After performing in Austin for South By Southwest, New Zealand synth-pop band The Naked and Famous return to Austin on their first U.S. tour. If their live performance evokes anything like their video for “Young Blood,” you’ll leave pining for those carefree, summer adventures — and maybe lament the bittersweet days of teenage angst.
A-Trak has risen to prominence as one of the world’s premier turntable DJs since he won the DMC World DJ Championship at the age of 15. As the first DJ to win all three major DJ titles, he eventually branched out beyond hip-hop to different genres, morphing into a multifaceted artist incorporating elements of electro, house, disco and a variety of others.
What does a high octane performer, who conducts wild, bacchanalian dance parties every night to masses of drugged out youths, have in common with a chubby, Fat Joe look-a-like called Khaled, who spends a lot of time in his office arranging musical collaborations between people?
Lady Gaga’s bad romance just got a bit more sinful. “Judas,” the second single off the soon-to-be-released Born This Way takes the melody of “Bad Romance” and adds religious controversy as any wannabe Madonna should.
It’s been nearly two years since the release of YACHT’s last album, See Mystery Lights, but if front man Jona Bechtolt’s recent Twitter feed is any indication of the band’s activity, YACHT has never been better.
Call it sentimentality, but there’s something to be said for a well-crafted love song, and TV on the Radio has 10 of them on their latest album, Nine Types of Light.
Hipsters across the country have been losing their Urban Outfitters-cool, apathetic facade to get their hands on Panda Bear’s (Noah Lennox’s solo effort) Tomboy, the follow-up to 2007’s Person Pitch.
Katy Perry’s second album, Teenage Dream, is a force to be reckoned with: Each of its successive singles has climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the definitive measure of a song’s commercial success. Some might think it a surprising accomplishment given that one of the songs, “Firework,” poses the simple philosophical quandary: “Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?”