Victoria Bergsman is a Swedish songwriter, musician, and vocalist best known for the band The Concretes. She also lent vocals to the insanely catchy Peter Bjorn & John single Young Folks. Her first solo project, Taken by Trees just released an album East of Eden which is a collaboration with Pakistani musicians. National Geographic did a mini-documentary on [...]
Category Archives: Music
BYOC to the Silver Lake Jubilee
May 20, 2010 – 10:27 pm
On paper, the Silver Lake Jubilee looks rad. Forgiving the fact that neither Warpaint nor Local Natives will be there, there are more than 20 local bands in the lineup. There will be art and literary installations by local curators. It’s kid-friendly (children’s village), gardener/hippie-friendly (eco-village with a temporary xeriscape garden) and lush-friendly (two micro [...]
Appropriate Video
May 19, 2010 – 9:49 am
Casiorossi has a new album out, which you can hear on Myspace. Click “Read More” for the new video.
Thoughts on Mos Def’s “The Ecstatic”
May 14, 2010 – 12:03 pm
It’s been almost a year since Mos Def released his latest solo album “The Ecstatic” – a year in which a lot of other records have hit the market. Twelve months in which many new artists have appeared on the scene. 365 days in which the music industry has gone further down the drain. But unlike [...]
Sounds Like
May 13, 2010 – 9:02 am
Cork and Baltic birch are not typically associated with speaker systems. Then again, the Ceramic Speakers released by San Francisco native Joey Roth are hardly typical. Made from untreated materials, the speakers are intended to convey the beauty of ritual by taking on a personal finish through regular use. Whereas conventional speakers kowtow to the [...]
Lena Horne 1917-2010
May 11, 2010 – 2:43 am
Lena Horne was a trailblazer of many firsts- she was the first black woman to sign a major contract with a Hollywood studio, play the Copacabana and sign with a major white band in the late 1930’s. Her success came not solely from her great talent, for surely there were many other black singers with [...]
Beach House at Webster Hall, 5/6/2010
May 10, 2010 – 9:34 am
Beach House has had a better year than most. The past twelve months have seen the band tour the country with Grizzly Bear, sign to the venerable Sub Pop, and release the superb Teen Dream to near universal acclaim. It came as no surprise, then, when the group sold out New York’s Webster Hall well [...]
Controversial M.I.A. Video Banned From YouTube
April 27, 2010 – 8:01 pm
The graphic video for M.I.A.’s most recent single, “Born Free,” prompted its controversial ban by YouTube earlier today due to excessive violence. The unexpected decision to debar the video from what is generally considered a relatively open space for video and image sharing has brought on the circulation of a surge of comments and varying [...]
Video Collage
April 26, 2010 – 8:25 am
I recently came across both of these videos and I thought you all might enjoy them. The first is “Blue Monday” by New Order (ca. 1988). Though I vividly remember the futuristic video for Orgy’s cover of this tune (think lots of white lipstick and weird green lasers), I had never seen the original. The [...]
Sebastien Tellier Look
April 26, 2010 – 8:05 am
Below is the video for Sebastien Tellier’s song Look from his album Sexuality. I think the video is so simple, so sexy, and just so very charming! Click “Read More” for the full video.
