WATCH: Tyler, The Creator performs “Orange Juice” with BADBADNOTGOOD

in
By Mike Searle (CHARTattack) January 27, 2012 2:04 pm
A few months ago we shared videos of young jazz prodigies BADBADNOTGOOD collaborating with Tyler, The Creator on his tracks “Fish” and “Seven” during OFWGKTA’s tour stop in Toronto. Now here's another brand new video from that session, in which Tyler joins the band for a performance for “Orange Juice” from OFWGKTA’s mixtape Radical. BBNG caught...
More
News
  • Share this
  • Comments

WATCH: A clip of James Murphy acting in The Comedy has surfaced!

in
By Jon Pappo (CHARTattack) January 27, 2012 1:27 pm
This year’s Sundance Film Festival found LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy in not one, but two separate films, one of which is the previously reported on Shut Up, and Play the Hits, a documentary on the titular group’s final show. The second is Rick Alverson’s new film The Comedy, which features Murphy in a supporting role, alongside Tim Heidecker...
More
News

WATCH: Young Magic - “Night in the Ocean” official music video

in
By Anthony Suen (CHARTattack) January 26, 2012 4:58 pm
Coastal landscapes and morphing geometry make up Young Magic’s new music video, the follow up to their previous, equally striking clip for “Sparkly”. Their second go at it, directed by Andrew De Freitas, departs from the clean look of time-lapses and slow motion, and goes into an abstract performance of shape and pattern – on bodies, and over...
More
News

YouTube/Google rejects Perfume Genius' mildly homoerotic video ad; R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe reacts

in
By Jon Pappo (CHARTattack) January 26, 2012 4:27 pm
In an offensive effort to be inoffensive, Google/YouTube has rejected a 15-second ad for Seattle singer-songwriter Perfume Genius’ hotly anticipated follow-up Put Your Back N 2 It, insisting it “contains non family safe material.”  The ad, which depicts Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas and gay porn star Arpad Miklios embracing shirtless, was...
More
News

LISTEN: Stream a 20-song mixtape from The Jesus and Mary Chain; 'The Way We Were: 1980-85'

in
By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) January 26, 2012 11:53 am
I know you were planning to spend five bucks to go hear some DJ with neck tattoos play his collection of '70s funk MP3's tonight, but here's something even better!Two former members of the iconic noise/shoegaze outfit The Jesus and Mary Chain, Bobby Gillespie (drums, 1985-86) and Douglas Hart (bass, 1984-91), assembled this excellent mixtape that...
More
News

Ben Folds Five Reunite For New Album, Spring Release

in
By Colton Eddy (CHARTattack) January 26, 2012 10:30 am
In the spirit of 2012 reunions from the likes of Van Halen, Black Sabbath, At The Drive In, Beach Boys, No Doubt, Refused, Mazzy Star, and Pulp, Ben Folds Five have now confirmed that a fourth studio album is set for a spring release.Folds tweeted yesterday, "It's happening fo sho - Day 1 in the studio with Robert and Darren through March #...
More
News

WATCH: Tennis perform “Origins” live in Portland

in
By Simone Zucker (CHARTattack) January 26, 2012 9:27 am
On February 14, Denver’s indie pop band Tennis will release their Patrick Carney-produced sophomore album, Young & Old. Along with their new drummer James Barone, husband-and-wife Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore wrote this album while touring their well-received debut, Cape Dory. Moore said “each song is a vignette, a glimpse into a personal...
More
News

MP3 Roundup: New music from The Polyphonic Spree, Patrick Watson, and Eight and a Half

in
By CHARTattack (CHARTattack) January 25, 2012 5:59 pm
The Polyphonic Spree - “What Would You Do” The Polyphonic Spree are back. The orchestral rock collective have announced their first tour since 2007, and to celebrate we get “What Would You Do,” a triumphant and dangerously catchy single that will soon be released physically and digitally (along with a “surprise B-side”). If this single doesn't...
More
News

WATCH: Desire - “Don't Call” official music video

in
By Anthony Suen (CHARTattack) January 25, 2012 4:19 pm
Desire’s brooding song “Don’t Call” gets distinctively retro visuals to match its nostalgic sound, courtesy of director Alberto Rossini, the go-to guy for Desire's label, Italians Do It Better. After having been featured on the soundtrack of the critically acclaimed film Drive (“Under Your Spell”), this music video should continue to pique...
More
News

WATCH: Wilco and Popeye team up for “Dawned On Me” official music video

in
By Mike Searle (CHARTattack) January 25, 2012 11:26 am
You are about to witness a match made in cartoon heaven. At long last, Wilco are finally paired with your favourite swashbuckling, spinach-overdosing, muscle freak Popeye the Sailor Man in the music video for “Dawned On Me”. The track comes off Wilco's latest effort The Whole Love and is the band’s first music video since 1999! It was worth the...
More
News

WATCH: The Flaming Lips cover The Beatles' “She's So Heavy” (ft. Wilco's Nels Cline!)

in
By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) January 25, 2012 11:18 am
The Flaming Lips have already taken on the Beatles with their weirdo cover of “I Am The Walrus,” and now video has surfaced of the band's take on “She's So Heavy,” which they performed during their NYE 2012 dates.Joined by Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, the Lips deliver a faithful rendition, minus the fact that it lasts seventeen minutes. All the...
More
News

WATCH: The Cast of Cheers - “Family” official music video

in
By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) January 25, 2012 9:44 am
It's easy to write off The Cast of Cheers because of their goofy band name, but one listen to “Family” -- a track we posted not too long ago -- and your raised eyebrow will become two raised eyebrows, forming the coveted double eyebrow raise and communicating your inevitable surprise.Created by Russell Weekes (whose illustration work is quite...
More
News

MP3 Roundup: New music from Andrew Bird, Dr. Dog, and (Fleet Foxes side-project) Poor Moon

in
By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 24, 2012 3:31 pm
Andrew Bird - “Eyeoneye” Two weeks ago, we announced that Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird was set to release his sixth album, Break It Yourself, on March 6. Now we have the first taste of what the album will sound like with "Eyeoneye." The track has some surprisingly rockin' drums, but Bird still keeps it real with his...
More
News

Quoteworthy: Kathleen Edwards on boyfriend and collaborator, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon

in
By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) January 24, 2012 2:57 pm
“There are times when you do feel, like, ‘oh, is this person only interested in my project because I’m somebody’s girlfriend?’ That feels bad... I’d be lying to myself if I didn’t acknowledge that more doors are open because of him. But I also am really proud of the fact that I’ve been making records for ten years. And I’d like to believe that...
More
News

WATCH: Kate Bush - “Eider Falls at Lake Tahoe” shadow puppet music video

in
By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) January 24, 2012 1:52 pm
Even at age 53, English art-rocker Kate Bush is still a master of her art -- both sonically and visually. She dropped her tenth studio album 50 Words For Snow late last year, and has now released this shadow puppet music video for album cut “Eider Falls at Lake Tahoe.”As Bush explains, “[i]t is all done in camera with shadow puppets, one of my...
More
News

WATCH: La Sera - “Please Be My Third Eye” official music video

in
By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 24, 2012 1:01 pm
Brooklyn musician “Kickball Katie” Goodman, will be releasing her second album as La Sera in March. Goodman, who also performs in Vivian Girls, appears front-and-center in this new music video for album cut “Please Be My Third Eye,”directed by Vice Cooler. The infectious pop tune is just as cute as La Sera herself (see photo above), making this...
More
News

WATCH: Sleigh Bells – “Comeback Kid” official music video

in
By Jon Pappo (CHARTattack) January 24, 2012 12:31 pm
Behold: the new music video for Sleigh Bells' newest, riff-ready single “Comeback Kid,” which we posted last week. Directed by Derek Miller and Gregory Kohn, the video sees Alexis Krauss embracing pop stardom, with an ever-changing wardrobe that includes a leather jacket and short acid washed jeans, a red bathrobe, and even a blonde wig for...
More
News

Get To Know... Actual Water

in
By Maxim Morin (CHARTattack) January 24, 2012 11:54 am
After a half-hour phone interview with Anthony Price, Gary Arthurs and Siena DeCampo of Actual Water, it’s easy to see the real motivation behind their haphazard garage-rock outfit: They just want to hang out with one another. It’s also easy to incorrectly assume that they have zero ambition, that they don’t expect to be heard, and that, in...
More
Feature

WATCH: Cloud Nothings speaks to Pitchfork and performs “Wasted Days” in Brooklyn

in
By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) January 24, 2012 11:22 am
Cleveland’s Cloud Nothings releases their third album, Attack on Memory, today.  The group had become known as a lo-fi act, but on this record they deliver a cleaner, garage-punk sound, courtesy of producer legend Steve Albini (who apparently played Scrabble on his phone throughout most of the recording process.)  You can get a taste of...
More
News

CHARTattack VIDEO | An Interview With Toro Y Moi's Chaz Bundick

in
By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) January 24, 2012 10:15 am
Chaz Bundick, the 25-year-old South Carolina artist behind Toro Y Moi, was initially touted as a pioneer of chillwave. But after a sonic shift on his latest full-length Underneath The Pine, it's a bit harder to place him. Bundick's groovy pop lives somewhere inside the Bermuda Triangle of sixties psychedelia, seventies funk, and contemporary dance...
More
News
Syndicate content