Articles By: Cameron

Tue, Jul 13 2010
Contest: See Pattern is Movement on a Boat

Contest: See Pattern is Movement on a Boat

Attention class, question number one: do you like highly theatrical math-rock played by slightly fey bearded men who, we assume, have more than a fleeting affinity for Radiohead and the collected works... 

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Fri, Jul 2 2010
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, “Garden”

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, “Garden”

We’re living large on a TEED tip right now, having fallen deep under the spell of the outfit’s new EP on Greco-Roman, entitled All in One Sixty Dancehalls (as well as appearing in the “Hello”... 

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Wed, Jun 23 2010
Rusko feat. Amber Coffman, “Hold On”

Rusko feat. Amber Coffman, “Hold On”

Seems like everywhere we’ve turned this year, Rusko‘s mug has been sneering back at us from the cover of his debut album O.M.G. (coincidentally, the album’s artwork was shot by none... 

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Wed, Jun 23 2010
Mystery Jets, <i>Serotonin</i>

Mystery Jets, Serotonin

For a music fan, the journey of the Mystery Jets has been exhilarating to watch. When they stumbled onto the scene in 2005 with the still-pretty-amazing “You Can’t Fool Me Dennis”, they... 

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Tue, Jun 22 2010
ceo, <i>white magic</i>

ceo, white magic

Okay. So if you have been paying attention over the last few months, you have probably heard the cosmically catchy stylings of ceo (and yes, before you email us, it’s supposed to be lowercase),... 

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Thu, Jun 17 2010
Diamond Rings, “Show Me Your Stuff”

Diamond Rings, “Show Me Your Stuff”

Here at ‘SUP HQ, we love a pop star. And we’re not talking some faux-indie, synth-plonking, hipster “pop” star: we’re all about kids who grew up dancing to Yaz, revere the... 

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Tue, Jun 15 2010
MP3: Hooray for Earth, “Surrounded by Your Friends (Twin Shadow Remix)”

MP3: Hooray for Earth, “Surrounded by Your Friends (Twin Shadow Remix)”

One of our favorite local Brooklyn bands right now is Hooray for Earth, the dreamy quartet of Gary Benacquista, Joseph Ciampini, Chris Principe and Noel Heroux. In the past year, H4E have completely blossomed... 

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Tue, Jun 15 2010
Preview: HARD hits LA and NYC

Preview: HARD hits LA and NYC

Music-wise, summer on the East coast can kind of suck. Other than the inimitable beachside fun-in-the-sun that is Siren, compared to our comperes across the pond, we ain’t got shit going for us... 

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Thu, May 27 2010
The Hundred in the Hands, <i>This Desert</i>

The Hundred in the Hands, This Desert

Having first experienced Brooklyn’s the Hundred in the Hands (also known as ex-Boggs member Jason Friedman and his musical cohort Eleanore Everdell) through their breakthrough indie-hit “Dressed... 

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Wed, May 26 2010
Dara Puspita, <i>Dara Puspita: 1966-1968</i>

Dara Puspita, Dara Puspita: 1966-1968

An hour ago, I had never heard of Dara Puspita, the Indonesian all-female garage-pop group from the mid-1960s. Maybe that makes me a bad ’60s music buff, but it’s the truth. Yes, I own a number... 

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Sat, May 15 2010
The Fall, <i>Your Future Our Clutter</i>

The Fall, Your Future Our Clutter

On “Cowboy George”, a track midway into the new album by Manchester post-punk legends the Fall, metallic, galloping guitars and thundering drum processions intertwine with what seems to be... 

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Wed, May 12 2010
Sleigh Bells, <i>Treats</i>

Sleigh Bells, Treats

I have to admit, I was on the fence about Sleigh Bells for a really, really long time. Like so many buzz bands before them, they popped up seemingly out of nowhere, sometime last fall: a couple of scuzzy,... 

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Sun, May 9 2010
Penguin Prison

Penguin Prison

Photos & Video by Abbey Braden It’s nice to see someone finally bothering to become a pop star. Saturday night at Brooklyn Bowl marked the second time Penguin Prison have played New York City... 

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Wed, May 5 2010
Juan Maclean, <i>DJ-Kicks</i>

Juan Maclean, DJ-Kicks

Another day, another DJ-Kicks, the highly lauded and career-solidifying compilation series from iconic German dance label K7 Records. Going strong since the mid-’90s, in recent years DJ-Kicks has... 

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Tue, Apr 27 2010
MP3: Konnichiwa, “Maiden China”

MP3: Konnichiwa, “Maiden China”

The budding NYC experimental electronic scene has birthed yet another soon-to-be-unhidden gem: Konnichiwa, the duo of San Francisco-born Kaela Noel and native New Yorker D.V. Caputo. Informed by both... 

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Wed, Mar 10 2010
Liars, <i>Sisterworld</i>

Liars, Sisterworld

So you’re listening to the new Liars record, Sisterworld—you’re holed up in your bedroom, it’s around midnight and you feel like you might know what to expect from the band’s fifth studio album.... 

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Sat, Mar 6 2010
R.I.P. Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous

R.I.P. Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous

Man, and we were having such a good day. The weird thing about living in the age of superfast information swapping is that you know that someone is dead the SECOND it’s announced–the concept... 

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Tue, Feb 16 2010
Bridezilla, “Western Front”

Bridezilla, “Western Front”

We went absolutely mental for Bridezilla last year, when we by chance caught them opening for the Drones in Brooklyn and playing ATP at Kutcher’s Country Club in the Catskills. We even nostalgically... 

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Mon, Feb 8 2010
Kings of Convenience

Kings of Convenience

Words by Cameron Cook Photos by Dana Goldstein Sometimes, conducting an interview is easy: you’re confident, you have all your ducks lined in a row, you’re cool and composed. It’s a walk in the... 

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Mon, Feb 8 2010
Hot Chip

Hot Chip

Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY Words by Cameron Cook Photos by Abbey Braden While waiting for Hot Chip to take the stage this past Saturday night at Music Hall of Williamsburg, my friend Bill... 

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Wed, Jan 27 2010
MP3: These New Puritans, “Orion”

MP3: These New Puritans, “Orion”

Back in 2007, when These New Puritans first arrived on the scene, we were stoked on their existence because they seemed to be bent on making a tighter, more cohesive version of the Fall, and we’d... 

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Wed, Jan 27 2010
MP3: Yeasayer, “O.N.E.”

MP3: Yeasayer, “O.N.E.”

We’ve always been pretty big Yeasayer fans, but the Brooklyn quartet’s upcoming album, Odd Blood, has basically pushed us over the edge, into a flaming abyss of frothing fandom. The whole... 

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Tue, Jan 26 2010
MP3: The Secret History, “Johnny Anorak”

MP3: The Secret History, “Johnny Anorak”

Indie pop, like so many cult-ish musical genres, can easily become a way of life. One day in your teens, you find yourself vaguely curious about a foppish singer named Morrissey; next thing you know,... 

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Fri, Jan 22 2010
HEALTH Down Under

HEALTH Down Under

The guys in HEALTH are on their way to Australia and New Zealand next month for a whirlwind tour of epic proportions. To prepare themselves (and their unwitting audiences, it seems), the band set up a... 

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Tue, Jan 12 2010
Salem

Salem

Glasslands New York City Words by Cameron Cook Photos & Video Stills by Dana Goldstein With two sold-out EPs, a forthcoming album, and only about 10 live shows under their belts, Salem have already... 

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Tue, Jan 5 2010
Owen Pallett, <i>Heartland</i>

Owen Pallett, Heartland

Words by Cameron Cook Out with the old, in with the new: during the last week of 2009, Owen Pallett, the musical visionary behind the Toronto-based baroque pop project formerly known as Final Fantasy,... 

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Thu, Dec 10 2009
DJ Hell feat. Bryan Ferry, “U Can Dance”

DJ Hell feat. Bryan Ferry, “U Can Dance”

German dance über-producer DJ Hell has just released a new video for his forthcoming single on Gigolo Records, entitled “U Can Dance”. So far, so Teutonic, that is until we realized–holy... 

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Fri, Dec 4 2009
Rihanna

Rihanna

Hammerstein Ballroom Words by Cameron Cook Video by Abbey Braden Is Rihanna the hardest-working woman in pop? In a year that has seen her complete a rather dynamic female pop trifecta along with Beyoncé... 

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Tue, Nov 24 2009
Broadcast

Broadcast

Le Poisson Rouge Words by Cameron Cook Photos by Diana Wong Hm, CMJ. Due to a nasty bout of the H1N1 (believe the hype, it totally sucks) and a slight disinterest in this year’s line-up, I ended... 

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Mon, Nov 23 2009
Lavender Diamond, “Like a Prayer”

Lavender Diamond, “Like a Prayer”

We at ‘SUP HQ have nothing but the most unabashed love for Lavender Diamond. Fromtwoman Becky Stark’s operatic coos always send us into a total state of bliss, and we’re eagerly anticipating... 

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Tue, Oct 27 2009
SSION, <i>BOY</i> Trailer

SSION, BOY Trailer

Back during the Brooklyn rock revival of the early ’00s, SSION were poised, along with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars and TV on the Radio, to critically and commercially overtake the planet with their... 

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Thu, Oct 22 2009
Marina & the Diamonds, “Mowgli’s Road”

Marina & the Diamonds, “Mowgli’s Road”

Since Marina and the Diamonds first came into our lives many moons ago (via our sisters in GIRLCORE nonetheless), the song that has always knocked our socks off more than the rest is “Mowgli’s... 

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Tue, Oct 6 2009
Sliimy, “Wake Up”

Sliimy, “Wake Up”

We here at ‘SUP love a good popstar, and skinny young thing Sliimy is the last one out of France we can recall giving two hoots about… at least since the late-90s heyday of Larusso and Lois... 

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Mon, Oct 5 2009
HEALTH

HEALTH

Bowery Ballroom New York City Words by Cameron Cook Photos of HEALTH at the Williamsburg Waterfront by Abbey Braden One of my favorite albums of 2004 was They Were Wrong, So We Drowned by Liars, a loosely... 

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Wed, Sep 23 2009
ZAZA, <i>Cameo</i>

ZAZA, Cameo

Words by Cameron Cook As a “serious” (please, quiet in the back) music journalist, I refuse to use the term nu-gaze. Do you hear me? REFUSE! The fact that the questionable genre already has... 

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