JEFF The Brotherhood played at the Tiny Desk today at the NPR Music offices. It was loud and completely awesome. One of the songs they played was “Bone Jam” from Heavy Days. After it was over I went to find the song on YouTube and found this no-budget video. I love this video because it’s [...]

All year The Flaming Lips have been releasing special edition, hard to find collaborative EPs with like-minded artists like Neon Indian, Prefuse 73 and now Lightning Bolt. Songs have mostly surfaced in the form of YouTube rips because the physical copies get gobbled up pretty fast by some lucky so and so’s. Hopefully at some [...]

Wilco’s new album The Whole Love is already assured to be among my favorite albums of the year, but it’s also the band’s best since A Ghost Is Born, if not Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. It’s also the first record on their new label dBpm. The band released a 7″ single this summer to celebrate, with [...]

This year the arty noise rockers Deerhoof have been releasing a series of collaborative singles — on which different vocalists sing on instrumentals from their 2011 album Deerhoof Vs. Evil. The latest 7″, “Behold a Raccoon in the Darkness”, features Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy singing over the instrumental for Deerhoof’s track “Behold a Marvel in the [...]