Home >>
Posts Tagged "music"
How do you enjoy dance music that isn't actually made for dancing? That's a question that's been asked a lot lately, from James Blake's dubstep-in-name-only to Matthew Herbert's recent concept album, One Pig (literally about the life of a pig). The same goes for 21-year-old wunderkind Nicolas Jaar, who makes electronic music...
read more
Fashion and music go hand-in-hand, especially when it comes to the "cooler-than-thou" game. For instance, this past season, runways played tracks from uber-indie singers and bands like Lana Del Rey, St. Vincent, and Little Joy, and uber-indie singers and bands like Lana Del Rey, St. Vincent, and Little Joy live in clothes...
read more
The Norwegian band Young Dreams refers to themselves as a collective, which makes sense, considering they have a whopping twelve members in their line-up (give or take). Yet, as big as the band is, Young Dreams still sounds more like a small group with a distinct vision than a cacophony of competing voices. Chief creative...
read more
Du Nord's “The Sunset" begins with a quietly plucked guitar floating over the hiss of analog tape. There’s something beautifully cut-and-paste about the 1960s-inspired melody and muffled beat, as if the Paris-based band assembled the track from papier-mâché. It's a song that would sit nicely alongside the summery pop of...
read more
Everything about Italian experimental pop outfit Estasy makes a point about how “mysterious” they are, right down to the music itself. From masked images of vocalist Emiliano Maggi to cover art that looks like a monster who may have wandered out of
Pan’s Labyrinth
, the vibe of Estasy is downright spooky. The synth...
read more
