Crystal Castles

Crystal Castles is an experimental electronic music band from the province of Ontario consisting of producer Ethan Kath and vocalist Alice Glass.[9] Crystal Castles are known for their chaotic live shows and their lo-fi, melancholic home productions.

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Will 2k10 be the ’shittiest year’ in the history of music/indie music?
I feel worried about 2k10. It seems like 2k9 is a year that we should feel ‘ashamed of’, and 2k10 is a year that we will sort of just emotionally ‘pull back’ our interest in tastemaking. I feel like 2k9 has had some ‘good products’, but maybe it was just a year where we are learning ‘how 2 use the internet’ when it comes to consuming music. It...
Bonnaroo 09 Lineup Announced
Following the rather lackluster Coachella announcement last week, comes Bonnaroo’s initial lineup for 2009.  At first glance, it’s quite the stellar lineup of bands, with the one glaring addition that jumped out at me being the Beastie Boys!  The one time I attempted to see them live was back in 2000, when they were set to tour with Rage Against the Machine, but was...
The Crystal Castle Mobile
[via pedestrian.tv] Yall, I just saw this amazing new transport vehicle. Was thinking about trading in my lime green VW bug for it, but then I realized that it is a car created by the popular web band CRYSTAL CASTLES. I remember when I posted a picture of Trapped in SuburbiaBro wearing a CRYSTAL CASTLES FAN CLUB branded shirt. Kinda like their logo. glad they are ‘branching out...
My Old Kentucky Blog Interviews Charles Cave of White Lies
My Old Kentucky Blog had the opportunity to get a few minutes on the phone with Charles Cave, bassist of the hot London band White Lies. We learned right away that this band is busy. So busy, in fact, that on the day we talked to Cave, the members of White Lies were fielding questions from the press all the way up until the last moments before the band hit the stage. The trio’s debut...
GLASSGATE 2K9 - BLOGHOUSE GONE WILD
I was recently browsing youtube, searching for live performances of all of my favourite bands, and I stumbledupon this video entitled “ALICE GLASS BEATS IDIOT OVER HEAD WITH MICROPHONE.” I watched it 2 find out what was happening. At the 1:25 mark, I noticed that the music stopped, and lead singer of Crystal Castles–Alice Glass–did something very violent. She slung...
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i (heart) these songs
download all the pretty songs in a zip file: A.M. 180: top 30 tracks of 2008 get them while they’re hot (or, you know, before they get deleted) 30 Jeremy Jay - “Beautiful Rebel” And so my list begins with a sigh. “Beautiful Rebel” is ghostly and reverent, and I love how important the actual words sound, like an incantation, or a summoner’s song. 29...
Gentle Friendly - Ride Around Shining
London duo Gentle Friendly’s DiY pop has needed to be lo-fi so long you fear discomfort in slicker sonic surrounds, fascination with Sizzurp-quaffing Lil’ Wayne or not. Still, there’s something oddly poignant and ceremonial about "Ride Around Shining", which starts off sounding like Yoni Wolf’s Why? and ends up loitering somewhere between Crystal Castles’...
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Lollapalooza 2009 - Recap and Day One Photos
The last Lollapalooza of the this decade is in the books and despite, what on paper, looked like a less than impressive lineup, it turned out another weekend of exciting and memorable moments just as in years past. Every year going at Lolla, one is expected to battle oppressive heat, but on Friday this year, Mother Nature decided to throw in a little something extra - a rain storm that only...
Crystal Castles
Band name: CRYSTAL CASTLES Label: PIAS Teaser: Susie Wild takes us undercover with the debut record from Crystal Castles - where she discovers misleading mellowness, references to dead lovers, and all sorts of sinister electro-riot goodness… Pull quote 2: These mischievous 8-bit misfits will slay you with their viciously emotive music… First para:...
Crystal Castles, These New Puritans, The Teenagers
Venue: Goldsmiths College, London Teaser: The phrase ‘rock ‘n roll riot’ feels a bit Topshop these days, so what better way to re-aquaint ourselves with the real thing than to witness some preening scenesters having their kecks removed and their hairstyles shat on by a punk rock band? Matt Dyson reports… Pull quote 2: they come armed with enough...
HOVE FESTIVAL PART TWO
Venue: Hove, Norway Teaser: It’s day two at Norway’s Hove Festival, and our correspondent Richard Davis is becoming increasingly strange and twisted. In today’s report he encounters fascist rallies, psychedelic haircuts and the dancing habits of rival music magazine hacks… Pull quote 2: they happily slip into every nu-metal stereotype in the holy book...
CRYSTAL CASTLES
Venue: Digital, Brighton Teaser: Nathan Westley catches up with our recent magazine cover stars in Brighton, where they’re scuzzy synth pop is going down a treat. But are the band taking less risks than they did with the early live shows? Read on and find out… Pull quote 2: the distorted synths hit you with so much force that if you weren’t paying attention they...
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