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Blogs
January 8, 2013
Our Ten Most Anticipated Indie Albums For 2013
With the anticipated return of big-name indie bands like Phoenix, Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend this year, 2013 is shaping up to be big. But aside from the usual suspects, there are also some newcomers and reunited acts expected to make noise this year. Here are some albums we speculate may end up ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2012
The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List
*Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All-Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List Considering that most all of today's popular music -- be it roc ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2012
The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time: 5-1
See also: *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 20-16 *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 15-11 *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time: 10-6 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time 5. Radiohead Go ahead and turn on VH1 right now. You know those bands playing in the background of your favor ... More >>
Music
September 15, 2011
Music Picks: Joan Osborne, Tears for Fears, the Cute Lepers, J. Cole, Low
Also Bon Iver, Cerebellion, Surfer Blood and others
Music
June 2, 2011
Finders Keepers Records Revamps the Vampire Soundtrack
Also Bon Iver, Cerebellion, Surfer Blood and others
Blogs
January 28, 2011
Top 10 Reasons Music Fans Should Go to L.A. Museums This Weekend (#1: They're FREE!)
LA Weekly's contributing writer (and dapper man-about-town) Drew Tewksbury has tipped us to the fact that this weekend many of the major museums in L.A. are FREE to the public! Details are on the L.A. museums' website, and we think everyone should take advantage of this deal, particularly mu ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2011
Coachella: Now You Can Vote for the Headliner Right Here
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 >>
Blogs
December 14, 2010
Top 5 Most Disappointing Musical Hypes of 2010
5 Most Over Hyped Albums of the Year
Music
November 4, 2010
NIGHTRANGER: Monster's Ball
5 Most Over Hyped Albums of the Year
Blogs
September 24, 2010
This weekend: Rx Bandits, Band of Horses, Vampire Weekend, Muse, Abbot Kinney Festival, Epicenter Festival, Willie Nelson, Rancid, Waved Out II, Helmet
Rx BanditsFew would have thought that the Orange County ska-punk kids who a decade ago started playing as the Pharmaceutical Bandits would grow up to be a Coachella band. But the quartet now known Rx Bandits has, their party in the desert last spring certifying Matt Embree and crew as musica ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2010
Last Night: Futurebirds and Lord Huron at Silverlake Lounge
Jessica DustonFuturebirdsIn the warm, dark fuggy gloom of the Silverlake Lounge Futurebirds made their Los Angeles debut last night. Hailing from Athens, Georgia, the six piece was probably expecting a wilder crowd from the city of Angels. Their guitarist, a young man with a giant beard, imp ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2010
Watch: Best Coast Meets Kid Cudi Meets Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij in 'All Summer'
Kid CudiFile this one under: "Shilling for shoes." A couple of weeks ago we hipped you to the pending Converse-sponsored collaboration between L.A.'s rising surf-pop princess Bethany Cosentino, a.k.a. Best Coast, Cleveland rapper Kid Cudi and New York's Rostam Batmanglij, who sometimes perfo ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2010
Shocker!: Vampire Weekend Preppie Album Cover Model Grows Up to Be Litigious, Money-Hungry Malibu Dweller
Litigious Malibu-dweller Kirsten Kennis, back in the '80sIt's always a red-letter day when Pitchfork has to link back to TMZ and all the sub-worlds of entertainment, as John Lennon and Timothy Leary would say, come together. And all through the magic of Vampire Weekend, the preppie gift that ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2010
Live in L.A.: Mumford & Sons, Free Kutmah benefit, Fitz & the Tantrums, Death by Stereo
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 >>
Music
May 27, 2010
"We're Not Sexual Blobs!"
Pocahaunted's Amanda Brown on their "body music," loving leather, and getting funky with the French
Blogs
May 17, 2010
Vampire Weekend Keyboardist to Debut New 'Boys Like Us' Project in Highland Park [MP3]
'Batman' is in his name.This just in. On Friday, May 21, Vampire Weekend keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij will debut his new Boys Like Us project at The Highlands in Highland Park. No word as to whether or not he'll bring his own band, but Batmanglij will be accompanied by the Calder Quartet, t ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2010
Watch: Local Natives Go Blue Blood (via Zissou) for "World News" Video
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 >>
Blogs
April 16, 2010
Concert-Goers Endure Three-Hour Wait At Coachella
Dennis RomeroWith reporting from Bill Jensen Concert-goers waited for as long as three hours in near 90-degree heat Friday afternoon to get into the annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, a three-day affair in Indio, Calif. Organizers seemed ill-prepared to deal with an onslaught o ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2010
Is 'Prep Rock' the New 'Yacht Rock'?
It was but a few weeks ago that we music lovers were treated to a massive ad campaign for Vampire Weekend's Contra, featuring an allegedly mysterious picture of an uberpreppy girl in a yellow polo shirt (a Ralph Lauren Polo© shirt to be more precise) with an upturned collar. Now the indie tastemake ... More >>
Blogs
January 13, 2010
Vampire Weekend at the Fonda: More Songs About Language and Taxis
In the schoolyard world of rock & roll, it's easy to see why Vampire Weekend gets picked on. Looking so meek, so intellectual, so teacher's pet, the band -- from suburban New York, no less -- looks the very antithesis of rebellion. They're more like an after-school study group than the most buzzed- ... More >>
Blogs
January 12, 2010
Vampire Weekend in Los Angeles: Ezra Koenig Talks Third Wave Ska, Song Construction, the Clash and California
Vampire Weekend spent much of late 2009 in and around Southern California. The New York four-piece, whose second album, Contra, comes out today, are gigging a sold-out show at the Fonda tonight, the biggest in a series of performances that it has done in Los Angeles since mid '09. For much of the fa ... More >>
Music
January 7, 2010
Rock Picks: Al Kooper, Year Long Disaster, Steven Severin, the Phenomenal Handclap Band
Also, Kimya Dawson, the Cigarette Bums, Willi Williams and others
Blogs
January 5, 2010
New Vampire Weekend Album Streaming at KCRW.com
New Vampire Weekend album streaming at KCRW.com
Blogs
December 15, 2009
KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas, Night Two: Vampire Weekend, White Rabbits, Slightly Stoopid, Muse and More
KROQ-FM's annual Almost Acoustic Christmas this year featured some of our favorite bands from the 90s, the decade in which we learned to play guitar just so we could jam the songs in some crappy all-ages venue. Revisiting Alice In Chains, Sublime and 311 reminded us why we liked them in the first pl ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2009
Over the Weekend: Vampires, Bats, Cats and Edible Girls
It was a Vampire Weekend for more than just the hip Brooklyn band's appearance in the South Bay. From vampire balls to "bats and cats" masquerade, it's almost like Halloween never ended. Add The Raveonettes and a dessert-themed burlesque show to the mix and you have one wild November. Keep reading t ... More >>
Blogs
November 13, 2009
Suck It Brooklyn: All Your Bands Are Safe, Boring, and Sound the Same, says LA
New York magazine"These B'klyn Bands Could Be Your Life, (If your life was LAME, that is!)," says a way-cooler Los AngelesBreaking news! Stereogum reports that New York magazine has just named Brooklyn "the music capital" of America (or perhaps the world?--unclear). Grizzly Bear, MGMT, and Th ... More >>
Blogs
July 17, 2009
The Very Best -- Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit -- Deliver a Party at the Echoplex
Sometimes it's best to just come out and say it fast and honestly: You missed a great party last night at the Echoplex. Well, not all of you. A few hundred souls showed up to see the Very Best, Rainbow Arabia and Bersa Discos bring the rhythm. The headliner, from London, consists of production duo R ... More >>
Blogs
January 12, 2009
Franco-Francophonic
Other than Fela and arguably King Sunny Ade, few afro-pop lights burned brighter than the Congo's Franco Luambo. A guitar prodigy and auto-didact who taught himself to play at age 7, Luambo amassed a sprawling discography of over 2,000 songs before dying in Belgium in 1989. Thankfully, the recen ... More >>
Blogs
December 31, 2008
The 50 Best Albums of the Year (#20-11) (Sponsored By Teen Wolf Too)
Some might say this was the finest work Jason Bateman would ever do. 20. Al Green-Lay It Down (Blue Note) What more did you want from Al Green? Did you want him to wear Levar Burton sunglasses and use auto-tune? Did you want him to do a ladies only tour? Did you want him to employ interplanet ... More >>
Blogs
December 4, 2008
No Age Gets Grammy Nomination?! No, really ...
The morning after the Grammy nominations are announced is usually a pretty harrowing moment for many music fans as we struggle to come to terms with what the rest of America is listening to. And not even in a snobby way; just in an ignorant way. By not listening to pop radio when we're driving (or e ... More >>
Music
September 11, 2008
Rock Picks: Brian Wilson, the Juan Maclean, Common
Also, Citay, Nightwish, Savina Yannatou
Blogs
August 5, 2008
The 10 Best Non Hip-Hop Albums of the Half Year
Image Via Natalie Dee In case, you were wondering, I do have a pair of boombox pants and yes, they're quite comfortable. 10. King Khan & The Shrines-The Supreme Genius Of.... (tie) If my review of Khan's Pitchfork Fest set didn't convince you, this interview that ran today should seal the ... More >>
Blogs
July 28, 2008
Deerhoof, Fallou Dieng and Gnarls Barkley at the Hollywood Bowl, July 27
Deerhoof, Fallou Dieng and Gnarls Barkley, Hollywood Bowl, July 27 Photos by Timothy Norris (Click here for more photos from the show.) Rhythm wrestled with rock last night at the Hollywood Bowl in a perfectly programmed bill that showcased three different notions on the interplay among percussio ... More >>
Blogs
July 20, 2008
Pitchfork Music Festival, Day 2: No Age, the Hold Steady, Fleet Foxes and Blunts the Size of Burritos
Pitchfork Music Festival, Day 2 By Jeff Weiss Tad Kubler of the Hold Steady (Photos by Nick Lucchesi) Sometimes, on your own, you arrive at the realization that "hey, it isn't so bad. I'm attending a music festival for free in a very beautiful city and even though I'm trying hard not to gawk at ... More >>
Music
July 17, 2008
Record Reviews: Beck, Abe Vigoda, Nico Muhly
Also, James McMurtry, Barn Owl
Blogs
May 30, 2008
Weiss' Muxtapes #5 and #6: The Best "Indie" Songs To Get An Asymmetrical Haircut To (2008 Edition)
I won't deny it. Things started spiraling rapidly downhill the moment I started compiling mixtapes of my favorite non-hip hop songs released this year. Vampire Weekend? Santogold? Hercules & The Love Affair? I kind of wanted to kick my own ass or at the very least give myself a wedgie. Of cour ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2008
The Islands' "Arms Way," Islands' Kona Pie and The Pros of "Miscenegenation"
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 >>
Blogs
April 26, 2008
Coachella Day One: Walk the Line
I hate lines. They're somewhere in the lower rungs of my own personal inferno along with club kids in fedoras, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the abstract concept of valet parking. Unfortunately, entering Coachella brings me into contact with three of those four food groups as quite often, while wai ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2008
Coachella Day One: The Raconteurs Stomp the Bejeesus Out of Vampire Weekend
Coachella, Day One It was hard to watch, honestly. There was blood all over the place. The security guys kept pulling Jack White off of Vampire Weekend lead singer Ezra Koenig, but White kept coming, veins popping, eyes way gone and spiraling, guitar sound set to “pummel,” prowling on the main ... More >>
Music
April 24, 2008
Rock Picks: Coachella, Lynda Carter, Hot Chip
And other shows happening April 24-May 1
Blogs
March 20, 2008
SXSW Day 5-The Triumph of the Blogosphere...High Times at High Times...Why in God's Name Am I At The Perez Hilton Party?
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 >>
Blogs
March 15, 2008
SXSW Day 4-Pitchfork Party Gets a 6.4, Due to Highly Derivative Partying
A Pitchfork party without Sparks? That's like Eliot Spitzer without whores: fatigued, thirsty and miserable. And rest assured, Sparks flowed like the River Ganges, even going as far to sponsor the bash, which wasn't really as bad as it was boring. A bunch of people sitting in bleachers trying t ... More >>
Music
February 7, 2008
Record Reviews: The Mars Volta, Radar Brothers
Also: Vampire Weekend, Crystal Antlers
Blogs
February 5, 2008
Vampire Weekend, Amoeba, 2/4
Vampire Weekend Amoeba Records, Feb. 4 It's packed. You maybe thought of coming down yourself, but if you did, you were way back in one of the clearance bin aisles, staring at row after row of mid-90s Sony alt-rock comps and Jane Child CDs. And that's if you arrived at six. Otherwise you're outsid ... More >>
Music
December 27, 2007
2007’s Best Untethered (Unprotected) MP3s
Singles streaming steady
Blogs
November 16, 2007
Coming Up
Every week or so, we'll update a list on concerts announced, shows going on sale, and other things happening soon that you may want to know about. James Blunt - Wiltern, Feb. 7 with Sara Bareilles. Tickets go on sale Saturday Cave Singers - Echoplex, Dec. 3 Circle Jerks - Henry Fonda, Jan 4. On ... More >>
Music
August 30, 2007
Summer Lovin', Happened So Fast
Every week or so, we'll update a list on concerts announced, shows going on sale, and other things happening soon that you may want to know about. James Blunt - Wiltern, Feb. 7 with Sara Bareilles. Tickets go on sale Saturday Cave Singers - Echoplex, Dec. 3 Circle Jerks - Henry Fonda, Jan 4. On ... More >>
Music
July 12, 2007
Rock Picks
For the week of July 12 � 19
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