by Nick Muldoon | Dec 11, 2014 | Screened Plays
While he’s not the household name he is in the UK, those who have spent any significant time with British indie rock are sure to have at least have heard of Frank Sidebottom. The comedian and singer/songwriter Chris Sievey spent the vast majority of his 30 year...
by Steven Knapp | Nov 21, 2014 | Disco Infiltrator
New Jackson- “Having A Coke With You” The title track for Dublin producer New Jackson’s latest EP for Permanent Vacation slowly unravels as a euphoric, expansive track led by smooth horns, mellow chords and a bittersweet string melody. A sampled...
by Nick Muldoon | Nov 19, 2014 | Screened Plays
There’s been a recent surge of classic Britpop bands resurfacing, from the Verve to Suede to Blur, and Pulp appears to be the latest. That said, Pulp’s reunion seems a weirdly appropriate time to reunite. While other Britpop acts had a wide array of...
by Nick Muldoon | Nov 13, 2014 | Screened Plays
With Oscar season now in full-effect, its worth pointing out that there has been a recent absence of popular music in nominated films. Whether it’s the period, tone, or just an effort to pick up additional nominations, Oscar contenders seem to shun the use of...
by Ronald Walczyk | Nov 10, 2014 | Interview
What do you get when you mix a Gameboy, three musicians with a penchant for writing endearing indie music, and a heaping pile of dream-worthy nostalgia? This is not a rhetorical question. You get Crying. The indie-electronic outfit out of Harrison, NY is raising...
by Steven Knapp | Nov 7, 2014 | Disco Infiltrator
XXXY – “TPW” Manchester, UK producer XXXY’s latest track is set to appear on house duo Waze & Odyssey’s upcoming compilation for their Street Tracks imprint. “TPW” features a prominent acidic bass line and energetic drums...
by Scott Mancuso | Nov 7, 2014 | Songbook Report
Earlier this week, former Fleet Foxes drummer (and former Batavia, New York resident) Josh Tillman, continuing to work under his most recent nom de plume, Father John Misty, released the first single from his upcoming album, I Love You, Honeybear. The song is called...
by Cory Perla | Nov 6, 2014 | Interview
Leaves cover the ground in a rural area of Vermont, where musician Nick Zammuto—known for the wildly collaged pop music he made with indie rock band The Books in the early 2000s, and for his heart-achingly beautiful and weird solo material—wakes up and feeds his kids....
by Nick Muldoon | Nov 5, 2014 | Screened Plays
When I was a kid, I remember trying to explore everything my computer could do. A personal computer was still an exciting new technology and I had so many fresh tools at my disposal. But of all these tools I had to use, I enjoyed messing with none more than Windows...
by Steven Knapp | Oct 31, 2014 | Disco Infiltrator
Youandewan – “93” Berlin producer Youandewan recently released this silky edit of the classic Souls of Mischief track “93 ’til Infinity,” which stretches out the pensive instrumental over six minutes, laying down an infectious,...
by Sarah and Moira Mach/Madden | Oct 29, 2014 | Smart Girls on Stupid Music
Taylor Swift’s album 1989 dropped this week, marking a full departure from her cosmopolitan country-pop sound. Vocally, she is breathy, jaded, lower than before. Musically, there is less guitar and more echoing drums. Everyone is freaking out about it—in its opening...
by Nick Muldoon | Oct 29, 2014 | Screened Plays
While this feature often highlights the use of music in contemporary work, with Halloween just two days away, it seems only appropriate to focus on horror movies this week. While it took a good 20 years for horror movies to catch up to popular culture, ever since the...
by Ronald Walczyk | Oct 23, 2014 | Interview
Diarrhea Planet is the best rock band out of Nashville right now. And I realize ‘rock’ is a relative term, but you would be hard-pressed to find another band out there currently that embodies the spirit of rock and roll more than Diarrhea Planet does....
by Sarah Machajewski | Oct 22, 2014 | Screened Plays
The Knick is the best show currently airing on TV. Well, after its season finale this past Friday, it’s technically on hiatus until 2015, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is a frenetically pulsating beam of television magic in an otherwise dull fall season....
by Justin Amidon | Oct 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
The glory of the the DIY/ House venue is the element of surprise. Sometimes you are lucky if you know more than two bands. Then there’s the out-of-town band. But there is always that variable, that one band that no one knows shit about. SHEDS is one of those bands....
