Buck 65 was on the tip of everyone's tongues in 2005 with his critically acclaimed record, This Right Here is Buck 65, a collection of songs from 5 previous works, that was lauded by critics. While Buck 65 found great success in America, his label V2 was on it's last leg and following his record's release, they folded. While waiting to get through the music business red tape, he made a record with revered band Tortoise (which saw no American...
Justice just keeps proving itself to be the Christian-Electronica-Band-That-Could. With their 2007 debut album, Cross, they managed to merge the sounds of Daft Punk with the sounds of neo-dance rock bands like LCD Soundsystem and Ratatat. Coming out of Paris, France, the band easily broke into the United States gaining much internet popularity from the video for their first single, “D.A.N.C.E”. In keeping with MTV’s recent trend of paying heavy attention to online independent acts, they have recently nominated...
It’s no wonder why elderly people complain about today’s music; it’s loud, groovy, and in the case of !!!, one cannot even pronounce the band’s name without direction. !!! (pronounced “chk chk chk”), are fresh off the 2007 release of their indie-funk third album, Myth Takes, and have recently announced a 45 -date tour stretching across North America and Europe. So if you’ve been itching to go out and get down, make sure you check out !!! at any of...
Los Angeles band Amateurs will be dropping by the Little Radio studios tonight on Ground Control Radio to talk to Mark and Aaron about their album Speak Easy and play a very special (mostly) acoustic set. Tune in to www.littleradio.com from...
It’s been about two years since Stars set themselves on fire and attracted international attention with their Arts & Crafts debut, and that runaway success permeates every note of In Our Bedroom After The War. What’s immediately noticeable about the new album is that it isn’t more ambitious, it’s actually more laid back. Singer Amy Millan sounds far more comfortable in the delicate intimacy of both “The Night Starts Here” and “My Favourite Book,” and even goes so far as...
Rewind to a Friday night late in 1995: Instead of making out with boys behind the bleachers during a high school football game, my awkward teenage self is home watching MTV at midnight, checking out all the "new" and "experimental" videos. While this is very telling about how the remainder of my teenage (and college, for that matter) years went, I can be thankful for one thing: this was my first exposure to the weirdness that was The Rentals' "Friends...
A hopelessly long line dots the circumference of the EchoPlex far into the night. Tonight, M.I.A. has arrived and the possibility for her to continue arriving is always a little tenuous, and so the line is long. Inside, the room swallows you with the moist heat of a yelling maw. On the fringes of the crowd, it's confusing as to where we are: the mixed audience of pouty hipsters, overweight alternative girls, big booty hoes, and Gwen Stefani fanatics swill...
Whether you are a long-time Sia fan from her days with Zero 7 (Simple Things, When It Falls and The Garden), or a more recent convert after hearing her solo track “Breathe Me” featured in the final episode of Six Feet Under, you will no doubt be excited to know that Sia will release a new solo full-length CD titled Some People Have Real Problems. Some People Have Real Problems will be released in digital form in December 2007, and...
Can you believe that it’s already been ten years since you first heard that awesome electro-wail in “Busy Child”? Well it’s true, and in celebration, Los Angeles’ very own Crystal Method will be releasing a deluxe version of their groundbreaking debut Vegas on September 18th via Geffen/UMe. This two-disc deluxe reissue is not simply record company rehash; it includes a number of remixes personally chosen by the duo that includes among others: a Paul Oakenfold remix of “Busy Child” and...