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HYPE CHECK: Washed Out Goes From Depressing to Slightly Danceable In the Span of One Strange Santos Party House Show
Words and Photos by Andrew Parks The Artist and Their Latest Release: Washed Out, Life of Leisure (Mexican Summer) What’s Been Said: “Leave the slippery musicology behind. ‘Feel It All Around’ is a deliciously unbalanced track, starting into the groove right off the bat and unexpectedly fading out at the end. The unusual compositional style […]
PEEP SHOW: Watch 15 Live Flaming Lips Clips From Over the Years, Including Cover Songs (Black Sabbath, Queen, Elvis) and One-Night-Only Collabs (The White Stripes, Peaches, Beck, Cat Power)
[Photo by Laura M. Gray] While it remains to be seen if Embryonic will become self-titled‘s Album of the Year, the Flaming Lips‘ latest mind-fuck opus has managed to do one thing already: make us care about its claustrophobic, psychedelic sprawl enough to justify spending $25 on the double LP version. It’s an exhausting listen, […]
F#CK CMJ: Presenting 7 Reasons Why Glasslands Is the Only Place You Need To Be Next Saturday
The following people have played our annual Glasslands party in the past couple years: MGMT, Yeasayer, Jay Reatard, Amazing Baby, Holy Fuck, Blaqstarr, and a bunch of others. All before they ‘blew up’. Or at the very least, before they started playing places like Bowery Ballroom. We’re not bragging; we’re just stating facts, followed by […]
OSCILLATIONS Returns To (Le) Poisson Rouge With a CMJ Bill That’s Been Pre-Approved By Pitchfork, The New York Times, Kanye West & More
It’s been a good nine months since we last held an OSCILLATIONS party at (Le) Poisson Rouge. Which is unfortunate considering our School of Seven Bells show was a resounding success, making us want to throw such a thing on a monthly basis. That didn’t quite happen, but we’re over it. You see, all that […]
MICROWAVE ONLY: Santos’ Party House? More Like Monotonix’s Party House!
Photos by Turkishomework Each week we send Turkishomework out to capture a sliver of our city’s blurred-vision nightlife. This past Friday was particularly wild, as it involved trying to trail Monotonix‘s stage-free show at Santos Party House. Man, those guys are hairy.
1MM: Beth Ditto Is “Not a Cunt,” And Other Important Observations At Gossip’s Terminal 5 Show With MEN and Apache Beat
Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer Photos by Andrew Parks Now, before you ring our friends at the FCC, we didn’t utter that word. Someone in Terminal 5 did, near the end of Gossip‘s Friday night set, and singer Beth Ditto was not amused. In fact, she called the crowd member out on his loose […]
SO MANY PEOPLE: Parklife In Perspective (Part II), Featuring Photos of Busy P, Sherlock’s Daughter, Metronomy & Lots of Australians In Heat
Photos by Lazarus Nellington II For Part I of our suitably sordid Parklife photo essay, click here.
ALL THE PEOPLE: Parklife In Perspective (Part I), Featuring Photos of The Rapture, Little Boots, Erol Alkan, Empire of the Sun and More
Photos by Carlito Mustafa Think you had a ‘crazy time’ at Austin City Limits last weekend? You’ve never been around a field full of Australians, then. Those kids don’t just party hard; they party until they pass out. Literally. In fact, we literally had to step over several non-homeless people–drunken fools who pushed themselves to […]