Videos
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile’s Intimate and Endearing Tiny Desk Concert
I’m a sucker for acoustic versions of songs, and this set does not disappoint. […]
Year: 2017
Reissues
Avalanches to rerelease deluxe Since I Left You via Astralwerks
The Avalanches are active again. The group is back at it working on a third album, the follow-up to last year’s long-in-the-works >Wildflower. While we’re all waiting for their third album, we can take solace […]
Tours
Fan-filmed Cure Concert
Fans of The Cure stitch together full concert filmed on phones — and are giving it away […]
Design
High Tech Suicide Machine set to debut in Australia
What a way to go. The open source suicide machine includes a reusable base topped by an beautifully designed single-use translucent chamber. […]
Music
The top 25 songs of 1977
The very best songs from a year that changed popular music forever […]
Cover Versions
Festivals
Sónar Festival is trying to contact aliens by sending music into space
Including special compositions from Autechre, Laurel Halo, Holly Herndon and more. […]
Videos
Aerofall – Breathe So Better
Okay, ‘gazers, this is the one. Check out some more Russian free fall shoegazin’. Our dearest Andrew Prinz produced it, and there’s some major female power behind this one. The future is female, and thus […]
News
THEESatisfaction Has Split
After seven years of creating, touring, pushing boundaries and breaking through glass ceilings, THEESatisfaction is no more. […]
MP3s & Streams
OUT LINES Announce DEBUT ALBUM ‘CONFLATS’
There’s a new Scottish supergroup in town: Out Lines. It features The Twilight Sad’s James Graham, Kathryn Joseph and Marcus Mackay. […]
Photos
Waxahatchee at The Fillmore
Images from Waxahatchee’s performance July 28th at The Fillmore in San Francisco, CA.
COLORCAST
COLORCAST – Erik Blood’s “Playful and Sexy” PORNCAST
In support of Erik’s upcoming album, TOUCH SCREENS, he’s prepared us a “Playful and Sexy” PORNCAST, with play by play commentary. […]
Photos
The Revolution at The Fillmore
Images from The Revolution’s performance July 11th at The Fillmore in San Francisco, CA.
Flashback
Flashback: Memory Cassette – Ghost in the Boombox
Before they became, Memory Tapes, we had Memory Cassette. Enjoy a soothing stroll with Ghost in the Boombox.
Photos
DIIV at Mezzanine
Images from DIIV’s May 16th performance at The Mezzanine in San Francisco, CA
Featured
Slowdive Arrive with an Astonishing Return
Slowdive emerge with grace, adoration, a damn fine set of new tunes, not to mention a flawless live show. […]
Cool Stuff
MIT Media Lab’s Disobedience Award
“The Media Lab Disobedience Award seeks to highlight effective, responsible, ethical disobedience across disciplines (scientific research, civil rights, freedom of speech, human rights, and the freedom to innovate, for example). Disobedience Award objectives are to […]
Music
They Called Him Zone – Only You
Found this catchy throwback tune and accompanying video in my inbox this morning. They Called Him Zone’s singer and producer – Mik Davis, in new to my ears. They Called Him Zone are currently working […]
Music
Das EFX Dead Serious 25th Anniversary Mixtape
April 7th marked the 25th anniversary of East Coast hip-hop duo Das EFX’s debut LP Dead Serious. Released April 7th, 1992, on East West Records, Dead Serious was executive produced by hip-hop heavyweights EPMD […]
Interviews
The Unlikely Renaissance of Slowdive
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Nice to see Slowdive getting some delayed recognition. Check out the recent Slowdive interview over at The Guardian. “Twenty years after a Britpop-obsessed music press drove them out of […]
COLORCAST
Download New COLORCAST Six mini mix – Winter Into Spring
Well, we made it through Winter – although you wouldn’t notice here in Seattle on the first day of Spring 2012. […]
Concert Photography
Supercuts
The return of Supercuts, now in PDX
Supercuts is back! An evening of post punk, goth, camp, soul, and whatever else DJ UpAbove feels like playing. It’s free, and it’ll be a super blast! Join sexy bartenders, and an even sexier DJ. […]
Exhibitions
He Will Not Divide Us
In the ten minutes I have been watching the He Will Not Divide Us live feed, I’ve seen: A self-declared “16-year old fat Jew” and a “Palestinien” recite un unison “He Will Not Divide Us” […]