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It’s possible that over the past several weeks you’ve noticed the reviews slow to a trickle around these parts. We had our reasons! Cookies weren’t involved! Okay, maybe they were! All of us at Tripwire HQ are ...
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Hip-Hop Still Has Love For Grizzly Bear In Wake Of Ed Droste’s Twitter Suicide
Sure, it’s great to get the Jay-Z stamp of approval, but Jay lives in a penthouse in Tribeca or something (in our mind dude has like 18 houses- recession be damned). The man isn’t exactly down with the underground anymore.
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Newly Discovered Neutral Milk Hotel Videos Make Us Very Happy/Sad
Merge just put out some videos from a Neutral Milk Hotel show at the old Knitting Factory in 1998 in conjunction with the reissue of In The Aeroplane Over The Sea on 180-gram vinyl. They’re good quality and certainly showcase the ...
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Jason Segel Joins Swell Season On Stage, Does That Creepy Thing We Love
When The Swell Season played LA’s Wiltern Theater Wednesday night, Apatow acolyte and our favorite lug Jason Segel, took over the piano bench for a song he penned himself. After watching a few dozen times, we’d be down for a ...
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Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson: Life As A Movie
Story by Adam Daniels
Photography by Dorothy Hong
“Do you need a drink?”
”Yes, I need four double whiskeys and four PBRs.”
It was Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson’s record release show at ...
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Pablove Across America Vlog, Part 1
We’re very jazzed to inform you that we linked up with Dangerbird Records co-founder Jeff Castelaz recently, just as he was riding his bike across the country to raise funds for the Pablove Foundation . Along the way, Jeff recorded ...
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Spoon Tours, Tests Transference Songs Out On You
Photo: Autumn DeWilde
Have you seen Spoon live? They’re crisp, like say, a delicious pastry. They are absolutely not one of those bands who anyone could ever accuse of “studio magic” because their sets beautifully recreate ...
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Pixies Playing Jimmy Fallon, Will Play What You Tweet
The Pixies are currently in the throes of the North American leg of their Doolittle tour, a wormhole of a trek we’ve been quick to spill much digi-ink over in these parts recently. Via an e-mail from the band’s publicist, ...
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Jelly Pool Parties In Danger, Seeking New Home
Make all the Williamsburg hipster jokes you want, but there have been few sweeter deals in recent memory than the Jelly Pool Parties. They’ve resided in parks within Brooklyn’s music mecca for a half-decade now, but are in jeopardy ...
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Beach House – Norway
At the beginning of “Norway”, the new single from Baltimore’s Beach House, there’s a hint of the second-hand organ that dominated most of their self-titled debut. But then they come crashing in with pristine, breathy ...
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Feast On Animal Collective’s New Jam “Graze”
In just a few days, on November 23rd, there will be a new Animal Collective release upon us. And although we’ve only heard snippets of the Fall Be Kind EP in all it’s polyphonic glory, we’d like to think that the sparkle ...
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Kristin Stewart Loves Bon Iver Too
What do you think the chances are that Robert Pattinson wooed Kristen Stewart with a Bon Iver-powered mixtape? Or wait. MAYBE IT WAS THE OTHER WAY AROUND, YOU GUYS.
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Amy Winehouse’s Boobs Were Leaking
Pre-enhancement/leak.
On Monday morning, we reported that pop seamstress Amy Winehouse had taken a quick trip to the hospital after an unfortunate collision between some cold and prescription medications she was taking at the time. ...
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Lissie Played Our Fireplace
If you’re one of the 42 million people that have fallen in love with our recent Hotbox at the Levi’s/FADER Fort video series, it’s possible you’ve forgotten (or never knew) that we used to film bands letting loose in ...
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Watch Vampire Weekend Throw an Alley Party
For their punked-out new single “Cousins,” the men of Vampy Weeks shot an equally frenetic clip in a city alley. The Garth Jennings-directed clip is above, the single’s out digitally right now and on vinyl December 7th ...
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Alice In Chains Announce North American Tour
Recently reunited grunge godfathers Alice in Chains have been making a go at the Billboard charts in the past few weeks behind their new album Black Gives Way To Blue , the comeback effort entering at No. 5 when it dropped a few weeks ...
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Wavves Recruits Former Jay Reatards
You may remember reading about the Twitter-riffic dissolution of Jay Reatard’s band a few weeks back or even about the time he asked the Cola Freaks to join him shortly after that. Though we heard whispers about this in a bar late ...
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The Velvet Underground To Reunite
Put this down in your calendars as the most epic event to ever occur in December: former Velvet Underground members Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker and Doug Yule will appear together at the New York Public Library on December 8, along with ...
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Krist Novoselic Still Loves Dave Grohl
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In an article for the Seattle Weekly titled “How I Met Dave Grohl, the Biggest Guy in Rock and Roll,” former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic waxes poetic about ...
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Girls – “Heartbreaker” on 89.3 The Current
When a band drops an unreleased jam on Minnesota public radio, chances are most people outside of the Twin Cities won’t really catch on. But when that band is Girls, chances are most people outside of the Twin Cities will be trying to ...
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Haiku Review: John Mayer @ The Beacon Theater, NYC
Photography by Stacey Fuller
Haiku by Andy Cohn
john rocks the beacon
Guitar face in full effect
Had his own napkins
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David Lynch Digs on Meditation, Making Film About Beatles’ Guru Maharishi Mahesh
In an interview that went live on New York Magazine’s Vulture blog late yesterday, film director (and Tripwire fave) David Lynch revealed that his next project will be a documentary-style look at famed guru Maharishi Mahesh. If for ...
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Shearwater to Release New Album in February
What do the Migration Act of 1958, images of indigenous peoples, ponies, cloudy mountainsides, and crashing waves have in common? They all feature prominently in the promotional video for Shearwater ’s forthcoming album, titled The ...
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Tripwire Video Premiere: Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car”
If you’ve heard anything from the San Francisco’s Dominant Legs , then you too are probably rediscovering that itch for Tracy Chapman and the heart massage her vocals proffer. While some kids are turning to muddy guitar riffs ...
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King Khan and BBQ Show Issue Statement About Those Shrooms
Having been strapped pretty tightly to our seats during the King Khan and BBQ’d Shrooms saga this week, we ‘d feel remiss if we didn’t inform you of the band’s recent statement, one they issued just after the ...
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Brian Jonestown Massacre Unveil New Album Release Date, Remind You They Put Out An EP This Year
Via the band’s website , Anton Newcombe’s BJM vehicle has announced a date for the forthcoming New Year’s Day release of Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? Judging by that title, it will probably sound like something you’ve ...
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NME Takes New York Mag’s New York Music 2009 Cover Story and Raises Them New York Music Circa 2001
We can’t imagine the folks over at NME altogether hated New York Magazine’s current cover story detailing how New York once again became an epicenter of musical creativity (hint: use rent prices to force nearly every struggling ...
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The Uptown: Minneapolis Music Landmark Demolished Today
The Uptown Bar, once deemed “The House The Replacements Built”, was piled into the ground with a wrecking ball earlier today. City Pages has some photos of the desruction. The venue, which was sold earleir this year, hosted a ...
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Tripwire Video Premiere: Queen – “I Want To Break Free”
What does one do when they need to “break free” you ask? Well, Freddie Mercury slips on his finest cleaning-the-house garb and dances around between fabulous tableaux scenes of housewife gone leather-pants-clad and shirtless ...
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New Savior of Music Industry: Oprah?
This week New York Magazine analyzed “The Oprah Effect” in terms of music sales in relation to her stamps of approvals and show performances. Their results seem to liken an artist being on her show to say, Obama mentioning said ...
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Slayer and Megadeth To Annihilate U.S. On Tour This Winter
Do you feel like your life has been lacking a certain intensity lately? Wake up at night just yearning for a reason to bang your head in triumph once again? Well have we got a show for you.
After being forced to cancel some European and ...
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Vampire Weekend To Spread Holiday Cheer, Tour For Life
We posted a now defunct Vanity Fair video yesterday in which those dirty dogs in Vampire Weekend gave you a piece of their worldview. Though we’ve already shared some 4,457 Vampy Weeks tour dates with you in the past few weeks, we feel ...
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El Perro Del Mar + The Golden Power = Official ‘Change of Heart’ Music Video
Sandor Vlah and Gyula Takaes are two strong men from Budapest, Hungary who go by the name of The Golden Power. El Perro Del Mar is, as you may have already learned via video introduction, a young woman from Sweden by the name of Sarah ...
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Norah Jones To Fight For Her (Brownstone) Rights
Some days are good to just max and relax with your friend Q-Tip or make a folk-influenced brand of vocal jazz that is incredibly pleasing to the masses/your parents. Other days, you’ve got to fight the man. And one of our favorite ways to ...
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King Khan & BBQ’ed Shrooms?
So the arrest that caused the Canadian duo to cancel a couple Midwest dates, that was for “allegedly possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms.” Life lesson kids, don’t do shrooms on a suspended license. Or at least, not in ...
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Hot Chip To Tour U.S. In April
This is quickly becoming a month of early holiday season treats for American-based Hot Chip fans. First came the announcement that One Lofe Stand, their much anticipated follow-up to Made In The Dark, will see a February release date. Then ...
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Deep Thoughts with Vampire Weekend
The men of Vampire Weekend sat down recently with whom we can only presume was a cameraperson and an interviewer (just a guess!), tackling questions of great existential and philosophical weight in Vanity Fair ’s “Proust ...
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Yo La Tengo Announce January Tour Dates
Behind their latest and greatest, Popular Songs , Yo La Tengo are currently winding their way through nearly every European city you’re currently daydreaming about. When they’re done smelling the flowers over there, they’re ...
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Tom Waits Masterpiece Gets More Masterpiecy
In case you thought you wouldn’t be satisfied with the extra hour of Tom Waits’ banter from his upcoming live album, fret no more. Now Tom’s Orphans, Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards is being reinvented as a limited edition ...
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Amy Winehouse Hospitalized
NME is reporting that one-time chanteuse Amy Winehouse was hospitalized last night in London after some cold medicine she was taking interacted harshly with prescription medication she’s currently using for her “recovery,” ...
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Who Is Playing the Super Bowl? The Who Sure Don’t Know.
Sports Illustrated broke a story yesterday claiming The Who would play the halftime show of this year’s Super Bowl. It sent the Internet and television world afizz. As it turns out, this story might not have been ready for breaking. The ...
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King Khan & BBQ Show Jailed, Released, Cancel Shows
We understand there are probably some quotas involved in police work. But seriously, is there no sport left in law enforcement? Are you really going to pull over that Canadian good times garage rock duo with hippie tendencies and a ...
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Lifter Puller Now Relevant Outside of Minnesota Too
OK OK. So, they didn’t really need proof. But let’s be real. You don’t have to admit it. We’re willing to bet we’ve known a good few Hold Steady fans in our day who threw around silly words like ...
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They Call Me Jigga. That’s Not My (Real) Name.
After all that Weezer news , we didn’t really need that much more proof that every famous person ever, knows one other. But some more came anyway. The Ting Tings have apparently signed a deal with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation company, ...
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Animal Collective’s New “In The Flowers” Video Is Beautiful
It’s also a little bit insane. But then again, that’s one of the simpler ways of explaining one’s love for Animal Collective. Dave “Avey Tare” Portner’s sister Abby Portner did the directing honors and ...
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Andrew Bird: Soundtrack Composer, Sculptor, Muppet
Andrew Bird is keeping busy, or so reports the BBC 6. All whilst on a lengthy tour, Bird is finding time to score a film, create an art installation, and cover Kermit the Frog’s “It’s Not Easy Being Green.”
The film in question is titled ...
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Gruff Rhys Prepping Feature Film, Soundtrack Release
Fans of Super Furry Animals are in for more psychedelic treats. Frontman Gruff Rhys, who has been working on his upcoming feature film Serperado! , plans to release the soundtrack as his next solo album. Based on Rhys’ journey to track down ...
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No, Don’t Watch The Soft Pack. Watch White Denim’s Video For “I Start To Run” Instead.
Just kidding, Soft Packers! We’ll be dropping a White Denim feature on your shiny heads sometime in the near future, a 4900 word treatise on why they might just be the third best rock ‘n roll band on American soil right now. Before ...
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Watch The Soft Pack’s Video For “Answer To Yourself”
Black and White usually brings us back to more simpler times, right? Remember Pleasantville ? In the footage above, it brings the San Diegan Soft Packers back to a time when they answered to a pizza-slanging boss probably named Harry or Jim. The ...
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Robert Pattinson Loves Bon Iver
In a press junket video interview with Pop Sugar, perpetually tousled heartthrob Robert Pattinson did the unthinkable: he smoldered. Just kidding! He always does that! When asked just before the 1:40 mark if he’s got a favorite song ...
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