In Glass Candy’s new video for the slow, unsettled electro-pulse “The Possessed,” singer Ida No skulks around a carnival and performs to a fired-up crowd in a venue so immaculately designed that it doesn’t look real. Frequent collaborator Alberto Rossini films everything in his trademark grainy late-&#...

Ida No and Johnny Jewel a/k/a Portland’s Glass Candy premiered a new track at a fashion show in Paris yesterday, “The Possessed (Runway Edit).” It’s over seven minutes of drawn-out, mid-tempo synth pop matching a seemingly wide-eyed mood with some lyrics that are actually sort of dark: “Through t...

Over the weekend, Italians Do It Better announced the forthcoming release of After Dark II, a compilation featuring new music from the likes of Glass Candy, Desire, Chromatics and more. An edit of a Chromatics contribution called “Looking For Love” also surfaced, a gurgling, pristine piece of production which you can hear bel...

Over the weekends, Italians Do It Better announced the forthcoming release of After Dark II, a compilation featuring new music from the likes of Glass Candy, Desire, Chromatics and more. An edit of a Chromatics contribution called “Looking For Love” also surfaced, a gurgling, pristine piece of production which you can hear be...

Even though the score he created for the movie ended up unused, Drive is the best thing that could’ve ever happened to Johnny Jewel. Jewel is the hazy-synthpop producer and multi-instrumentalist behind groups like the Chromatics, Glass Candy, and Desire. Over the past few years, he’s been one of the world’s leading ...