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...
View ArticleRed 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...
View ArticleThao & 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...
View ArticleThao –“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...
View ArticleThao & 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...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleThao & 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...
View ArticleThao & 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...
View ArticleThao & 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"...
View ArticleStream 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...
View ArticleThao & 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...
View ArticleOutside 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...
View ArticleWatch 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...
View ArticleRed 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...
View ArticleThao & 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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