Vee Hua 華婷婷The thing I like about Fol Chen videos is that they barely ever make sense, yet present nonsense in such a captivating way. This line art video for “C/U” features cat ladies — only they’re not really cats so much as they are...
With their video for “All Day,” The Concretes are taking projections into boring everyday living spaces. The most visually-stimulating parts are when the projections live in a small corner of a room, adding just a slight accent to...
Here’s a pretty minimal and nicely shot 4AD session with Blonde Redhead, who are on tour now. This track is from their new album, Penny Sparkle.
Shannon WiedeyThe Titans Of Industry is a Seattle-based indie rock band with some oddball elements and vocals, which create a vibe reminiscent of bands like Of Montreal. Their new LMNOEP EP begins with “These Cold Hands,” a catchy track with a curious...
"I think we like to keep it tense. I think we like to keep a really healthy balance of, 'Ohhh, everything could fall apart at any given moment.'" -- Josh Lambert
It is only after listening to Parenthetical Girls many times over do you realize why the name of the band is so apt: the song lyrics sound like long stories, ripe for parenthetical sentences. There is an epic nature to Privilege, Pt. 2: The Past...
With every one-word, disgustingly pleasant band name, like Houses or Lovers, comes a flood of inferred qualities — those of washed out Polaroid aesthetics, massive synth usage, and healthy doses of male-female vocals. It is almost too...
The word “marathon,” when applied to CMJ is quite literal; it involves a lot of running around from place to place, trying to catch every single bit of amazing music that you can soak up. Here’s some of my favorites from what I was...