TAG: Darkness

Sep15

Perry Farrell interview

Perry Farrell, the ‘godfather’ of alt-rock, might soon have a new moniker to honor his strides in…electronic music? Yes, Farrell’s still a part of Satellite Party and Jane’s Addiction, but he’s also integrated a sizeable DJ area at Lollapalooza, performed live with Paul Van Dyk and Moby, played at Cochella under DJ Peretz and has a live electro act with wife Etty Farrell. While it seems surreal to chat blogs and The Bloody Beetroots with a man who’s famous for an extensive rock-based career, make no mistake about it, Farrell knows what he’s talking about. In fact, with every passing day, he’s becoming increasingly entrenched in the dance scene and collaborating with some of the biggest names in the business. Here for URB, Perry talks about DJ culture, the future of bands and finding his way in …

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Jan27

INTERVIEW: Doubleclick and Amon Tobin Give Electronica the Finger (Two, Actually)

The convergence of two major, established forces in music has rarely resulted in anything less than a disaster. Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson’ s brief partnership ended with the theft of the Beatles catalog and decades of resentment. The Best of Both Worlds and Unfinished Business, the two mediocre LPs born out of the R. Kelly/Jay-Z collaboration, proved that their business together should have been finished before it even began. As Two Fingers, electronic juggernauts Amon Tobin and Joe ‘Doubleclick’ Chapman seek to break the curse of musical matches seemingly made in heaven. From the sinister yet gorgeous sound of their hip-hop-tinged debut, the two revered producers have undeniably succeeded in doing so. Doubleclick took some time out with URB to discuss working with Amon …

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Apr01

Cage the Elephant in Wales. And then fuck the man, man!

Nothing screams “alternative music blog” like subverting one’s editor on the first go. While the original intent of my blogging was to bring all that is new and exciting in NYC to the attention of URB.com readers, I simply cannot, in good faith, ignore the super sweet 16 days I just spent in the UK. While the vast majority of the music industry was having a wank in Austin, TX, I was in London. And Cardiff. TAKE THAT, ESTABLISHMENT!!!!!

I’ve heard nothing good of this year’s SXSW. No band made the impact of past festival winners like Bloc Party, Art Brut and erm, the Darkness. When pressed for recommendations, I found industry friends grasping at straws, trying to pull a name out for the sake of justifying the buttloads of …

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Aug28

Enjoy The Silence

In this article, I look at the hidden meanings in Depeche Mode's Enjoy The Silence video.

Holy shit! They’re over saturating YouTube with shitty ads. I love YouTube, I’m actually getting ready to get a YouTube tattoo on my eyelid, so I can always have a sweet reminder of my favorite website, oh boy oh boy. I recently came across something that almost brought a tear to my eye, seriously. I’m being dead ass serious here folks when I tell you that I saw something that shook me to the bone. It was a music video, not just any music video, but an amazingly cryptic and mesmerizing video that made me instantly identify with what the creators were trying to convey, I heard the message loud and clear and it’s my God given …

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Jun16

Michelle Krusiec’s Happy Ending

An ex-girlfriend of mine was “made in Taiwan” but we ended on a very sour note. Michelle Krusiec's one-woman play of the same name ends on an empowered note. I was a fan (OK, had the hots) before I even knew who she was. She had a small role as a sexy masseuse (yes, the happy ending kind) on an excellent HBO sleeper series called The Mind of the Married Man. Not to bemoan the obvious typecasting, she parleyed an early career rub-n-tug into a 2004 Sundance premiere in director Alice Wu's romantic comedy Saving Face. In it she was even better, endearingly carving out an awkward character simultaneously conflicted by her closeted lesbianism and her distressed mother’s (played by the …

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Apr30

Digitalism in Indio

On Friday afternoon, shade under the Sahara tent provided enough darkness for strobe colored lights to work their magic, as fans stared at a video barrage of infamous faces (Oscar Wilde was definitely in there) and objects, with mouths dropped open…never ceasing to stomp their feet. Digitalism, unassuming harbingers of physical transfiction in the desert.

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