10/08/2008
Go To This: Free Chairlift Show @ Reward in Philly This Friday!!!
This Friday (10/10) we implore you to head down to the coolest new shop in Philly, Reward (we drooled over it the other month) to see one of the most promising new bands to come along in quite a while, Brooklyn's Chairlift. There will be free sc ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 10/08/2008 10:11 AM EST in Indie-Pop, Electronic, Events | Permalink
10/02/2008
Takka Takka Live @ MRoom: Interview, Review + Photos
Last Friday I had the pleasure of catching Brooklyn's Takka Takka play their mix of highly nuanced and textual indie-pop at Philly's MRoom. Indeed, the band sounded great (especially vocals, which were thankfully set high in the mix). After the ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 10/02/2008 9:32 AM EST in Indie-Pop, Post-Punk, Interview, Live Review, Events | Permalink
09/29/2008
Video For Bishop Allen's "Middle Management" Set to Clips From Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, starring Michael Cera, hits theaters this weekend (watch the trailer here) and one of our favorite bands, Bishop Allen, makes an appearance in the film. Check out this video of the band performing "Middle Mana ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 09/29/2008 10:42 AM EST in Indie-Pop, Movie Music, Video | Permalink
09/26/2008
Tonight in Philly: Takka Takka @ MRoom, Hot Lava @ Danger Danger, Sarah Palin @ The Irish Pub
Oh the choices we have to make! Two awesome bands are playing Philly tonight--Takka Takka at the MRoom and Hot Lava at the Danger Danger Gallery. Not to mention, there is that little thing happening called the presidential debate at 9pm. Oh and ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 09/26/2008 4:32 PM EST in Indie-Pop, WTF?, Local Music, Events | Permalink
09/17/2008
Awesomely Weird Electro-Funk: Passion Pit - "Sleepyhead"
"Sleepyhead" from Boston's Passion Pit, aka Michael Angelakos and friends, is a fucked up mix of MGMT, The avalanches and mutated samples that could easily be mistaken as munchkins from The Wizard of Oz. As the music travels down that yellow ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 09/17/2008 2:57 PM EST in Indie-Pop, Electronic | Permalink
09/11/2008
Reasons Why You Should Get Into Hot Lava
A few months ago we posted two great songs by an unsigned band — Virginia's Hot Lava. Not too long ago we were asked nicely by their new label Bar None (congrats!) to take them down, since their self-released album Lavalogy would soon be remas ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 09/11/2008 8:52 PM EST in Indie-Pop | Permalink
09/10/2008
Steve jobs Not Dead; Chairlift Featured in New IPod Nano Commercial
Contrary to previous reports, yesterday's Apple event "Let's Rock" proved once and for all that Steve jobs is, in fact, still alive. As expected, he introduced new iPod Touches as well as new iPod Nanos, which look almost as thin as he does, ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 09/10/2008 9:01 AM EST in Indie-Pop, Electronic, Video | Permalink
09/03/2008
The Surreal Illustration and Animation of Singer/Songwriter Chad VanGaalen
While checking out our new fav blog The Unusual Times the other day we stumbled upon the new video from Chad VanGaalen. After witnessing its awesomeness, we figured it would be a good time to do a little retrospective on his video work. Alo ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 09/03/2008 7:05 AM EST in Indie-Pop, Video Retrospective, Visual Notes, Video | Permalink
09/02/2008
Mellowy Goodness: Human Highway - "The Sound"
Islands frontman Nick Thorburn teams up with Canadian singer-songwriter Jim Guthrie and what do we get? Nothing but Crosby, Stills and Nash mellowy goodness! Human Highway, named after an 80's sci-fi comedy, write stripped-down acoustic song ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 09/02/2008 9:30 AM EST in Indie-Pop, Folk | Permalink
08/28/2008
New music From Her Space Holiday - "Sleepy Tigers"
We have been fans of the uber-talented singer-songwriter and producer Her Space Holiday aka Marc Bianchi since he released his 2001 opus Manic Expressive--a quintessential bedroom style pop album, that mixed warm, grandiose harmonies and spacey ...
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