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LISTEN: Here's a Battles remix by Shabazz Palaces that makes perfect sense

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By Jordan Darville (CHARTattack) February 9, 2012 4:45 pm
The world mourned when prog-rocker group Battles lost its lead singer Tyondai Braxton to the barren wasteland of making music but not telling the Internet about it, and lamented when their first single off the post-Tyondai Gloss Drop sounded like Reel Big Fish. Thankfully, the album was decent, and socially conscious alt hip-hop group Shabazz...
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WATCH: Spend quality bro time with War in “Brodermordet” video

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By Jordan Darville (CHARTattack) February 9, 2012 3:36 pm
In today's edition of our ongoing series “Videos of Punk bands wandering aimlessly around cities”, we've got Danish supergrøup War with “Brodermordet”. The track may sound like Public Image Ltd. played through a blown-out house music DJ’s stereo, but Loke Rahbek (Sexdrome) and Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (Iceage) didn’t feel to create a thematically...
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WATCH: The Head and The Heart celebrate minutiae of touring for "Down in the Valley" video

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By Maxim Morin (CHARTattack) February 9, 2012 1:38 pm
The Head and The Heart, like so many groups before them, have created a music video montage of life on tour for the stirring track “Down In The Valley” off their critically acclaimed self-titled LP. If you're tired of G-rated tour videos, you'll be happy to know that this E. Ryan McMackin-directed piece feels warmer and more carefully crafted...
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WATCH: Watch The Throne's "N****s in Paris" has a video now

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By Jordan Darville (CHARTattack) February 9, 2012 1:06 pm
Ye and Jay's 2011-defining hit “N****s in Paris” finally has a video, likely thrilling all of the Illuminati conspiracy theorists who were getting desperate for new material, as well as those eager to bring back the irritating trend of saying "That shit cray!" in totally unremarkable situations.If you missed the Watch the Throne tour and its now-...
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WATCH: Video for The Darcys' re-imagination of Steely Dan's “Josie”

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By Colton Eddy (CHARTattack) February 9, 2012 12:00 pm
Toronto-based art-rock quartet The Darcys have just released a music video for “Josie”, a track from their darkened reimagining of Steely Dan’s classic album Aja.“With ‘Josie,’ we wanted to create an ominous mood to close the record,” Wes Marskell recently told Rolling Stone. “The Steely Dan version plays like a breezy pop song...
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WATCH: Of Montreal, trippy ghosts play Jimmy Fallon

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By Jordan Darville (CHARTattack) February 9, 2012 11:28 am
Georgia psychedelic-pop group Of Montreal dropped by Jimmy Fallon, and brought with them the requisite elaborate stage show and weird vests that the band is known and celebrated for. They performed their new single “Dour Percentage,” complimented by maybe a dozen LED screens and a couple dudes mucking about in white sheets while being lit by...
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MP3 Roundup: Veronica Falls, Cloud Control, and Zeus

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 9, 2012 10:50 am
Veronica Falls – “My Heart Beats” It hasn’t been long since the release of Veronica Falls’ 2011 self-titled debut, but the band is already back at it. “My Heart Beats” provides a perfect snapshot of the group’s melody-rich shoegaze pop, without forcing you to look at the irritatingly hip-looking band members. Cloud Control – “This Is What...
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Earl Sweatshirt is free! Odd Future member back in L.A., on Twitter

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By Mike Searle (CHARTattack) February 8, 2012 8:50 pm
“Yes indeed, the allegedly lost and arguably most gifted young lyrical prodigy (known for over 10 million YouTube views before age 18), is on his way back home to Los Angeles where he will finish high school before launching the next phase of his widely anticipated rap career—under the wizened guidance of Leila Steinberg, artistic mentor who...
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WATCH: Kindness “Gee Up” music video is mostly not music

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By Jordan Darville (CHARTattack) February 8, 2012 6:59 pm
Enigmatic London-based funk revivalists Kindness are back, bringing approximately a minute and a half of that sweet stuff before transitioning into a short film for the remainder of the video. The good news: both bits are equally great!The video starts with the public access style performace featuring a band that isn't really trying to look like...
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WATCH: Cults love stunts, each other in "You Know What I Mean" video

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By Jordan Darville (CHARTattack) February 8, 2012 6:18 pm
If you're the kind of person that romanticizes a time when guys had to jump off of buildings just to get a girl's attention, you'll find a lot to like in Cults' video for “You Know What I Mean”. Guitarist Brian Oblivion revisits that classic scenario that we've all been through, where we plummet ten stories and set ourselves on fire at the behest...
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WATCH: The Barr Brothers perform “Beggar in the Morning” at the Grand Canyon

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By Colton Eddy (CHARTattack) February 8, 2012 4:47 pm
Montreal's The Barr Brothers have no problem adapting to an unconventional stage, whether it be a boiler room in Montreal, downtown Toronto's Tequila Bookworm, David Letterman's soundstage and now: the edge of the Grand Canyon.It's been months since we made note of this performance, but the footage wasn't unearthed until this week. Thanks to a...
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PS I Love You announces second LP Death Dreams, album's inspiration is just that

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) February 8, 2012 4:35 pm
Canadian garage duo PS I Love You enjoyed a great deal of acclaim following the release of their debut LP, 2010’s Meet Me At The Muster Station, and rightfully so. The record was charmingly raw and irresistibly catchy – especially on singles “2012” and “Facelove” – giving us media folk something to say about the band other than “GUYS THEIR BAND...
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LISTEN: J Mascis and Electronic Anthology Project rerecord Dinosaur Jr, eliminate pesky guitars

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By Jon Pappo (CHARTattack) February 8, 2012 3:35 pm
When you think of sludgy, molasses-like riffs, you probably think of 90s alt-rockers Dinosaur Jr.  But have you wondered what would happen if all that fuzz turned to pristine pop? Me neither, but with the help of the Electronic Anthology Project (originally Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch and bassist Brett Nelson), they've made that...
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LISTEN: The new album from Islands “A Sleep & A Forgetting”

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By Jordan Darville (CHARTattack) February 8, 2012 1:43 pm
Breakups are fertile ground for growing classic albums, so when Nick Thorburn was unwittingly planted in the ground by a split last Valentine’s Day, it took a year for that seed to blossom into A Sleep & A Forgetting, the new album from Islands, which you can listen to below. Is the album a sturdy oak of timeless songs, or a flimsy weed...
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WATCH: Toro y Moi and Washed Out negate hundreds of fanfictions, are actually friends, discuss things

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By Jordan Darville (CHARTattack) February 8, 2012 1:19 pm
It was once thought that the combination of Toro Y Moi (Chaz Bundick) and Washed Out (Ernest Greene) would be too smooth for modern cameras to capture, but Pedestrian TV somehow managed to film these Christs of Chillwave for an edition of “Artist on Artist”.The discussion covers how the guys met (which is awkwardly reenacted), their first show...
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WATCH: Holograms “ABC CITY” video has strobes, snow, Sweden, solos

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By Jordan Darville (CHARTattack) February 8, 2012 12:20 pm
Swedish punkers Holograms have just released their debut music video for “ABC City,” a clip that proves there's rarely a better locale to breed pissed-off youth than a cold, grey industrial city. The video alternates between shots of the band trekking through the frozen urban wastes and performing in a cramped dark room while being pummelled...
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WATCH: Twerps stare at you for a few minutes in "Through the Day" video

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By Simone Zucker (CHARTattack) February 8, 2012 11:32 am
Last October, Twerps released their awesome self-titled debut LP and now the Melbourne-based band have a new music video to go along with the album track “Through the Day.”The clip is simple but effective, intersplicing segments of each band member's face together to create a cheerful, if slightly unsettling, amalgamation of the indie pop darlings...
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WATCH: The Black Keys "Gold on the Ceiling" vid features guitars, people who like them

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By Simone Zucker (CHARTattack) February 8, 2012 11:11 am
The Black Keys have unveiled their new music video for “Gold on the Ceiling,” one of the standout tracks from their latest album, El Camino.  Director Reid Long shot most of the clip at the band’s album release show this past December at New York’s Webster Hall. There’s a whole lot of rocking out by the Keys and their hundreds (...
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WATCH: Death Grips will unleash two albums, possible apocalypse in 2012

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By Jordan Darville (CHARTattack) February 7, 2012 5:48 pm
Fans of rap music that sounds like it’s made by demonic plumes of PCP-laced weed smoke (or those into the best music of last year) rejoice: science-horror-hardcore rap group Death Grips will be releasing two albums this year, one of which will come in April. The band posted a short trailer for their upcoming releases to Youtube,...
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MP3 Roundup: New music from Jack White, Julia Holter, Here We Go Magic, and Frankie Rose

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 7, 2012 5:21 pm
Jack White – “Machine Gun Silhouette”The B-side to Jack White’s recently released single “Love Interruption” is a rock and roll number coated with fiddles and piano and fried in analogue hiss. White may be drawing on more country modes here, but his fingerprint is unmistakable in this raucous stomp-along. Julia Holter – “In the Same Room”...
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