LHB’s Shorties (Deerhunter, Times New Viking, and More)

The Georgia Straight profiles Times New Viking.

Since forming in 2005, Times New Viking has been at the forefront of the recent lo-fi resurgence in indie music. With its clamorous blend of snarling feedback and piercing tape-hiss-laden pop, the act has helped to forge a scene that includes other reverb-heavy bands like No Age, Sic Alps, and Vivian Girls.

Manchester Confidential examines the state of the British city’s indie record labels.

Deerhunter drummer Moses Archuleta talks to the Georgia Straight about the band’s sound.

“You could probably say that the way people play their instruments is reflective of their personalities,” says the low-key drummer, who also acts as the band’s manager. “I tend to like things to be uncluttered. I’ve always been wary of cluttering songs with a bunch of needless fills. With a band like ours, there’s a lot of layering of sounds going on. If the drums were played that way too, there’d be a danger of it all becoming a bit aimless.”

Guns N’ Roses Chinese Democracy album is streaming on MySpace.

Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg breaks down the band’s latest album, Rook, track-by-track at Drowned in Sound.

‘Home Life’

This song owes a musical debt to Van Morrison’s ‘You Don’t Pull No Punches, But You Don’t Push the River’, which I’ve always loved. I took some of the imagery in the beginning from my memories of growing up in Baltimore, and some of the end from Peter Matthiessen’s ‘Tigers in the Snow’, about the decline (and probable fall) of tigers in the wild.

Daytrotter features mp3s from the Uglysuit’s recent in-studio performance.

Seattle Weekly explains how to hype your band like Deerhunter.

Put the band on hiatus, for about five seconds. After your band breaks out with a sweet review from Pitchfork and you play the UK for the first time, announce on your blog—as Cox did last November—that you’re going on hiatus. But still record tons of music in the meantime and release your group’s new record soon afterward.

Spike lists the dumbest band names of all time.

- David Gutowski