Jukebox Collective is a band from East London. That’s the East End of London. Not East London, home of Mark Boucher and Mpgongo Private Game Reserve. They are four friends dabbling in guitars, synthesizers and all sorts of percussion. They’ve been playing infectious live shows since mid-2009 and released a well-received single on 7” vinyl and [...]
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Vladimir Kush
Vladimir Kush is a Russian-born surrealist painter who’s work “feels like a film and a really good cream cake at the same time”. Take a look at more examples of his metaphorical realism after the jump.
OK Go – This Too Shall Pass
OK Go are at it again:
Teen Dream
Watch Hear Beach House play “Zebra”, the first track from new album Teen Dream, on Fallon, their TV debut. UPDATE: NBC has decided to block the Fallon performance, so if you’d like to hear “Zebra”, you’ll have to listen whilst looking at a picture of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally blowing confetti at each other: [...]
Best Of
It’s nearly the end of the year, which means it’s time to round up the best albums of 2009. Ranking our favourites from 1 – 50 would be near impossible, and besides, there are high-brow sites who do this sort of thing for a living. Apart from a few notable exceptions, the major playas got [...]
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Julian Casablancas: Update
So, two weeks ago, we reported that Phrazes for the Young would be released on October 19th – yesterday. Turns out things change. Either that or there were just some crossed wires between his MySpace and his official site – both of which now state November 2nd as the UK release date for Julian Casablancas’s [...]
Beatenberg
Beatenberg used to be called NICE. Beatenberg is still Matthew Field, Ross Dorkin and Robin Brink, and Beatenberg is still making very dreamy pop music. They’ve just finished recording their debut LP at Street Level Studios and, in support of that, they’ve got a jam-packed gig schedule until the end of the year. ‘In B [...]
Julian Casablancas
How far off is the next Strokes record? “It felt super-duper close… then it was postponed again, not by me. It’s going to be great, it’s just: to get everyone back, in the same spot, and feeling good, is tricky. But we’re working on it.” To tide us over, Julian Casablancas releases Phrazes for the [...]
Jordan Metcalf
Jordan likes black and white, rotring pens, and collecting music. We like Jordan’s pile of heads – painted at Earthdance as part of a mural that’s going to be split up and auctioned for charity. Jordan was also asked by Amicollective to be one of the artists to customise a ‘bare’ for the charity exhibition they [...]
Girls
Look how much Gorilla vs Bear have written about Girls already! Gorilla vs Bear are tastemakers, people. So are Pitchfork. No word of a lie! You should totally download ‘Hellhole Ratrace‘ and put it straight onto your generic mp3 player.
