Oh Michel Gondry, we're so sorry. You have no longer cornered the market on stop-motion videos using toys. Montreal band Miracle Fortress (which is mostly just multi-instrumentalist Graham Van Pelt from Think About Life) made a dazzling day-in-the-life video for…
Continue Reading →Scott Hansen (aka ISO50) has been a favorite of ours for a while. The man is a triple threat -- and in the awesome way, not the Broadway er, way. This month he premiers a new print, Northern Lights, under…
Continue Reading →Several months ago, I wrote an embarrassingly impassioned post regarding a music blog. It was a sappy, raison d'etre-style diatribe, involving too many adjectives, too many hallelujahs, and way too many myspace references. I don't think I was drunk when…
Continue Reading →Not just drum and bass...and not just music. Dublab, the Los Angeles based DJ collective, has run their Web radio site for seven years, reaching an international community of 300,000 musicians, disc jockeys, artists, and a couple of people who…
Continue Reading →As Brazil's totally unofficial pop culture diplomat, I thought it would be appropriate to dedicate a post to telling you about some of the Brazilian bands playing at South by Southwest that no doubt a few of you will be…
Continue Reading →You might be surprised to learn that Static Revenger has been one of the most prolific names in dance music for the better part of 10 years." Dennis White's latest album, Love Song Surprise, is a return to production after…
Continue Reading →I am not sure how I feel about male lead singers that sound like whiney complainers, but this sort of "new" rock has a firm foothold on the airwaves and I better learn to like it. And I have. Having…
Continue Reading →So what exactly is the sound of color? Gap and San Francisco-based Rehab asked this question to five bands, who each wrote corresponding tracks for Sound of Color. The pieces were then handed off to different directors who were allowed…
Continue Reading →Richly layered and refreshing, Ananda Project's "Night Blossom" brings together a myriad of producers and artists to reinterpret their 2007 album, "Fire Flower." With help from Grammy Award nominated J-Jay, Pasta Boys, Frankie Feliciano, and others, the deep house double…
Continue Reading →Drawing inspiration from his hometown's inner-city environment, DJ Dolores (aka Helder Aragão) is set to release his third album, 1 Real. Heavy with social commentary (particularly environmental advocacy), the album is also littered with notes on personal relationships. In the…
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