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Yeasayer’s “Ambling Alp” Video is NSFW, Also TWFW
A sixteen year-old version of ourself would be mighty upset to learn that our favorite part about this Radical Friend-directed clip for Yeasayer’s new single “Ambling Alp” isn’t the herd of naked girls running ...
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The Yummy Fur Reunites! We Had No Idea They Had Broken Up!
Maybe we aren’t so nerdy after all: Scottish band The Yummy Fur will reunite this coming January to play a handful of dates in the UK and the US. The band, whom to be honest, we had never even heard of, featured 1990s singer John ...
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New Bridge School Benefit Comp Opens with Ministry, Closes with Josh Groban
Get your holiday shopping done early, and listen to tunes by Trent Reznor , Death Cab for Cutie , My Morning Jacket , John Mayer , Ministry and Josh Groban , all while supporting those in need: the fourth volume of The Bridge School ...
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Coldplay + A-Ha + Mew: Apparatjik
In a year of supergroups (see: Monsters of Folk , Them Crooked Vultures , the New York Knicks), another band arises from various other musical groups to join the fray: Apparatjik . The bizarrely named band features Coldplay bassist Guy ...
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Xiu Xiu Announce New Album, Dear God, I Hate Myself
Taking a break from his work with Los Campesinos , Jamie Stewart has returned to his own band, Xiu Xiu , and will release a new album with the group this February. Titled Dear God, I Hate Myself and featuring a title track composed ...
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James Murphy Adds Some Rhythm to New Noah Baumbach Flick
Noah Baumbach (of The Squid and the Whale and Kicking and Screaming fame) has a new movie coming out . James Murphy’s “All of My Friends” serves as the soundtrack to said film’s trailer. Said trailer promises ...
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Neil Young Does The Best Thing You Will See Today
Every now and then we get frustrated with the Internet. It freezes or it spams our work e-mail or becomes overrun by pictures of cats dressed as people or something. But then it gives us a video like this that we realize never would have made its ...
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Joanna Newsom Models for Armani, Also Records New Album
Joanna Newsom has recently finished working on her forthcoming album, wrapping up recording in Tokyo with collaborator Jim O’Rourke. As to the album’s release date, no one knows, but in the meantime Newsom is keeping busy modeling ...
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Spoon to Feed You Earlier Than Anticipated
Photo: Autumn DeWilde
Be advised: Spoon will be invading your headphones slightly earlier than anticipated, having moved up the release date of its forthcoming album, Transference , to January 19 from its original end-of-January release ...
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50 Cent’s Line of Supercondoms Doomed By Silly Scientific Testing
50 Cent has made so many generic club anthems and contrived diss records over the past few years it’s easy to forget his other go-to formula: creepy sex jams. (Like this one! ) Therefore, the fact that his idea to start a safe sex ...
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The Strokes Planning To Record New Album In January and We Believe Them
Via his Twitter , bassist Nikolai Fraiture said that he and his fellow Strokes are planning to settle into the recording process for their fourth full-length in January. As is the custom, he wrote very briefly:
While the guys are in LA, I ...
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Massive Attack Unveils New Album
Trip hop pioneers Massive Attack will release a new album , titled Heligoland , on February 8. The album will feature guest vocals from Damon Albarn , TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, and Elbow’s Guy Garvey, along with ...
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Tweet Release: Animal Collective’s Fall Be Kind EP
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It’s possible that over the past several weeks you’ve noticed the reviews slow to a trickle around these parts. We had our reasons! Cookies weren’t involved! Okay, maybe they were! All of us at ...
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Watch My Morning Jacket Do Fox’s American Dad
We’ve been a bit torn on this one since it was announced. One the one hand, we’re totally for quality indie bands getting as much love on mainstream TV shows as humanly possible. Come to think of it, we heard a couple Matt ...
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Small Black Decorated Our Kitchen With Jams
Up-and-coming Brooklyn chillwavers/lo-fi lovermen/argh Small Black came through our kitchen on a recent and rainy Saturday with pans already in hand. They uh, sauteed “Despicable Dogs” and brought “Pleasant ...
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Chief – Mighty Proud
“Mighty Proud” totally sounds like a phrase our dad would use on our voicemail after he read a post we wrote on a band he’d never heard of. Just like this one! But this actually ends up being a sort of apt connection, as our ...
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Spencer Krug Works More Than Our Dad
And our Dad was never at any of our soccer games, never really around. If he was, that dude was on the phone or checking his pager every few minutes. Spencer Krug, the handsome maniac whose handsome melodies motor Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown ...
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Atlas Sound’s Takeaway Show Is Really Good
It seems unusual that after a half hour of intense Googling, we were able to verify that this video of Bradford Cox strumming his way through the haunting “Attic Lights,” has not yet set the Web aflame. It’s been out in ...
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Taylor Swift Wins Big Award, World Can Finally Stop Apologizing For Rapper Being Big Bully
Taylor Swift won the American Music Awards artist of the year trophy last night (as well as four other awards), marking a rare example of a make-up call from a previous award show in which she… also won an important award. Now that this ...
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Japandroids Like Fireworks
They’ve also just melted our brains with new track “Press Corp”. It’s below and it uh, just might be better than anything they’ve released to date.
Japandroids, Press Corps
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Them Crooked Vultures Already Talking LP2
So it’s been thirteen days since Them Crooked Vultures streamed their new record in its entirety on YouTube . For those not into the free music thing, their self-titled debut was released in shops both digital and physical last week as well. ...
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Roots & David Byrne Join Dirty Projectors On Stage in NYC
It’s good to be Dave Longstreth these days. Just in case being profiled by New York Magazine as a symbolic representation of Brooklyn’s musical creativity and putting out one of the most interesting indie rock albums to come out ...
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Tweet Release: Real Estate
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It’s possible that over the past several weeks you’ve noticed the reviews slow to a trickle around these parts. We had our reasons! Cookies weren’t involved! Okay, maybe they were! All of us at Tripwire HQ are ...
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Hip-Hop Still Has Love For Grizzly Bear In Wake Of Ed Droste’s Twitter Suicide
Sure, it’s great to get the Jay-Z stamp of approval, but Jay lives in a penthouse in Tribeca or something (in our mind dude has like 18 houses- recession be damned). The man isn’t exactly down with the underground anymore.
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Newly Discovered Neutral Milk Hotel Videos Make Us Very Happy/Sad
Merge just put out some videos from a Neutral Milk Hotel show at the old Knitting Factory in 1998 in conjunction with the reissue of In The Aeroplane Over The Sea on 180-gram vinyl. They’re good quality and certainly showcase the ...
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Jason Segel Joins Swell Season On Stage, Does That Creepy Thing We Love
When The Swell Season played LA’s Wiltern Theater Wednesday night, Apatow acolyte and our favorite lug Jason Segel, took over the piano bench for a song he penned himself. After watching a few dozen times, we’d be down for a ...
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Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson: Life As A Movie
Story by Adam Daniels
Photography by Dorothy Hong
“Do you need a drink?”
”Yes, I need four double whiskeys and four PBRs.”
It was Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson’s record release show at ...
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Pablove Across America Vlog, Part 1
We’re very jazzed to inform you that we linked up with Dangerbird Records co-founder Jeff Castelaz recently, just as he was riding his bike across the country to raise funds for the Pablove Foundation . Along the way, Jeff recorded ...
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Spoon Tours, Tests Transference Songs Out On You
Photo: Autumn DeWilde
Have you seen Spoon live? They’re crisp, like say, a delicious pastry. They are absolutely not one of those bands who anyone could ever accuse of “studio magic” because their sets beautifully recreate ...
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Pixies Playing Jimmy Fallon, Will Play What You Tweet
The Pixies are currently in the throes of the North American leg of their Doolittle tour, a wormhole of a trek we’ve been quick to spill much digi-ink over in these parts recently. Via an e-mail from the band’s publicist, ...
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Jelly Pool Parties In Danger, Seeking New Home
Make all the Williamsburg hipster jokes you want, but there have been few sweeter deals in recent memory than the Jelly Pool Parties. They’ve resided in parks within Brooklyn’s music mecca for a half-decade now, but are in jeopardy ...
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Beach House – Norway
At the beginning of “Norway”, the new single from Baltimore’s Beach House, there’s a hint of the second-hand organ that dominated most of their self-titled debut. But then they come crashing in with pristine, breathy ...
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Feast On Animal Collective’s New Jam “Graze”
In just a few days, on November 23rd, there will be a new Animal Collective release upon us. And although we’ve only heard snippets of the Fall Be Kind EP in all it’s polyphonic glory, we’d like to think that the sparkle ...
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Kristin Stewart Loves Bon Iver Too
What do you think the chances are that Robert Pattinson wooed Kristen Stewart with a Bon Iver-powered mixtape? Or wait. MAYBE IT WAS THE OTHER WAY AROUND, YOU GUYS.
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Amy Winehouse’s Boobs Were Leaking
Pre-enhancement/leak.
On Monday morning, we reported that pop seamstress Amy Winehouse had taken a quick trip to the hospital after an unfortunate collision between some cold and prescription medications she was taking at the time. ...
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Lissie Played Our Fireplace
If you’re one of the 42 million people that have fallen in love with our recent Hotbox at the Levi’s/FADER Fort video series, it’s possible you’ve forgotten (or never knew) that we used to film bands letting loose in ...
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Watch Vampire Weekend Throw an Alley Party
For their punked-out new single “Cousins,” the men of Vampy Weeks shot an equally frenetic clip in a city alley. The Garth Jennings-directed clip is above, the single’s out digitally right now and on vinyl December 7th ...
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Alice In Chains Announce North American Tour
Recently reunited grunge godfathers Alice in Chains have been making a go at the Billboard charts in the past few weeks behind their new album Black Gives Way To Blue , the comeback effort entering at No. 5 when it dropped a few weeks ...
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Wavves Recruits Former Jay Reatards
You may remember reading about the Twitter-riffic dissolution of Jay Reatard’s band a few weeks back or even about the time he asked the Cola Freaks to join him shortly after that. Though we heard whispers about this in a bar late ...
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The Velvet Underground To Reunite
Put this down in your calendars as the most epic event to ever occur in December: former Velvet Underground members Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker and Doug Yule will appear together at the New York Public Library on December 8, along with ...
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Krist Novoselic Still Loves Dave Grohl
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In an article for the Seattle Weekly titled “How I Met Dave Grohl, the Biggest Guy in Rock and Roll,” former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic waxes poetic about ...
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Girls – “Heartbreaker” on 89.3 The Current
When a band drops an unreleased jam on Minnesota public radio, chances are most people outside of the Twin Cities won’t really catch on. But when that band is Girls, chances are most people outside of the Twin Cities will be trying to ...
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Haiku Review: John Mayer @ The Beacon Theater, NYC
Photography by Stacey Fuller
Haiku by Andy Cohn
john rocks the beacon
Guitar face in full effect
Had his own napkins
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David Lynch Digs on Meditation, Making Film About Beatles’ Guru Maharishi Mahesh
In an interview that went live on New York Magazine’s Vulture blog late yesterday, film director (and Tripwire fave) David Lynch revealed that his next project will be a documentary-style look at famed guru Maharishi Mahesh. If for ...
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Shearwater to Release New Album in February
What do the Migration Act of 1958, images of indigenous peoples, ponies, cloudy mountainsides, and crashing waves have in common? They all feature prominently in the promotional video for Shearwater ’s forthcoming album, titled The ...
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Tripwire Video Premiere: Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car”
If you’ve heard anything from the San Francisco’s Dominant Legs , then you too are probably rediscovering that itch for Tracy Chapman and the heart massage her vocals proffer. While some kids are turning to muddy guitar riffs ...
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King Khan and BBQ Show Issue Statement About Those Shrooms
Having been strapped pretty tightly to our seats during the King Khan and BBQ’d Shrooms saga this week, we ‘d feel remiss if we didn’t inform you of the band’s recent statement, one they issued just after the ...
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Brian Jonestown Massacre Unveil New Album Release Date, Remind You They Put Out An EP This Year
Via the band’s website , Anton Newcombe’s BJM vehicle has announced a date for the forthcoming New Year’s Day release of Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? Judging by that title, it will probably sound like something you’ve ...
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NME Takes New York Mag’s New York Music 2009 Cover Story and Raises Them New York Music Circa 2001
We can’t imagine the folks over at NME altogether hated New York Magazine’s current cover story detailing how New York once again became an epicenter of musical creativity (hint: use rent prices to force nearly every struggling ...
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The Uptown: Minneapolis Music Landmark Demolished Today
The Uptown Bar, once deemed “The House The Replacements Built”, was piled into the ground with a wrecking ball earlier today. City Pages has some photos of the desruction. The venue, which was sold earleir this year, hosted a ...
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