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4.5/5 stars   If you’ve ever been to a Tegan and Sara concert, you know that they often strip down their songs and reinvent them. The proof is all over the internet in the form of bootlegs and Youtube videos. But finally, the duo is releasing an official live album of 15 classics transformed into [...]

Chromeo and Mayer Hawthorne played to an (almost?) capacity crowd last night at the Arcata Community Center. I had my camera and they are pretty photogenic people… so hundreds of photos were definitely necessary. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments [...]

Download I’ve never been a huge Wavves fan. Sure, the songs are pretty good… but I just can’t get past how annoyingly lo-fi it is. Looking at you too, Best Coast. Then early this month I heard “I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl” off Wavves’ new EP Life Sux and was very happy to hear that [...]

  St. Vincent’s first new single and video from Strange Mercy has arrived, and I’m happy to announce that it’s just as good as “Surgeon,” which I didn’t think was even possible. The video itself is spellbinding, as Annie Clark’s pretend family throws her in a car trunk then buries her alive. It’s much more pleasing [...]

  Bess Rogers is known for her consistently poppy, happy (but not to the point of annoying) music, which has been featured on everything from apple juice commercials to Pretty Little Liars. Well, she’s at it again with her new single “Anchor.” It’s got everything: hand claps, a sing-along chorus and adorable lyrics. “Anchor” is [...]

If the internet was the earth, Google would be all five of its oceans combined. Between cell phone apps, maps, news, email, documents, shopping, books, videos and social networking, the online giant has sufficiently crushed all other competition… except for one thing. Music. Apple mostly had that niche covered with iTunes and the iPod until [...]

Rating: 5/5   Just when you thought she couldn’t get any better, St. Vincent (Annie Clark) has unleashed her most ambitious song yet. While 2009′s Actor showed off Clark’s synth chops with its erratic pulses, “Surgeon,” the first single from her upcoming record Strange Mercy leans more heavily on the dark, sprawling minor tones we only got a [...]

Everyone has a band that they will throw elbows for. For me, that band is Cold War Kids. I saw CWK for the second time this past saturday at Sasquatch. After a strategic stakeout that took about three hours, I was able to land in second row of the standing area of the pit. And boy, were [...]

“That is what’s wrong with you, Paris Hilton! You think that everybody is in love with you, when actually everybody hates you. Like, Aaron Samuels for example? He broke up with Regina, and guess what?! He still doesn’t want you. So why are you still messing with reality TV, Paris? I’ll tell you why; ’cause you are a [...]

Gaga cleverly uses the story of Judas to portray what would probably be the baddest romance of them all. Seriously, though.

Lerner has found his thing: making you want to dance to his feelings.

The King of Limbs impressively holds its own in the Radiohead catalog.

What are those sound effects going on? Did Lady Gaga record her vocals in a busy arcade? Maybe it was a county fair.