Misadventure

NEW CRYSTAL CASTLES VIDEO/NEWSOur dearest friends Crystal Castles have just released a video for their single “Crimewave”, featuring a mesh-masked Alice Glass and a lonely zombie. Check it out below.Crystal Castles – Crimewave (Crystal Castles VS. Health)In other CC news, according to NME (and confirmed by our friend Myke) the band has canceled several [...]

August 29th, 2008 | Category: acl festival, be your own pet, crimewave, crystal castles, nme, pitchfork, republican national convention, sad robot, stars | Leave a comment

Quick Bite 13 – Lol-Cat

CAT POWER AT LOLLAPALOOZA Sorry to everyone for the late and increasingly smaller updates (I’m in the process of moving and getting the zine together) and apologies to everyone for not being able to cover Lollapalooza for the Austin crowd. Frankly, the thing about the biggest concert festival in the US this year is that [...]

August 4th, 2008 | Category: brooklyn vegan, cat power, lollapalooza, pitchfork | Leave a comment

Quick Bite 11 – Lovecraft in Austin

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS TROT THROUGH AUSTINAccording to this Pitchfork article our friend John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats fame will be swinging through Austin on November 1st at Antone’s on his upcoming fall tour in support of the excellent Heretic Pride. You know that we’ll be there with bells on, but until then, listen to [...]

July 23rd, 2008 | Category: antone's, austin, cannibal cheerleader, heretic pride, john darnielle, lovecraft in brooklyn, mountain goats, pitchfork | Leave a comment

Sirens Singing to Shipwreck

SOUTHERN DRAMA IN AUSTINPerforming at Austin’s own Beauty Bar last night, Southern Drama managed surpass all our expectations and capture a refreshing slice of retro-country rock with a subversive edge that proved both genuine and engaging. There exists a level of underlying difficulty when playing any version of country music – the danger of the [...]

July 22nd, 2008 | Category: beauty bar, bloc party, dear science, john lydon, karen o, kele okereke, native korean rock, pitchfork, southern drama, the sex pistols, tv on the radio, yeah yeah yeahs | One comment

Of Mice and Girls

MARNIE STERN REVEALS NEW ALBUM DETAILSJust when it seems that’s the world’s indie-rock guitarists, content with swirly rhythms and rudimentary string-plucking, Marnie Stern is back to teach these kids how to shred. That’s right, the greatest guitarist of modern indie rock is back with her second album called (bear with me now) This Is It [...]

July 9th, 2008 | Category: a certain feeling, alopecia, bodies of water, brooklyn vegan, cannibal cheerleader, gorilla vs bear, marnie stern, modest mouse, pitchfork, satellite skin, vivian girls, why? | Leave a comment

Quick Bite 6 – As A Kite

HIGH PLACES REVEAL ALBUM DETAILSKnown more commonly as the ‘Brooklyn duo with the weird drumset’, experimental artists High Places have revealed the tracklist (below), album art (above), and release date (Sept. 23rd) of their new self-titled album on label Thrill Jockey. This of course follows the band’s meteoric rise since the digital release of singles’ [...]

June 26th, 2008 | Category: 03/07-09/07, cannibal cheerleader, high places, pitchfork | Leave a comment

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

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