Author: Paris365
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The Vaccines’ Come of Age was one of my favorite albums of 2012. I never reviewed it because I felt like it was too far to the left of what I normally listen to for me to accurately write about it. Their songs are a mix of lo-fi and punk and I’m not hugely knowledgeable…
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This Manchester duo’s 2010 debut album, Happiness, garnered them almost universal acclaim. I don’t think I ever read a single review of the album that wasn’t at least 90% positive. And so I was shocked when reviews of Exile, their just-released sophomore effort, started surfacing and were almost 90% negative. By the time I finally…
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Soothing indie/electro/pop from Sweden…
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Here’s a video by Daughter, a lovely folk pop/indie group from England. The song will be on their album If You Leave out March 18th. Official site: http://www.ohdaughter.com/
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See their entire career condensed into just a few minutes in this fascinating video:
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Lovely, light-hearted indie pop by way of the U.K….
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Here’s the official lyric video for Paramore’s new single “Still Into You” from their upcoming self-titled album. I quite like it. It’s definitely something different from them, but I think it’s great that they’re trying new things. It seems like they’re really feeling inspired again. This song’s energy is infectious.
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It begins with what sounds like a military air-raid siren before a massive beat begins stomping all over the place like it’s a lost Ice Cube track from 1991. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think it was a new hip-hop track. But wait — she actually does kind of rap this song, sounding…
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Here’s Dragonette’s new video for “Run, Run, Run,” the lastest single from their amazing album Bodyparts.
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There was a song on Bon Jovi’s last album, The Circle, called “Work For The Working Man.” It found Jon Bon Jovi aligning himself with the blue collar worker. “I lost my pension, they took my I.D.,” he sang and fans, well, they didn’t like it. The consensus was that Jon was too rich to…
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Last year TV on the Radio’s guitarist/keyboardist Dave Sitek started his own record label, which he named Federal Prism. His first release was a Telepath 7″ featuring a remix by Trent Reznor. But this year he’ll be expanding the label significantly with new releases — presumably, albums — by Kelis, CSS, Cerebral Ballzy and Scarlett…
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The cover art for The Next Day is the cover of Bowie’s 1977 album Heroes with a white box that simply reads “The Next Day” in the center, concealing 90% of the original cover art by Masayoshi Sukita. This obscured album cover comes courtesy of Jonathan Barnbrook, who also designed the art for Bowie’s criminally…
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Japanese singer/songwriter Rihwa teamed up with American singer/songwriter Michelle Branch for this lovely duet, which Branch wrote after asking Rihwa if she’d be interested in collaborating, something Rihwa became extremely excited about, having become a fan of Michelle’s music when she was attending school in Canada. The mid-tempo, guitar-centric track is entirely in English, but…
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The Knife are back. Next month they’ll release their new album Shaking the Habitual, but in the meantime we have the video for its first single, “A Tooth for an Eye,” to indulge in. Behold as Farhat and Kakan Hermansson direct some truly awful male dancers, as their young female coach sings along to The…
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Here’s The Virgins’ brand new video for their song “Flashbacks, Memories & Dreams,” which will be on their upcoming album Strike Gently, which comes out on March 25th in the U.K. and thereabouts elsewhere.
