Memphis by way of Portland duo Coasting (Madison Farmer and Fiona Campbell of Vivian Girls) released their debut long player You're Never Going Back last year and have just dropped the video fro track 'Same Old Same Old'. All pastel-toned animated collage, the video features vintage...

Out of all Vivian Girls offshoots and side-projects (and there are quite a few), Katy Goodman's La Sera is by far the best. And this track - holy shit. Hooked up to the eyeballs! I want to go to there. Seriously, it's so sweet, yet not sickly so, and Goodman's vocals are pitch perfect. I'm really looking forward to the new album, Sees The Light . Really, this track is soundtracking my way through this week - well, that and Terry Malts, I'm gonna OD on fuzzy sugar. But when it sounds so good, I'm gone. La ...

Onetime member of Dum Dum Girls and Vivian Girls' self-titled 2010 debut (made with her touring band, the Outs) Frankie Rose returns with Interstellar. This album is less lo-fi C86-inspired past and more on par with the synth pop of 4AD's early years. Stream the album right here (via Spin)

Former Dum Dum Girls and Vivian Girls member Frankie Rose has begun to move beyond her more recent, reverb-swaddled, C86-inspired past. On February 21, she’ll release Interstellar, a full-length that turns back the volume dial, ditches the Rat pedal, and dives into the sort of celestial, synth-lined pop evocative of 4AD’s early years. It’s streaming [...]

On first listen, Interstellar, the new album from former Vivian Girls/Crystal Stilts/Dum Dum Girls drummer Frankie Rose, sounds like a great leap forward — the moment Rose leaves behind ramshackle indie-pop and toward a more glimmering, expansive, lush take on her own tough-romantic style. We’ve already posted “Know Me,” “Night Swim,” and the album’s title [...]

Brooklyn musician Frankie Rose took her fingers out of all the pots they were in (Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts, etc), sloughed about six layers of reverb off her super-scuzzy modus… Read more articles like " New: Frankie Rose – “Interstellar” " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing .

Having gotten a taste of her forthcoming sophomore album Interstellar with the track "Know Me," former Vivian Girls/Dum Dum Girls drummer Frankie Rose has allowed access to the whole album online.

Since striking out on her own, Frankie Rose has sounded like a woman on a quest. The onetime member of Dum Dum Girls and Vivian Girls' self-titled 2010 debut (made with her touring band, the Outs), found the former queen of Brooklyn lo-fi making sense of her more recent, reverb-swaddled, C86-inspired past. And on February 21, she'll release Interstellar , a full-length odyssey wherein Rose turns back the dial, ditches the Rat pedal, and dives headlong into the sort of celestial, synth-lined pop that's come to define much of 4AD's early years. It's streaming below in its ...

-- First Third Books will soon publish a limited edition photobook documenting the history of 1980s cult pop group Felt . The book collects over 140 photographs, with an introduction by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley. Each book is signed by frontman  Lawrence , who also penned its text. -- On February 7, Rough Trade will release a new album the Mercury Prize-nominated UK sister duo  the Unthanks . The record,  Diversions Vol. 1 , collects their covers of songs by Antony and the Johnsons and Robert Wyatt, as performed live at London's Union Chapel in December 2010. Preview the album  here , and download "Lullaby ...

LA SERA “PLEASE BE MY THIRD EYE” DIR BY VICE COOLER from Vice Cooler on Vimeo. La Sera (aka Katy Goodman) is about to invade South By Southwest (March 14-17), and soon after (March 24) will drop their/her sophomore album, “Sees the Light” (Hardly Art). Yep, THE Katy Goodman, nee from the Vivian Girls. Whose [...]

Frankie Rose :  Inters tellar - Stream Frankie Rose que l’on a vu notamment chez Dum Dum Girls et Vivian Girls s’apprête à sortir un nouvel album solo,  Interstellar  annoncer pour le 21 février chez Slumberland Records . Profitez de la plage-titre, mais aussi du MP3 d’un autre extrait du LP,  Know Me  à récupérer ci-dessous! Frankie Rose , who we’ve seen with the Dum Dum Girls and Vivian Girls , is about to release a brand new album, Interstellar via Slumberland Records  on February 21. You can stream the title track above and grab the MP3 of another (great) track ...

As we already know from recent album cuts "Know Me" and "Night Swim" , the ex-C86 punk Frankie Rose moves from jangly garage textures into the realm of sparkling dream-pop on her upcoming album,  Interstellar . Rose has never presented a more dramatic sound than on the title track: a foundation of radiant synths stretch and ring softly across the song's first minute, her vocals offering another impressionist texture. It's an introduction full of minimal, glistening tension that pulls at you like a force of gravity. That ends up being a beguiling intro for a song that is actually extremely ...

Welcome to a very NSFW edition of Review Update. If you are at a job that pays you benefits, do not open the review for the Suburban & Coke record. Please just delight in the return of the Jealous Sound instead. Look at that cover! It ups the wolves! We've posted some new reviews. You can check them out below: The Jealous Sound - A Gentle Reminder Vivian Girls - Adventure Fun Time Game Artcore Vinyl Fanzine Vol. 5 - Terminal Decay [12"] The Tired and True - Haunts [7"] Suburban & Coke - It's My Party And I'll Get High If I Want ...

WILLIS EARL BEAL Who: An idiosyncratic, Chicago-based antifolk belter whose cassette-recorded debut, Acousmatic Sorcery , drops on April 3 via XL Recordings' new Hot Charity imprint. He's set to open some U.S. shows for new labelmate SBTRKT and is known for spreading flyers around town listing his phone number and singing a song for whoever calls. File Next To: Abner Jay, Daniel Johnston, Mountain Goats, Jeffrey Lewis, Bright Eyes Where to Start: Existential lo-fi head-clearing "Evening's Kiss," this fascinating Chicago Reader profile. MORE ON PAGE 2 >> FLATBUSH ZOMBIES Who: A Brooklyn hip-hop trio of Meechy Darko, Zombie Juice ...

Readers of a certain age will remember the text based adventure game. Basically, you quested just by typing your actions, and reading descriptions which varied from long to the perfunctory. Graphics are for wimps. Well, Katy Goodman, bassist of the Vivian Girls, has coded her own game, and your task is to tour manage the group through a three day set of gigs. You’ll face problems like ‘Should we stay at a motel’, and ‘will you play as the opening act?’ Prepare to get fired if you’re found wanting. Visit her site for download details for Macs, and ...