dogdayafternoon
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Hate Something Beautiful ❤ With a lot of bands, you hear about them and then you forget them the next moment; somebody mentions their name a few months later and you say "Oh yeah… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ Passion Pit is a band from Boston that I had been keeping my eye on recently but had refrained from posting about because A) I've been super busy lately with… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ Both Cut Copy and labelmates The Presets were in LA a few weeks back and both did a quick interview and photo session with HSB and our cohort Shadowscene .… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ Very much opposite of the music in the post below this one (about Elvis Costello) is the music of Yellow Swans , an experimental/noise band (I suppose that's a bit… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ The combination of music and the word "free" is almost never a bad thing, and in the case of the Make Music Pasadena festival, it is certainly far from it.… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ The Helio Sequence is one of those bands that have been around for long enough, in my mind, that I sometimes almost forget they're there. I don't know if it's… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ Ladytron may have fallen off everyone's radar for a bit, but now they are back with a vengeance, on tour currently and about to play two sold out shows at… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ Last Tuesday, the 20th, Akmal and I attended the M83 and The Berg Sans Nipple show at the Echoplex. This show was absolutely packed; I haven't seen the Echoplex this… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ Earlier this week, HSB photographer Akmal Naim attended the Lykke Li and El Perro del Mar show at the El Rey, on Monday. Both of these are two of Sweden's… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ Well, I said it last week and now I'm following up on it: I'm giving away one copy each of Control (the Ian Curtis movie) and Joy Division , the… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ Twenty-one year old Florence Welch, aka Florence and the Machine , may not have released much material officially yet (her first and only release so far has been limited to… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ This past weekend was so crazy, I didn't have time to do a More Music Monday yesterday, so I'm doing one this week on Tuesday. Today. The Morning Benders ,… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ If you'll think back a little bit, you'll remember that a couple of months ago, HSB's photographer Akmal Naim and I went on a school bus for one of the… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ Nosaj Thing is the alter ego/production name of 22 year-old Jason Chung from Los Angeles, who creates some fascinating and relaxing electronic music. No pounding bass or glitchy blog-tricks here,… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ One of my favorite newer (relatively) UK bands, Late of the Pier , have certainly been keeping themselves busy. They're releasing a double A-side single in the UK on May… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ Leaks have now become an accepted part of the music industry nowadays; it's no longer a question of if an album will leak before its release date, but when it… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ | Photo by Alyssa Scheinson | Here's some news that made my poor little post-hardcore heart pitter-patter (after having hidden for years behind my much-aligned "indie rock heart" and my… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson , our favorite new singer/songwriter , is getting ready to take over the world, and he's doing it one city at a time, embarking on a… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ Well, isn't this just a nice little combination of events for us? Not only are we here at HSB (obviously) big fans of The Dodos , but the fact that… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ Here is the new Black Ghosts video for "I Want Nothing," their latest single being released in the UK. It'll be out in the UK on April 28th with remixes… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ As those of you who read HSB regularly may know, while my taste in music may, for the most part, lie in the "indie" scene, I still enjoy some bands… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson certainly isn't making it easy for anyone to remember his name, but at least he'll be hard to forget, as "the guy with the four-word name."… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ When they released their first album, Passover , The Black Angels released what I considered to be the best albums of 2006, a psychedelic take on hazy Velvet Underground-inspired rock… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ Last week, Jagjaguwar's Bon Iver played at The Echo, on Thursday, the 20th. Our photographer Akmal was there, capturing the beautifully falsetto voice of Bon Iver. It's some of the… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ Last night, Akmal and I attended what had to be one of the most random shows I have ever been to. The band was Mr. Free and the Satellite Freakout… Read full post »
Hate Something Beautiful ❤ I didn't realize until I just looked a second ago that I haven't done a More Music Monday in two months - holy shit. I knew I'd been busy with… Read full post »