Music LIFE SOUNDTRACK Kraftwerk - Die Roboter I think I heard this song first 1979 in music class. We were asked to bring some cassettes to be played in front of the class and a fellow student brought Kraftwerk’s Die Roboter. The kids back then were divided between classical music (those who learned instruments) and 50s
Music NEW ALBUM: Glower - The Circle Binds The second Low Motion, the title track of Glower‘s album starts, I loved it already! It’s about the feelings The Circle Binds is able to evoke: it is as if I’m sitting in my favorite bar and surprisingly, an old friend comes in, one I haven’t
Music NEW ALBUM: Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool The first time we saw Wolf Alice was on the second day of SXSW 2015 at The Parish and we were pretty much blown away. The band had so much energy and singer Ellie Rowsell was so intense and beautiful that we both became immediate fans. The same has apparently
Music TORRES gave a mesmerizing performance at the legendary Mercury Lounge From the moment TORRES takes the stage to the unavoidable ending when she has to leave it again, Mackenzie Scott (who goes by TORRES) holds a tight grip on her fascinated audience. Having seen TORRES twice already before (for SXSW2015 and at Baby’s All Right), I knew about her
Music Song Picks of the Week The Song Pick of Monday Come in comes from London musician GEoRGiA (capitalization hers). I love the industrial beat on this track, which is off a four track EP with the same name. More of this please! Are You Happy asks The Outdoor Type in our Song Pick of Tuesday.
Music Releases and Announcements New Releases Wolf Alice – My Love Is Cool Oliver: This week two female-fronted four-pieces battle from both sides of the Atlantic it out for the most love from the critics. London band Wolf Alice released their excellent debut My Love Is Cool on Dirty Hit Records. More about it on
Music 3 Is A Band: Little Racer I’ve known Little Racer’s music for quite a while but only now, with having lost or dropped their fourth member and with being on Papercup Music, I stumbled across them again. Almost literally, because I saw them in the audience for a show at UO Live Stage on
Music It Hugs Back - Slow Wave What I love most about Slow Wave, the new album by the British four piece It Hugs Back, is the chilled and overall highly laid-back vibe. Especially in songs like Somnolence or Anyway, Matthew Simms’ vocal and guitar style remind me of a few 90s favorites of mine. Listening to
Music Ibeyi play a surprise acoustic set at Rough Trade NYC Ibeyi is one of the new bands I’m the most excited about this year, so it was a no-brainer to rush to Rough Trade NYC last Friday to see them live once more. They played an acoustic set in the store itself, not in the back room venue, which
Music Waterstrider played a beautiful set at Palisades Two months ago, I came across the album Waterstrider, the self-titled debut album of the Californian band Waterstrider and wrote a review about it. I loved the album back then, and I still do and so it was a no-brainer to go see Waterstrider live when in town. Touring with
Wolf Alice live at Poisson Rouge When I read about a show at Poisson Rouge in the Greenwich Village, I picture sitting at a table with a glass of wine while nibbling some sushi. You can do that there for some shows, but for a rock band like Wolf Alice, it is turned into a packed
Music Song Picks of the Week Looking for the perfect Song Pick of the Day, we decided on Perfect by ONWE – easy, no? Northside Festival is all about discovering new bands and enjoying shows of long time favorites. ONWE fall into the former category because we never heard them before but enjoyed their performance as part
Music Releases and Announcements New Releases Gengahr – A Dream Outside Elke: The slowly unfolding, ethereally beautiful and highly catchy Bathed In Light might be familiar for many ears and now there’s luckily a whole album of “more” to it. Gengahr a four piece from London, have released their debut album A Dream Outside
Music 3 Is A Band: Monograms What I love about music festivals like SXSW, CMJ or Northside is not only the broad variety of participating musicians but the chance to see bands who would get lost in the daily mix of a city like New York. With having some “time to kill”, and knowing that Black
Music LIFE SOUNDTRACK: David Bowie - Let's Dance This morning iTunes 80s radio played a Bowie song, which sparked the idea for this throwback. I’ve never been too much of a Bowie fan – I saw him live once in the 90s at a summer festival in Ulm, Germany, which was touted as one of his last shows
Music PHOTOS: Highly Suspect // The Catfish and the Bottlemen live at Webster Hall Highly Suspect are doing a fine job in making their upcoming album Mister Asylum one of the highly anticipated debut records of this summer. Johnny Stevens (vocals, guitar) and the twins Ryan Meyer (drums, vocals) and Rich Meyer (bass, vocals) have not only been on tour with one of UK’
Music Northside Roundup Day 4 - Jackson Scott // Monograms // Hard Nips // Light Asylum // Jackson Scott (2nd show) // Shilpa Ray While Saturday possibly stood out as the “main” day of Northside Music Festival with more great shows simultaneously happening than one could possibly ever think of going let alone doing so, Sunday -the last day of the festival- offered again plenty of amazing events! Still a bit sleepy and fully
Music Northside Roundup Day 3 - Sunflower Bean // Merchandise // Bully // The Present // DEF.grls // Little May // Blonde Redhead // PINS We got a great start into Saturday with catching a few songs by Sunflower Beans on the UO Stage right on Bedford Avenue. The New York three piece has been on our list for a while, so we were happy to see them, even in blazing sunshine. Next on the
Song Picks of the Week As announced, this week’s Song Pick of the Day are all come from bands playing the Northside Festival. First up is Somebody Call a Doctor by Sunflower Bean who are playing the UO Live Stage on 06/13/15. Bugs in the Dark are playing Northside next Friday at
Music Northside Roundup Day 2 - Courtesy Tier // Of Clocks and Clouds // Leverage Models // ONWE // Stranger Cat // Salt Cathedral One of the bands playing Northside Festival I was most eager to see were Courtesy Tier from Brooklyn, a three piece initially formed by Omer Leibovitz (guitar, vocals) and Layton Weedeman (drums), and now completed by Alex Picca (bass). They played Bar Matchless at 4:20 PM and put on
Releases and Announcements New releases No Joy – More Faithful No Joy is a shoegaze band from Canada around singers Jasmine White-Gluz and Laura Lloyd. Their band name is not really a mission statement – there is some joy to find in their music. I will listen often to this. (Out now on Mexican Summer)
Music Northside Roundup Day 1 - Monomyth // Sexores // Lower Dens // Dead Leaf Echo // Monogold The Northside Festival is Brooklyn’s version of South By Southwest in Austin: it packs film, technology (“innovation”) and lots of music into one exciting week. It is much younger and smaller than SXSW, but it is growing from year to year and is well on its way to become
