TAG: Jon Brion

Oct06

Best Coast To Record With Jon Brion

Indie Pop Fave Teams With Quirky Composer 

We spent an undue amount of time in 2010 rocking out to Bethany Cosentino’s instant-retro-indie debut album as Best Coast, mostly because it reminded us equal parts 1990s Riot Grrl heyday, ’70s Runaways punk mischief, and ’60s Shangri-La’s pop perfection. Early today, the band announced via Facebook that the second Best Coast album would be produced by multi-instrumental one-man-band-slash-film-composer, producer genius Jon Brion. …MORE

Sep21

Janelle Monae & Of Montreal Live at Terminal 5 NYC (Photos)

Words cannot describe the performance that I witnessed this past Saturday night in midtown Manhattan — and it was all thanks to one tiny opening act with bizarre hair and a voice too big for any earthly venue to contain. To be fair, Of Montreal had an interesting set (to say the least). But while I appreciate the imagination behind gun-toting cyborg goldfish costumes and evil skeleton-men; I can’t really get down with the androgynous, super-poppy art-rock fusion thing. The set-opening performance of their new single, “Coquet Coquette,” was probably their strongest offering; and fortunately, before completely exhausting my memory card, I was able to capture the aforementioned fish-robots that accompanied it, as well as Janelle’s set-ending, crowd-infiltrating performance of “Come Alive (War of the Roses).” I could give a complete run-down of the entire set-list and detail every little …

Sep14

of Montreal – “False Priest” (Review)

of Montreal

False Priest

Released by Polyvinyl


Kevin Barnes is one of the finest pop craftsmen in the business and it’s precisely because he—and his band, of Montreal—doesn’t play by anyone else’s rules. From the tricked out cover art designed by Barnes’ wife and his brother to guest vocalists Solange Knowles and Janelle Monae to the hybrid of the heartfelt and the humorous, False Priest is one of the year’s most indispensable releases. The Athens, Georgia based quintet follows up the seminal releases of Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? and Skeletal Lamping with a bristling collection of tracks mixing Barnes’ brand of psychedelia with R&B influences and a heady dose of Parliament-Funkadelic.