[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y09xVJJSOL4″] Geez, Hotel Mexico most really really have worn out their copy of Before Today because they’ve full-on embraced the Ariel Pink sound on the teaser for a new song above. The track, named “Dear Les Friends,” is “coming soon” but I can already guarantee you every one who writes about it will bust out…
People always share the goofy, potentially fabricated dreams they had the night before, the ones where they hook-up with a Harry Potter character or team up with friends to fend off zombies using water balloons. These fantasies might wander off into bizarre directions (“we were flying World War I bi-planes with our dorm president…and then…
At some point in January, I said my 2011 resolution would be to cover rap more here. Well, it’s April and here is the first Japanese-centric hip-hop post that isn’t American (sorry Odd Future) or fake-ass “rap” (sorry Funky Monkey Babys). Personal aside, I’m hesitant to write about Japanese rap because there already exists an…
Look, I don’t really want to drag the fashion choices of The Cigavettes’ guitarist into a discussion about the group’s single “Ready To Leave” but – when you wear one of those name shirts (ya know, like this) that clearly honors The Beatles in the attached music video, I’m going to go in and make…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEal8xIpG6I”] One of 2011’s herky-jerkiest spazz outs gets an official video. NOKIES’! “We Are News In The Dance Floor” does a solid Los Campesinos’! imitation, emulating that English bands suger-blasted indie-rock down to the all-together-now shouting. The clip above, though, fails to match the song’s head-first rush, as it mostly just ends up being a…