When mega-artists team up for a collaborative project like the new two-piece band, Broken Bells, the outcome is sometimes so good, it’s scary. After two years, James Mercer, lead singer and guitarist of The Shins, and Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton, hot-shot producer and co-founder of Gnarls Barkley (also produced the Gorillaz and 2004’s infamous The [...]
Posted in KEXP, Out This Week! | Also tagged Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Broken Bells, Frightened Rabbit, Gonjasufi, Gorillaz, Jason Collett, jj, Lemonade, Liars, Pavement, Tanlines, Ted Leo, The Besnard Lakes, The Morning Benders, White Hinterland |
The trend continues: Since the rise of the internet, the music world has rushed to recapture the glory of decades past. Now that we are moving into a new decade (which technically doesn’t begin until 2011, for the record), it seems the 90s are getting their chance at redemption. First the world swooned at the [...]
Titus Andronicus‘ lyrics are ridden with anger, hopelessness, and nihilism spawned from growing up in the predominately white, suburban neighborhood of Glen Rock, New Jersey. They have been compared to The Pogues, Bright Eyes, and even Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, but their approach to these “influences” is with such reckless abandon, the angsty vocals set [...]
Posted in KEXP | Tagged Titus Andronicus |
Animal Collective’s new album cover deserves to be viewed larger than life. Just roll your eyes across this bad boy and feel the underwater movement the band tried to emulate in the recording of today’s release, Merriweather Post Pavilion (apparently, it was the lagoon at the outdoor venue in Maryland that inspired the concept). Freaky… [...]
Posted in KEXP, New York, Out This Week! | Also tagged A.C. Newman, Andrew Bird, Antony and the Johnsons, Atmosphere, Blackout Beach, Blue Giant, Bon Iver, Coconut Records, Cut Off Your Hands, Fiction Family, J. Tillman, Kyle Andrews, Ladyfinger, Matt & Kim, Modern Skirts, Or the Whale, Psychic Ills, Robert Pollard, Roger O'Donnell, Saeta, Six Organs of Admittance, The 1900s, Zero Boys |
