Popular indie music site Pitchfork announced it will launch Altered Zones, a sister site dedicated to DIY sounds so obscure not even those on staff at Pitchfork have heard of some of the bands or dreamt up cool new tags for the zany new tunes. Pitchfork has some lofty goals for the site, which will [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Stereogum’
March 22nd, 2010 - 1:10 am § in True/Slant
Dear MGMT: 'Congratulations' for what exactly?
MGMT’s new album, Congratulations, leaked online. So the band cleverly began to stream the new record on their site. In an even smarter move, the group punctuated the appearance of the album’s music with this simple statement: Hey everybody, the album leaked, and we wanted you to be able[...]
December 10th, 2009 - 1:35 pm § in True/Slant
Dan Deacon and Google Chrome
Dan Deacon is a DIY mastermind, one of a handful of prolific and well-known artists who do things themselves, and do things a certain way. He plays all ages shows. He plays shows for $10 a pop. He plays shows in “unorthodox” venues. And he doesn’t sell his music to a big corporatio[...]
September 18th, 2009 - 5:45 pm § in Perfect Lines
SDRE Tacoma show on YouTube
Adam9512 was nice enough to record the entire Sunny Day secret show that was in Tacoma the other night and post it on YouTube (thanks Stereogum). Audio quality isn’t great (but really, how can you improve upon seeing a band in person?) but it’s a nice sneak peek for folks who have ticket[...]
July 8th, 2009 - 4:52 pm § in Perfect Lines
(Don't Waste Your 500) Days of Summer
Caught a glimpse of this yesterday on the web: The Cinemash idea – mashing up two distinct films into a “quriky” 3-5 minute byproduct – is particularly ingenious, and I’m sure it can’t hurt that MSN is behind the thing and able to hire the actors from one of the m[...]
February 18th, 2009 - 11:47 pm § in Perfect Lines
Don't (Touch and) Go
From the looks of a post early in the day by Stereogum, one would have thought it was the end of the aural world for fans of underground music. Although the reports later in the day dismissed the rumors that Touch and Go Records was finished; instead, the still dreadful news that the label will [...[...]
December 17th, 2008 - 12:36 pm § in Perfect Lines
New Music From The Appleseed Cast
Stereogum is previewing the newest song by The Appleseed Cast on their weekly Gum Drop posting. Titled “Raise the Sails,” the song hearkens back to the band’s Low Level Owl days, with patient, drawn out instrumentals that make the slow-bursts and waves of noise all the more moving.[...]
October 21st, 2008 - 7:19 pm § in Perfect Lines
Kanye Wemo
It’s been a number of days, but Stereogum’s post on Kanye West’s “Coldest Winter” caught my eye for oh so many reasons. Of course, images offer the best summation. Thanks Stereogum: The post offers an interesting look at the perception of emo today. Given that Stereogum[...]