Stay Positive

YEAH YEAH YEAHS TALK BLITZ

In the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine, Karen O of art-rockers extraordinaire the Yeah Yeah Yeahs talks about her band’s newest album It’s Blitz and the new, positive energy the record seems to have unearthed in the band. To quote the article:

“We’re always going to have Yeah Yeah Yeahs hooks [...]

February 4th, 2009 | Category: blake sennet, grand ole party, its blitz, rilo kiley, rolling stone, yeah yeah yeahs | One comment

Wild Silence/Best of Pt. 2

BALMORHEA REVEAL DETAILS FOR THIRD LP

Seems our friends Balmorhea have been busy over the last few months, recording, mastering, and ultimately finishing their upcoming third LP All Is Wild, All Is Silent (cover up above). From the recent show we covered (video coming soon!) the gang’s new tunes are going to blow the lid off [...]

December 12th, 2008 | Category: balmorhea, be your own pet, cat power, converge, funny games, my morning jacket, rilo kiley, teeth, the ruins, the signal, the strangers | Leave a comment

Deep Water

NEW GLASS CANDY RARITIES RECORDAccording to the Italians Do It Better blog, Cannibal Cheerleader favorites Glass Candy just released a new rarities collection as a surprise for a party in Portland. It’s called Deep Gems and here’s what IDIB has to say about it:

“Also at the party we will be giving away a new GlassCandy [...]

November 3rd, 2008 | Category: deep gems, glass candy, italians do it better, rilo kiley, the whispertown 2000, whispertown2000 | Leave a comment

Quick Bite 10 – Acid Tongue

JENNY LEWIS REVEALS SOPHOMORE SOLO ALBUM

Jenny Lewis, frontwoman of our favorite alt-country-meets-indie-rock quartet Rilo Kiley, has announced the title and tracklist of her already impressive sounding second solo album. The LP will be titled Acid Tongue and will feature such esteemed guests as M. Ward, Zooey Deschanel, and Elvis Costello (check out more details here). Given the [...]

July 15th, 2008 | Category: acid tongue, acl festival, conor oberst, jenny lewis, rabbit fur coat, rilo kiley, watson twins | Leave a comment

Food for Thought

BEN GIBBARD COVERS RILO KILEY/STARSAt a recent solo gig for Rhapsody, Ben Gibbard gave the acoustic treatment to some Narrow Stairs already classics such as “Cath…” and “Grapevine Fires”. However, the real excitement came when the Death Cab for Cutie frontman covered tracks from Rilo Kiley (”Silver Lining”) and Stars (”Your Ex-Lover is Dead”), and [...]

July 2nd, 2008 | Category: ben gibbard, bright eyes, conor oberst, death cab for cutie, finally punk, jim james, m. ward, my morning jacket, narrow stairs, rilo kiley, stars, the carrots | One 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

Bringing You Comfort, Baby

RILO KILEY AT STUBB’S

Sometimes when you go and see one of your favorite bands play, however good the show may be, you find yourself strangely disappointed, either because the set sounded too stagey and planned, the group didn’t play any of your favorite songs, or the crowd was just not feeling it. That was definitely [...]

June 17th, 2008 | Category: donuts, ghostface killa, girl talk, j dilla, mf doom, murder goons, rilo kiley, sniperlite, stones throw, stubb's, under the blacklight | Leave a comment

Hangover Music

RILO KILEY PLAYING STUBB’S JUNE 16THQuite a birthday bash we had last night, thanks to all who came! In celebration of the ‘morning-after’ feeling here’s a reminder: Rilo Kiley will be playing Stubb’s on Monday June 16th as the last stop of their Under the Blacklight tour. You know we’ll be there, blogging hats on!

Here’s [...]

May 23rd, 2008 | Category: austin chronicle, be your own pet, charlotte sometimes, how i could just kill a man, rilo kiley, stubb's, the broken neck, waffles, waves and the both of us | Leave a comment

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