Cosmo Black is giving away his new EP, “Break Before You Bend“. The EP has been produced by Chris Moore who has produced for the likes of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Foals and Midnight Juggernauts. It’s the latter the EP resembles the most, especially the title track. And if you missed it, here is the [...]

Hi friends from across the pond! Summer is here! Gone are the days of igloos and snow shoes (kidding). With summer comes a slew of new summer releases! Everyone is constantly on the hunt for their one official 'Summer Song'! I asked some friends what Canadian bands they are most excited about and compiled this list (mixed with my personal picks of course)! Here goes... One of my new favourite obsessions hails from the east coast (if you've been reading my past letters you'll know this is no surprise). The Olympic Symphonium just released a new collection of ...

Vivid Sydney gets underway tonight, and we’ll be covering every day of it. Over the course of the next two weeks, the festival will see performances by the likes of Amon Tobin, Sufjan Stevens, The Temper Trap, Janelle Monae, Karen O (The Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Seekae, Geoffrey O’Connor, Donny Benet and Straight Arrows at the Opera House, in addition to seminars, the APRA song summit and the illumination of Circular Quay. For the first time, M+N will embedded at the Opera House every day of Vivid’s run, reporting on all the action daily – even weekends. We ...

The band will be in town next week for Vivid LIVE and drummer Brian Chase has announced a sideshow with "special guests". Suspicious!

Photo by Marina Chavez Following the recent news that Handsome Furs have called it quits , Dan Boeckner (also of Wolf Parade) has announced a new collaborative project with Spoon frontman Britt Daniel and New Bomb Turks' Sam Brown. They're recording under the name Divine Fits , with a debut produced by Nick Launay (Fire">Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) set for Merge later this year. The band's first Tweet reads, "Hi. We are Divine Fits from LA, CA. We've been making a racket while the pool drains into the yard. We want ...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman and indie icon Karen O is bringing her self-proclaimed psycho opera ' Stop the Virgens ' down to Australia as part of Vivid Sydney . First performed under the Creators Project in New York, her second foray runs 30th May to 3rd June at the Sydney Opera House. Its an extremely ambitious and downright star-studded affair with Nick Zinner and Brian Chase from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs joining their bandmate, alongside Money Mark (Beastie Boys), Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler (The Greenhornes, The Raconteurs) and Jason Grisell (Bubbles) . If you're a well-rounded Citizen of the Internet, in Sydney ...

"You treat me like you don't even care" I am obsessed with the beat of this song. It gets to you from the very first moment. It's just so... perfect (in that synthesized 80's way). Better yet, the song that accompanies it is every bit as catchy. The verses, especially, hit with a pop ferocity that we don't see enough of nowadays. The title's pretty clever, too. Zowie is from New Zealand and, though I've been aware of her music for some time now, it wasn't until I heard her full-length album (streaming ...

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 ...

Synthpop-Pionier Vince Clarke - Mitbegründer von Depeche Mode , Yazoo, The Assembly und Erasure - hat den Titel "No.1 Against The Rush" des australischen Trios Liars neu interpretiert. Die Single , die am ersten Juni auf Mute erscheint, wächst hier zur clubtauglichen Bleep-Orgie. Die 80er-Referenzen des 51-jährigen Briten lassen sich klar aus den verzerrten Synthesizern lesen und sind quasi die perfekte Ergänzung zu Liars pianolastigem Art-Punk. Wer die sieben Minuten hat, sollte sich an dieser Stelle auf jeden Fall selbst ein auditives Bild vom Remix machen: Liars - "No.1 Against The Rush" (Vince Clarke Remix) Vince Clarke trat erst diesen März mit seinem ...

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This is a beautiful and awesome and hilarious and moving thing. Thank you, James Winters. In other MCA tribute related news here are two Beastie jams reworked by people of varying fame. ♫ Beastie Boys – Intergalactic Heads (Its Overture Bootleg) Who knew that “Intergalactic” would blend so brilliantly with A-Track’s remix of Yeah Yeah Yeah’s “Heads Will Roll”? ♫ Coldplay – (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!) (Beastie Boys Cover)… continue reading

In light of the unfortunate passing of hip hop pioneer and 1/3 of the iconic hip hop group Beastie Boys Adam Yauch, known to fans as the venerable  MCA, New York City-based DJ duo Its Overture (Macabee & RiVerse) dug into their vaults to present a mashup of the Beastie Boys' 1998 single...

Female fronted Brooklyn based garage rock band Mancie has released their debut single "Only The Wanted" from their Only The Wanted EP, due May 24th. *Think: the Yeah Yeah Yeah's meets the Pretenders on their way to a Nirvana Show*. Singer/guitarist Andrea Montgomery, inspired by musicians...

Remember Erol Alkan‘s classic take on the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s “Zero?” Well the London maestro has recently uploaded his extended rework of the 2009 track for our listening pleasure on soundcloud! Enjoy!

It’s a shame that such a sad event in one’s life has had to happen to spark a slight surge of inspiration and reminder about a particular artist’s stream of work. Nevertheless, this next tribute in light of MCA’s (Beastie … Continue reading →