Author: Paris365

  • Well, there are plenty of things you can say about The Flaming Lips but, love ’em or hate ’em, you have to admit that they’re prolific. Seems like every six months they’ve got an album for you (or whoever buys their records). One minute they’re covering Dark Side of the Moon, the next minute they’re…

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  • Garbage collaborated with Screaming Females on a cover of Patti Smith’s “Because The Night” for Record Store Day, which was yesterday (4/20).  Here’s the video:            

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  • Empire of the Sun’s 2008 debut Walking On A Dream was an electro-pop masterpiece that ranked very high on most critics’ year end best lists and was almost universally loved. I read several music magazines — not to mention websites — and I don’t recall reading a single negative review. Now the Australian duo of…

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  • Here’s the video for “Awakening,” the new single by Everything Is Made In China, an experimental Russian group… The song is from their new album Amber.    

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  • Here’s the new video by Berlin based duo Noblesse Oblige for their new single “Runaway.”  The eerie video was directed by Chris Corner, otherwise known as IAMX, and it’s quite a trip.  (Lots of flashing and rapid stuff though, so you might not want to watch it if you have a seizure disorder.)  Fantastic song,…

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  • The Joy Formidable’s proper full-length debut album was called The Big Roar and roar it did. They were all about the roar, singer/guitarist Rhiannon “Ritzy” Bryan mad like a rabid wolf, howling in the night. On the cover of their new album, Wolf’s Law, the wolf is dead and has flowers growing out of it.…

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  • Check out the new video for Houses’ “The Beauty Surrounds,” a song which is like an electronica version of Coldplay…        

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  • The Knife is a duo comprised of brother and sister Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer Andersson, the later of which has released some glorious electro-pop during recent years under the name Fever Ray. Shaking the Habitual is their first proper album of new material since 2006’s Silent Shout. It’s difficult to put my thoughts about…

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  • Here’s the video for “Limitless” by Burns featuring the immensely talented Clare Maguire:

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  • Garbage recently had a fan art contest to celebrate their tour of Mexico.  They made this video for “The One,” one of the deluxe edition bonus tracks from Not Your Kind Of People, using that fan art.  And it’s awesome.    

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  • When Sneaker Pimps dismissed their intoxicating singer Kelli Ali after just one album — the brilliant trip-hop masterpiece that is Becoming X — I was devastated. There were two bands I was obsessed with at the time, Garbage and Sneaker Pimps. And the idea of Sneaker Pimps sans Kelli was as absurd as the idea…

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  • Here’s “For Distant Viewing,” the latest video from Little Tybee, a wonderful American folk act…        

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  • Behold Psy’s new video for his just-released single “Gentleman.”  The video shows Psy being anything but a gentleman as he plays pranks on various people, mostly pretty girls.  It’s kind of funny, but also pretty mean-spirited.  Not sure what we think about it as of yet.     Read Michael McCarthy’s review of “Gentleman” here:…

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  • Jessie Ware has just unleashed a video for “Imagine It Was Us,” one of the bonus tracks from her forthcoming U.S. debut.  (We know it’s restricted from playback here, that you’ll have to go to Youtube to watch it, but we still wanted to point it out anyway because it’s a marvelous song from one…

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  • Here’s Charlotte Church’s new video for the song “NERVE” from her E.P. TWO, which is now available on iTunes…    

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