Our friends over at the journal are hosting a special holiday store!  There will be special editions of the journal itself, as well as special gifts from many incredible artists (which are all listed on the flyer above, as well as the hours and gallery location).  If you’re in Brooklyn this weekend, we highly recommend [...]

One of the most fascinating things about amiina is not their talent, but instead the band’s creative versatility. On stage, they constantly rotate instruments, some of which are barely intended for musical purposes [saws and handbells]. Since their early international touring with Sigur Rós, these ladies have polished up their English and enlisted a few good men in the band as well. Sólrún Sumarliðadóttir introduces us to a new amiina we will grow to love in 2010.

Atlas Sound is the name Bradford Cox has used since he started playing music, the band from which his most lauded project was spawned. Logos haunts itself so well that it will make you forget that deer hunting exists. Cox gets some help from Noah Lennox, aka Panda Bear of Animal Collective, and Lætitia Sadier of Stereolab. The pieces blend together and burn like a pit of fire in Cox’s sunken chest.

Real Estate is a band that could bear the brand of “surf,” even though they’re from the Garden State. An aquatic vibe pervades the music. Their lyrics and song titles make a lot of references to beaches, lakes, pools and rivers. Their sound is a necromancer conjuring the slide and pop of The Beach Boys from out of the cosmos. Their vocals swim (and sometimes drown) is an ocean of reverb.