Tag: INDIE
If you found the sardonic anthropomorphized animals in Bojack Horseman hilarious, and Adult Swim’s comedic experiments continuously excite you, then you’ll probably love Animals — an absurdist animated series about NYC starring talking horses, rats, and pigeons. There’s just one problem: it still needs a network. The LA Times has devoted a fairly lengthy article […]
Tom Scharpling directed the music video for Real Estate’s “Crimes,” which, if you’re at all familiar with his work, should be enough incentive to start watching now. If not, consider that the plot centers around a group of zombie skateboarders who start at 5050 Skatepark, then roam around the city on the hunt for “blood and erotic […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. The first tastes of The Darcys’ forthcoming new album Warring sound like Grizzly Bear if that quartet was as enamored with Burial and El-P as it is with the Beach Boys and the Incredible String […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s playlist is courtesy of Heavenly Beat, aka erstwhile Beach Fossils bassist John Peña, and leans heavily on breakbeats and ’90s nostalgia. Hits from the middle of that decade, when radio-friendly “alternative […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s “Listen In” comes from Brooklyn’s own Grooms, whose own music pairs ’90s shabby romanticism and energy with propulsive arrangements and crystal-clear production. For their playlist, the’ve compiled a genre-hopping mix that […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. The Massachusetts-bred indie rock quartet Speedy Ortiz contributed this week’s playlist, a genre-hopping trip that touches on ’90s rap, ’70s outsider folk, and mellow indie, closing with one of the greatest seven minutes […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s playlist comes from Dirty Beaches, whose acclaimed new album Drifters/Love Is the Devil synthesizes sounds as disparate as drone, minimal classical music, early rock and roll, and industrial. For his mix, Dirty Beaches’ […]
