Posts By: Alyson Camus

the whole thing is overly enigmatic, mysterious and pointless

isn’t it asking for even less privacy?

hundreds of artists will be releasing exclusive records and collectors items

his idea of loose may still be tighter than the average band’s conception of tight

One Of these EP’s wil be “Only The Lonely”

    After ‘Tomboy', ‘You Can Count On Me’, and ‘Last Night At The Jetty’, you can now listen to ‘Surfer’s Hymn’, another track from ‘Tomboy’, Panda Bear’s highly anticipated album set to be released on April 12th. Panda Bear continues with his beach-y theme, giving us layered ethereal vocals drowning in wave sounds and busy, glittering, fireflies-like percussion. It’s less Brian Wilson-esque than ‘Last Night At The Jetty’, which I still prefer to this other track, but the vocals tend to compete with each other in a peak of repetitive harmonies. The track is also the final installment from the …

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This Kind Of Pop May Well Be Almost Dead

expect a lot of layered images of random objects

very experimental, very distinct melodies

releasing the beast inside

don’t let the intimacy fool you

doesn’t have a lot to do with Billy Corgan

made of real paper and ink

I must have heard this tune tons of times on MTV

What a buncha hippies

changed the place in a single high-pitched guitar riff starting one of their heavy 60s-influenced-daring-garage-rock songs

as wild and distorted as their personalities

 Fol Chen is a strange oddity really hard to figure out: I had already seen them during this summer and I was not exactly sure of what to do with their unexpected harmonies, jerky rhythms and moody eclectic songs. Their music may be interesting at times with its surprising funky-electronic-pop hiccup but I was not entirely convinced by their eccentricity, especially because that night they were trying something new and were pretending auditioning for a new singer. They were opening for Fujiya & Maiyagi at the Echo on Sunday night and the five of them came on stage in red …

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Jazzy influences in their hybrid music

Did Drew show Thom Her Tats?

addictive and unstoppable beat

before the incident Weasel spent most of his time ranting against the media, labeling journalists as ‘parasitic’, characterizing the SXSW festival as ‘a carnival of schadenfreude’ and saying he regretted to have come

These guys rock on all levels

the model John Lennon is wearing on the cover of ‘Abbey Road’.

Should I bring my hard hat?

the dry hump

Yorke was cool, had ‘a lot of ill ass ideas and shit

mysterious man in black through the snowy streets of New York

I have a plan to clean up my garage

now if they could lower these ticket prices!

Jon Bon Jovi is an idiot

the band, not the moviemaker

Who Can afford these?

I ‘d say that, after giving a listen early yesterday morning, I wanted to go back right to bed! ‘Ego’

return to truly basic rock’n’roll

Jackson 5-collide-into-The-von-Trapp-Seven mash-up could not work better

cheerful exuberance, animated drama and buoyant harmonies

the gods of metal are immortal

Who is So Nyeo Shi Dae

Pitchfork gave it a 1.6 out of 10 – and how they came up with such a number is really a mystery to me

Isn’t that cute?