PEEP SHOW: Poni Hoax, “Pretty Tall Girls” (Live)
[youtube 17O1EB6Y9Mg] We fell pretty damn hard for Poni Hoax earlier this year thanks to the seamless dance-rock symmetry of their second LP, Images of Sigrid (Tigersushi). Now before you scoff at the very idea of yet another band schooled in the art of Joy Division, Giorgio Moroder and the Talking Heads, know this: Poni […]
THIS WEEK IN UNCOOL: A Pre-Release Review of Metallica’s “Death Magnetic”
By Arye Dworken Lars Ulrich is okay with it, in case you were wondering. After having resisted his torrent-savvy fans for all these years, the Metallica drummer has finally made peace with the Internet. “Listen, we’re 10 days from release. I mean, from here, we’re golden,” he told San Francisco’s Live 105 in response to […]
‘Security Breach’ Ends in Oasis Assault
Somewhere Jay-Z is laughing … uncontrollably [youtube CX5JBsKih0c] Call the Brothers Gallagher what you will. (Egotistical wankers, for instance.) Us, we actually dig a lot of Oasis‘ discography, especially in a live setting, where they usually put on their very best ‘bigger than Jesus’ act alongside such Brit-pop standards as “Cigarettes & Alchohol,” “Live Forever,” […]
Oasis Cancel ‘Intimate’ New York City Show
Thanks to this 47-year-old Canadian ‘fan’, Oasis won’t be making all of our “Champagne Supernova” dreams come true tomorrow night at Terminal 5. As he recently wrote on the band’s Web site, Noel Gallagher still feels like “I’ve had a sparring session with Ricky Hatton … can’t say much more than that the ‘perpetrator’ [is] […]
THE S/T SCOOP: Matthew Dear Discusses Get Physical Mix, Minitek and the ‘Music For Airports’-ish Album That’s Up Next
[Photos by Will Calcutt] By Andrew Parks Matthew Dear is what most people would call a true professional. Aside from being able to balance three distinct aliases like a purposeful schizophrenic (the dank, psychedelic peak-hour anthems of Audion, the manic minimal techno of False, and the avant-pop approach of namesake albums like 2007’s justifiably-acclaimed Asa […]
S/T Survived … The Front Row of a ‘Christmas on Mars’ Screening
Wayne Coyne as ‘The Martian’ [Photos courtesy of Warner Bros. Records/Cinema Purgatorio] By Andrew Parks To answer your immediate assumptions, yes the acting’s atrocious and the dialogue is pure B-movie drivel. With a couple exceptions, of course–namely the uncomfortably numb delivery of Steven Drozd, the Flaming Lips multi-instrumentalist who also happens to star in Wayne […]
SUBTERRANEAN’S CHOICE: Stereolab, “Neon Beanbag”
Wondering when MTV’s gonna play music videos again? They certainly do on Subterranean, today’s answer to 120 Minutes. Presenting the show’s clip of the week, an s/t exclusive : MTV Music Videos MTV Shows Celebrity News Gosh, how long has it been since Stereolab made their last video? It’s kind of amazing because the video […]
PLEASANT SURPRISE OF THE WEEK: TK Webb & the Visions @ Bowery Ballroom, 9.17.08
Photos by Andrew Parks A guitarist that looks like a top hat-less Slash and shreds like a rail-jumping “Crazy Train” is the last thing we expected to see when stumbling into the middle of TK Webb‘s Visions-backed set at Bowery Ballroom on Wednesday. But there he was, standing in front of an Orange amp that […]
1MM: Witchcraft @ Bowery Ballroom, 9.17.08
Photos by Andrew Parks As you might imagine by their name alone, Witchcraft is a bunch of Black Sabbath-worshiping Swedes. Judging by the truly old-school biker punk/metal types at Bowery Ballroom on Wednesday, the word’s apparently gotten out, too, giving 30-to-40-year-olds a reason to believe in slightly-psychedelic sludge once again. Photos after the jump …