Tag / Indie Rock

by The Labelettes

Sharon Van Etten’s new album, Remind Me Tomorrow, is out today!

Remind Me Tomorrow, Sharon Van Etten’s first new album in almost five years, is out today!

Last night, Sharon Van Etten returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live! to perform songs off Remind Me Tomorrow, “an album of hope, intimacy and perseverance” (New York Times), out today via Jagjaguwar/Rhythmethod. 

Joined by a full band for her first television appearance in support of Remind Me Tomorrow, Van Etten presented a fiery performance of ‘Seventeen,’ as well as a gorgeous rendition of new song, ‘You Shadow,’ as a web-exclusive. 

Following singles; ‘Comeback Kid,’ ‘Jupiter 4,’ and ‘Seventeen,’  ‘You Shadow’ is now available on the new album Remind Me Tomorrow. 

Watch Sharon Van Etten Perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

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by The Labelettes

Deerhunter – Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? OUT NOW

How do you describe an album out of time, concerned with the disappearance of culture, of humanity, of nature,
of logic and emotion? Why make this album in an era when attention spans have been reduced to next to nothing,
and the tactile grains of making music have been further reduced to algorithms and projected playlist placement.
Why wake up in the morning? Why hasn’t everything already disappeared?

Deerhunter’s eighth LP forgets the questions and makes up unrelated answers. It gets up, walks around, it records
itself in several strategic geographic points across North America. It comes home, restructures itself and goes back
to bed to avoid the bad news.

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by The Labelettes

Sharon Van Etten Releases Video For New Single, ‘Seventeen’

The release of Sharon Van Etten’s much-anticipated Remind Me Tomorrow, her first new album in almost five years, is imminent. Leading into its January 18th release on Jagjaguwar, Van Etten is sharing the album’s second official single,’Seventeen,’ and an accompanying video directed by Maureen Towey. ‘Seventeen’ follows the album’s first two released songs,’Comeback Kid’ and ‘Jupiter 4.’ The single, ‘Comeback Kid,’ was named a best song of 2018 by the likes of Pitchfork, Billboard and NPR’s All Songs Considered. Watch the video below:

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by The Labelettes

American Football Share Music Video For ‘Silhouettes’

American Football is proud to share the music video for ‘Silhouettes’, from the forthcoming full-length album,  American Football (LP3) , out March 22nd on Polyvinyl Record Co. Directed by Shawn Brackbill, the video is based on a treatment from the band’s own Mike Kinsella, and follows an undulating modern love story of two lovers as they drift in and out of each other’s lives. Where they ultimately end up is for viewers to interpret. The palpable chemistry and emotion portrayed by the actors in the beautifully shot autumnal footage are surely aided by the fact that the characters are played by the real-life couple of Cale Parks (of the band Aloha) and his partner Kendra Smalter.

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by Lisa Paris

Watch Chad VanGaalen’s beautifully amorphous “Host Body” video from Light Information

Chad VanGaalen has delivered a beautiful, amorphous video for “Host Body,” one of the standouts from Light Information, his acclaimed album of 2017 

Chad VanGaalen’s Light Information is out now worldwide from Sub Pop.

“The theme of the video is paranoia and the illusion of reality. All of the beings in the animation are affected by how they perceive themselves through the internet, or through technological devices they have come in contact with. In this animated take on the song, the ‘parasitic demon’ is the worshiping and addiction of the augmented reality,” VanGaalen says of the new visual, which he animated meticulously over the last four months.

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by Lisa Paris

Yo La Tengo share new song ‘For You Too’

With the release of their much-anticipated new album, There’s a Riot Going On, heading our way on March 16th, Yo La Tengo have shared another taste of what’s to come with new single ‘For You Too’.

It’s an album stand-out track with a hypnotic guitar line, complemented by a low dose of drone and a deceptively upbeat drum patter, as Ira Kaplan sings quiet words of assurance: “For you / whenever there’s hurt / and things are uncertain / Maybe I could be that guy / I’d like to try.”

“Yo La Tengo further play with elements of psychedelia as Ira Kaplan croons sweetly amidst a melange of rich guitar, airy synths, steady bass and the soft patter of drums” – Rolling Stone

“… their most inventive record in a decade” – Uncut (8/10, ‘Album Of The Month’)

“If there’s a riot going on outside, Yo La Tengo are busy exploring an inner space” – MOJO ****

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by Lisa Paris

Shame share new video for ‘Lampoon’

Songs of Praise out now on Dead Oceans/Rhythmethod
Today, youthful British misanthropes Shame share the video for their song ‘Lampoon,’ one of the many highlights off their freshly released debut, Songs of Praise (Dead Oceans). The footage from the video comes from the band’s first North American tour back in November of 2017, surely a moment that remains burned into the memories of anyone lucky enough to have caught them perform.

Watch video for ‘Lampoon’ below.