Jan 27, 2012 0
Shut Up, Dude: This Week’s Best And Worst Comments
By: Stereogum
After the jump, we once again acknowledge the week’s ten highest rated comments, five lowest rated comments, and our editors’ picks. Here we go!
Jan 27, 2012 0
Jacques Lu Cont – “Church” (Stereogum Premiere)
By: Stereogum
Jacques Lu Cont is a many-monikered veteran British dance producer who has made tracks under any number of pseudonyms — Les Rhytmes Digitales, the Thin White Duke, the Zoot Woman project. He’s also produced for people like the Killers and Madonna. And right now, he’s releasing a series of his own tracks. He started it off two months ago with “Reload.” And below, we’ve got the second of those tracks: The blaringly catchy “Church.” Stream it after the jump.
Jan 27, 2012 0
Check Out A Pic Of A Young Jon Stewart Moshing At A Dead Kennedys Show
By: Stereogum
Photographer Irish Willis Peele‘s thing was shooting punk band Frontline (and others) in Virginia, and his archive includes the above pic of students moshing at a Dead Kennedys show. According to Peele, the man in the center is none other than The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart, who was a student at William & Mary at the time. Fuckyeahjonstewart.tumblr.com to thread, immediately! (via Gawker)
Jan 27, 2012 0
Schoolboy Q – “Nightmare On Figg St” Video
By: Stereogum
Here’s another video from Schoolboy Q’s Album Of The Week alum Habits & Contradictions, and it’s a dark, ominous clip that fits the menacing vibe of the song pretty well. The song, it should be noted, is produced by ASAP crew member Ty Beats who most memorably made the beat to ASAP Rocky’s “Peso.” Watch it below.
Jan 27, 2012 0
War – “Somme, Maggio”
By: Stereogum
Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, frontman for jittery Danish punks Iceage, has a new side project called War, who could not possibly sound less like the Latin funk band with the same name. Instead, this War is a duo with Sexdrome’s Loke Rahbek, and they specialize in murky, diffuse, dark tracks that use loops and electronics. Below, listen to their track “Somme, Maggio,” their side of a split release with the Swedish band Lust For Youth. It’s five minutes long, the length of about four Iceage songs.
Jan 27, 2012 0
They Might Be Giants Do Conan
By: Stereogum
Fans of dorkily comedic things, take note: Nerd-rock veterans They Might Be Giants were on Conan last night, and it’s hard to imagine a more generally simpatico host. On the show, they played the recent track “When Will You Die.” And as a web exclusive, they also pulled out a noisy version of the 1988 relic “Ana Ng,” a song that you just know got major play in the SNL writers’ room when Conan was working there. Watch both below.
Jan 27, 2012 0
Progress Report: Why?
By: Stereogum
Name: Why?
Progress Report: Yoni Wolf talks about the state of WHY? and the band’s sometime-to-be-released new record.
WHY? is one of those bands that will invariably cause you to sound like an asshole when you try and describe them. Hip-hop-inflected indie rock? Folk-hop? I’m gonna stop trying now. I will say, however, that the band’s last two albums — 2008’s Alopecia and 2009’s Eskimo Snow — are some of the most wonderfully unclassifiable and fantastically witty pop albums of those years. Fans of the band have been waiting nearly three years now for a new record that, according to frontman Yoni Wolf, is finished and ready to go. I had the chance to speak to Wolf a couple of days before the band played shows in NYC last month. As anyone who saw those shows can attest, the new material sounds great, so here’s hoping a release date gets announced sometime soon. Come on, dudes.
Jan 27, 2012 0
Watch James Murphy in The Comedy
By: Stereogum
Rick Alverson’s The Comedy is a film about bored, aging hipsters and the film, which stars Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of Tim And Eric, Awesome Show, Great Job! fame, recently screened at Sundance. James Murphy, himself the gold standard for aging hipsters, appears in the film and Alverson posted a clip on his Vimeo page featuring Wareheim, Heidecker and Murphy heckling a cabbie. Murphy doesn’t speak. Watch it below.
Jan 27, 2012 0
Wild Nothing – “Nowhere”
By: Stereogum
It’s been a while since we heard from hazy VA indie rocker Wild Nothing, but that’s about to change as Jack Tatum & Co. (we assume) prep a 7” for release in February. The A-Side, “Nowhere,” just hit the web and it’s a definite curveball; it’s twangy! And I think there’s an accordion in it! Oh, and none of that blueish haze either. Twin Sister’s Andrea Estella also provides vocals. Download below.
Jan 27, 2012 0
Memoryhouse – “Walk With Me”
By: Stereogum
The diffuse Ontario dreampop duo Memoryhouse will soon release their new album The Slideshow Effect, and we’ve already heard first single “The Kids Were Wrong.” And now they’ve let the world hear another track from the album. This one, “Walk With Me,” moves their drifting, cloudlike sound a half-step closer toward hard, tangible pop music. Use the widget below to stream or download the track.
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