Dustin Wong’s latest release (Thrill Jockey Records) is a rapt conversation between excited participants that may not even know they live on the same planet. Not that these well-paced loops, colorfully exuberant guitar tones, effect pedaled planetoids of musical dust and light, and the rest of the sounds used on his perfectly titled ‘”Mediation
Its Cleveland 1978, Life Stinks– by Pere Ubu— ricochets from a squalid….. No, it’s 1985. Asylum Party is playing in your head. You’re passed out standing up, leaning on a tottering book-case in Courbevoie, France. The denuded and pointedly emotional sounds festoon around each other sending one into a blurry dream orbit. Or it might
London based producer and musician Jon Hopkins released his Immunity LP earlier last month and the first taken video „Open Eye Signal“ was filmed by Aoife McArdle in California. We voted this video as one of the greatest music videos that were done during the last months. Watch this hypnotic journey of a skater
If you ask me for my personal dream that never comes true I would tell you some freaky weird stuff like joining a show at Maxwell´s, Hoboken, with Yo la Tengo on stage rocking together with Sonic Youth´s Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley to my favourite SY song „Mote“. Freaky weird? It happened. Not for
Das ist das tolle an unserer Zeit: In einer Postmoderne können Musikkünstler Mash-Ups beliebiger Genres erstellen oder sich, wie mit einer Zeitmaschine reisend, in jegliche Epoche der Popkultur zurückbewegen und sich ihrer Mittel bedienen. Ein wirklich erstaunliches Album erreichte uns diese Tage aus dem Hause des Nürnberger Labels Avant-Pop. WINGS OF LOVE veröffentlichten vor wenigen
Folks who love bands like The Shout Out Louds, Polock or Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin should pay attention to this limited 12-Inch called „Scrimmage Shark EP“ by the US Indiefolk duo Whispering Olympians, that was released on Jan. 1st. It´s Domenic Maltempi and William Olsen from the Hudson Valley region of New York who produced
The day Yoko Ono sat right next to me in a plastic chair started out as a regular day being a visitor in NYC. Back at our hotel that was located directly in the East Village, with sore legs from walking all day and a growling stomach, I checked my Twitter account while being lazy,
Da blieb mir doch heute morgen fast das Frühstücksei im Halse stecken, als das neue Video der Kölner Band Mrs. Greenbird mit dem Titel „Shooting Stars & Fairy Tales“ ohne Vorwarnung auf mich einknödelte. Dass es sich hierbei um die Gewinner einer Castingshow handelt, habe ich erst im Anschluss erfahren, denn den Privatsendern habe ich