Every year there are so many buzzbands that are available to ‘buzz about’/align your blog’s brand with by covering them on a regular/daily basis. Some artists are ‘good’ and ‘deserve hype’, but other bands sorta represent how hollow/forced the buzzosphere can be.
Geologist is a band member in the popular 2k9 indie rock conceptual band called Animal Collective. Over the years, the band has evolved into one of the most authentically received bands in the history of this music.
A photograph of Animal Collective’s guitarist / bass player / sample player / knob turner GEOLOGIST aka Brian Weitz has emerged on the internet, possibly from one of his old high school classmate bros. It seems like he was a chill, hopeful bro.
Some performance artist named Marina Abramović is doing some sort of ‘art work’ at the Museum of Modern Art where she sits and stares at people all day. It is called The Artist is Present, and u r supposed to feel ‘deep and emotional’ looking into her soul [link to website]. The photos of every1 staring at her are uploaded to some flickr site. Tons of famous people and alt-looking New Yorkers have ’started 2 go see this live meme’ going down, probably to get press/feel more famous.
Animal Collective sure don’t invest much money in their videos, but you probably wouldn’t like them as much if the did. They prefer to focus their video energy on making sure if you are on drugs, when you watch their vids, you have a complete and total freakout. Their third official video release from their incredible 2009 release Merriweather Post Pavilion is for Brothersport.
The Recession, 9/11, The Internet, Terrorism, George Bush, July 7th 2005, Big Brother, Reality Television, Social Networking, Celebrity, Tony Blair, Online Shopping, The First Black President, The Smoking Ban, I-Pods, Borat, Banksy, Chavs…
In no chronological or logical order, these are just some of the things that the decade dubbed “the noughties” may be remembered for.
The Zookeepers biffed out our number one record of 2009 - Ballin’ Outrageous. Think of all the amazing records this year - there is a shitload of them - and in our opinion Ballin’ Outrageous is better than all of the rest of them.
Here are The Zookeepers favourite albums of 2009, handily arranged in alphabetical order. Good to see they’re not afraid of including their own album in the list. If you don’t blow your own trumpet etc etc.
Our favourite masters of noise HEALTH have come up with their own top 10 of 2009. Feast your eyes after the jump.
My timing is impeccable. Animal Collective released their traditional post-album EP this week, Fall Be Kind which includes a couple of regular live favourites of mine including What Would I Want? Sky. It also turns out that Uncut and Mojo have just made their ninth studio album Merriweather Post Pavillion their best album of 2009. Deservedly so too.
As yall know from the popular website calendar.blogspot.com, the year 2k9 only has 2 months left. The annual music cycle is ‘officially over’ and will be dormant until the first major indie album release in 2k10. This means ‘we’ as an altosphere need 2 do our best to reflect on the year that we just lived, and try 2 analyze which album/artist/mp3 we want to be the embodiment of 2k9. Each alt website has a responsibility to select a ‘best’ artist, which may not actually ‘be the best’, but instead will represent ‘how they think 2k9 should be remembered’, and convince u 2 ’stay on board with us, cuz our perception of the indiesphere is really genuine and down2earth in a hi-level kinda way.’
Yall might know Kria Brekkan as the wife of popular 2k9 buzzband ‘the Animal Collective’, more specifically, the band member Avey ‘David Portner’ Tare. She has apparently already created tons of music on her own, as well as with the popular Icelandic runoff band “múm.” [via the post-Bjork+SigurRos era]. (not sure if Iceland still has a thriving creative economy now that their ‘financial/real’ economy is ‘in the shitter’)
I recently saw Kria Tare-Brekkan’s new LP cover, and wondered what it was all about. Appears to be a concept album based on the popular female topic of fluid in the uterus.
Photos from a recent FOE gig - a friend of our friends Hold Your Horse Is - she’s gonna be big!!! Read the gig review after the jump.
Shots of North Carolina’s folk-rocking Avett Brothers’ stop in Glasgow - 22.08.11
Read the review of the gig here.
Take a look at the acts and art on offer at this year’s Latitude Festival in Suffolk. Included are the likes of Fight Like Apes, Lykke Li, Sea of Bees and Seasick Steve. Photos from our own...
Good time with Bad Guys. Photos from the May 29th gig at the Old Blue Last. Read the review by the Bad Guy himself, Stuart London after the jump.
Artrocker.com exclusive: for fans of White Lies and Crocodiles we’ve got some fresh pictures from their UK show at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire earlier this month, courtesy of Alessandro...
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