Robin Hilton

First Watch: Exitmusic, 'White Noise'

Robin Hilton — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:09:00 +0000

Exitmusic's Passages was one of 2012's darkest and most arresting ambient rock albums. Now, the band returns with an equally transfixing new video for one of the album's standout tracks, "White Noise."

The Gothic, gorgeously shot video shows Exitmusic's Aleksa Palladino and Devon Church as they slowly drift and turn in a dark pool of water. "'White Noise' is such a visual song," Palladino and Church write via email.

Question Of The Week: Do You Hear Music When You Dream?

Robin Hilton — Mon, 06 May 2013 17:44:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oxb4LayC7A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQXCELBPI6Q

How Are Your Music Tastes Changing As You Get Older?

Robin Hilton — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:53:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExLKJU0_bqQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhmvbywbAo4

Watch The Flaming Lips Perform 'Yoshimi' Live

Robin Hilton — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:24:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1SAwnU64Pc

First Watch: Yellow Red Sparks, 'A Play To End All Plays'

Robin Hilton — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:30:00 +0000

The songs of Yellow Red Sparks, a folk-pop trio based in California, are twisted tales told through cinematic, often epic orchestrations. In the group's spectacular and creepy new video, for the song "A Play To End All Plays," a couple's failed relationship is acted out like an old circus sideshow before a finger-wagging audience.

What Are Your Top Five Album Covers?

Robin Hilton — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:52:00 +0000

This past week we lost one of the greatest album cover art designers of all time. Britain's Storm Thorgerson, who died last Thursday, was just 69 years old. He'd spent more than 40 years designing and orchestrating some of the most iconic album covers of all time. Even if you don't know the name Storm Thorgerson, you know his work. That prism on the cover of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon?

First Watch: STRFKR, 'Beach Monster'

Robin Hilton — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:21:00 +0000

The new video for STRFKR's song "Beach Monster" is an absolute horror show disguised as a breezy day at the sea. The band members, decked out in matching Buddy Holly suits and glasses, play against an blank blue background while staring blankly into the camera.

First Watch: Junip, "Your Life, Your Call"

Robin Hilton — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:51:00 +0000

I love the crazy surprises you get when two or more artists get together and turn their creative ideas over to one another. When the band Junip wrote the song "Your Life, Your Call," frontman José González says, it was meant to be an unambiguous meditation on growing up, moving on and taking responsibility for your life.

First Watch: Keaton Henson, 'You'

Robin Hilton — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:17:00 +0000

The Keaton Henson who appears on the new album Birthdays is an avowed hermit with a profoundly broken heart. He also has one of the most beautiful voices I've heard. The 24 year-old singer from London, who says he rarely leaves his bedroom, bares his wrecked emotional remains in an arresting new video for the song "You."

Henson squats alone in the desert with his guitar, as the wind howls. It's a landscape as desolate as the shattered world he was left with after a former love betrayed him and crushed his heart.

Question Of The Week: What Is The Perfect Pair Of Headphones?

Robin Hilton — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:07:00 +0000

I've been buying headphones for 30 years now, have owned more they I can possibly remember and still haven't found the perfect pair. I must chew through one or two sets a year in a never-ending, desperate (and futile) search to find the right acoustics, feel and functionality. I've tried in-ear buds, over-the-ear hooks, full-sized cans and wireless. Some sound great but fit horribly. Or the fit is perfect but the sound too tinny, or the controls don't quite work. The truth is, I hate headphones, especially because I hate being tethered to my stereo. It's like wearing a leash.