Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Wow, the year seems to have just flown by just like that. It seems like only yesterday I was compiling this same list for 2008 while eagerly awaiting the release of Merriweather Post Pavilion and wondering what the rest of 2009 would hold.
Well, MPP didn’t disappoint but overall it’s hard to say whether it’s been [...]
Steve Aoki played a free live show on UC Berkeley’s Lower Sproul (put on by UCB’s Superb) this past Wednesday, October 28 to a young and excited crowd that was surprisingly ready to dance/party/jump around/rave (or whatever you want to call it) regardless of the fact that the show began at 5pm outside on a [...]
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Taking a break from Where The Wild Things Are-related Karen O news for a moment … When Passion Pit got their hands on “Heads Will Roll” we ended up with so-so Sprockets-style techno. If you recall, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ video for the original included a dancing werewolf, the single’s cover art featuring the same [...]
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Growing up as a kid, one of my favorite children’s books was the off-beat “Where the Wild Things Are.” Naturally you can understand my grown-up excitement when I heard Spike Jonze was going to direct this interesting tale that hits the big screen October 16th. Jonze also found a terrific choice in the group behind [...]
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Imaad Wasif lent a hand to Lou Barlow for “Don’t Apologize” (plus Goodnight Unknown in general) and can be spotted as a touring member of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but he’s front and center for the psychedelic Six Organs-redolent “Redeemer,” the lead track from his forthcoming solo release The Voidist. Well, in the hazy super 8 [...]
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While we were rocking the Catskills, enjoying what Wayne Coyne said was “the greatest collection of underground music ever assembled,” dozens of other great indie bands (and a few hip-hop luminaries) put on a much larger mountain festival in Morrison, Colorado. In its third year Monolith delivered rain from the get-go, but that only served [...]
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At Seattle’s biggest music festival, rain is not unexpected; still, the downpours at Bumbershoot ‘09 were scary even for this neck of the Pacific Northwest. No bands got electrocuted, but the sound cut out during Black Eyed Peas’ set, so that’s something. Franz Ferdinand and Modest Mouse were huge draws as the three-day event came [...]
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Karen and the crew earned their festival-headliner bona fides when subbing for cancer-stricken Beasties at Lolla, so C3 Presents invited ‘em back to pinch hit at ACL, according to the recently updated schedule. (Thanks for the tip, Claire.)
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