Tagged: Friendly Fires
Freeload: Friendly Fires, “Jump in the Pool (Thin White Duke RMX)”
Natty British boy band Friendly Fires is ripe for remixing, already having the sensibilities of house music fans working out a rock-disco thing, with rhythmic disco vox and crescendoing everything. (And then there’s the cowbell.) … read more »
Blur Taps Vampire Weekend, Crystal Castles And More For Hyde Park Reunion Shows
Hot off the presses this morning from across the pond — Blur have announced the roster of bands who’ll join them in Hyde Park for their highly anticipated reunion gigs this July. Among the chosen ones are Crystal Castles, Vampire Weekend, Foals and more. read more »
The Soft Pack Won't Let Muslims Die
Since they changed their name to try and avoid any controversy, we figured to bring back a little of it with our news post title to declare that The Soft Pack are digitally re-releasing their 12″ LP from back when they were known as The Muslims. read more »
Prancehall’s Bass Odyssey, Part 42
Above is the video for Newham Generals’ latest single, “Head Get Mangled”, which uses the Holy Trinity of UK urban music video themes: bravado, torture and soft porn. I’m yet to see a positive review … read more »
White Lies To Tour U.S. With Friendly Fires And The Soft Pack Before Playing Coachella
One top-selling UK band plus one of our favorite bands, along with a band who used to have a good name equals a pretty huge tour. That will be the case when The Soft Pack joins British imports White Lies and the Friendly Fires for a full North American stint. read more »
Video: Friendly Fires, “Skeleton Boy”
Continuing their pretty smart trend of releasing videos just as we think we’re starting to get tired of their self-titled debut, Friendly Fires have come up with “Skeleton Boy,” which features full black body suits … read more »
Live: Friendly Fires In LA
We’ve said it many times before, but Friendly Fires are the real deal. We think our friends finally figured that out after the tenth one got turned away from last weekend’s sold out show at … read more »
Faunts Announce New Album, Downloads From Faunts Remixed
Those Canadian Batke brothers and friends, better known as Faunts, will drop their second full-length album, Feel.Love.Thinking.Of. on the world in 2009. It’s a more vocal, song-oriented effort than the band’s previous three studio creations, and it’s scheduled for a February 17 release on Friendly Fire Recordings. read more »
Video: Friendly Fires at the Levi’s®/FADER Fort NYC
In the Gen F section in of FADER Number 57, Friendly Fires revealed that they used to all be in a hardcore band. Watching them at the Levi’s®/FADER Fort, the remnants of that yelling brutishness … read more »
Exclusive Freeload: Friendly Fires, “Paris (Justus Kohncke remix)”
Our well-advertised love for the music of Brit trio Friendly Fires comes from many places—how their gleaming pop collapses into gelatin distortion freakouts, for instance, their affinity for house music, and endless hooks that we … read more »
