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Thao & The Get Down Stay Down –“Holy Roller”
Recording as Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Pacific Northwesterner Thao Nguyen has spent an entire career at the intersection between indie-folk and experimental psychedelic weirdness, and now...
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Thao & The Get Down Stay Down –“We The Common (For Valerie Bolden)”
Next month, Portland indie-pop experimenter Thao Nguyen, who records as Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, will release her now album We The Common. We haven't heard its Joanna Newsom collab yet, but...
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Thao & The Get Down Stay Down –“Kindness Be Conceived” (Feat. Joanna Newsom)
Thao Nguyen will release We The Common, her newest album of fractured indie-pop under her Thao & The Get Down Stay Down name, in a couple of months. She's already shared early tracks "Holy Roller"...
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Stream Thao & The Get Down Stay Down We The Common
We The Common is the latest album of wound-up, experimentally minded indie-pop that Portland's Thao Nguyen has recorded under the name Thao & The Get Down Stay Down. Indie production veteran John...
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Thao & The Get Down Stay Down –“Holy Roller” Video
"Holy Roller" was the first song that Thao Nguyen wrote for We The Common, her new album as Thao & The Get Down Stay Down. The jittery indie-folk tune was also the first song we heard from the...
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Outside Lands 2013 Saturday: Nine Inch Nails, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Grizzly Bear,...
Saturday at Outside Lands was a typical second day at festivals. The sets ran smoother, there were less technical problems, and the crowds seemed a little more laid back after the initial day 1...
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Watch Kurt Vile Cover The Clash’s “Guns Of Brixton”
Audio Ammunition is a new five-part documentary about legendary UK punk band the Clash put out this week by Google Play. The series was launched to celebrate the release of massive Clash 12-disc box...
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Red Hot + Arthur Russell Tracklist Features Sufjan Stevens, Robyn, Blood...
For decades now, the Red Hot Organization has been raising money for AIDS awareness by putting together finely curated compilations, and their next one could be amazing. The forthcoming double-CD comp...
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Thao & The Get Down Stay Down –“Nobody Dies”
Back in early 2013, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, the giddy and experimental San Francisco indie-pop project led by Thao Nguyen, released their album We The Common. Early next year, Nguyen and...
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The 5 Best Songs Of The Week
Earlier this week, we shared our favorite songs of 2015 -- 80 in total. It's been a hell of a year! So many good songs! But it ain't over yet, and there are still good songs arriving every week. Here...
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Thao & The Get Down Stay Down –“Astonished Man”
Thao Nguyen has been putting out consistently great off-kilter rock with her the Get Down Stay Down band for over a decade now. Her latest release is A Man Alive, which was produced by tUnE-yArDs'...
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Stream Thao & The Get Down Stay Down A Man Alive
Thao Nguyen's fifth album under the Get Down Stay Down moniker, A Man Alive, is perhaps her most fully-realized yet. Produced by tUnE-yArDs' Merrill Garbus, it throbs and pulses in a satisfyingly...
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Watch Merrill Garbus & Thao Nguyen Parody Diplo, Skrillex, & Justin Bieber
Last year, The New York Times posted a self-serious and self-serving making-of video of Justin Bieber, Diplo, and Skrillex talking about the hit song "Where Are Ü Now," featuring three people who...
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Thao & The Get Down Stay Down –“Get Ur Freak On” (Missy Elliott Cover)
Instagram.com/rizuliz">Right now, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down are out on tour in support of their vibrant new album A Man Alive. During the encore of every show, they've been playing a...
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Thao –“Before You Vote”
The prospect of a Donald Trump presidency is so terrifying that it's sparked 30 Days, 30 Songs, a project in which a different artist releases a new anti-Trump song every day until the election. We've...
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Thao & The Get Down Stay Down –“Meticulous Bird” Video
Thao Nguyen released her latest finely-crafted album with the Get Down Stay Down, A Man Alive, early last year, and today she's back to remind us of how great it was with a new video for "Meticulous...
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Mirah –“Little Cup”
Mirah releases her new EP, Sundial, next month. The EP comprises six older Mirah songs newly arranged with a string quartet courtesy of composer Jherek Bischoff, plus a new song called "Sundial" also...
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We’ve Got A File On You: Tune-Yards
We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.
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Thao & The Get Down Stay Down Announce Breakup
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down have announced that they are breaking up. “After over a decade of making music together, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down is dissolving,” the group wrote in a...
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In Memoriam: Bands We Lost In 2021
Last year a bunch of bands broke up, and then when they couldn’t launch farewell tours, postponed their goodbyes until 2021 or 2022. That’s why after 12 years I skipped making one of these videos in...
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