Greetings Cannibal Cheerleader faithful and welcome to new site and new beginings, marked by our annual top ten list for 2009, a year that featured a lot of absences from the CC team but in the end only strengthened our resolve in our beloved Austin-based music blog. Take a look around the site, [...]
Thanks Cannibal Cheerleader faithful for another year – here’s to much more blood, guts, and rock ‘n roll in the future. Now onto the madness…
As a staunch defender of actors’ ventures into the world of indie-rock Cannibal Cheerleader has proven to be an unapologetic apologist. We stand by our love of Scarlett Johansson’s Anywhere I [...]
With each subsequent, sonorous release the ravenous Raveonettes continue to reinvent themselves – whether they be shoegaze saviors such as on Lust, Lust, Lust or rock revivalists like on Pretty in Black, it’s never the same thing twice and In & Out of Control remains as no exception. In creating a haunting and lo-fi pop [...]
Watching the rabid gyrations of Karen O perform at the Austin City Limits Festival earlier this month with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs stunned us at Cannibal Cheerleader so completely, so devastatingly as to inspire a month-long self-imposed exile from the blogging community. The blazingly electric setlist, featuring carnal classics like “Gold Lion” and “Maps”, new-wave [...]
The behavior of Alice Glass is legendary – from her stage-diving antics at the past month’s Reading Festival that resulted in her needing to be rescued by security, to the cancellation of this year’s Crystal Castles performance in Dallas (at least we got to see ‘em here in Austin!). And while we probably won’t be [...]
Stop the presses, throw your phone into the lake, unplug your internet right this very instance because with their sophomore LP Forget the Night Ahead Scotland’s the Twilight Sad have accomplished the impossible and crafted a swirling, haunting, incredible followup to their already seminal debut Fourteen Autumns, Fifteen Winters. Why are you reading this and [...]
ARCTIC MONKEYS REVEAL HUMBUGSince we last left you Cannibal Cheerleader faithful the word on the street was still pretty sketchy on the details of the newest Arctic Monkeys LP. My how the times have changed. Seems as if the boys from Sheffield have been busy, releasing everything from the album cover (the hazy, retro image [...]
STARS RECORDING NEW ALBUM. Exciting new update from the Stars camp, our favorite Canadian indie-pop collective who have been leaking material at a satisfying drip, including last year’s delectable treat the Sad Robots EP. Looks as if the group has a new album in the works, tentatively titled The Black House, The Blue Sky, and [...]
GLASS CANDY RARITIES FOR FREE. Long-standing Cannibal Cheerleader favorites Glass Candy have been ripping their brand of haunted disco for over a decade now, and as one might imagine the duo of Ida No and Johnny Jewel have racked up quite the collection of recordings to show for it, given the group’s penchant for Tour [...]
NEW LISSY TRULLIE VIDEO
Don’t mean to post two Lissy Trullie updates in a row, but the NYC starlets have a new video up on their Myspace. It’s an EPK for their “Boy Boy” single and it features some pretty sweet live footage and behind the scenes looks so it’s definitely worth checking out. The Self-Taught [...]