As far as cute stuff on the Internet goes, it's hard to beat videos of dogs doing tricks set to the Mission: Impossible theme song . Three kids in Portland have managed to outdo that, though, with their moving, hilarious tribute to The Beastie Boys' late Adam Yauch. Filmmaker James Winters recruited his two sons and nephews to strap on wigs, fake mustaches, and ill-knotted ties in a shot-for-shot remake of The Beastie Boys' super-memorable video "Sabotage." The results are simultaneously bad-ass and adorable, as three little kids struggle to climb over chain-link fences and chase down bad guys. Some ...

Sacrilegious or sardonic as it may be on behalf of the bookers of Brighton or elsewhere (re: the latter tonight's spotlights are of exclusively satanic hue), whether ardent believer, agnostic or outright atheist there's incontestably no better venue than your local House of the Lord. Yet a four pack ring strewn before the altar and a bar at the back demonstrate a slight disregard for location and indeed this divine setting ensures the unshakably uncomfortable sensations of any given Sunday are immediately imitated upon entrance. That hideous gut-wrench signalling an imminent return to the institutionalised authority education provides ...

The Groovin' The Moo tour has already begun for another year and so far, the positive reviews have been coming in thick and fast. After a day lazing about and getting to know the other bands on the line up, it's back to business for New Orleans music genre-benders Mutemath , as they hit rehearsals for their sideshows and the rest of the GTM tour. Frontman Paul Meany calls through from their Brisbane rehearsals and has nothing but praise for the band's touring experience, which also doubles as their first time in the country. How has your day been ...

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After eight years climbing fences and dressing in animal costumes as part of the Mint Chicks, Kody Nielson has gone out on his own to front a new solo project called Opossom (yes, it's spelled like that). While his brother Ruban...

It has been a while since I heard something from Cryptonites. Here’s a very good remix for the epic “Fences” from Phoenix. Already on repeat…

Here’s how not to put on a show: Set up instruments. Stand there. Play. Here’s how to put on a show: Get there early and cover the venue in decór. Bring in hay bales, chicken-wire fences, chicken coops. Get a huge illuminated chicken to watch the front door. Place giant Easter Island-like chicken statues on [...] Read More

Orcas Orcas [Morr Music; 2012] by Rowan Savage Rating: Just in case you missed Obscure Mythology 101 in school — hell, I even did a year of classical Greek and we never got any further than sniggering about pederasty — Orcus was lord of the underworld and punisher of broken promises. Death and betrayal, in turn, are classic pop themes, but the reason I mention the god who would later transmute into Dis Pater (Pluto, now sadly demoted from planetary status) and then the more familiar Hades is because the genus Orcinus , to which the orca or killer whale belongs, is named ...

The prospect of Benoit Pioulard and Rafael Anton Irisam joining forces is an alluring one. Part pop auteur, part minimalist composer, the end result is undeniably beautiful. Aloof, abstract and elegant, it melds ambient expanse with pop form to idyllic, if unassuming effect. A refined exercise using the abstract over the spectacular, scores of snowflake haze and subtle static underpin Pioulard’s vocal, seeping into slow, isolated silences. Tracks like the dreamy ‘I Saw My Echo’, yearning ‘Standard Error’ and the slow spiral of ‘high Fences’ don’t grab but engulf, unfurling in blankets of wistful sedation. A modestly grand ...

Genre: Alternative/Indie/Pop/Folk Country: USA Tracklist 01. Blue Lead Fences 02. Elephants And Little Girls 03. I Love Me 04. Blood Bank 05. Water Bells 06. Earth Has Moved Again 07. Water In Astoria 08. Egg Song 09. Alice Left with Stockings and Ear...

Awww how nice Ty Segall and Tim Presley seem to know how much we love hard fuzzed 60's nuggets around here and they've teamed up for a collaborative LP to celebrate the form. No stranger to 60's motifs himself, White Fences' Presley usually floats in the cracked mirror headspace that Syd Barrett seemed to swim in, but here the addition of Segall's scuzz-natted guitar leads and garage charm take the project into far tougher territory than the Fence has ever wandered on his own. The pairing seems serendipitous all around as both artists play off of ...

Some things just happen by accident. Releasing music for years now – and making it for even longer – Damien DeRose has entered fans’ lives in the most unexpected of ways. A chance encounter on the radio, an unexpected support slot or a eulogising blog (hello!) has all helped spread his Peasant project across the globe. Somehow, by hook or by crooke, Peasant have built themselves a solid fan-base. Sweet, lilting acoustic songsmithery, the band are too pop to be labelled folk – but then, when did pop ever come in such tender batches? New album ‘Glory">Bound For Glory’ is a case ...

I heard Ross Bolleter on the Freakier Zone on 6music a few weeks back, courtesy of Anne Hilde Neset and Stuart Maconie. It's exactly the sort of thing that Doklands loves the most. Bolleter is an Australian experimental musician who is particularly devoted to performing on ruined pianos. In his own words: A piano is said to be ruined (rather than neglected or devastated) when it has been abandoned to all weathers, say on a sheep station or tennis court, with the result that few or none of its notes sound like that of an even-tempered uptight piano. A ...

Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 240: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ The Soft Pack – Fences ++ Zig Zags – Scavenger ++ The Bellys – Chow Chow ++ Lantern – Bleed [...]

Baseball season is finally in full swing – but the crack of the bat umpires calling strikes and vendors hawking hot dogs popcorn and beer aren’t the only sounds one hears at the old ballpark With the new baseball season comes a new concert season and in 2012 several Major...