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New Goldfrapp Video - "Happiness"

Happiness is a guy pogoing down the street in white formalwear. With legs where the pogo stick should be. Will and Alison took some chances with the smoothed and yes happy new record, and it hasn't been to everyone's liking...  CONTINUE READING NEW GOLDFRAPP VIDEO - "HAPPINESS"»

Posted on April 2, 2008 in (3 comments)
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Last Of Our SXSW Videos, Promise: Evangelicals, High Places, Yeasayer

SXSW is way over, and we have no intention of posting about it anymore. Except for oh yeah this last splurge of live videos that never made it onto these pages last week. The final crumbs from our SXSW '08...  CONTINUE READING LAST OF OUR SXSW VIDEOS, PROMISE: EVANGELICALS, HIGH PLACES, YEASAYER»

Posted on March 25, 2008 in (12 comments)
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SXSW: Wednesday In Photos

Welcome to our night one photo spread. Every year we forget that we can't be in every place at once ... until we wind up waiting in line for two hours. But at least for last night, the lines were...  CONTINUE READING SXSW: WEDNESDAY IN PHOTOS»

Posted on March 13, 2008 in , (3 comments)
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SXSW: Wednesday Featured Showcases

You don't need us to tell you that if you want to see R.E.M. tonight you should have started lining up at Stubb's two days ago. Also you know how big these SXSW crowds are getting every year. The best...  CONTINUE READING SXSW: WEDNESDAY FEATURED SHOWCASES»

Posted on March 12, 2008 in (2 comments)
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Quit Your Day Job - SXSW Edition: Yeasayer

After I interviewed Yeasayer in November '07, they took off way beyond the low-level buzz the song "2080" was creating at that time. In the last few months, the guys have become key spokespeople for the Brooklyn scene on MTV...  CONTINUE READING QUIT YOUR DAY JOB - SXSW EDITION: YEASAYER»

Posted on March 12, 2008 in , , , (0 comments)
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Yeasayer Do La Blogothèque And Disrupt The Neighbors

Yeasayer know how to rise (and dress) to the occasion. Their national TV debut on the back of All Hour Cymbals was a smash, and amidst offhand comments that they "didn't even know this was supposed to happen tonight," the...  CONTINUE READING YEASAYER DO LA BLOGOTHèQUE AND DISRUPT THE NEIGHBORS»

Posted on March 10, 2008 in (5 comments)
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NY Times Profiles Brooklyn's Experimental (And Stylish) Indie Rockers

Stereogum's tag cloud hovers above The Paper Of Record today, with profiles on Brooklyn alt-rockers in Arts & Leisure and an indie rock dress-up cheat sheet in the Men Styles Magazine. Consider it a print version of the story run...  CONTINUE READING NY TIMES PROFILES BROOKLYN'S EXPERIMENTAL (AND STYLISH) INDIE ROCKERS»

Posted on March 8, 2008 in (47 comments)
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New Yeasayer Video - "Wait For The Summer"

President's Day is becoming a big going away party for Yeasayer. Tomorrow, they're off to conquer Europe with their chants and yearns and hipster-hippie preaching, and already we paused to marvel at their powerful Conan performance. Now we get a...  CONTINUE READING NEW YEASAYER VIDEO - "WAIT FOR THE SUMMER"»

Posted on February 18, 2008 in (7 comments)
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Yeasayer Perform Conan's "Favorite Song In A Long Time"

Yeasayer made the long commute from Brooklyn to 30 Rock on Friday night, coming armed with background singers, new agey mysticism, and let's face it, lots of swagger. "2080"'s the tune they deemed fit for their live national television debut,...  CONTINUE READING YEASAYER PERFORM CONAN'S "FAVORITE SONG IN A LONG TIME"»

Posted on February 18, 2008 in (13 comments)
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New Yeasayer Live Video - "Wait For The Summer"

We'll always remember Yeasayer as the ones who taught us about the post-Kokie's Brooklyn scene and for their jam-tastic, psych-choral live shows. Here the boys are, all the way on the left coast at the Echoplex in L.A., asking us...  CONTINUE READING NEW YEASAYER LIVE VIDEO - "WAIT FOR THE SUMMER"»

Posted on January 28, 2008 in (8 comments)
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MTV On The 2008 Brooklyn Scene

It's no secret that Brooklyn and Manhattan are growing further apart these days, and less of a secret that the increasing divide makes for fun media pieces. The NY Post ran a piece on the schism, nabbing this quote from...  CONTINUE READING MTV ON THE 2008 BROOKLYN SCENE»

Posted on January 11, 2008 in , (51 comments)
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British Experts Predict 2008's Breakouts

If you really had the power of foresight, and its outer limits were the ability to predict next year's breakout music artist, in this fiscal climate it'd be about as lucrative or useful as Isaac's albino-eyeballed painting-predictions about people you...  CONTINUE READING BRITISH EXPERTS PREDICT 2008'S BREAKOUTS»

Posted on December 21, 2007 (47 comments)
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Quit Your Day Job: Yeasayer

This past summer Yeasayer's kid-choired "2080" made a lot of noise, oiling a few hype machines, but the quartet took their sweet old time releasing a proper debut. (I remember researching a piece on the band in July and having...  CONTINUE READING QUIT YOUR DAY JOB: YEASAYER»

Posted on November 7, 2007 in , (4 comments)
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Stereogum Does CMJ: Yeasayer/Alberta Cross/Sam Champion/Foals/A Place To Bury Strangers @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg, Brooklyn 10/18/07 (After The Jump Showcase)

While we were taking in No Age and White Williams, witnessing Deacon's Ballroom-sized dance-tag, and hitting the streets with the W.K., Abbey was representing Stereogum's best interests across the river by hitting the second-best bill on the evening, brought...  CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: YEASAYER/ALBERTA CROSS/SAM CHAMPION/FOALS/A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS @ MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN 10/18/07 (AFTER THE JUMP SHOWCASE)»

Posted on October 19, 2007 in , , (0 comments)
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