Portland’s The Thermals return with their fifth album Personal Life on September 7th, and it seems to feature the exact same infectious power pop sound that they’ve perfected over the years. The video for “I Don’t Believe You” is directed by Whitey McConnaughy and stars Carrie Brownstein formerly of Sleater-Kinney.
Of all the bands in the world, I don’t think I ever would have predicted that Of Montreal would be the ones to put out a new video featuring a bloody beachfront brawl between barbarian invaders and cannibalistic natives. But somehow it works. Can’t wait for the black metal remix! Their new album False Priest [...]
Kristen Bell stars in this bizarre music video where she cares for a pet creature that looks like a deformed version of Krang from TMNT. Directed by Andreas Nilsson.
’90s rockers Helmet return next month with their seventh studio album Seeing Eye Dog. My good friend Derrick got me into these guys back in the day, and they were definitely among some of the heavier bands I ever listened to, although they took an almost academic approach to it all (frontman Page [...]
From the genius who brought you last year’s killer jam “Take U to Da Movies”, our boy Bangs has just dropped a fresh track on YouTube. You can still download his album Hard To Be Up for free right here.
Well, I think that clinches it… Weezer are officially the cheesiest band ever. Their new album is called Hurley and the cover artwork is simply a close-up of Lost star Jorge Garcia’s face. If it was any other band, I would just assume this was a joke. But not Weezer. I guess we should be [...]
Here’s the second video from Chromeo’s upcoming album Business Casual. Not quite as addictive as “Night by Night”, but hey, I can appreciate the slow jams too. Alicia and I caught Chromeo in Toronto earlier this week and their live show definitely lived up to the addictive party atmosphere of their music with a blinding [...]
The ironic yet disturbing Tim and Eric sensibility seems to be shining through even in music videos that they didn’t direct as of late. Ratatat’s newest vid is directed by More Soon, and is only as sinister as you want it to be! LP4 is out now on XL Recordings.