Tag: Music
Former LCD Soundsystem main man James Murphy created this 10-minute remix of David Bowie’s “Love Is Lost” for a forthcoming deluxe edition of The Next Day, and oh fuck is it good. The track takes Steve Reich’s “Clapping Music,” an iconic piece of minimalist music, as a point of departure, using that work’s gradually shifting accents […]
Everybody’s favorite drug-addled Brooklyn rappers are back with a new video, for “Death,” from their latest mixtape Better off Dead. In what has become the trademark Flatbush Zombies style, there are chainsaws, creepy white contact lenses, and copious horrorshow vibes. Not nearly enough blood, though. […]
David Bowie’s “Sound and Vision” has been enjoying an unlikely second life as an advertising jingle in recent years, featuring both in traditional TV spots and big interactive spectacles. One of those ads, for Sony’s Xperia line of smartphones, featured a skeletal remix of the original track, stripping it down to just its vocals and adding a […]
I’ll be upfront here. Posting this video is mostly an excuse to get you to listen to “You Got Me Wonderin’ Now,” Parquet Courts’ 100% rad new single. It comes from Tally All the Things That You Broke, their forthcoming EP, which you can stream here, and it is smart and scrappy and catchy and the best […]
Well, this is very strange: Lil Bub, Famous Internet Cat, has a YouTube “talk show,” and her latest guest is Steve Albini. They “talk” about miracles, comedy, and, of course, music, before Albini gives Bub a tour of Electrical Audio, his studio. Bub says Kelley Deal wants her to produce her next single, and we […]
“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 we’re featuring Jonathan Clancy, an taly-based rocker who makes lean, psychedelic guitar pop as His Clancyness. The playlist, if I do say so, is excellent, digging into Italian bands like Diaframma, […]
No one was prepared for Danny Brown’s XXX, a five-star, perfect ten, best-of-decade contender that instantly became one of my favorite records ever. Coming off eight full-length mixtapes and one LP, Danny Brown achieved something he’d aimed toward his entire career, yet for a mainstream audience, XXX was the perfect debut. He has two separate […]
Kids songs suck… But not when they’re covered by your favorite musical acts like sort of Grimes, Vampire Weekend and Danny Brown! That’s why ANIMAL made you this… “Indie Kidz Songs” — the best music compilation for kids OF ALL TIME [recently] featuring timeless children’s classics covered by very cool indie rock bands, hip rappers and […]
Major album releases typically have long and involved promotional hype cycles–by the time an LP drops, there may be a long enough list of rumored songs and collaborators to make an entire other album. And the best way to keep up with these rumors and loose reporting is to look at Wikipedia. Drake’s Nothing Was […]
“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 the California punk band Audacity, who put together a mix heavy on raggedy, melodic three-chord rock, along with head-fakes into ’70s R&B by the way of Danny Pearson’s […]
