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Amplified: Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
The alternative folk rock group on their album "Know Better Learn Faster." |
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Amplified: The xx
Soft-spoken Brit kids at the center of a hype tsunami. |
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Sleigh Bells: Infinity Guitars
Brooklyn duo play CMJ show at Public Assembly. |
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Sleigh Bells: Ring Ring
Much buzzed band plays Ring Ring (or is it Rill Rill?) at CMJ show. |
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Amplified: We Have Band
Threesomes, nonsense and turkey basting with British disco rock group. |
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A Little Night Music
Highlights from the College Music Journal's annual festival. |
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Amplified: WHY?
The self-proclaimed "Debbie Downers of rock n roll" on stalkers, death and more. |
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Amplified at CMJ
Sleigh Bells, Phantogram, X-Wife, We Have Band, ETM interviews coming soon |
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Amplified: Fruit Bats
Eric Johnson on zoology rock, Armageddon lullabies, gap teeth and lazy eyes. |
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Amplified: The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne talks about his childhood and his influences. |
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WHY?: 'This Blackest Purse'
Pop band plays a song off their new album at Pianos in NYC. |
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Amplified: Deerhunter
Deep conversation, in a dingy hotel room, with frontman Bradford Cox. |
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We Are Anvil! Goodnight, New Jersey!
A 30-year heavy metal journey for geezer-rock band Anvil. |
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Amplified: The Jesus Lizard
Wild reminiscences with David and Mac from the '80s/'90s noise rock band. |
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Amplified: All Tomorrow's Parties
Organizers Barry Hogan and Deborah Higgins run a different kind of festival. |
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Amplified: David Bazan
Ex-evangelical plays out theological crisis in song. |
The Amplified Blog
Inside Amplified | November 20, 2009 | 12:48 PM EST
Speech Debelle supposedly came out of nowhere to win the Mercury Prize in 2009, but she’s been writing and recording music for several years. We scheduled an interview for Amplified. I didn’t know... [continue]
Inside Amplified | November 16, 2009 | 4:17 PM EST
When most Americans think about indie rock bands, they don't normally imagine a band from China. But a new tour featuring artists from Beijing has been introducing cities on the East Coast to a fresh... [continue]
Inside Amplified | November 5, 2009 | 1:43 PM EST
Here's the Nightline story I did on 50 Cent. Spent a couple days with him, and we got a lot pretty well. My producer called it "the strangest buddy film ever." Watch til the
end, when the interview... [continue]
Inside Amplified | November 5, 2009 | 8:41 AM EST
Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss, AKA Sleigh Bells, have been getting a ton of press love after the CMJ festival hoisted them to internet prominence. Pitchfork, the New Yorker, Stereogum, even... [continue]
Inside Amplified | November 3, 2009 | 11:53 AM EST
Check out British dance pop band playing their song You Came Out at Public Assembly two weeks ago during CMJ. Interesting interweb note about the name of the group: the main time that construction of... [continue]
Inside Amplified | November 2, 2009 | 2:00 PM EST
British dance rock threesome We Have Band was a highlight of our CMJ experience this year. They played the show we helped curate, they are genial and fun folks, and they don't shy away from making... [continue]
Inside Amplified | October 27, 2009 | 9:56 AM EDT
Are they the most written about band in the world right now? The Apple Store in Soho on was particularly abuzz on Thursday night, due to a special performance by UK ingenues The xx. [continue]
Inside Amplified | October 23, 2009 | 3:16 PM EDT
We helped to curate a CMJ party this past Wednesday night at Public Assembly in Brooklyn. The show featured five amazing, unsigned bands: Sleigh Bells, Phantogram (well, actually they just signed to... [continue]
New Music Monday
WATCH: WEBCAST: New Music Monday: Bear in Heaven
A review of the band's latest album, "Beast Rest Forth Mouth."WATCH: New Music Monday: Nirvana
Pitchfork.com's Stuart Berman reviews Nirvana's 20th anniversary rereleases.WATCH: New Music Monday: REM
Pitchfork.com's Matthew Perpetua reviews REM's new live double CD and DVD.WATCH: New Music Monday: 'Logos' Reviewed
Mark Richardson from Pitchfork.com reviews Atlas Sounds' new album.WATCH: New Music: The Flaming Lips
Pitchfork.com tells us about the Flaming Lips' new album, "Embryonic."WATCH: 'Neon Indian' Debut Album
Pitchfork's Marc Hogan reviews Austin-band's "Psychic Chasms."WATCH: New Music: 'Girls' Album Review
Pitchfork's Tom Breihan on the lead singer's incredible back story.WATCH: 'The Big Pink' Album Review
Pitchfork's Ian Cohen's take on the British duo's debut album.WATCH: 'The Dodos' New Album
Pitchfork's Ian Cohen reviews San Francisco trio's "Time to Die."WATCH: Review: Yo La Tengo's New Album
Pitchfork's Rob Mitchum listens to "Popular Songs."WATCH: 'Hospice' Recomended
Pitchfork's Brian Howe reviews the latest album from The Antlers.WATCH: New Music Monday: Delorean
Pitchfork reviews Barcelona-based electro pop group's new EP.WATCH: 'Post-Nothing': Something to Brag About?
Pitchfork.com's Ian Cohen reviews Japandroids' album.WATCH: Sizing Up 'Back to the Feature'
Pitchfork's Ian Cohen reviews the latest album by rap innovator Wale.
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