Since summer 2010, preternaturally talented Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt (Thebe Kgositsile) has been living in a Samoan reform school — a situation that's left OFWGKTA leader Tyler, the Creator, thoroughly bummed. "I want him to be out here with us on fucking tour, or I just wanna skate the 7-11 with him, 'cause those are times I won't be able to get back," he told SPIN . "That shit just kills me. I miss him." So what to make of the tweet Tyler sent Wednesday reading, “Do Not, Kids I Repeat, Do Not Live Your Life Tryna Make Your ...

Requested by KT • Compiled by Alan Garner 01. Three 6 Mafia - “Sippin’ On Some Syrup” (When The Smoke Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1) 02. Ladytron - “Seventeen” (Light & Magic) 03. The Strokes - “Barely Legal” (Is This It) 04. The Ramones - “Somebody Put Something In My Drink” (Animal Boy) 05. DMX - “Party Up (Up In Here)” (…And Then There Was X) 06. AC/DC - “Have A Drink On Me” (Back In Black) 07. Of Montreal - “The Party’s Crashing Us Now” (Sunlandic Twins)

Requested by jamal • Compiled by Alice of New York Your oh-so-specific title doesn’t really give much to work with, but I decided it could be interpreted as, “Make me a mixtape to be my personal anthem/soundtrack”. I tried to select songs which, together, form a theoretical depiction of “you” as as seen by a complete stranger. Dearest “MY MIXTAPE”, you appear to be individualistic (emphasis on “MY!”), passionate (ALL CAPS!), and taken to flights of whimsy (in that you expect someone to be able to fill a request like ‘MY MIXTAPE’). Here is “YOUR MIXTAPE”: 01. NHB (Pryde ...

Words: Saam Das Back in 2007, when this blog was called Keep Hope Inside, I talked a bit about a barely-into-their-teens indie band called Lo-Fi Culture Scene on one of the few podcasts I ever got around to making. Turns out we weren't the only ones to evolve into different things as the LFCS boys are now Casablanca , partly named after the film and a member of The Strokes , with an appropriately mature sound. The band are still young uns at seventeen but with a couple of singles under their belt in their past guise, and support slots for ...

Well, what DID you expect from The Vaccines? I tell you what. I am thoroughly impressed with this band. Last week I told you about The Horrors, and this week I've got their sister band. I mean brother band. Literally. Their guitar player is the younger brother of Tom Cowan (bass)from The Horrors. And like The Horrors, The Vaccines was also formed in West London. But VERY recently formed, despite sounding like a fully developed band. I compared The Horrors to Depeche Mode and The Smiths, while The Vaccines can be likened to The Strokes and Ramones. The ...

Imagine the energy of Fire">Arcade Fire mashed up with the attitude of The Strokes and you’ll end up with the very definition of Montreal’s ultimate pop-alt-rock fusers, Divingbell. Following a well-received debut EP, the band will be launching its second release, Stories, as a precursor to its debut...

. . I get it, The Strokes’ “Is This It” album is one of, if not, the greatest indie albums of all time. In this modern era of “single track” downloads and “hit singles,” number 1’s and 2’s on the itunes most downloaded seems to be the mecca of the “made it’s” in the music [...]

Words by guest reviewer Matt Abbott of Skint and Demoralised As we all know, there have been an abundance of outstanding debut albums from indie rock bands over the last decade. The lines between a distinctly British musical sound and a distinctly American one were blurred beyond recognition, and the indie world was united in worshipping the heroics of The Strokes, The Libertines, Arctic Monkeys and dare, I say it, Razorlight. So if you’re going... Continue reading Album Review: Howler – Give Up America

In the summer of 2011, I had the fortune of getting the opportunity to see two groundbreaking acts that ultimately (and deservedly) illuminated many Album of the Year lists, in Azari & III and Nicolas Jaar - at Melt! Festival in rural old-East Germany. Though I then had the misfortune of missing both - the reasons somewhere between heinous stage clashes and festival excess shown in my etiolated, confused face. It has somewhat haunted me since. 2nd February 2012, and Azari and III are in town… as in Nicolas Jaar. In separate venues. Each for one night only. As you may have guessed given the screaming large footed header above, I made the decision to opt for the Toronto quartet of Azari & III, though carrying a pang of guilt to Heaven for missing the prodigal undulated talent of Jaar. Once inside the underground brick-worked Fabric-esque lair amongst the throng of fantastically groomed haircuts, the bubbling, carnivorous excitement is palpable; reputation preceding, thanks to a stonking debut self-titled album from Dinamo Azari and Alixander III featuring master strokes of heavily-indebtted Chicago house good times. The mainly instrumental number of Tunnel Vision opens the eve at a typically early Heaven start; God damn you Heaven, I would be mad at you but you posses such a luscious sound system I can't. And hell, an early night is actually kinda ...

Auténtico pildorazo de energía rock con una de las promesas más firmes de este 2012. Devin Therriault tiene 23 años, vive en Brooklyn y según The Guardian se ha empapado de todo el rock and roll producido desde los Stones hasta The Strokes, pasando por The Smiths, Stooges o New York Dolls. Tras su primer Ep, You're Mine , canción que ahora estrena vídeo, llegará el próximo mes de abril Romancing , su álbum de debut, editado por el sello Frenchkiss Records. Mp3: Devin. You're Mine (vía Rolling Stone)

Howler é um quinteto formado em 2010 na cidade de Minneapolis, liderado pelo guitarrista e vocalista Jordan Gatesmith. A banda recorrentemente é associada ao The Strokes, por se tratar de um grupo de molecada fazendo a barulheira do garage rock, lo-fi, ritmos acelerados, guitarras cheias de fuzz e algumas semelhanças entre o vocal de Jordan e [...]

Kristen Wiig is doing her best to break into the INDIE SCENE. First, she started dating [ALLEGEDLY] the drummer guy from the Strokes, Fabrizio Moretti [ link ]. Now she did some impersonation of Lana Del Rey . It wasn't really funny, and not worth watching because she is a one-trick pony who just plays the same female character over-and-over again. Just some skit that was probably written by an LDR apologist feminist comedy writer. Not sure if LDR even matters any more, or if her meme ship has sailed, so they probably should have just 'panned the eff out of her ...

Requested by wlgyl • Compiled by scaroline You and I are in the same boat, my friend. 01. The Strokes - “Is This It” (Is This It?) 02. Simon & Garfunkel - “The Only Living Boy In New York” (Bridge Over Troubled Water) 03. Nico - “These Days” (Chelsea Girl) 04. The Mountain Goats - “The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton” (All Hail West Texas) 05. Radiohead - “The Bends” (The Bends) 06. The Shins - “New Slang” (Oh, Inverted World) 07. American Football - “But the Regrets Are Killing Me” (American Football) 08. The Dismemberment Plan - “Spider In The Snow” (Emergency & I) 09. The Weepies - “Not ...

Beach Fossils took over the Lower East Side's Cake Shop on Saturday night - but the band itself did not perform. Rather, three former Beach Fossils members each performed with their own bands that they've formed: John Peña with Heavenly Beat , Christopher Burke with Fabric and Cole Smith with DIVE .    John Peña of Heavenly Beat kicked off the night with a burst of energy. A one man show, Peña sang along to elctro-synth beats booming out from his mac book. Jerking his body around the stage and becoming completely absorbed in the music (so much so that sometimes he ...

Former Luna Lounge co-owner, Rob Sacher, has a brand new book, Wake Me When It's Over , a story of his life as a New York club owner filled with stories about meeting, partying, or working with many iconic bands of the alternative and indie rock world. Rob's last club was Luna Lounge, which started out on the Lower East Side, and the bar featured the first shows from some awesome bands that have gone on to be some of the world's most important and successful music artists. Luna was the room were The Strokes first performed, where ...