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The Tripwire: No Age's "Life Prowler" Trailer
Starting this week, The Tripwire is going to be gathering its personal belongings and moving to a new, much more plush web address: TheFader.com. Kinda awesome, right? The TW content and commentary you’ve come to … read more »
Vampy Weeks Covered The Boss
Starting this week, The Tripwire is going to be gathering its personal belongings and moving to a new, much more plush web address: TheFader.com. Kinda awesome, right? The TW content and commentary you’ve come to … read more »
Video: MGMT, "Congratulations"
So apparently videos featuring grotesque monster-puppets slowly dying while their human counterparts look on affectionately are becoming kind of a thing. After Yeasayer’s “Madder Red” video with Kristen Bell got the ball rolling a week … read more »
Arcade Fire Have a Sense of Humor
As you may have heard, the Arcade Fire’s MSG concert last night was broadcast live on YouTube. The multi-camera show was overseen by neophyte live-director Terry Gilliam, who you’ve probably also heard of. What he’s … read more »
Listen: Vampire Weekend, "White Sky (Basement Jaxx Remix)"
It kind of feels like a lot of people forgot that Contra came out this year. Or forgot until the recent album art legal scuffle popped up and put Vampire Weekend back in the news … read more »
Listen: The Vaselines, "Sex With an X"
We, like you, have been waiting breathlessly since 1989 for the Vaselines to follow up their first and thus far only album, Dum-Dum. Except not really, since we’d be lying if we pretended it didn’t … read more »
Would You Like To Feel Nostalgic About a Band That Only Just Put Out Their Third Album?
You know how you like to tell people that you saw the Arcade Fire when Funeral came out, only you’re just relating anecdotes that your friend who ACTUALLY saw them has told you and you’re … read more »
Listen: Young Man, "Up So Fast"
Colin Caulfield has made a minor interweb splash in the past year for the videos he’s posted of himself covering the likes of Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Ariel Pink and Bon Iver on YouTube. Having seemingly … read more »
Built to Spill Heard that You and Your Band Sold Your Guitars and Bought Synthesizers. (So They Did, Too)
After years of writing great songs that everyone agrees were somehow ruined in the translation from page to tape, Built to Spill have finally figured out how they’ve been fucking up the execution of every … read more »
Video: Broken Social Scene, "Forced To Love"
Fresh off of their Bieber/Tom Cruise/riot police-heavy clip for “Meet Me In The Basement”, Broken Social Scene have dialed back the doomsaying for “Forced To Love”, another Forgiveness Rock Record standout. Directors MAKAPOON trade in … read more »
