Push your luck: Enter to win an ‘Indie Rock Button Factory’
Talk Rock To Me and Yellow Bird Project have joined forces to dress you up in indie rock button love! Recently, we gushed about the all-around, utter coolness that is the brand new Indie Rock Button Factory from the philanthropically-inclined folks at Yellow Bird Project. In fact, we were so jazzed about it, we hooked...
The Flaming Lips call on fwends for Record Store Day
The Flaming Lips will release an extremely limited, collaborative double-album on April 21st to commemorate Record Store Day, confirms Stereogum. The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends project features the likes of Bon Iver, Nick Cave, Yoko Ono (?), Neon Indian, Erykah Badu, Chris Martin and scores of others, and will be pressed on crazy-gorgeous, mutlti-coloured...
On repeat: Kathleen Edwards’ Voyageur
01.17.12 (Maple Music) Of the many female musicians to pepper the Canadian landscape, only a precious few (Austra’s Katie Stelmanis, Metric’s Emily Haines) are unique enough to make waves while the majority of others fall together into an indistinguishable (albeit pretty-voiced) chorus of not-quite-Feists. Kathleen Edwards is most certainly the former; a woman who has...
Sexy alert: Poliça’s ‘Amongster’ video
Watch it and see: The new video for Amongster by electronic pop-soul outfit Poliça is filled with snails, earthworms, snakes, lizards and other assorted creepy-crawlies, but man, is it sexy. Like, disarmingly so. Fronted by Gayngs vocalist Channy Leanagh and produced by Ryan Olson, Poliça’s debut 11-track LP, Give You The Ghost features Mike Noyce...
Watch Bon Iver’s utterly mysterious video: Towers
Bon Iver – Towers (Official Music Video) from Bon Iver on Vimeo. It’s no secret that 2x Grammy Award-winning artist Justin Vernon of Bon Iver is a modern day mountain man. Having notoriously spent three months living in solitude in a small cabin in the woods of Northern Wisconsin, it’s little wonder – but a...
Bon Iver at AIR Studios
4AD and Jagjaguwar present this live session with Grammy Award-winning Bon Iver. Recorded in AIR Studio’s Lyndurst Hall – originally a church and missionary school circa 1880 – Justin Vernon is joined by Sean Carey, performing interpretations from both the new album and the Blood Bank EP, as well as a cover of Bonnie Raitt’s...
Architects: A steady climb to The Here and Now
Hailing from Brighton, UK, metalcore band Architects – characterized by an intensely technical blend of extreme metal and hardcore punk elements – has enjoyed a steady climb through the genre’s ranks since forming in 2004. Between recording four LPs, including this year’s The Here and Now, the group – Sam Carter (lead vocals, keyboards), Tim...
