2011 Coachella Valley Music & Art ... More >>
Arcade Fire Frontwoman RegineYeah, yeah we know: The Arcade Fire is playing a secret club show in LA. [UPDATE: We got the right locations.] You were probably monitoring Arcade Fire's Twitter feed all week awaiting details about the Montreal group's surprise show tonight. Last night, that fe ... More >>
This was the line at 10:30 am in front of Origami Vinyl in Echo Park for the chance to buy tickets to the "secret" Arcade Fire show. (A few minutes later the line was flipped around towards Silver Lake. Also, some hipster lady was complaining to a cop that someone jacked her bag and she was ... More >>
Demonic Guitar Puppet FTW Bear with us: Grammy-winning outfit Arcade Fire is led by very tall person Win Butler, raised a conservative Mormon in a family that famously included 1920s to 1950s bandleader Alvino Rey. Alvino Rey is Win Butler's grandfather. Rey is also known as the "father of ... More >>
Demonic Guitar Puppet FTW Bear with us: Grammy-winning outfit Arcade Fire is led by very tall person Win Butler, raised a conservative Mormon in a family that famously included 1920s to 1950s bandleader Alvino Rey. Alvino Rey is Win Butler's grandfather. Rey is also known as the "father of ... More >>
The weather is doing that weird thing we hate wherein there is a forty degree swing in temperature between noon and midnight. Advice: dress in layers if you're going to go out after work on Friday, or you'll be one of those poor fools standing in line outside the club in flip flops and a ta ... More >>
We're in the money! We're in the money! We're in the money and we got what it takes to get to Indiooooo!While for you, me, and everyone we know Coachella has been sold-out for months, for members of an exclusive VIP website called GiltCity, this might not be the case. A tipster pointed us to ... More >>
Coachella 2011 starts tomorrow, so if you, along with a disproportionate number of other people in this town, are currently packing your car with permissible gear (no weapons, no drugs, no flags, no outside food, no stuffed animals) and all your Kanye and Arcade Fire and Interpol t-shirts, y ... More >>
Coachella 2011: Top 5 Dance Moves Witnessed During Arcade Fire (and How to Do Them Yourself!)
photo by Wendy GilmartinThis guys wasn't at Duran Duran Coachella is all about variety and sure there are those fleeting chocolate-in-my-peanut butter moments when scenesters, hippies and douchebags all get down together (see Animal Collective, Saturday night). But right now we're talking ab ... More >>
photo by Wendy GilmartinThis guys wasn't at Duran Duran Coachella is all about variety and sure there are those fleeting chocolate-in-my-peanut butter moments when scenesters, hippies and douchebags all get down together (see Animal Collective, Saturday night). But right now we're talking ab ... More >>
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