[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54eCmg_f3YQ] New Girl has been a success thanks to Zooey Deschanel’s “Jess” character, Max Greenfield’s “Schmitty,” and of course Jake Johnson’s “Nick Miller.” For the new edition of Made Man’s Speakeasy series, Paul F. Tompkins sits down with Jake Johnson, in which our fellow Chicagoan opens up about […]
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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R44Qh2P7wo0] The latest video from Thee Oh Sees are really something else. The visuals show a guy who just can’t catch a break… as he tries to get away with murder! After getting caught dragging a body in a bag into his van, he has “take care” of
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The Wytches ooze Garage Rock and their track, “Beehive Queen,” is a perfect example of that. It starts out sounding a bit like Favourite Worst Nightmare-Era Arctic Monkeys and then come in the vocals, which sound an awful lot like Jack White without sounding like a cheap impersonation.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4EdR3APLKRw#!] Part of the magic of Coachella (which we don’t really get out here in Chicago for Lolla) is that artists consistently bring out other artists to perform some tracks along with them. In this case James Blake’s track “Take A Fall For Me,” off of Overgrown, actually
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPlm53Iy52c&feature=player_embedded#!] During his set on the second weekend of Coachella, Danny Brown debuted “Dope Song,” a new track that may or not appear on his forthcoming LP, Old. Previously, Brown has already dropped “Kush Coma” and “#Express Yourself” as looks into what his new material has in store. See him perform
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Songstress Lana Del Rey brings hey sultry voice to The Great Gatsby Soundtrack in classic form. Del Rey wails the heart-felt line, “Will you still love me when I’m no longer young & beautiful?” throughout the song and it plays excellently with the film’s story as well as bringing
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MGMT’s Record Store Day limited-edition release of their new track, “Alien Days” dropped as a cassingle. Most of us weren’t lucky enough to get a copy of the cassette but luckily the band put the new song available for streaming on SoundCloud. “Alien Days” is the first single
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Kendrick Lamar, the world’s best rapper right now, has announced the dates of “good kid, m.A.A.d city” World Tour. He’s currently out touring with Steve Aoki until May 4 for the Verge Campus Tour. Just one day after that, Lamar will start his own tour. The tour will
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieSFGMkbkTc The craziness surrounding the official release of the new song from Daft Punk was huge until we finally got the real thing last night at midnight. Now, MissInfo has reported that Pharrell has performed the song live for the first time. “Get Lucky” got the live treatment
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRqn0DXlNro] Alt-J went on Conan and performed “Breezeblocks,” from their album An Awesome Wave. It lacks the impact their crazy reverse-action video this track has featuring a couple fighting, but it’s still a pretty good performance. See it above.
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http://youtu.be/niSaZQSWtQA With the release of their new album, Bankrupt!, just a few days away, Phoenix headed over to Jimmy Kimmel Live! and performed some of their new tracks. The French band played their hit lead single, “Entertainment,” plus 3 other songs from the album, those being “Trying To
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSNapvrROo4] Now that the season is over and we’re just waiting on these playoffs to really kick in, the NBA put together this compilation video of the best dunks of the 2012-2013 season. Dunks from Kobe, Blake Griffin and of course, DeAndre Jordan’s monster slam. Check out the
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