DFA1979

Lollapalooza last year (more by Josh Darr) Lollapalooza celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with some huge names on its just-announced lineup…

“While it was kind of a running joke that the gnarled dance-punk band was one of the biggest reunions at this year’s Coachella (Death From Above 2005 jokes abounded), the band reasserted what made them such a strange and compelling commodity in the first place…

Death From Above 1979 did in fact play a 1am SXSW show on Saturday night, and it happened at Beauty Bar. Things got a little chaotic though thanks to the venue being small and there being an alley in the back where people could watch/listen from behind a fence…

The recently reunited Death from Above 1979 have posted rehearsal footage of “Little Girl” from their LP You’re a Woman I’m a Machine. While that’s fascinating enough, what’s more fascinating is the way that video ends…

Big names and regulars aside, there are a few bands I want to highlight on the just-announced Sasquatch lineup: Wolf Parade (“indefinite hiatus” rumors be damned), The Flaming Lips (performing “The Soft Bulletin”), Death From Above 1979 (now three reunion shows total), Guided By Voices (they’re not done yet), and…

Sebastien Grainger @ Mercury Lounge in 2008 (more by Gabi Porter)FEBRUARY 4TH, 2011 SOME WORDS It’s been 5 years since Death From Above 1979 played a show, 10 years since Jesse played me the first demos & 11 years since we sat in his parents basement and played so loud we knocked the china off the shelves upstairs…

Gogol Bordello @ Irving Plaza (more by Jefferson) The second edition of this controversial new feature is back. “It’s Not Selling Out Anymore” (or is it…

Once it’s out there, there’s no turning back — and that’s a good thing for Sebastien Grainger & the Mountains. The band has been touring extensively for the past two years with, as Grainger says, “very little material out there…

“I was like, ‘this is a fucking heavy record’.” Sebastien Grainger @ Osheaga – Aug 3, 2008 (crazytvdreams) Sebastien Grainger, Canadian drummer and vocalist of the too short-lived DFA79 (not to be confused with France’s Sebastien Tellier who just came through NYC last week), has emerged since the duo’s split with an upcoming Saddle Creek record…

DOWNLOAD: Justice – D.A.N.C.E (mstrkrft REMIX) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Death From Above 1979 – Sexy Results (MSTRKRFT Edition) (MP3) “it seems like kids are actually buyin this fake shit” MSTRKRFT (CRED) I found this while researching the other JFK/MSTRKFRFT post we just did…