Apr 19, 2013 - By Laura Aguirre
Daft Punk finally released a new single last night, titled “Get Lucky.” The tune, which is now available on iTunes and Amazon, features vocals by the ageless Pharrell Williams. Fell free to listen to the four-minute track below. In other news, Liam Gallagher announced that his post-Oasis band Beady Eye will release a sophomore album this June. We also have a new music video by Florida rock band Surfer Blood. All that and more after the jump.
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Apr 18, 2013 - By Travis Woods
Take a moment tip your hat (or, rather, open your wallets) to the Dropkick Murphys (a.k.a., the band with that one song from The Departed)—the Boston-based Celtic punk band has created and released a new T-shirt in the wake of the horrific Boston Marathon bombings, with the profits going to those affected by the attack.
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Apr 17, 2013 - By Laura Aguirre
Even though everyone (or just about everyone) in America doesn’t appear to know who the The Stone Roses are, they’re an iconic band in their home country – the U.K. Their reunion meant a lot to the British, especially to documentary filmmaker Shane Meadows (This Is England), who decided to make the four-piece band the main focus of his new film The Stone Roses: Made of Stone. Watch the riveting trailer below.
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Apr 16, 2013 - By Laura Aguirre
Compared to Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo and Coachella, Outside Lands is like the little sister of musical festivals. The other U.S. fests established themselves in the 90′s or early 2000′s; the San Francisco fest didn’t start until 2008. Despite its short run however, the Outside Lands’ organizers have managed to pull together another very impressive lineup this year, which includes Paul McCartney, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nine Inch Nails.
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Apr 15, 2013 - By Travis Woods
Of all the hopes that one could have for Anne Frank—that she and her family would not have be persecuted by the Nazis the early 1940s, that she wouldn’t have had to go into hiding, that she and her family weren’t gathered up and sent to a concentration camp, and finally, that she wouldn’t have died from typhus at the age of 15 while still a prisoner of the Nazis—it was Justin Bieber for finally articulated the one hope for this poor girl that stands above all the others: “Hopefully she would have been a Belieber.”
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Apr 12, 2013 - By Laura Aguirre
Frank Ocean reminisces about Tumblr in his new music video “Lost,” off of last year’s Channel Orange. The singer just released the new material and you can see that below. Also, the lineup for the annual Budweiser Made In America Festival was announced, and the bill includes a little bit of everything, from Beyonce to Nine Inch Nail. All that and more below.
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Apr 11, 2013 - By Travis Woods
Too cheap to fork over a few hundred bucks to spend this weekend or next in Indio, California for the Coachella music festival? Live too far away? Just don’t feel like spending the weekend with hipsters and adenoidal bros? Well, fret no longer, as you can stream the music festival directly on YouTube.
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Apr 10, 2013 - By Laura Aguirre
Normally when Thom Yorke makes a video, it involves him dancing freakishly awesome to one of his new tunes. But the latest piece of visual media coming from the ultra-talented Radiohead frontman is quite different. Yorke got together with his Atoms For Peace bandmate, Nigel Godrich, to give teenage girls love advice. This is not a joke or spoof of any kind. Check out the heart-melting clip below.
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Apr 09, 2013 - By Laura Aguirre
Daft Punk has chosen to premiere their highly anticipated new album Random Access Memories a few days early at a country-like show in rural Australia. The event is called Wee Waa and it’ll take place on May 17th. We expect the tiny town of said event’s setting to be overrun by hipsters and cyber ravers come mid-May.
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