If you've heard Alice Cohen 's name floating around underground zones in recent years, it may well be from her music videos for the likes of Ducktails, Coasting, and K-Holes, characterized by their stop-motion animations and psychedelic collage work. But Cohen, of Brooklyn, is also a seasoned recording artist, having fronted both major-label 1980s new wave group The Vels as well as the 1990s grunge band Die Monster Die . On June 12, she'll release her third solo effort since 2008, a home-recorded pop collection titled  Pink Keys . Check out its opening cut, "Cascading Keys", a sweeping track with ...

RUN DMT has a way of making the old sound new. Since his early releases Bong Voyage and Get Ripped or Die Trying , RUN DMT has been piecing together sound collages using vocal samples seemingly pulled from forgotten interviews and home videos, popping and crackling over drowned melodies forced out of keyboards on their last leg. RUN DMT’s 2011 album, Dreams , took that formula and injected it with bits of the ocean-pop laziness that artists like Ducktails and Rangers have been swimming in for the past few years. The Road Soda , RUN DMT’s 2012 CGIFriday split with Tracey ...

Photo gallery of Neon Indian, Ducktails and Lemonade at Terminal 5 (May 12, 2012) Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/photos/neon-indian-ducktails-lemonade-terminal-5-nyc-pics/

Recommended Show: SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2012 ONEIDA & SIGHTINGS @ 285 KENT AVENUE 285 Kent Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211 $10, 8PM You can never go wrong with seeing noise rockers Oneida , especially when a band as awesome as Sightings is opening. Hollis Brown @ Pier 40 Virtual Boy @ Brooklyn Bowl John Brown's Body @ Maxwell's The Budos Band @ The Bell House Bird Courage @ Open Road Rooftop Naam, Hull, & Rainbows @ Glasslands Widow">True Widow & Daughn Gibson @ Union Pool Rob Delaney @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Infinity Shred & Idiot Glee @ Shea Stadium Neon Indian, Ducktails, & Lemonade @ Terminal 5 Start Making Sense & Great White Caps @ Mercury ...

Collective">Animal Collective at Grrrnd Zero The Lyon, France DIY collective  Grrrnd Zero is asking for letters of support to fight Lyon city hall's plans to evict them by the end of 2012. Since 2004, Grrrnd Zero has hosted unconventional shows for the likes of Collective">Animal Collective, tUnE-yArDs, Dirty Projectors, Black Dice, A Silver Mt Zion, Deerhunter, No Age, Deerhoof, Wavves, Liars, Xiu Xiu, Zola Jesus, Tim Hecker, Ducktails, Julian Lynch, Boris, Times New Viking, Kylesa, Wolf Eyes, Mi Ami, and many, many more .

If only every city had a Hopscotch. Raleigh, NC’s big-big music festival has gotten even bigger this year, with the addition of historical (and possibly haunted!!!) sounding venues like the Long View Center, Memorial Auditorium and the Contemporary Art Museum to its 15 venues strong festival map. There are 175 artists playing this thing, people, with everyone from the likes of Class Actress and Baroness to Liars and Wagner">Mirel Wagner. This year is only Hopscotch’s third go-around, and already they’ve got swell headliners like Built to Spill, The Roots, and The Jesus and Mary Chain keyed ...

Listen here, you like Ducktails, right? There’s been great stuff under that name. Why I might even trust that guy with an album recommendation or two, were I to run into him in the Rock/Pop section of a record store. This logic I’d even extend to the conceptual, were Matt Mondanile to symbolically stamp a record with his approval. Heck, if it turned out to be good enough, I’d even sit down in my wicker chair for a moment to tell others about it on my blog . The record wouldn’t even necessarily have to sound ...

Raleigh, North Carolina's  Hopscotch Festival  takes place September 6-8. The lineup features the Jesus and Mary Chain, Danny Brown, Death Grips, Liars, Yo La Tengo, the Roots, Built to Spill, Julia Holter, Thee Oh Sees, Deerhoof, Zola Jesus, Sunn O))), Zammuto, Balam Acab, Laurel Halo, Pallbearer, Lambchop, Ital, Dan Deacon, Ducktails, Superchunk's Mac McCaughan, Baroness, G-Side, Cities Aviv, Wye Oak, Colin Stetson, Megafaun with Arnold Dreyblatt, and many more.

Brooklyn Vegan : HOPSCOTCH 2012 LINEUP Airstrip (Carrboro, N.C.) Altar of Plagues (Cork, Ireland) Altos (Milwaukee, Wis.) Alvarius B. (Seattle, Wash.) Amen Dunes (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Arnold Dreyblatt and Megafaun (Berlin, Germany / Durham, N.C.) Balam Acab (Mechanicsburg, P.A.) Baroness (Savannah, Ga.) Beat Report (Chapel Hill, N.C.) Big Troubles (Ridgewood, N.J.) Bill Orcutt (San Francisco, Calif.) Ritmo">Bio Ritmo (Richmond, Va.) BIrds of Avalon (Raleigh, N.C.) Black Skies (Carrboro, N.C.) Boy Friend (Austin, Texas) Built to Spill (Boise, I.D.) Burglar Fucker (Winston-Salem, N.C.) Calico Haunts (Durham, N.C.) Cantwell, Gomez & Jordan (Durham, N ...

Hey we're called Being There . We’re a pop band from London. Our first album is coming out on Young and Lost soon, keep your eyes peeled. Read Part 1 of our 'Artist Picks' here . 
Listening to: 
S: Brian Eno – Music For Airports, Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo, Ducktails – Arcade Dynamics, Gas – Pop, The Feelies – The Good Earth. 
Reading:
 S: JG Ballard – Empire of the Sun
Jame: Mark Kermode - The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex. 
Watching: 
 S: Re-watching season four of Mad Men in preperation for season five (nerd).
 J: Master Chef has just finised but ...

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For these guys, Elvis has never left the building Carl Perkins : Put Your Cat Clothes On [ purchase ] One of the highlights of my visit to Tokyo last October was a Sunday in Shinjuku's Yoyogi Park. It's one of Tokyo's largest parks, hosted the 1964 Olympic Village, abuts the gorgeous Meiji Shrine, and is one of the best people-watching venues anywhere. On that Sunday (Halloween, coincidentally) I saw all sorts of groups and clubs coming together for whatever it was that caught their non-work fancy: cosplayers in their Gothic Lolita finery gathered near the entrance, martial arts clubs ...

MP3: JCCG - Esplanade A few days ago I was stumbling around the soundcloud-ether and became transfixed by these mysterious guitar jams from someone under the name of JCCG , about whom I could find next to nothing about on the internet. A couple of emails later it transpires that they're the work of João from Coimbra, Portugal - the dude who runs Exo Tapes and who I actually posted about a couple of weeks ago for his work as Mediafired . Much less mysterious but still totally transfixing, "Esplanade" is made up of slowly unfurling and decaying guitar lines, adding up to ...

According to a an old family legend passed down to me from my bohemian grandfather, a former racehorse jockey, pot smuggler, and all-around-California gadabout,* a traveler once knocked on the door of author Henry Miller’s Big Sur residence, searching for the “cult of sex and anarchy.” The unfortunate vagabond wandered away unsatisfied, never to quench his saucy fire. Perhaps that man is still out there somewhere, wandering the hills like a sexy Rip Van Winkle, searching for the cure. Perhaps he slumbered all the way through the storied Big Sur Festivals of 1964-1971 — when luminaries like Joan Baez, Crosby ...