Alexandria Wojcik

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  • Discogs Leads Vinyl Boom, Exceeds 43 Million in Sales for 2015

    Discogs, the online vinyl and CD marketplace, celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the site has shared some propriety information regarding its role within the US vinyl boom with Billboard: so far in 2015 the site has exceeded $43.5 million in sales. To translate that figure into terms we audiophiles prefer, that's 2.5 million records, half a million CDs and 50,000 cassette tapes. Furthermore, as Resident Advisor reports, the figures reflect an industry-wide increase in vinyl sales, with the stats in the US at their highest in 25 years.

  • Bill Murray Collaborates with Phoenix, Miley Cyrus, More in New Christmas Special Trailer [WATCH]

    Bill Murray is ringing in the holiday season with the Sofia Coppola-directed Christmas special A Very Murray Christmas airing on Netflix on November 4th. When Netflix announced the special back in May they called it an "homage to the classic variety show," which of course means the special boasts an all-star cast and lots of quirkiness. The new trailer dropped this week and with it came more glimpses of guest stars including including Miley Cyrus, Jenny Lewis, Phoenix, George Clooney, Amy Poehler, Michael Cera, Chris Rock, Jason Schwartzman, and Maya Rudolph among others.

  • Nicky Romero Admits He Suffers from Anxiety, Shares New “Lighthouse” Video [WATCH]

    Dutch EDM producer/DJ Nicky Romero has admitted he struggles with anxiety in a personal message posted via his artist Facebook account. Shortly after opening up about his mental health (don't worry: it ends on a positive note) the progressive house artist shared a video for 2014's "Lighthouse" which is the first installation of the Nicky Romero Trilogy. Watch the new video below.

  • DJ Kill Paris Changes Stage Name to Chill Harris After Terrorist Attacks in France

    Electronic producer Corey Baker, AKA Kill Paris, has decided to change his DJ name in light of the tragic terrorist attacks on Paris, France late this past Friday evening. As Dancing Astronaut reports, Baker explains in a lengthy Facebook post that after the recent violent events he feels it would be inappropriate to continue to use a stage name that risks being associated with, in his words, "the negatives in life." He changed his Twitter handle to @SaveParis and will now perform under the new moniker Chill Harris.

  • Deadmau5 Challenges Aaron Carter to Video Game Battle

    Deadmau5, the moniker of Canadian progressive-house producer Joel Zimmerman, challenged Aaron Carter to a video game battle after the American popstar uploaded a trap-ish remix-of sorts of Zimmerman's 2012 glitchy track, "The Veldt."

  • Fred Armisen and Bill Hader’s Blue Jean Committee Band Shares New Song From 'Catalina Breeze'

    Fred Armisen and Bill Hader's fake '70s soft rock band, Blue Jean Committee, has graduated from a "Saturday Night Live" sketch to a full-grown comedy band with a very real recording. The blue-eyed soulful parody band is releasing their debut EP, 'Catalina Breeze,' on November 20th via Drag City. Today, they've shared a new song from the forthcoming album entitled "Gentle and Soft," which you can listen to here.

  • Dozens Dead and Hostages Held During Eagles of Death Metal Concert in Paris

    Earlier tonight, a series of shootings unfolded at several Paris venues. Reports state that the deadliest of the multiple simultaneous attacks seem to have targeted the Bataclan concert hall during the Eagles of Death Metal’s sold-out performance Friday evening. The news is still breaking, but various media outlets have stated that there have already been multiple fatalities and anywhere between 60 to 100 hostages were held at the venue.

  • Missy Elliott Shares New Video for “WTF (Where They From)” Featuring Pharrell

    Missy Elliott has dropped the video for her new song "WTF (Where They From)," featuring a verse from fellow Virginian Pharrell Williams. It's been over a decade since the iconic late 90s/early 2000s futurist rapper has released an album and three years since she released a single. The new video, co-directed by Elliott and her longtime collaborator Dave Meyers, marks the artist's return to her roots. Watch "WTF (Where They From)" below.

  • Arcade Fire's Will Butler Reviews Grimes' 'Art Angels' Album

    Will Butler of Arcade Fire has reviewed Grimes' new Art Angels album on Talkhouse, the website where artists talk about other artists. Despite asserting early-on that "Grimes is coming, to a large extent, from the world of 2000s pop, but she creates a giant, esoteric, viable world teeming with all sorts of poisonous Jurassic life" the Canadian multi-instrumentalist and composer overcomes his general disdain for 2000s pop (and Jurassic-era life on Earth) for just long enough to compare Grimes to Eiffel 64 and discuss the cultural importance of Bob Dylan and Prince, among other pop music and literary icons.

  • Unheard Jeff Buckley Songs, Including Covers of The Smiths and Bob Dylan, to be Released

    A new album of previously unheard Jeff Buckley recordings, entitled You and I, is due out March 16 of next year via Legacy Recordings, NPR reports. Most of the forthcoming album's tracks are covers, including The Smiths' "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side" and "I Know It's Over," Bob Dylan's "Just Like a Woman," Sly and the Family Stone's "Everyday People" and Led Zeppelin's "Night Flight." Check out the full tracklist at the end of this article.

  • Computer-Generated Vocaloid Hatsune Miku Announces First North American Headlining Tour

    Digital pop star Hatsune Miku has announced her first North American headlining tour, Miku Expo 2016. For the uninitiated, the Japanese star is a computer-generated avatar that sings with the help of a synthesizer and performs with a backing band consisting of human musicians. The animated character is more than a performing hologram: fans can use her synthesized voice to create their own songs.

  • Flaming Lips, Glenn Danzig, Louis C.K. and More Appearing on 'Portlandia' Season 6

    "Portlandia" is scheduled to return for its sixth season, and today, Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen have announced the full roster of guests that will be joining them on the IFC sketch comedy show including Wayne Coyne and The Flaming Lips as well as comedian Louis C.K. among others. The new season will premiere January 21 on IFC.

  • Kieran Hebden, AKA Four Tet, Was an Extra in Radiohead’s “Creep” Video

    Kieran Hebden, AKA Four Tet, has revealed that he was an extra in the music video for Radiohead's seminal classic "Creep." The London-based electronic producer revealed the details of his 1993 cameo as part of the thrashing mass of moshers in the now-iconic video in a conversation with BBC 6 Music's Gilles Peterson during a special about Hebden's career entitled Worlds and Music With Four Tet. It's pretty much impossible to discern the artist's silhouette from the others in the video's crowd, but try to spot him in the video anyway, below.
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