Indie

The Flaming Lips & Bon Iver- “Ashes In The Air”

    On Record Store Day 2012, the Flaming Lips will be releasing a collaboration LP, including everyone from Ke$ha from Yoko Ono. The track released today, entitled “Ashes In The Air”, is a collaboration with Bon Iver. Fans of Bon Iver will no doubt love this, definitely a good effort on the part of…

Justice @ Terminal 5, NYC 3/16 Footage

The French electronic/rock music duo, Justice, performed in NYC this weekend.  I was lucky enough to attend the show and witness what I would call a truly amazing concert.  I was very impressed by Justice’s two hour set consisting of a majority the tracks off of their latest album Audio, Video, Disco, and some classics from…

Album Stream: Fun. – “Some Nights”

Now that it has been around a week since the release of fun’s sophomore album, Some Nights, we have heard mixed reviews on the album.  By now everyone knows Fun’s viral single “We Are Young” featuring one of my favorite pop singers, Janelle Monae.  Some Nights may have a lot of autotune, but all I have…

Bon Iver- “Towers” Music Video

Grammy-winning indie band Bon Iver just released a music video for “Towers”, one of my favorites off their sophomore album. As CoS pointed out, the main character seems to be taken from the cover of Led Zeppelin IV, which I thought was really cool. I love seeing new indie bands paying homage to the classics.

Beirut- “Vagabond” Music Video

Beirut is one of my favorite bands of all time. I haven’t done an ‘Indie Bands You Should Know’ on them yet, but I definitely will next weekend (when I don’t have to do a report on a 400 page book I forgot to read). Zach Condon, the voice and songwriter of Beirut, is a…

Indie Bands You Should Know: GROUPLOVE

I hear a lot of different Indie bands with catchy songs on the radio, and every time I hear one I like to give their whole album a listen. It is very rare that one of those bands has a listenable album all the way through; GroupLove is an extreme exception. Not only is their…