The folk at Modular records sure know how to throw a party and with a triple threat line-up that good it was disheartening to see the bandroom barely at half capacity. In spite of the poor showing Jonathan Boulet and co. put on a fantastic performance. Showcasing new material from their forthcoming LP We Keep The Beat, Found The Sound, See The Need, Start The Heart the band were in fine form wowing the crowd with their energetic display. Boulet was a seemingly reluctant frontman and his awkward banter was amusing but not necessary as his music is strong enough ...

Yet another icon joins the choir invisible. I really should change the Versions motto ‘I hear dead people’. But in all seriousness tough, this is a big loss. While many artists back in the day reluctantly got their toes wet with disco (coughcoughDianaRosscough) via the heavy hands of coke addled record execs looking to cash [...]

Warning: Watching Falside‘s new video for “First Kill”, off the upcoming Free Shabazz 2 compilation, might result in the most high of mindfucks this morning. The whole thing is shot in reverse, which can be confusing enough if you’re addled with…

A funk grows in Brooklyn. Something is still growing, deep in the bong-water-damaged basement of some warehouse passed over for conversion into lofts and condos, fed by fragments of addled party banter, mystery stains, and unfashionable drug freakouts. That’s Black Dice. They’re the picture of Dorian Gray that allows 2012 Williamsburg to look like Soho, [...]

Today’s song is “Coroner’s Office” by Lux. This recent single off the Seattle duo’s debut album We Are Not The Same, which was released on April 3rd, 2012. The band wrote “Coroner’s Office” “in an addled haze of oblivion” according to the male half of the duo, David Chandler. “I was watching a lot of [...]

New single follows on the heels of Magnet Magazine and KEXP features for lead track, “The Window”. +++ Lux (L-R): Leah Rosen and David Chandler. Photo by The Ripper. +++ PLAY, POST & SHARE “Coroner’s Office” is the latest single from the upcoming debut album “We Are Not The Same” by Lux.   [SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/lux-coroners-office [MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/lux/mp3/lux-coronersoffice.mp3 +++ “...filled with synthy goodness, fuzzy guitars, and purty purty duets, making them a band worthy of your attention” – Three Imaginary Girls Seattle duo Lux today issued another peek into the sound of its debut ...

New single follows on the heels of Magnet Magazine and KEXP features for lead track, “The Window”. +++ Lux (L-R): Leah Rosen and David Chandler. Photo by The Ripper. +++ PLAY, POST & SHARE “Coroner’s Office” is the latest single from the upcoming debut album “We Are Not The Same” by Lux.   [SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/lux-coroners-office [MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/lux/mp3/lux-coronersoffice.mp3 +++ “...filled with synthy goodness, fuzzy guitars, and purty purty duets, making them a band worthy of your attention” – Three Imaginary Girls Seattle duo Lux today issued another peek into the sound of its debut ...

Twenty-one-year-old drummer Jay Watson talks to DOUG WALLEN about Pond, the “cheesy” pysch-rock band formed in the shadow of Tame Impala. Photos by BEN HAYES . Tame Impala cast a long shadow, especially in the past two years. But festering and growing in that shadow has been the ideally named Pond, a Perth band featuring Tame Impala’s Jay Watson and Nick Allbrook. Three earlier albums saw low-key release, but now their fourth LP Beard Wives Denim is getting the full Modular treatment. Recorded at a friend’s farmhouse back in 2010, it includes drumming from Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker ...

Album No. 11 from Nashville's self-proclaimed "most fucked-up country band" opens with a bed of tense string lusciousness straight out of a '50s Douglas Sirk Hollywood melodrama. Then the camera focuses in on a late-night joint, wherein Lambchop frontman Kurt Wagner is painting a picture from his corner barstool: "Don't know what they fuck they talk about," he sighs wearily. "Maybe blowing kisses, maybe blowing lines / Really, what difference does it make… But the strings sound good, maybe add some flutes." Though summoned, those flutes never kick in. Things get pretty weird anyway. There's a parallel universe ...

[mp3] Fort Lean: "Sunsick" Tonight, rising Brooklyn band Fort Lean celebrates their Neon Gold released Sunsick 7" with a sold out (?) show at Santos, with Team Spirit (who we're looking fwd to) . Fort Lean are a ballsy mix of influences, yet, most directly recall a crisper louder version of Walkmen">The Walkmen. With richer vocals, and a thicker soaring guitar attack Fort Lean's new single "Sunsick" delivers in all the ways today's atmospheric dubstep addled blog world doesn't.

[youtube:youtube.com/watch?v=CpN2XAg2bQs] Beruit’s new video for “Vagabond” was directed by Sunset Television who creates a homage to the Milos Forman films of the 1960’s “Vagabond” features a great cast adept at playing both boozy merchant sailors and cigarette addled nurses in a beautifully shot video that will never be played on MTV because of this.... Read more..

Next month LA psych space rock behemoth White Hills unleashes another album on us in the form of Frying On This Rock . Holy shit its good. Then again, I always love what they offer. It opens up with the thundering motorik swirl and bluster of 'Pads Of Light', before 'Robot Stomp' takes us on a repetitive droning journey into the inner echelons of the psyche, its incremental ratcheting of the noise an otherworldly aural orgasm of unearthly delights. 'You Dream You See' feels like an amalgam of the first two tracks, but 'Song Of Everything' is an altogether different beast ...

“Maturity” might not be the word that springs to mind when listening to Ty Segall ’s Melted and Goodbye Bread , but those were the albums that tore the shit-kicking San Franciscan away from his Sonics-worship and propelled him toward a more melodic sound that’s damaged yet distinctive. The lo-fi guitar and caterwauling vocals were still there, but huffing all those paint fumes in the garage had taken its toll, imparting his music with an addled, stop-start menace—something his crunchy ’60s revivalism lacked. Now, Goner Records is revisiting that early, more straightforward stretch in Segall’s career with Singles ...

This one’s been a long time coming. Ever since my first listen of House of Balloons I’ve been hooked on The Weeknd. His drug and sex addled lyrics coupled with that voice had nearly everyone I know falling hard. We’ve finally reached the end of the trilogy with Echoes of Silence and the internet is surely breaking right now. My initial favorites are the opening tracks, hands down, French lyris [...]

Now, as much as I would love to tell you I’m a secret jazz cat on weekends I’m not and that’s a sad, sad fact. I know little of jazz other than the drug addled nightmare visions of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the cool late night café side we all so wanted to be a part of in The Talented Mr...