Tagged: RVNG
GEN F: Holly Herndon
Analog synths and vintage drum machines may be badges of authenticity in a certain sector of electronic music, but for Johnson City, Tennessee native Holly Herndon, clicking a mouse onstage is about as real as … read more »
Stream Holly Herndon’s Album Movement
I’m assuming this applies to most people, but my music taste runs with what’s appropriate for the season. Holly Herndon, who went to Mills College and hung out in Berlin for awhile, makes perfect winter … read more »
Interview: Ducktails and Franco Falsini
If you’ve ever zeroed in on Matt Mondanile’s guitar playing in Ducktails, you may have noticed that it sounds an awful lot like Franco Falsini’s in pioneering ’70s prog band Sensations’ Fix, from the lightly … read more »
MoMA PS1′s Warm Up 2012 Lineup
Judging from MoMA PS1’s Warm Up lineup, we will once again be spending our summer Saturdays sweaty and stoked in the courtyard of MoMA PS1. This year we’ll be shaded (and the air will be … read more »
Stream: Paradis, “Hémisphère”
If Matt Werth’s RVNG label specializes in music that is basically the sonic equivalent of taking heavy psychedelics inside a fancy museum, then the stuff he puts out with Tim Sweeney on Beats in Space … read more »
Video: Julia Holter, “Moni Mon Amie”
Julia Holter’s video for “Moni Mon Amie,” directed by Yelena Zhelezov, plays like a soft focus office romance fantasy with both characters portrayed by Holter. Helpfully, her label RVNG pre-interprets the video in the YouTube … read more »
Cameron Stallones, M. Geddes Gengras and The Congos: Happy Songs
A group of California musicians tap into the heart and sound of The Congos’ Jamaica. It’s Christmastime in Jamaica, but the red and white Santa decorations dotting the store windows are overwhelmed by orange and … read more »
Live: Julia Holter at Other Music
Julia Holter’s Ekstasis is one of those other-worldly yet self-contained albums that works equally well as ambient background music as it does in a solitary, concerted headphones listen. It’s a quiet battle cry for the … read more »
Live: Blondes at MoMA
We sent our buddies Weird Days over to MoMa’s PopRally to film NY synth duo Blondes perform in a lazer-lit museum hall filled with beautiful people dancing and clapping. They played two of our favorites … read more »
Stream: Bronze, “Wits”
Bronze‘s “Wits” is disorienting and somewhat difficult, mostly because there’s no real guidepost to point toward. The vocals are monotone, the drums falter, and the synths sound almost broken, except they build and layer to … read more »
