For nearly 2 years now, Manchester band
WU LYF (World Unite Lucifer Youth Foundation) has been experimenting with music and the presentation of their image. The group's
official website *autoplay on front page* is an assaulting mix of manifesto,
art project, and
promotion. What started as the intention to have a
faceless band quickly gave way to the huge appeal of interesting music, and the band started
taking a new approach and taking off the masks. A weird blend of
atmospheric indie rock,
blues-informed vocals,
vaguely political messages, and
British soul music, all strangely
influenced by American hip hop, makes WU LYF
easy pickings for best of the (music) web.
posted by broadway bill
on Jul 10, 2011 -
26 comments
Over the weekend, critically-acclaimed musician
Neko Case started a
discussion with her twitter followers: "To answer your question, no, ladies in bands don't get ANY action... Back me up ladies. no one believes this." The resulting conversation lasted the rest of the night and had women musicians like Amy Millan, Miranda Brown and Michelle Branch agreeing and chiming in. So,
why don't female rock stars have groupies?
[more inside]
posted by naju
on Feb 22, 2011 -
131 comments
Where music geekery and typographical geekery intersect:
Rock That Font looks knowledgeably at the typography of notable album covers.
posted by acb
on Apr 30, 2010 -
7 comments
The Most Serene Republic, quite possibly the most underrated of all the acts on the
Arts & Crafts label, create music in a similar vein to fellow Canadian indie rockers
Arcade Fire,
Stars, and
Broken Social Scene. Experience their explosive, big-band, polyphonic, experimental flair by listening to their 3 releases in full:
Underwater Cinematographer (2005),
Phages EP (2006), and
Population (2007). A few video music videos as well:
The Men Who Live Upstairs,
Oh God,
Content Always Was My Favourite
posted by Christ, what an asshole
on Sep 30, 2008 -
21 comments
Evil Bee (embedded QT) is a gorgeous & interesting animated short about a worker bee in a factory who rebels; bonus points for awesome soundtrack by menomena.
posted by jonson
on Nov 8, 2007 -
35 comments
In the grand Village Voice tradition of slagging off musicians for being
white and/or
harmless, VV scribe Chris Ott writes an irrationally antagonistic
critique of
Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy, in an ostensbile concert review. Oh snap! Meloy's girlfriend Carson Ellis
sticks up for him in the comments section!
posted by Bizurke
on Nov 15, 2006 -
98 comments
Neutral Milk Hotel demos, videos, and bootlegs. Brainchild of enigmatic, now-reclusive singer/songwriter
Jeff Mangum (not Magnum!), the "fuzz-folk" project known as Neutral Milk Hotel began and ended in the 90s and only released
two LPs, but is still held as a touchstone by many
indie rock critics.
More
live recordings can be found at the site for
Elephant 6, the collective which included NMH and
other bands like Beulah, Circulatory System, Elf Power, and Apples in Stereo.
The complete discography and more MP3s. Some
lyrics. (
Previously)
posted by ludwig_van
on Feb 22, 2006 -
62 comments
NPR’s Live Concert Series site offers recordings of recent live performances by
James Brown,
Sinead O’Connor,
Iron & Wine and Calexico,
Son Volt,
My Morning Jacket,
The White Stripes, M. Ward,
Sigur Ros,
Bloc Party,
The Decemberists, and live tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. ET,
Colin Meloy.
posted by ND¢
on Jan 27, 2006 -
46 comments
