Japandroids at Clwb Ifor Bach, 17 May 2012. I took some closeups of the band for the next issue of Zero Core magazine and watched the show afterwards; awesome.
Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner sits down for a 5-10-15-20 interview. Photos by Focus Creeps.
Oneohtrix Point Never offers a beautifully disjointed take on “I Only Have Eyes for You” for artist Doug Aitken’s “Happening” event, which goes down tomorrow at the Hirschorn Museum in Washington, D.C.
Matthew Gray Gubler’s reasons to stay alive
(Source: gublerheaven, via american-slamball)
The Only Place doesn’t just advance Best Coast’s formula; it perfects it. Producer Jon Brion applies a rich coat of shiny sparkle, as is his wont, but his touch complements these songs without threatening to overwhelm them. At 35 minutes, not a second of the album is wasted, even as Cosentino and multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno wind down the proceedings with a nearly five-minute ballad, “Up All Night.”
Beach House’s fourth album, Bloom, is unquestionably a Beach House record, and one that on the surface feels more like a continuation than the product of evolution. That is, until you go back and hear how far this band has truly come.
