Brooklyn band Ex Cops‘ new video for “Spring Break (Birthday Song)” documents the July 4 performance at MoMA through the eyes of the band — as well as a New York hipster on a BMX aka Nick Kimball of War Cubs making his way to the show... This is a fun video for a fun song! True Hallucinations is currently available from Other Music Recording Co.
Brooklyn-based synthpop duo Holy Ghost! are excited to unveil their new song “Dumb Disco Ideas.” “Dumb Disco Ideas” is a new song from the band’s upcoming sophomore album, Dynamics, which will be released this fall via DFA Records. Dynamics will be the follow-up to the group’s critically acclaimed self-titled debut album which was released in 2011 and was hailed as a “classic pop album” by The Los Angeles Times.
The video, directed by Ben Fries, features a plethora of
colorful, synchronized lights and a backdrop of the New York City
skyline from dusk until dawn. Watch the video below.
Here is the latest single from Vampire Weekend'snew albumModern Vampires of the City. I personally can’t wait for this record to drop in a couple of weeks (May 14) via XL – until then I am just gonna put “Ya Hey” on repeat.
Italians Do It BetterartistJohnny Jeweljust released a video for the track Streets Of Fire featuring vocals by Ruth Radelet by his other bandChromatics. Symmetry is a project that released Themes For An Imaginary Film back in 2011. The video is full of footage shot around New York City, and was directed by Alastair Uhlig. Check it out below.
Jmzs Smith is back with a new 4 track EP titled "Casual Sex". It continues with the themes of "Sex & Cigarettes" - delving deeper into themes of late nights, girls, cigarettes, Brooklyn, perfume, hipsters, cabs, nights in bars - all accompanied by an undercurrent feeling of ennui. It's like a little slice of life in NYC. The music has a French Lounge/Disco/New York House kind of vibe. You can download the EP for FREE via Soundcloud or purchase via Super Boring Music on Cassette and Reel to Reel Tape + CD Box Set
The buildup to the release of Vampire Weekend's third album continues. Two songs from "Modern Vampires of the City", their third album due out May 7 on XL, have been released via the band's website. Listen to the new double A-side single, Diane Young / Step below.
Caveman are a five-piece from New York and just released the single from their self-titled follow-up to 2011′s CoCo Beware, the slow burning “Over My Head.” Enjoy!
Today, Zane Lowe premiered “Sacrilege,” the first single from the new album from Yeah Yeah Yeahs titled Mosquito out 4/16 via Interscope. Check it out below.
If your not a fan of The Crystal Ark after seeing this video then don't ever visit this site again! Just kidding you should visit this site frequently but you really need to see somebody about your taste in music. New album is out now via DFA HEREand is highly recommended.
Longtime fans of The Walkmen might be tempted to brush this album aside. For well over ten years, these five New Yorkers have been the yeoman voice of good kids behaving badly. With their sixth full length of new material, Heaven, there is an unmistakable shift towards social rehabilitation. These East Coast dilettantes are no longer opening their records by getting kicked out of bars (see Bows and Arrows). Instead, they open with a statement of slowing down: "I was the pony express, but I ran out of gas." It's not even the confession of exhaustion that is the most startling thing you'll first notice about Heaven but it's the way it's communicated: calmly, without detachment, and in tune. Long gone are the days of clanky speakeasy pianos, of bass lines played off time, of a singer so far past last call that all he can do is slur his lyrics or screech them so loudly that you can hear the veins in his forehead bulging.
Credit the encroachment of adulthood or credit producer Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes' Helplessness Blues), because the entitled, misbehaved, and emotionally detached prep boys of The Walkmen have finally straightened their ties, tuned their instruments, sobered up, and delivered a record that reflects their decade long commitment to songwriting. Heaven is a beautiful, well structured, and--in a most un-Walkmen way--calm record. As it rolls forward through country-tinged ditties like "We Can't be Beat", delicate acoustic numbers like "Southern Heart" and "Line by Line" and deliberately paced upbeat tunes like "Song for Leigh", one keeps waiting for the inevitable emotional dam burst that never comes. We've become so accustomed to vocalist Hamilton Leithauser temporarily losing his shit, taking a breather, combing his hair, and tucking his shirt back in that we take it for granted this will happen every time he gets in the studio. Songs like "The Rat", "All Hands and the Cook", "In the New Year", and "Angela Surf City" were all unexpected, unchecked geysers spewing from a repressed id. Heaven's geyser never comes. When the fast paced "The Love You Love" barrels through your speakers, you might mistakenly think they've left their therapy for the end of the record. Then he sings "Baby it's the love you love, not me." I don't think he would have cared before, as this is the same guy who recently said "You're with someone else tomorrow night, doesn't matter to me. Cuz as the sun dies into the hill, you've got all I need."
Nevertheless, Heaven is something special and it will most likely grow on you. For longtime Walkmen fans, it will take several listens for its charms to grab you. Whether it be the humid, sleepwalking vibes of "No One Ever Sleeps" or the early U2 guitar lines of title track "Heaven", there will be an entry point where you realize that this record deserves multiple listens. The Walkmen are still a great rock and roll band; as they've become parents, they've oddly began to sound like their parents' rock and roll bands. Like that unwanted shock of grey hair that's shot across your previously flawless black mane, you should embrace the change with dignity. The Walkmen have.
This past December, Sleigh Bells shared "Born to Lose," the first single from their upcoming new album Reign of Terror. The Brooklyn duo just released another track titled "Comeback Kid." If you pre-order the LP on iTunes, you'll get a download of "Comeback Kid" right away.
On April 2nd 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden. LCD frontman James Murphy had made the conscious decision to disband one of the most celebrated and influential bands of its generation at the peak of its popularity, ensuring that the band would go out on top with the biggest and most ambitious concert of its career. The instantly sold out, near four-hour extravaganza did just that, moving the thousands in attendance to tears of joy and grief, with NEW YORK magazine calling the event "a marvel of pure craft" and TIME magazine lamenting "we may never dance again." SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS is both a narrative film documenting this once in a life time performance and an intimate portrait of James Murphy as he navigates the lead-up to the show, the day after, and the personal and professional ramifications of his decision. More info HERE
