Tag Archives: Major Lazer

Bright Light Bright Light

When one of our favorite sites for pop music (Popjustice) wrote that they’d signed on with Virgin Records to release some of the amazing tunes they write about, there was potential for great things. They haven’t disappointed.

The Go-Betweens: Australia's Most Influential Indie Band Of All Time?

On a recent business trip to Brisbane [the state capital of Queensland, Australia], a bout of insomnia saw me walking the streets of the inner-city in the early hours of the morning. Heading north, a prominent sign caught my eye: GO BETWEEN BRIDGE. Lodged in the back of my mind was a recent newspaper story, detailing the re-naming of an existing vehicle & foot passenger bridge [linking Brisbane’s inner-city to the suburbs] in honour of one of the city’s most popular indie bands of the 1980’s.

Q & A with Pretty Good Dance Moves

Fresh off the release of a self-titled EP, and a successful stint at SXSW, Pretty Good Dance Moves took time out of their busy schedule to talk music, television, and rather good dance moves.

Best Albums of 2010

Paper Trail Presents our selections for Best Albums of 2010

Top 10 Tracks of 2010

Paper Trail Presents our Selections for Best Songs of 2010

Next Big Sound at SXSW: A Music Intelligence Player

For those of you who couldn’t make it down to SXSW, you can keep track of which showcased bands playing in Austin right now are rising in popularity from the comfort of your own cramped apartment. NBS @ SXSW is live, reloadable and playable. What is it? Why, it’s that new-fangled tracking intelligence!

Hype By The Dashboard Light: Hype Machine Runs Smoothly Thus Far

Hype Machine, creator Anthony Volodkin will have you know, is not the new Napster, Kazaa or Ares in your life.

Music DNA

It’s undeniable that the MP3 has had a massive impact on the way we exchange, perceive and view music. Now members of the team behind its creation think they’ve found its successor.

Brooke and Rolyn of Glasslands

The Glasslands gallery ingeniously melds independent sound and art. A graffiti’d steel door tucked into the shadowy fringes of Williamsburg, The Glasslands gallery opens up into a Wonderland, where art and music are in constant dialog. Whose brains are behind this innovative sound-sight-feel experience?