Viola Cangi Photography

Gorgeous vintage photography from Perugia based Viola Cangi

Cosmo V - With the wild beasts

Just got this nice tip from my friend Jessie Bakker, Cosmo V Utrecht dream pop lo-fi girl with some sweet addictive dark groves that would perfectly fit the whole "Witch House" sub-genre lovers, perhaps for fans of Salem and Zola Jesus etc ...

Thurston Moore, Blogotheque A Take Away Show

One of my mega music heroes ♥ Thurston Moore ♥ has a new album popping out and his the guest on the latest superrrrrrr series blogotheque and The Take Away Shows.

Watch | Thurston Moore, A Take Away Show

Beach Fossils - Adversity video

Trippy new music video from Brooklyn indie rockers Beach Fossils, "Adversity" is taken from the 2011 EP "What A Pleasure" out Captured Tracks.

Watch | Beach Fossils - Adversity

Sealings - King video

Fresh new Brighton based Sealings music video ... dark lo-fi garage with a post-punk taste ... taken from the Cassette EP "Light Blue" out on Italian Beach Babes.

Watch | Sealings - King Shot

free split ep with Lois Magic

Waiting For Something - a short documentary about Jay Reatard

Goner Records has released the reissue of Jay Reatard first band the Reatards lp Teenage Hate , The Memphis lo-fi garage punk cult hero died last year at the age of 29.

Mp3 | Reatards - Stacye
Watch | Waiting For Something Jay Reatard

Firewall of Sound Documentary Trailer

"The film is an in-depth look at the independent music industry in a state of transition, with the internet acting as both a blessing and a curse to musicians and label executives. While fans eagerly await the latest leaked album from their favorite artist or the newest amateur concert footage to appear on YouTube, people in the industry are scrambling to figure out how to turn any sort of profit." Firewall of Sound

Watch | Firewall of Sound Trailer

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - On Welfare

I guess in past few weeks i've been saying a lot this is one of the most mind-blowing releases you gonna be lucky to listen this year, its a fact that there is something really astonishing happening in music these days, the best is its not from here or there but from everywhere and not about big rock starts or even big budget recordings but all about the small bands that with the help of the Internet, music blog and the current love for psychedelic garage rock music make this a global explosion of awesome independent music !!!!

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete is the new name you can add to the multiplication of the mega awesomeness South American bands, hailing from Guadalajara, Mexico and with a collection of psychedelic rock anthems filled with lo-+fi garage blasts, serious mind-cracking landscapes, like a warm fuzzy South American road trip where a army of cactus raise and march into the beats of Lorelle Meets The Obsolete and make the ground shake all the way from Guadalajara, Mexico into Haarlem North Holland ... I guess you get the point, its freaking stunning !!!!!!!

Anton Corbijn - Inwards and Onwards

Anton Corbijn - inwards and onwards
Photography Museum Amsterdam
23 June - 1 September 2011

"Foam is proud to present Anton Corbijn's most recent photographic project. In it he has aimed the camera at a few of his favorite artists, including Gerhard Richter, Alexander McQueen, Richard Prince, Iggy Pop, Anselm Kiefer, Damien Hirst, Tom Waits, Peter Doig, Bruce Springsteen, Lucian Freud and Karel Appel.

Corbijn's love for the musical and creative spirit is already well known. Collaborating on a short film (Some YoYo Stuff, 1993) with artist Don van Vliet - also known as Captain Beefheart - made his appreciation for the painter clear. This probably also had to do with the fact that his grandfather was a painter. The project strippinggirls which he produced with Marlene Dumas in 2000 also had an influence on his interest in the painter.

Anton Corbijn is interested in how artists struggle with the creative process: the pain and the drama of the act of creation. His monumental black-and-white portraits blend austerity and aesthetics and attract attention because of the deliberate and exacting way they capture the character of the person being portrayed. The work shows Corbijn's concentrated gaze, his feeling for wonder and his ability to empathize with another." Foam

Lantern - Stranger I Come, Stranger I Leave

Lantern is a awesome fuzz trio from Philadelphia and their new banger cassette on Night People is a absolute stunner, "Stranger I Come, Stranger I Leave" is a powerful dirty blues, rock n roll with a twisted psychedelic rock touch and the punk attitude, trash sonic bass, swinging guitar riffs, vocals back from the grave a real garage blizzard masterpiece where you can fell The Sonics, The Cramps and Bo Diddley as some of their influences, certainly some of the most cracking tunes from this year.

Listen | Lantern – I Don’t Know
Listen | Lantern - Get Out of My Mind
Listen | Lantern – Stranger I Come. Stranger I Leave.

The lantern video Crude Vessels is taken from the first tape "Deliver Me From Nowhere" and directed by Jacqueline Lachance and Alex Zhang Hungtai (Dirty Beaches)

Watch | Lantern - Crude Vessels

Dirty Beaches Alex Zhang Hungtai

Taiwan born and Montreal based Alex Zhang Hungtai the man behind the stunning one band man Dirty Beaches as been a very busy man, lo-fi rockabilly "Badlands" acclaimed debut album on 2011 plus a couple of collaborations and a new dub side project, all seriously good !!!

Amazing cover from the Stooges song "No Fun" with the ghostly lo-fi trademark from Dirty Beaches out on Italian Beach Babes

Listen | Dirty Beaches - No Fun (Stooges Cover)

Collaboration on bass with the super cool Canadian band Latern on the dirty blues rock n roll American Razorwire EP

Listen | American Razorwire EP

Street Beat Dub a experimental avant-garde hypnotic lo-fi dubalicious demo with Matt Koshak in Bushwick, NY. Featuring Sandy Vu from the Dum Dum Girls on drums.

Listen | Street Beat dub (demo)

Still fresh new music video from Golden Desert Sun

Watch | Dirty Beaches - Golden Desert Sun

Dirty Beaches in Amsterdam 15 July Sleazefest and 16 July De Nieuw Anita

Thomas Blanchard - PI

Wonderful slow motion bmx video by French director Thomas Blanchard

Watch | Thomas Blanchard - PI

Kellies - Perro Rompebolas

Its obvious that i missed something here but its never to late to fix a mistake, just discovered this mega cool South American girl trio, Kellies are from Buenos Aires Argentina and make super cool sounds that goes from super sonic garage punk to psychedelic post-punk. They have a third album popping up on the UK label Fire Records.
They are currently touring Europe and have a couple of shows left so catch them if u can !!!!!!

Watch | Kellies - Perro Rompebolas
Listen | Kellies - Kalimera in Gesell

10/06/2011 Leipzig - Zoro w/ Chain and the Gang
11/06/2011 Metz - Les Trinitaires w/ Wad Billys
14/06/2011 London - White Heat / Madame Jojo's
17/06/2011 Leeds - Brudenell Social Club
18/06/2011 Exeter - Cavern
22/06/2011 Bordeaux - Saint Ex w/ Los Explosivos
23/06/2011 Guethary - Guethary (+ DJ set)
29/06/2011 Madrid - Nasti Club
02/07/2011 Barcelona - Razz Club
06/07/2011 Zagreb - Spunk (free entry)
07/07/2011 Vienna - Fluc (free entry)
08/07/2011 Bratislava - Pohoda Festival
09/07/2011 Toulon - Rockorama Festival

Best Coast - Gone Again Video

Brand new super cool Best Coast music video. Best Coast at Tolhuistuin (Amsterdam) 25 Aug

Watch | Best Coast - Gone Again

Cass McCombs - County Line

New music video by Cass McCombs, "County Line" is taken from the new album "Wit's End" out on Domino.

Watch | Cass McCombs - County Line

Niall O'Brien Photography

"Born in Dublin in 1979, Irish photographer and filmmaker Niall O'Brien studied fine art photography in the renowned Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology.

He has exhibited at a number of Irish and English shows and has many awards to his name, including the Irish Professional Photographer's Association Rex Roberts Medal and two main categories in the ICI Photographer of the Year Award. In October 2008 Niall was accepted into the top 20 portfolios in the International Portfolio Review, Bratislava. He continues to exhibit throughout Europe.

His commissioned work is of a gritty, contemporary style, which seamlessly blurs the boundaries between the conceptual and the aesthetic. His growing collection of intimate portraits concentrates on unusual subjects with whom Niall develops a close working relationship. Niall's long-term project "Superheroes" came from a film which he made in 2006 and has been an on-going documentary about adolescence and desire."

Watch | Superheroes

Woods - Sun and Shade

Amazing Woods new album that is available for a full stream on soundcloud.
Psy-kraut, folk-drone, trippy percussions, a real épic mind gazzer, if you wanna fell some of that summer of love tune into this. "Sun and Shade" is out on Woodsist Records.

Listen | Woods - Sun and Shade

Plateaus - Suzy

California's Plateaus are riding the joys of the super 7" debut on Art fag, this is their found images video for the track Suzy, the Ep Beach Coma is a cool lo-fi garage/punk and the self title Beach Coma also swell.

Watch | Plateaus - Suzy
Listen | Plateaus - Beach Coma

We Are Trees - Girlfriend

New Ep from Virginia Beach duo We Are Trees formed by James Nee and Josiah Schlater, "Girlfriend" is a delicious 4 indie songs release that will please fans of Grizzly Bear and Deerhunter. "Girlfriend" is out on Collective Crowd Records.

Indian Wars - Walk Around The Park

Vancouver's Indian Wars is another name to stick it up in a high place, i haven't heard the full album yet but by the quality of the tunes available a bit everywhere on the web i would say its gonna join the beautiful ranks of this incredible garage rock year that has everything to do with the small bands and the DIY sounds. "Walk Around the Park" is out 21 June via Bachelor Records. Either way just for this tunes one of best happy surprises of 2011 for sure.

Listen | Indian Wars - Took a Trip
Listen | Indian Wars – Carol Anne
Listen | Indian Wars - Bullfrog
Listen | Indian Wars – 8 Feet High

Tropic of Cancer - A Color

Tropic of Cancer is the project from California based duo Juan Mendez and Camella Lobo, the video is a experimental psychedelic trip and the sounds hauntingly beautiful dreamgaze soundscape. "A Color" is taken from their recent lp "The Sorrow of Two Blooms" out on Blackest Ever Black.

If you like this i suggest you to check the new Belong album "Common Era" that is in my opinion the best 2011 album and as everything to do with the dronegaze/minimal wave wonderland.

Watch | Tropic of Cancer - A Color

Colours - Sundown

Music video from Australian dream pop shoegaze that goes by the name of Colours free single here

Watch | Colours - Sundown

Alexia Rasmussen by Drew Innis

Director, Photographer and Filmmaker Drew Innis catches up with Alexia Rasmussen for a photoshot in Cannes

Youth Lagoon - Cannons

Music video from bedroom popper Idaho Boise-based Trevor Powers aka Youth Lagoon. "Cannons" is taken from the upcoming debut album "The Year Of Hibernation" out next July on Juno Beach Records. Free Ep here

Watch | Youth Lagoon - Cannons

The Notes - Wishing Well 2010

A very nice release from last year that i missed, London The Notes make catchy C86 reminiscent sounds mixed with today's lo-fi garage and surf vibes.
"Wishing Well" was released on Bleeding Gold Records.

Bachelorette - Polarity Party music video

New music video from psy-pop Annabel Alpers aka Bachelorette New Zealand-born, USA-based one band girl, "Polarity Party" is taken from the self tittled album out on Drag city

Watch | Bachelorette - Polarity Party

Bachelorette in Amsterdam 18 June @ North by Northwest Film Festival
Subbacultcha! Presents:
Star Slinger (UK) + Bachelorette (NZ) + The Moi Non Plus vs Eraserhead

Shannon and the Clams - Sleep Talk

New music video from Shannon and the Clams , "Sleep Talk" is taken from the album "Sleep Talk" out on 1-2-3-4 Go! Records.

Watch | Shannon and the Clams - Sleep Talk

Los Vigilantes - Ven Vamos

I was thinking on the other day that South American garage bands make it sound hotter, the first time i saw this video i just felt like drinking a shot of Tequila and make our little home ritual and scream bang bang bang Tequila !!!!

"Ven Vamos" is the music video taken from the debut self-titled lp on Slovenly from this super cool gang from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Los Vigilantes make the perfect garage-punk soundz with the distinctive South American 60's taste and the album is a real wonder from beginning to end where is difficult to say witch one is the best cause they are all so good, real bangers for a super hot summer with a Caribbean rock n roll delinquent flavor, leave the beer tap running and lets go party with another slovenly super release.

Watch | Los Vigilantes - Ven Vamos

Los Vigilantes are gonna be in Europe after the summer so stay tuned !!!

Gabriela Villarreal Abstract Painter

Just few days was thinking that its getting difficult to find really good Abstract Expressionism paintings, my luck just changed last Saturday when i bumped into this supra-sumo by Mexican painter Gabriela Villarreal in the Kanis art gallery in Haarlem ... it was the rush of love at first look.

Fungi Girls - Some Easy Magic

Cleburne, Texas garage psychedelic trio Fungi Girls with a surf roll taste are set to release their new album, "Some Easy Magic" is going to be released in a couple of weeks on Hozac and two tracks are available already to pre-enjoy.

Black Lips - Behind The Scenes

Priceless Black Lips behind the scenes with a taste of their smashing live performances. First episode of the new live/interview Pitchfork hybrid series.

Watch | Black Lips - Behind The Scenes

50 Years - Amnesty International

"Prague based world-renowned international motion art production company Eallin has produced a beautiful animated video for Amnesty International to celebrate its 50th anniversary of working to protect human rights. Directed by Carlos Lascano, this emotive piece of work takes us on a metaphorical journey showing mankind's struggle for freedom over the last half century. Music was contributed by Academy Award winning composer Hans Zimmer and Academy Award nominee Lorne Balfe."

Longboard Girls Crew - Carving the Mountains in Madrid

Carving the Mountains from Juan Rayos on Vimeo.

Madrid long board girl team strike again and this time they leave the city and head to the mountain ... :)

Peaches - Turn It On (Franz Ferdinand Cover) video

The first video taken from the Franz Ferdinand Covers EP

Watch | Peaches - Turn It On (Franz Ferdinand Cover)

Outside In trailer

"OUTSIDE IN is a celebratory and historical look at street art through the lens of the Museum of Contemporary Art's groundbreaking exhibition Art in the Streets. The film features renowned artists Shepard Fairey, Lee Quiñones, Swoon, Futura, Mister Cartoon, Revok, Martha Cooper, Invader to name a few. Director Alex Stapleton (Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel) documents the artist's creative process, their pitfalls with the law, the poetic impermanence of their craft and the artists' evolution from the back seat of a cop car to the walls of a well-respected institution."

Watch | Outside In trailer

Zack Christ - Lucky Pork / Far East Side

For the past few month i've deep down the noisy garage hole and lo-fi sounds and was quite disconnected from the electronic music world, this week i was caught by surprise with the debut Ep from the Danish producer Zack Christ that is dubbed as post-dubstep or beats but in reality is something much more surprising and interesting, it was obvious that the whole dubstep army at some point was going to mutate into IDM, Broken Beat and Glitch.

I never thought i would see a day where i would listen to something that would get just for a tiny similarity to one of my all time favorite albums, 2007 Vladislav Delay "Whistleblower" the dub glitch infused techno minimalistic micro abstract orgasms.

Lucky Pork / Far East Side as all in it but with a hip pop beats school that makes it more muscled but its a wide open window to one of my favorite music genres "Glitch", the only possible way to explain this is fire crackers in the ski falling in slow motion or Jackson Pollock dripping masterpieces.

So the question is, is a Vladislav Delay successor found ?? judge it for your self and whatever the answer is this is one of the most sublime electronic releases i heard in a lonnnnnng time.

Zack Christ - Lucky Pork / Far East Side by Moodgadget

Listen | Vladislav Delay Selected Tracks

The Band in Heaven - Demos

The Band in Heaven are a noise trio from Orlando that makes minimalistic but intense raw wall of shoegaze sounds that could be almost a borderline with the running lo-fi dream pop with a super bass reverb and sweet distortion to make it even more heavenly as the band name suggests, all this to say that they have quite a unique sound that ranges a whole-lot of influences but all very well measured. Certainly a catch for any Jesus and Mary Chain or My Bloody Valentine

Summer Bummer, and Suicide Pact are absolute stunner's in this super cool collection of demos.