Checkout this new interactive video from Arcade Fire's new record, The Wilderness Downtown. Definitely a unique and orginal new concpet for a music video. At the beginning of the Chris Milk-created video, you'll be asked to enter the house where you were raised. You will need to download Google Chrome to view. http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/
With a new album on the rain and some appearances of late, you would think this is "new"....alas its not, it was during the Badmotorfinger sessions...but its new out in the marketplace...
Sounding like a indie bred Brooklyn music lovers dream, this band is buzzing up a storm and colloborating with the likes of Kid Cudi etc...check em out while there still "New"
Continuing to push boundaries, Dresden Dolls frontwoman Amanda Palmer tackles a musical sacred cow on her new EP, Amanda Palmer Performs the Popular Hits of Radiohead on her Magical Ukelele.
The seven-track offering finds the singer covering "Creep," "High and Dry," and other classic Radiohead songs with minimal instrumentation — often using only her ukelele and her voice. "Exit Music (For a Film)" is the sole exception, movingly performed live on piano with a string quartet. Listen Hear
The best new exciting rumour to hit the music world... No, not a Led Zep reunion... Google Music. The nternet giant will move intp a space dominated by Apple. Can anyone say... "Let's get ready to rumble!!!!'
Altered Zones is the new sister site to Pitchfork that will focus on leftfield pop, experimental, and home-recorded sounds. It will be the "Laverne and Shirley" to their "Happy Days." Launching 7/7/10 www.alteredzones.com.
Passion Pit's cover of the Smashing Pumpkin’s “Tonight, Tonight” comes as the latest (and possibly greatest?) installment of Levi’s Pioneer Sessions Revival Recordings series. Download at www.levispioneersessions.com
