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Another year in music is coming to a close, and throughout December we'll be trying to put it all into perspective, revealing our favorite albums, tracks, videos, and much more. And after spending the year sharing our opinions with you, we'd like to hear yours-- which records and songs did you ...
Indie Music
Best Coast is an extremely promising L.A. rock act masterminded by singer Bethany Cosentino. The recent Best Coast song "When I'm With You" received a much-deserved Best New Track distinction just a couple weeks ago. Cosentino makes lo-fi garage-pop informed by 1960s girl groups and 1990s alt ...
Indie Music
Vivian Girls
Photo by Jonathan Cargill Last week, we reported that Molina and Johnson , the duo of Magnolia Electric Co. leader Jason Molina and Centro - matic frontman Will Johnson, had canceled their European tour because of Molina's health problems.
Now we can report that those same health problems ...
Indie Music
One Fast Move or I'm Gone , the Kerouac tribute album from Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard , dropped a couple of weeks ago, and the Death Cab for Cutie and Son Volt frontmen have played a few shows together. Next month, they'll play a few more. Yesterday, Death Cab's website revealed ...
Indie Music
Death Cab For Cutie
Ben Harper
Son Volt
Tom Waits
Milwaukee, Wi
Photo by Kirstie Shanley
Originally set for release in 1995, Shudder to Think frontman Craig Wedren 's solo album The Spanish Amnesian is an experimental, lo-fi record that is finally available to hear nearly 15 years later.
The album-- which features a guitar duet with fellow Shudder to ...
Indie Music
Shudder to Think
Craig Ferguson
This Is It , director Kenny Ortega's documentary/concert film about Michael Jackson 's rehearsals for his ill-fated run of London shows, pulled in $240 million in worldwide theatrical release during the past month, and it scored a ton of surprisingly positive reviews ( this one being my ...
Indie Music
Michael Jackson
Blu Ray
Sony
"There's so many people I'd like to work with still, but I'd like to maybe go outside of the box. My sister [Solange] has put me on to bands like Of Montreal and some other different types of artists. I would love to do something like that on my next album."
-- Beyoncé discusses the future in ...
Indie Music
Beyoncé Knowles
Grizzly Bear
Last year, the Smashing Pumpkins sued Virgin Records , twice. First, they sued their old label for using the Pumpkins' music in an unauthorized Pepsi promotion , thus hurting their "artistic integrity" and "considerable amount of goodwill in the eyes of the public." (After all, Billy Corgan ...
Indie Music
Billy Corgan
Smashing Pumpkins
Over the weekend, UK breakout Florence and the Machine played a guest-filled gig at London's Tabernacle. ( Via NME .) The show featured surprise appearances from Patrick Wolf, Jack Penate, Kid Harpoon, and the inimitable Jarvis Cocker .
Cocker performed "Underwear" from the Pulp classic ...
Indie Music
Florence and the Machine
Jarvis Cocker
Patrick Wolf
Jack Penate
Here's something intriguing: Zeitgeist-devouring globetrotting DJ savior Diplo has been spending some time in the studio with Swedish synthpop queen Robyn . On their respective Twitters , the two have dropped a few frustratingly obtuse details about a collaboration, but it's enough to get us ...
Indie Music
Diplo
Robyn
Photo by Gail Butensky Reunited indie messiahs Pavement have already announced a few UK and European shows on their grand 2010 tour: their own ATP festival , a stop in London , a headlining set at Barcelona's Primavera Sound Festival . And now we can report that the band will spend almost the ...
Indie Music
Pavement
Brixton Academy
Central Park SummerStage
Photo by Serge Leblon
It's been less than two years since Goldfrapp 's last LP, the psych-folk Seventh Tree . But it's been more than four years since 2005's Supernature , the last Goldfrapp LP that could accurately be described as danceable .
So fans of the British duo's pop side can ...
Indie Music
Goldfrapp
Van Halen
Toronto hardcore squad Fucked Up have a lot going on. They're planning a singles comp and putting together a novelty charity posse cut . But to experience the band in its purest, most elemental form, you need to go see them live in a club. You need to hear their riffs battering you over the ...
Indie Music
Kurt Cobain
Nightmare
Photo by Bevis Martin and Charlie Youle
Chatting about the titular track from Hot Chip 's new album, One Life Stand , co-leader Alexis Taylor recently told Pitchfork, "I'm talking about turning a one night stand into someone's whole life and I think that's quite a nice thing to say."
We ...
Indie Music
Hot Chip
It's been more than two years since Sweden's Shout Out Louds dropped Our Ill Wills , their last platter of satisfying indie pop, which means we're good and ready for another.
On February 23, the band will release album number three, Work , via Merge . That's the cover art above; it's nice ...
Indie Music
Shout Out Louds
Photo by Indra Dunis
Zola Jesus is Nika Roza Danilova, an opera-trained caterwauler from Madison, Wisconsin who makes noise music that scrapes and glistens in equal measure. She loves Ian Curtis and Lydia Lunch, and their uncompromising tendencies can be heard throughout her bruising, ...
Indie Music
Front page photo by Nolan Wells Orchestral experimentalist Owen Pallett , known to the world as Final Fantasy , has a new album, Heartland , dropping January 12 on Domino . The LP will feature contributions from folks like Gentleman Reg, Nico Muhly , and the motherfucking Czech Symphony. In a ...
Indie Music
The Action
Leona Lewis
Owen
Nico Muhly
Pitchfork writers regularly appear on ABC's World News Webcast to chat about notable albums they've recently reviewed. Previously, we saw Tom Breihan on Girls' Album , Marc Hogan on Neon Indian's Psychic Chasms , Pitchfork Managing Editor Mark Richardson on Atlas Sound's Logos , Eric Harvey ...
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Animal Collective
The Fall
Mark Richardson
Atlas Sound
The Forth
Photo by Dan McMahon
In his 2005 book Blink , Malcolm Gladwell included an entire chapter about global pop polyglot Kenna , a sure bet for massive pop stardom who nonetheless failed to become a massive pop star. Kenna might not be a household name, but hey, he appears on "Games You Can Win", ...
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RJD2
"The idea that something is uncool because it's old or foreign has left the collective consciousness." -- Cool old foreigner Brian Eno , from an essay about how if everything has its own sub-genre, nothing is uncool. (via Prospect , via The New York Times )
