alt_J have made more audio available from their upcoming “3WW” album and it’s a brassy, bleepy stomping pop tune called “In Cold Blood“. The band describe it as “conceived in our Leeds days, completed in London” and it features brass instruments recorded at Abby Road and a £1.05 ebay purchased Casiotone keyboard. Listen to the […]
Watch the official video for the first new music from Slowdive in 22 years below. “Sugar For The Pill” calmly and glacially pours forth from the bands eponymously titled album “Slowdive” due out May 5 on Dead Oceans.
Maxïmo Park return to the fray this week ahead of their newest album “Risk To Exist“, due out April 21. The album’s been recorded in Chicago with Wilco’s Loft Studios with Tom Schick producing. The James & James directed video below features dancer/choreographer Robby Graham really giving the songs hypnotic rhythms a workout. There’s also […]
Watch a very heavily pregnant Natalie Portman swimming around in this poetic, elegiac video accompaniment to James Blake‘s new single “My Willing Heart” directed by Anna Rose Holmer. The slow burning black and white visuals were apparently shot just days before Portman gave birth to her daughter Amalia in late February.
The first release from Laura Marling‘s latest album “Semper Femina” comes with more than a hint of Nick Drake’s “Riverman” or “Northern Sky” and that’s not a bad thing at all as she lyrically lilts and swoons through her poetic ode to love and longing. It’s a delicious return after time away reflecting on her […]
Notoriously wary of live shows and the anxiety they can cause Lana del Rey made a surprise, intimate appearance in Austin, Texas at the SxSW Festival to the delight of the cellphone wielding crowd capturing the world weary tone of her modern classics and new songs alike. In particular the first live performance of her […]
Killer Mike and El-P aka Run The Jewels perform “Legend Has it” from their new album RTJ3 on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, watch it below.
HAERTS return with a brand new track “Your Love” and video directed by Julian Klincewicz who’s worked with them previously on the short film “Power/Land” Watch below:
Last night Lorde was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live and she performed “Green Light“, her first single from new album “Melodrama” and she also sang this plaintive, brooding but hopeful track too, check out the video and how good she sounds vocally below.
Who can remember seeing the video for Guns N’ Roses November Rain? Particularly the moment around 4 minutes in when Slash walks out of the church in dust central New Mexico, Les Paul slung over his shoulder and proceeds to ‘act’ out the most overblown mimed (i.e.unplugged) guitar solo in music video history? It was […]
