Lisa Papineau releases her Sargent House debut, Red Trees on May 4th

Digging into M83's past, the new webOS Palm Pre smartphone ad gets its soundtrack from a section of Before The Dawn Heals Us closer "Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun." It was directed by Tarsem and features 1000+ orange-clad martial arts folks choreographed by Sun Yupeng in a large green field backed by misty mountains. Sound beautiful? It...

Digging into M83's past, the new webOS Palm Pre smartphone ad gets its soundtrack from a section of Before The Dawn Heals Us closer "Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun." It was directed by Tarsem and features 1000+ orange-clad martial arts folks choreographed by Sun Yupeng in a large green field backed by misty mountains. Sound beautiful? It...

Once you strip White Lies' "Nothing To Give" to its core components, there's no question the band picked the best possible artist to remix it. There's Harry McVeigh's aching, echoing vocal; that overarching adolescence to its "When you said goodbye, I almost died" emotion; even the synths, and strings, and stadium guitars -- all perfectly calibr...

Call it fansourcing, call it laziness, but the "make our music video!" press releases that flood Stereogum's inbox make me yearn for the days of "Scream." Of course labels have no money and MTV/VH1 only programs videos for insomniacs, so I empathize with artists forced to support homemade garbage. But sometimes inspiration strikes and everybody ...