Music Features

Björkphilia

The avant-pop star talks new projects, music education, punk teendom, and tour snacks

05.21.13 - 9:11 pm | Emily Savage |

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MUSIC Can you even recall your first run-in with the mythic, boundary-less creature that is Björk? Perhaps it was bounding through the neon blue forest with tiny crystals underneath her eyes as a giant paper-mache bear chased her through Michel Gondry's video for "Human Behaviour," off 1993 solo album Debut. Or maybe it was poised for the tabloids in an elegant swan dress, holding a large egg purse and preening for the worst dressed lists at the '01 Academy Awards after her devastating performance in Dancer in the Dark (2000). Read more »

Psycho beach party

An unyielding devotion to surf rock lives, on despite niggling concerns. Plus, soul duo Myron and E, and Lighting Bolt solo project Black Pus.

05.14.13 - 4:24 pm | Emily Savage |

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Not from around here

French synth-pop giants Phoenix and Daft Punk tap into the alien within

05.08.13 - 9:12 am | Kimberly Chun |

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Skate or die

Improvisational pianist Jason Moran brings the skatepark to the jazz hall

04.30.13 - 5:00 pm | Ryan Prendiville |

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Love spells trouble

For Bleached, LA is the city of sisterly love. Plus Stero Total, Mariee Sioux, Mike Patton, more

04.30.13 - 4:57 pm | Emily Savage |

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TOFU AND WHISKEY The twin star driving forces behind Bleached (hellobleached.tumblr.com) have been around. Not in a cruising with delinquents kind of way, but that's probably where their music is best blasted — careening down the California coast in a shiny convertible with a shitty ex-lover or two, rooftop down, an open bag of Flamin' Hot Cheetos, lipstick-stained cola can, and the stereo crackling.Read more »

Hot Chip off the old block

With New Build, Al Doyle pulls back layers from LCD Soundsystem and that other favorable act

04.25.13 - 1:01 pm | Ryan Prendiville |

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Bands have hierarchies. James Murphy was essentially LCD Soundsystem, Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard are Hot Chip. If anyone knows this, it's Al Doyle; the multi-instrumentalist was the guitarist for LCD before it disbanded in 2011, and continues to be a crucial member in Hot Chip.Read more »

How to make it in rock'n'roll

Phil Manley's Life Coach, Anna Hillburg's solo album, King Khan and BBQ Show return

04.18.13 - 12:05 pm | Emily Savage |

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TOFU AND WHISKEY "I felt like, if I don't put these songs out, they're just going to fade away," Phil Manley says from the enclosed playground in the Panhandle. He's doing double-duty as an artist on an interview and a father watching his 15-month-old daughter in the park. And he's prepping for a show at the Knockout later in the night.Read more »

Turn me on

Burger fever and mixed tape metaphors at Burgerama II

04.09.13 - 4:51 pm | Andre Torrez |

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MUSIC "You know how the Ramones made a bunch of people wanna start their own band?" I half-assed agree, not fully knowing the background of what sounds like legend, but it's obvious Sean Bohrman is about to go into a story. "I want Burger to be the Ramones of record labels."Read more »

Don't hold your breath

Johnny Marr sidesteps Smiths reunion rumors with solo debut, 'The Messenger'

04.09.13 - 2:33 pm | Daniel Alvarez |

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MUSIC Every passing year, the clamor gets louder; the rumors get more outlandish. An all-vegetarian Coachella. Fifty million dollars for five shows. Sixty-seven copies of the movie version of Moby Dick and a football helmet full of cottage cheese. While the rest of the world waits with baited breath for his old band to reunite, the perpetually unfussed Johnny Marr simply gets on with it, focusing on what's ahead instead of what's behind.Read more »