The VSS were an angular post-punk band from San Fransisco, famous for using horror-film keyboards in conjuncture with their hardcore punk stylings. There isn’t anything particularly original about this to begin with, but the VSS did it in a way that took something visceral and human and added a cold, robotic edge.
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Hey! Here are some bands / albums to get excited about this week (and search for Rapidshare links or torrents for — don’t pretend you don’t).
After two albums, two 7” records, opening for Liars in 2006 (no, not the current Pitchfork-fodder Liars, stop that, the cool “Drum’s Not Dead” Liars), and the departure of their lead singer, DC-area band Apes have branded their own blend of psychedelic stomp-rock.
Welcome to another edition of Hear / Listen, daily.phirebrush’s (semi) weekly music feature.
This is Hear / Listen, a new weekly feature here at daily.phirebrush spotlighting music news, happenings, and the occasional free MP3.
Major Label Debut – Episode #002
Posted: by October 19th, 2007 1 CommentCategory: Music, News and Phirebrush.
Phirebrush co-founder James presents another episode of his podcast, Major Label Debut. Episode two covers new music from Enon, The Poison Control Center, MGMT, The Octopus Project, PRE, and Boy/Girl. Thanks for listening and subscribing!
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Major Label Debut – New Podcast
Posted: by October 2nd, 2007 0 CommentsCategory: Music, News and Phirebrush.
Major Label Debut is a new podcast from Phirebrush co-founder / administrator / copy writer / interviewer James Acklin (me!). The podcasts focuses on indie bands that fly under the radar and takes an illustrative look at new music from the past week.
This episode covers new music from Celebration, Super Furry Animals, Health, Jesca Hoop, [...]
Radiohead announced LP 7’s details on their official blog late Sunday. In Rainbows is to drop on October 10.
Pre-purchase In Rainbows at your own price on the album’s Web site.
Panic Software releases Coda for Mac
Posted: by April 30th, 2007 0 CommentsCategory: Misc. and Reviews.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few days, Panic Software recently released the revolutionary application Coda for OS X. Let’s all admit it – we all hate Dreamweaver, but wish there were some program that would combine all the tools necessary for full site development into one package. Up until this [...]
Great news! Nine Inch Nails have just made the first single from their new record Year Zero, “Survivalism,” available as a GarageBand multi-track file for you to remix. Not only that – but the band plans to release the entire Year Zero album in this fashion, thus spawning an endless ocean of fan and celebrity [...]
Nine Inch Nails: “Survivalism”
Posted: by March 7th, 2007 0 CommentsCategory: Media, Misc., Movies/TV/YouTube and Music.
If you haven’t done so already, check out the official video for the first single from Year Zero, “Survivalism.”
We might be a little late on this, but check out the Photoshop speed-painting video of Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke.
If you can stomach the reek of the retailer, Hot Topic is now selling Led Zelda: the Led Zeppelin and Zelda mash-up shirt.
Something tells me that a certain staff member of ours will go nuts over this.
Apple just recently updated their MacBook Pro line of laptops (as well as the standard MacBook line) with Intel Core 2 Duo processors.
Now let’s just get ready for Leopard, reportedly arriving in early 2007.
Miles Burke has compiled a palette of all the famous web 2.0 sites for your (posthumorous) use. ComputerArts has an interesting tutorial on how to dirty up illustrations using a photocopier machine. The Combimouse looks like I’d throw it against a wall… and someone made Google’s logo using Legoes.