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Latest Complete News Updates Lollapalooza 2011 is months away, but rumors are already floating around about the lineup. Chicago's Lollapalooza Festival won't be rolling out the official 2011 lineup until April, but a credible rumor popped up today about who the Lollapalooza headliners will be.Latest Complete News Updates Lollapalooza 2011 is months away, but rumors are already... more
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CRYSTAL CASTLES: first look into their CELESTICA video disappoints, does not uphold the ferocity of the actual songCRYSTAL CASTLES: first look into their CELESTICA video disappoints, does not uphold... more
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Crystal Castles new video Celestica is pretty cool.
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Crystal Castles have lined up a string of U.S. and European shows set for later this year. The duo have announced gigs in Los Angeles, New York, London, and Paris, among several others.Crystal Castles have lined up a string of U.S. and European shows set for later this... more
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Crystal Castles prefer traveling light. While the hotly-tipped and already hotly-contested Toronto duo's basement party set-up doesn't look like it'll fill up the passenger seat on a tour van, they also like to play fast and loose with their associations. They've remixed at a Hot Chip-like pace for everyone from Bloc Party to Uffie to Klaxons, but they're not a part of your nu-rave genre (really, who is?), or blog house for that matter. Their debut LP partly picks from 7" and 12"s that have been available in some format since 2005, and it's every bit as difficult to pin down.
The lead track samples DFA 1979's "Dead Womb" and places those vocals atop a cyclical synth loop while they get disembodied and chopped up-- both function as song-length hooks. But the thing's called "Untrust Us" (natch) and by the next one, they're making good on that claim. "Alice Practice" absolutely sears with megaphoned (emphasis on mega) barking and Ethan Fawn's Atari-laced keyboards going on the fritz and racking up free plays. Ah, so this is what an arcade fire sounds like.
Rest of the story: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11215-crystal-castles/
Crystal Castles myspace: http://www.myspace.com/crystalcastlesCrystal Castles prefer traveling light. While the hotly-tipped and already... more
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Check out this video for dd/mm/yyyy's video for their song, Infinity Skull Cube. The Toronto based band are known for their abstract sound involving unconventional instruments. In 2008, they toured along side Crystal Castles. They recently released their third album, "Black Square", on March 17th.
More info and tour dates here:
http://www.myspace.com/ddmmyyyy
http://www.ddmmyyyy.net
I like the music video. It's weird
-V.Check out this video for dd/mm/yyyy's video for their song, Infinity Skull Cube.... more
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Vampire Weekend and Foals are part of a fantastic line-up of bands supporting Blur when they play their much-anticipated comeback gigs in London's Hyde Park this July.
When the band return to the stage as a four piece on Thursday, July 2, after six years apart, Foals, Crystal Castles, Friendly Fires and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble will be supporting.
On Friday, July 3, they'll be joined by Vampire Weekend, Amadou and Mariam, Florence and the Machine and Deerhoof.
The Friday gig is sold out but tickets still seem to be available for Thursday on Livenation's website:
http://www.livenation.co.uk/artist/getArtist/artistId/6911/Vampire Weekend and Foals are part of a fantastic line-up of bands supporting Blur... more
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Crystal Castles: Crimewave
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This was meant to be something entirely different. I had wanted to make a cheeky 'how to make your own music video' piece that would accompany a music mix that i posted on my website (travisdmathews.com). It was going to be the poor man's solution to gift giving this year.
But having never made a music video before I got a little romanced by the whole process, losing sight of that original goal to make a 'how-to' video. Most of the production I do is serious-minded, so this was a welcome reprieve just in time for the holidays.This was meant to be something entirely different. I had wanted to make a cheeky... more
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NME's annual light-hearted Cool List is published today, with the top accolade going to Crystal Castles frontwoman Alice Glass, the second woman ever to top the the list since it began in 2002.
The NME's new bands editor Alex Miller says: "Alice Glass is the opposite of the socialite queen bees running UK music scenes, a woman seemingly forged from off-cuts from Dennis Hopper's desperate punk movie Out of the Blue," adding, "Does the Cool List matter? Of course not. But at least it's fun."
Following on from a controversial performance at last year's Glastonbury, Jay-Z took the number two spot ahead of MGMT's Andrew VanWyngraden (3rd) and Arctic Monkeys/The Last Shadow Puppets frontman Alex Turner (4th).
NME's annual light-hearted Cool List is published today, with the top accolade... more
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If you're still trying to figure what to do for Halloween, you might be interested in these two parties with the likes of Deerhunter, Jay Reatard, Justice and Simian Mobile Disco as suggested from Current.com users.If you're still trying to figure what to do for Halloween, you might be... more
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Eyes lit
I pawn short breaths
A fawn's dark eye lids
But life's breath like a sun against my head
Eyes lit
I pawn short breaths
A fawn's dark eye lids
But life's breath like a sun to repent
Eyes lit
I want short breaths
I've got dark eye lids
Nice breasts
I need the sun in to repentEyes lit
I pawn short breaths
A fawn's dark eye lids
But life's breath... more
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"The latest episode combines 8-bit musical plagiarism with an abuse of Creative Commons licenses. Crystal Castles is a Toronto-based band that’s gotten quite a lot of positive press for their use of 8-bit sounds, including a keyboard with an Atari chip. (And there’s the source of the problem: this stuff is "hot" partly because it’s novel to mainstream press.)
Unfortunately, some of Crystal Castles’ sound apparently isn’t their their own.
8-bit collective again noticed something is amiss, this time with their track "Insecticon." Far from simply sampling a track, the tune rearranges entire musical contents as the basis of the new tune. (Many in the 8-bit collective community at least claim they’re pro-sampling.)
There’s a difference in this case, though: the tune in question is Creative Commons-licensed. It’s possible Crystal Castles thought, incorrectly, that that meant "free." However, the CC license used specifically requires attribution, non-commercial use, and that the derivative work be released under the same license — that’s three strikes against Crystal Castles. The GPL license used in open source software has similar stipulations, and neither license means something isn’t protected by copyright law — the maker of something is still the copyright holder, and uses those rights to define the way in which they want their work used and shared.""The latest episode combines 8-bit musical plagiarism with an abuse of Creative... more
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Top ten sellers for Amoeba last week
1 She and Him (Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward) - Volume One
2 Gnarls Barkley - Odd Couple
3 Crystal Castles - Self Titled
4 Kills - Midnight Boom
5 Neon Neon - Stainless Style
6 Vampire Weekend - Self Titled
7 Radiohead - in Rainbows
8 Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
9 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
10 Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War
Top ten sellers for Amoeba last week
1 She and Him (Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward) -... more
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