Signs for Boring, Oregon don't exactly distill excitement upon the casual passerby—it's a rather unfortunate namesake, one that is so odd it's hard not to wonder whether the whole town is just a joke in the first place, good for a few laughs and perfect for "instagramming." But Boring is in fact, a very real place, and recently it was anything but… boring. Our sponsor, vitaminwater, is on a mission to #MakeBoringBriliant in 2013. They started with a musical transformation of Boring, Oregon that featured...
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Clair Boucher, otherwise known as Grimes, posted a video on her Tumblr yesterday that features "Venus in Fleurs", off of her debut album Geidi Primes, accompanied by an assortment of clips taken at the Reifel Bird Sanctuary in British Columbia. While Grimes typically has a hand in the creation of her videos, the panning shots and close-ups in "Venus in Fluers" were blended together by Video Marsh, who has also created videos for Caribou, Crystal Castles and Shlohmo. Throughout the video Boucher's icy voice...
Reworking MS MR's gem "Hurricane" into an 80's dance party is a welcomed, yet unexpected surprise. The swooning New Yorkers initially kept their visual imagery under wraps, opt for the route of enigmatic anonymity over public gratification nearly a year ago, but have since exposed themselves in...
This morning Kevin Parker and his group Tame Impala were featured on the Australian radio station Triple J as apart of their ongoing series "Like a Version". One of the series' features is artists covering some of their favorite songs in innovative ways. While Tame Impala started the show with...
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Chiming in at thirty-five minutes, Beacon's debut album The Ways We Separate is both an intellectual and visceral accompaniment to the hazier days. Spanning the extremes of hollow textures and weighted bass lines, Thomas Mullarney III and Jacob Gossett's new album showcases a fully developed...
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While indie electronic newcomers Iyes initially gained attention with their spacey and lyrical dream pop, it turns out that when their beats stand alone they shine as progressive and bliss-filled electronica. The Brighton, UK duo's newest song, "Daddy" meshes organic rhythmic patterns, ambient...
The Angolan-born and Brazilian-raised N.D.M.A has been on quite a roll over the past few months! Now based in Ottawa, Canada, he has caught the attention of many supporters with his unique blend of hip-hop, electro and indie influences to create a hodge-podge sound that draws the most unlikely...
Don't let the name fool you: Santa Barbara's FMLY BND hardly sound like any family band that you've heard before. Is it the synths? The genre-bending hooks? Trance-inducing gang vocals? It's probably a little bit of all of those things. FMLYBND's music, their photos and videos (their brand, if...
