That's right, Britt Daniel, not Spoon. Through the power of bootlegging, we heard a live take of the strutting new Spoon track "Writing To You In Reverse" as it was performed at the 2008 Pitchfork Fest in July. Last week... CONTINUE READING NEW LIVE BRITT DANIEL - "WHO BACKS YOUR MONEY?"»
Posted on September 8, 2008 in MP3, Video (5 comments)
Tags: Britt Daniel |
Janet Weiss |
Sleater-Kinney |
Spoon
The Pitchfork Festival feels like eons ago, though it was only late July. With the proliferation of summer music fests it can get difficult remembering where you saw which band, so it's nice when some sort of artifact (a good... CONTINUE READING NEW LIVE SPOON - "WRITING TO YOU IN REVERSE"»
Posted on September 4, 2008 in MP3 (6 comments)
Tags: Spoon
By Amrit Singh & Brandon Stosuy Aaaaand we're back. Quite a weekend in Chicago, and this is the post to put a Fork in our coverage of this year's party in Union Park. For day last, the threat of... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2008: SUNDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on July 21, 2008 in Concert (20 comments)
Tags: Bon Iver |
Boris |
Cut Copy |
Dinosaur Jr |
Dirty Projectors |
Ghostface Killah |
HEALTH |
High Places |
King Khan |
Les Savy Fav |
Pitchfork Music Festival |
Raekwon |
Spiritualized |
Spoon |
The Dodos |
Wu-Tang Clan
In March, Spoon debuted a cover of Paul Simon's "Peace Like A River" for radio contest winners in Annapolis. There is an excellent video of it here. (Add Spoon to the list of indie rock Paul Simon admirers.) Today you... CONTINUE READING SPOON COVER PAUL SIMON»
Posted on June 16, 2008 in MP3, Video (1 comments)
Tags: Paul Simon |
Spoon
Last night's Simpsons was a treat for indie movie and documentary fans (Jim Jarmusch! A Slamdance joke!). Lisa makes a documentary about her family called Capturing The Simpsons (ha) that makes it into Sundance, only to be beaten by Nelson's... CONTINUE READING THE SIMPSONS: LISA TURNS HER CAMERA ON»
Posted on May 5, 2008 in Music Related Content, Sitcoms (1 comments)
Tags: Capturing The Friedmans |
I Turn My Camera On |
Jim Jarmusch |
Lisa |
Spoon |
The Simpsons
Continuing today's early theme of animated videos, Spoon's Double Triple & Ryan Junell-directed "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb" features a patterned land of floating light bulbs and drums, construction paper lightning, clapping hands (real and fake), a little 'c'mon' and... CONTINUE READING NEW SPOON VIDEO - "YOU GOT YR CHERRY BOMB"»
Posted on March 17, 2008 in Video (9 comments)
Tags: Spoon
The folks at the Black Cab Sessions continue to exploit the heretofore untapped acoustic potential of London black cab's back seats with Spoonman Britt Daniel, who give us Fiction's "I Summon You." This follows in the wake of similar sessions... CONTINUE READING BRITT DANIEL SUMMONS YOU INTO A BLACK CAB»
Posted on February 29, 2008 in Video (7 comments)
Tags: Spoon
Feist's "I Feel It All" single comes stacked with a few instances of the ultimate promotional tool: the remix. Fair enough, some of you were getting a little restless at the remix glut after we took a listen to Grizzly Bear's stabs and flourishes at the track, but it's worth noting that Chilly Gonzales and Britt sort of kill it. Gonzales's version is a total track transformation (think sexy, dusky, dancefloor). And as mentioned, Britt adds to the track by cutting stuff away, reforming Leslie's rollicking roots rock tune by sculpting it in his own band's image. The result is as spare and lean as a Spoon track with no guitars necessary: just a taut thwumping bass line, a tambourine, and a rising and ebbing and echoing Feist vocal. Nice job, Britt From Spoon.
Posted on February 22, 2008 (11 comments)
We would've thought Keepon's keepin' on would've intimidated Spoon from even trying to top it, but here Portland resident Britt Daniel and his Austinites are, taking an Official stab at a music vid. Funnily enough, it's this touring-and-traveling clip that... CONTINUE READING NEW SPOON VIDEO - "DON'T YOU EVAH"»
Posted on February 18, 2008 in Video (6 comments)
Tags: Spoon
Even when Leslie's wielding an explosive stick, it can be difficult remembering she has more tunes than one iPod commercial. This week, though, Arts & Crafts are giving us a reminder (ha) that, yes, Feist can do more than count to four by releasing the "I Feel It All" single with remixes by Britt Daniel, Gonzales, and Grizzly Bear. The former two take on the single, Grizzly do The Reminder's first single "My Moon My Man." So far there's just a clip of the Grizz mix, but 'tis a pretty, flourish-filled clip indeed, my man. (via)
Posted on February 14, 2008 (5 comments)
Sexy Spoon man Britt Daniel made a helluva splash in our annual hotties list, especially in the comment section -- wow, ladies, you're going ga ga ga ga ... etc. What's the first thing he does after hearing the news?... CONTINUE READING NEW SPOON - "DON'T YOU EVAH (DIPLO REMIX)"»
Posted on December 13, 2007 in MP3 (6 comments)
Tags: Diplo |
Spoon
This past weekend, for the 18th consecutive year, the modern rock purveyors at Los Angeles's KROQ rang in the holiday season with their Almost Acoustic X-mas show, featuring a lineup pulled from their playlists ... meaning one night of mall-punk... CONTINUE READING KROQ CELEBRATED X-MAS ALMOST ACOUSTICALLY»
Posted on December 11, 2007 in Video (13 comments)
Tags: Feist |
Silversun Pickups |
Spoon |
The Killers
Not watching Chuck? That's for the best, although the suits at NBC would be shocked and saddened to hear it, especially since they've decided their 40 Year Old Virgin-meets-The Bourne Ultimatum (but not as good as that sounds) comedy appears... CONTINUE READING NBC'S CHUCK IS TRYING REALLY HARD TO WOO YOU AND ACCORDING TO THE RATINGS, IT'S NOT WORKING»
Posted on October 9, 2007 (54 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses |
Beck |
Chuck |
Gomez |
Spoon |
Teddybears |
The National |
The New Pornographers |
The Shins
SNL will probably take a few cracks to top last week's Kanye cameoing fun, though the Seth Rogen/Spoon ep had its moments. Like Seth and Kristin Wiig's annoying-child cover of Winehouse's "Rehab." And every moment of the Douchebag Of The... CONTINUE READING SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE SEES SPOON GO GA GA GA GA GA, PRESENTS KEVIN FEDERLINE'S PARENTING TIPS»
Posted on October 8, 2007 in Video (18 comments)
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Aphex Twin |
Kevin Federline |
Saturday Night Live |
Spoon
Just like last year, last night's Bookeaters benefit was one of those all-time classic events, custom tailored for indie nerds and charitable lit geeks alike. Carl Newman, Grizzly Bear, Britt Daniel, Feist, Kevin Drew, Jim James, Demetri Martin ...... CONTINUE READING REVENGE OF THE BOOKEATERS 2007: LITERALLY AWESOME»
Posted on August 27, 2007 in Concert, MP3 (14 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene |
Carl Newman |
Demetri Martin |
Eugene Mirman |
Feist |
Grizzly Bear |
Kevin Drew |
Leo Allen |
My Morning Jacket |
Sarah Vowell |
Spoon |
The New Pornographers
Just a few days away from this year's 826NYC benefit show at Beacon Theater, and in order to sway the remaining holdouts amongst you into buying tickets (tax-deductible!), there's been a few noteworthy additions to the Revenge Of The Bookeaters... CONTINUE READING REVENGE OF THE BOOKEATERS GETS SOME BROKEN SOCIAL SCENERS»
Posted on August 23, 2007 (1 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene |
Kevin Drew |
Spoon
A tipster writing under the condition of anonymity emailed yesterday with a link to some music-analysis muckraking over at Nashville Cream, where the issue is whether Spoon's "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb" is too close for comfort to Tennessee band... CONTINUE READING DROPPING A BOMB ON SPOON'S "YOU GOT YR. CHERRY BOMB"»
Posted on July 25, 2007 (25 comments)
Tags: Spoon
There's a vague subtext of "Us and Them" at most concert festivals: like, you know more than half the folks you brush elbows with at Bonnaroo have never heard of the Hold Steady, and most definitely will not be dancing... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2007 [FRIDAY; 7/13] RATING: 8.7»
Posted on July 14, 2007 in Concert (19 comments)
Tags: GZA |
Pitchfork Music Festival |
Slint |
Sonic Youth |
Spoon |
Thurston Moore
Ga was in the air in New York this week, and every time you looked around, there was Spoon: doing instores, getting horn-y on TV, playing in the rain, and drinking in the East Village. With Radiohead. That, indie rockers,... CONTINUE READING SPOON HANG WITH RADIOHEAD, SPEND TWO DAYS TAKING OVER THE CITY»
Posted on July 12, 2007 (15 comments)
Tags: Spoon
OK, so the liquifying piano bit for "The Ghost Of You Lingers" was a false alarm; here's the real deal first clip from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. Director Keven McAllester takes a Scorsese-style single-shot stroll through Spoon's recording facility,... CONTINUE READING NEW SPOON VIDEO - "THE UNDERDOG"»
Posted on July 5, 2007 in Video (8 comments)
Tags: Spoon
If Friday's 'Roo music trolling left something to be desired, Saturday's lineup was more than just compensation. Of course it was all about the Police, but seeing the Lips' laser-pointered psych carnival and a triumphant, hippie-conquering blowout from the... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO: SATURDAY 6/16/07»
Posted on June 17, 2007 in Concert (21 comments)
Tags: Annuals |
Bonnaroo |
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah |
Cold War Kids |
Dr. Dog |
Elvis Perkins |
Fountains Of Wayne |
Franz Ferdinand |
Girl Talk |
Gogol Bordello |
Grizzly Bear |
Spoon |
The Flaming Lips |
The Hold Steady |
Ween
That's right, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga's not even out yet! The stabbing piano of "The Ghost Of You Lingers" was the first we heard of the rather excellent album, but it's the Jon Brion-produced "The Underdog" that Spoon is... CONTINUE READING NEW SPOON - "THE UNDERDOG"»
Posted on June 5, 2007 in MP3 (22 comments)
Tags: Jon Brion |
Spoon
Are you over mashups yet? Neither are we! Hear enough lame attempts and Danger Mouse style rap 'n' pop stitch jobs and, yeah, they get aggravating. But stuff like last year's team9 vs. Stereogum mix goad on our inner-geek, and... CONTINUE READING THE GHOSTFACE OF YOU LINGERS»
Posted on May 24, 2007 in MP3 (7 comments)
Tags: Ghostface Killah |
Spoon
Why does everybody think this vid is official? We have our doubts about that, though the hot-fudge melt of the keyboard's ebonies is a fitting image for the excellent single's dysmorphic piano stabbing. Here's the straight Spoon scoop:... CONTINUE READING NOT THE NEW SPOON VIDEO - "THE GHOST OF YOU LINGERS"»
Posted on May 21, 2007 in Video (18 comments)
Tags: Spoon
Everyone has an opinion on Spoon’s black 'n' blue-eyed soul these days. Us? The Austin crew's sixth record is way more likable than its title: While its song structures aren't as minimal as Kill The Moonlight (Spoon's take on anti-pop,... CONTINUE READING PREMATURE EVALUATION: SPOON - GA GA GA GA GA»
Posted on May 18, 2007 in Premature Evaluation (58 comments)
Tags: Spoon
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