LADY GAGA Rocks, But the Grammys Are Dead To Me

Lady Gaga opened the Grammy's this year with the theatricality we have all come to know and love from America's greatest current pop star. The performance - a medley of "Poker Face", "Speechless" and "Your Song" - featured a riveting duet and duel of the keys with Elton John. From there it was downhill the rest of the evening. Don't even get me started about the Best New Artist category. I still can't understand how Silversun Pickups even qualify in this category, but then Zac Brown beats out MGMT and The Ting Tings for the award! My nominees for this category would have looked like this:

The Antlers
Fever Ray
Lady Gaga
Neon Indian
The XX

The Sky Report - Videos of the Year

Fever Ray - When I Grow Up (dir. Martin de Thurrah)

When I Grow Up from Fever Ray on Vimeo.

The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea (dir. Doug Hart)


Depeche Mode - Wrong (dir. Patrick Daughters)

Depeche Mode - Wrong Video Clip
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Rainbow Arabia - Omar K (dir. Keith Musil)


The Flaming Lips - Watching the Planets (dir. Wayne Coyne & George Salisbury) (NSFW)

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Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks (dir. Patrick Daughters)


Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (dir. Richard Ayoade)


Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (dir. Francis Lawrence)


Matt & Kim - Lessons Learned (dir. Taylor Cohen and Otto Arsenault)


Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart (dir. Andreas Nilsson)

If I Had A Heart from Fever Ray on Vimeo.

The Sky Report - Albums of the Year

1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

2. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

3. The Antlers - Hospice

4. Fever Ray - s/t

5. The Horrors - Primary Colours

6. Atlas Sound - Logos

7. Natureboy - s/t

8. The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away

9. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

10. PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By

11. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport

12. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns

13. The XX - XX

14. Sharon Van Etten - Because I Was In Love

15. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

16. The Raveonettes - In and Out of Control

17. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

18. Nite Jewel - Good Evening

19. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - s/t

20. Real Estate - s/t

21. JJ - n° 2
22. Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
23. Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
24. Antony & the Johnsons - The Crying Light
25. Girls - Album
26. Woods - Songs of Shame
27. White Denim - Fits
28. Ganglians - Monster Head Room
29. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
30. Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight Collective
31. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
32. Dark Was the Night (compilation) - various artists
33. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
34. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
35. St. Vincent - Actor
36. Royksopp - Junior
37. Masterface - Freedom Tower
38. DâM-FunK - Toeachizown
39. Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
40. Telepathe - Dance Mother
41. Wavves - Wavvves
42. Gossip - Music For Men
43. The Sandwitches - How To Make Ambient Sadcake
44. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
45. Jeremy Jay - Slow Dance
46. Discovery - LP
47. Here We Go Magic - s/t
48. Micachu - Jewellery
49. Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
50. Night Control - Death Control

FULL YEAR-END COVERAGE HERE

New FEVER RAY Video - Keep the Streets Empty

Photos - FEVER RAY - Night One @ Webster Hall

-photos by Phoebe K. Waterson link

FEVER RAY - Triangle Walks

Here is the creepy third video taken from Fever Ray's amazing debut album. "Triangle Walks" has become one of my favorite tracks from the disc. I also really dig the new Rex the Dog remix (via P4K).

Triangle Walks from Fever Ray on Vimeo.

FEVER RAY Plans North American Tour

Fever Ray will bring her spellbinding live show to our shores in September. This is going to be genius!

09-28 New York, NY- Webster Hall
09-29 New York, NY - Webster Hall
10-01 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis
10-02 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus
10-03 Chicago, IL - Metro
10-05 San Francisco, CA - Grand Ballroom
10-07 Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theater

New ROYKSOPP - "Happy Up Here"

Royksopp, the electronic duo from Norway, are on the verge of releasing their latest album Junior. The new LP features guest appearances from Lykke Li, Robyn, and our most recent obsession, Karin Dreijer Andersson (Fever Ray/The Knife). And for some lucky Brits, Fever Ray will also be opening for Royksopp in London on March 11th.

As a precursor to the new release, Royksopp offer up this bouncy, escapist video for the lead-off track "Happy Up Here". Junior drops March 23 via Astralwerks.


Happy Up Here from Röyksopp on Vimeo.

New FEVER RAY Video - "When I Grow Up"

Martin de Thurah directed the second clip from Fever Ray's upcoming album, due March 24th via Mute. The new video is creepy and bizarre, but at the same time, beautiful and engaging.


When I Grow Up from Fever Ray on Vimeo.

Fever Ray is Karin Dreijer of The Knife. Thurah also directed the Royksopp video for "What Else Is There", which also featured Dreijer.

FEVER RAY - 'If I Had A Heart'

Fever Ray is the new project by Karin Dreijer of The Knife. The debut album is being released in the US on March 24th via Mute.  Not unlike The Knife, Fever Ray sounds like Satan singing torch ballads in a post-apocalyptic cabaret.  The result is haunting, sinister, and epic.  
Here is the creepy video for the new single 'If I Had A Heart', directed by Andreas Nilsson, known for his elaborate videos for Jose Gonzales and The Knife...