Hays and Ryan Holladay's latest electro-indie-pop project is Bluebrain, whose debut album drops next month.
The 2000s saw a strange reversal in the District’s music: The pulse of its indie rock became barely perceptible while its rap scene began to emerge from go-go’s shadow. As for the new decade, we’ve already loved one record, rapper X.O.’s [...]
Skylark from Casper Bangs on Vimeo.
Forty years ago, concert film were big. No really, they played on big screens and carried cultural import. In 1970, the documentary Woodstock won an academy award. When Talking Heads released Stop Making Sense in 1984, people were apparently dancing in the aisles of the theater.
Then, shortly thereafter, there were no aisles left to dance [...]
When it comes to reinterpreting the music of the past, Stewart Lupton has a pretty expert touch. In Jonathan Fire*Eater, he got some real mileage out of Mick Jagger circa '69. Child Ballads' Cheekbone Hollows EP made clever connections between Bobby Charles' rootsy schtick and Royal Trux-style decadence. But Dean Martin? Seems like a [...]
As the '00s have come to a close, a lot of ink has been spilled over the balkanization of the music community. It seems that 10 years ago, trends were a little bit easier to define. You had your metal heads and your bus-gypsies, and indie rock didn't sound all that different from regular rock. [...]
A skeptic might take one look at "Stewart Lupton: A Retrospective" and decide they aren't really in the mood for a wake. After all, the last decade has brought the former Jonathan Fire*Eater front man's music career little but pain and suffering. Comebacks flopped, good will was squandered, and concerts were bungled. In ten years, [...]
Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Domino
I'm pretty sure I tried to call Merriweather Post Pavilion "Record of the year" back in January, when I reviewed it, but City Paper managing editor Andrew Beaujon argued that this statement might be a tad premature, given that '09 still had 11 months left to go. But here we are in [...]
Tabi Bonney:
-the plane is not the same as de plane. I'm just putting it out there cuz that could be a serious issue.
-Hand me a airplane barf bag young. This grown man was walking down the street with long flowing hair & a hoola-hoop. Thought it was a lady!
-I think it's something awkwardly strange [...]
Indie poppers Casper Bangs play Friday at the Rock & Roll Hotel with Army of Me and Ugly Purple Sweater.
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From Steve Summers' Jack Flash EP, out now on Clone Records.
