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Dave Pajo home from month-long hospital stay after motorcycle accident
Slint’s Dave Pajo finally returned home over the weekend after suffering a bad leg injury while on his motorcycle that had him in the hospital for over a month. Things continue to be looking good…
Bonnie "Prince" Billy collaborated w/ Watter, playing pop-up shows at NYC bars on Saturday, made a video for RSD single
Bonnie “Prince” Billy (aka Will Oldham) and Watter (mem Grails, Slint) are teaming up as Bonnie Stillwater and will release The Devil Is People next week (4/28) via Termporary Residence …
David Pajo THANKFULLY survives suicide attempt, posted suicide note detailing wife's affair to social media
Slint’s David Pajo (aka Papa M) has apparently attempted suicide, but thankfully has survived. Message boards started to get busy with rumors last night after Pajo posted a suicide note which you can read in full below that claims his wife was having an affair and leaving him, not allowing him to see his children, and that he had no choice but to hang himself…
Tempers made a video, told us their favorite LPs of 2014
NYC goth duo Tempers previously released a few promising singles on Pendu Sound, and they recently teamed up with photographer Bela Borsodi to make an appropriately dark video for one of those songs, “Hell Hotl…
Om and Watter played Le Poisson Rouge (pics & video)
Earlier this year, Sleep and Holy Sons played NYC and now Sleep’s Al Cisneros and Holy Sons’ Emil Amos are on the road with their collaborative psychedelic band Om (which also features Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe aka Lichens live)…
FYF Fest 2014 pics (Slint, The Strokes, Grimes, Future Islands, Phoenix, Boris, Interpol, Murder City Devils, Haim, more)
entire audience appears to be holding its breath, immersed in the British shoegaze band’s ocean of sound. The three guitarists–Neil Halstead, Christian Savill, and Rachel Goswell–are urged on by the warm throb of Nick Chaplin’s bass and the vigorous drumming of Simon Scott…
Flow Fest Day 1: No sleep, no garbage, and no drinking near the stage (pics)
The first day of Flow Festival began with a cruise around the Helsinki archipelago. The folks at Visit Helsinki invited press on an hour-long cruise that circled Suomenlinna (where I visited the day before) and stopped on Lonna Island, once home to a 19th Century Russian mine storage that was re-opened to the public in May…
100 Most Influential Artists, according to NME
“There was a certain amount of science to it. An entire week of work experience students left the office thinking that cutting-edge music journalism in 2014 mostly involves calculating which bands have been mentioned most in NME in the past two years, then hunting out references to the bands that influenced those acts online and finally adding up the number of times each influence came up…
Flow Festival this weekend in Finland (w/ Royksopp & Robyn, The National, Darkside, Slint, Slowdive, Outkast, more)
After spending three days shooting portraits and other SoundWave tent activities for us at Lollapalooza in Chicago, BrooklynVegan photographer Dominick Mastrangelo took off to Finland for this year’s Flow Festival…
FYF Fest 2014 lineup announced (Strokes, Blood Brothers, Phoenix, Slint, Slowdive, Death Grips, Grimes & many more!)
The annual two-day FYF Fest is returning to LA from August 23-24 this year, and the lineup was just announced. It includes The Strokes, Phoenix, the reunited Blood Brothers who haven’t played sine 2007 (…
