Dreamworld

NEW LISSY TRULLIE REMIX Our favorite NYC garage-rocker extraordinaire Lissy Trullie has been busy traversing these United States over the past summer, burning rubber and breaking hearts up and down our interstates, and it would seem that now that she’s cozied back up in her big city apartment she can finally begin cranking out new [...]

July 2nd, 2009 | Category: Rose Elinor Dougall, action design, arctic monkeys, beyond gods and empires, blackhole, crying lightning, florence and the machine, lissy trullie, rolo tomassi, she keeps bees, the danks, thou | Leave a comment

Telephone Chords

NEW BAND CHEER: THE ROPESTwo-person electronic bands are a specialty of ours here at Cannibal Cheerleader. We frequently report on our friends Heartsrevolution, our favorites Crystal Castles, locals Ghostland Observatory, and others swimming through our playlists. Recently though, we came upon an electronic duo swinging less into the land of electro-thrash or dance rave, but [...]

November 4th, 2008 | Category: action design, blondie, crystal castles, heartsrevolution, the action design, the ropes | Leave a comment

Ten Feet of Snow

THE ACTION DESIGN LIVE IN AUSTINIn what will probably go down as one of our favorite punk shows of the year, the Action Design, starring M formerly of one of our favorite bands of all time Tsunami Bomb, brought their powerful brand of pop-punk to an excited Red 7 audience who thrilled at seeing the [...]

September 11th, 2008 | Category: acid tongue, action design, agent m, boxing lesson, emo's, jenny lewis, landmines, red 7, tsunami bomb | Leave a comment

Candy and Chrome

NEW VIDEO FROM GLASS CANDYQuick little update today before I rush off to the Action Design show here in Austin! Pitchfork has a new Glass Candy live video up from the Midi Festival and since we absolutely love GC here at Cannibal Cheerleader, we’ll post it here. Check it:********************************************************************NEW SONG FROM THE CHROMATICSGorilla Vs. Bear [...]

September 10th, 2008 | Category: action design, glass candy, marnie stern, the chromatics | Leave a comment

Blow Up

INTERVIEW WITH THE ACTION DESIGNSo for a myriad of reasons, including but not limited to transportation issues and the Republican National Convention being cut short due to Hurricane Gustav, the Cannibal Cheerleader crew did not manage to make it up to Minnesota to film the protests. The good news however is this week will feature [...]

September 2nd, 2008 | Category: acid tongue, action design, ben gibbard, death cab for cutie, into a sound, jenny lewis, never say, sad robot, stars, tsunami bomb | Leave a comment

Quick Bite 8 – Take Action

VOTE ACTION DESIGN FOR LOLLAPALOOZAHere’s a video from M of the Action Design letting the world know that the band is taking part in a contest that could end up getting them a spot playing Lollapalooza this year. Watch this:Lollapalooza 08Seems pretty straightforward. Just go to this site and vote for Action Design as [...]

July 3rd, 2008 | Category: action design, agent m, landmines, lollapalooza | Leave a comment

Southern Hospitality

CRYSTAL CASTLES LIVE FROM GLASTONBURYWe’ve got some awesome new footage straight from Andy of Lies Records of Cannibal Cheerleader favorite Crystal Castles performing at Glastonbury (finally, a festival that knows how to film shows right). They perform a killer version of non-album track “Baptism”, “Black Panther”, and a scorching rendition of “Yes/No” (Andy says to [...]

June 30th, 2008 | Category: action design, austin, crystal castles, glastonbury, heartsrevolution, red 7, southern drama, warped tour | 2 comments

The Witch Hunt

PITCHFORK COMMENTS ON CHIPTUNE CONTROVERSY

We’ve had one or two posts before now about the Crystal Castles “Crystal Theft” Controversy (you know, the one where member of the ‘chiptune’ community have accused Ethan Cath and Alice Glass of stealing beats from chiptune artists’ songs and not giving proper credit to their original creators). Well it seems [...]

June 18th, 2008 | Category: acl festival, action design, conor oberst, crystal castles, crystal theft, food for animals, jenny lewis, maxmillion dunbar, pitchfork, rilo kiley, the roller, tsunami bomb | 7 comments

Halfway There

Hey Cannibal Cheerleader faithful, we’re halfway through the year so I figured it was about time to announce the albums, acts, songs, and shows that I feel are the best of the year SO FAR. Below are some tentative lists with the entries in no particular order and I’m not going to comment on these [...]

June 16th, 2008 | Category: action design, alex dupree, balmorhea, bell, bexar bexar, cruiserweight, faceless werewolves, food for animals, heartsrevolution, pink nasty, prey for sleep, ringo deathstarr, treasure mammal | Leave a comment

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