The Horrors perform an extremely capable cover of David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust-era “Suffragette City” for Channel 4?s On Track… program. It’s a live, in-studio take, but it sounds amazing. From the mixing to the multi-angle camera-work, this is high-budget, high-quality stuff. This band grows by leaps and bounds with every album, and it’s latest, Skying, […]

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I’ve been looking forward to this band’s debut full-length all year. This is the first video of its self-titled venture on Dead Oceans. Drenched in reverb. With lost more reverb. Staccato beats. Echoing semi-shouted vocals. It’s a gloriously noisy racket. +1.

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This album has been on constant repeat for the past few weeks thanks to K. Completely infectious, stripped-down, dark synth-pop, replete with hand-claps and sex-bored vocals. “Keep You” is the opening track off the record, and the one I return to the most. This video is unofficial and features footage from 1967’s Anna starring Anna […]

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Duran Duran has released Girl Panic!, the third single from its Mark Ronson-produced and semi-comeback album All You Need Is Now. The video for Girl Panic! lifts a page from George Michael’s “Freedom” but takes the idea much deeper: A cast of well-known supermodels (Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Yasmin Le Bon, Eva Herzigova, and Helena […]

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Despite The Foo Fighters’ semi-bland brand of stadium rock, I don’t mind the band’s energy and tightness one bit. Dave Grohl’s choice of covers over the years has been the hook that keeps me paying attention on any level. Seeing them perform as Roger Waters’ backing band on a classic Pink Floyd track for Jimmy […]

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Battles’ second LP, Gloss Drop, somehow seems to be achieving underrated status when it’s easily one of the best records of the year. Hammering that point home is the band’s new single “My Machines,” which features the one and only Gary Numan on vocals. This is an album highlight for me, as it’s one of […]

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