New year, new Drake! I know there are a lot of haters out there, but for the record, I’m in the first camp (“those who enjoy it”) when it comes to Vampire Weekend. I’m pretty sure about this because someone asked me to stop dancing this morning while I was listening to “Horchata” on my…
Tag: Final Fantasy
Mountain Goats Documentary Screening Tonight at Housing Works, New Album Out Tuesday, Tour Dates (Bell House, Webster Hall)
In celebration of the October 6 release of The Mountain Goats new album, The Life of the World To Come, Housing Works, 4AD and Other Music present a free screening of: THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME: A FILM BY RIAN JOHNSON The Mountain Goats in solo and duo performance at Pomona College. In…
Pitchfork Festival Announces More Additions, Finalizes Lineup
Bowerbirds at The Knitting Factory (10/18/07) Okay, most of the Pitchfork Music Festival‘s bill has already been announced, but the other day they just announced a couple more acts (including the above pictured Bowerbirds) to make the whole thing complete. (I guess if you read Pitchfork daily you may have heard about this already.) The…
Final Fantasy Readies Two New EP’s, Co-Writing Film Score
Final Fantasy Photos: David Waldman Final Fantasy, (aka Canada’s Owen Pallett), will be releasing two new EPs in the fall, Spectrum, 14th Century and Plays to Please. He’ll also be keeping busy co-writing the score to Richard Kelly‘s next film, The Box, starring Cameron Diaz. On September 30, Spectrum will drop as a CD EP…
Maximum Black Festival Starts Today
The Owen Pallett curated Maximum Black Festival kicks off today in Vienna, Austria. The lineup includes the musical stylings of: Deerhoof, Six Organs of Admittance, Dirty Projectors, Frog Eyes, Stephen O’Malley & Alexander Tucker Duo and Max Tundra, and Final Fantasy. The festival is being financed by Wiener Stadtwerke, an Austrian public works company that…