Ghostland Observatory at Lolla 07

After debuting at the 4th Annual Sound Unseen Festival, Tapes ‘n Tapes have been enjoying an impressive amount of national and international attention in various magazines, newspapers, music sites, and blogs. especially after the group performed at this year’s South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX to stellar reviews. The boys have recently joined bands such as The White Stripes, The Prodigy, and M.I.A. and signed with XL Recordings and completed a seven show tour of the UK in May. Up next? Tapes ‘n Tapes will be headlining their first U.S. tour beginning in June 2006, including two sold out performances at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom, and can be seen at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago July 2006.
You can also get your hands on a vintage Sound Unseen DVD for their first music video - which was born by the band at a make-yer-own-music-video booth at the Mall of America…in Bloomington, Minnesota (east?).

Read about Tapes ‘n Tapes:
Rolling Stone Album Review
NME Album Review
Rolling Stone Article (April ‘06)
Pitchfork Album Review
Tapes ‘n Tapes on XL Recordings
New York Times Review of SXSW featuring Tapes ‘n Tapes

Thumbsucker, the first feature film written and directed by Mike Mills debuted at the 2005 Sundance film festival. The film, based on the novel by Walter Kirn, stars Keanu Reeves, Vincent D’Onofrio, Tilda Swinton, Benjamin Bratt, Kelli Garner, Vince Vaughn, and Lou Pucci, who won the Sundance 2005 Special Jury Prize for Acting for his performance.

>Thumbsucker Website

2005 saw the release of “Drums of Death”, DJ Spooky’s CD based on sessions he recorded with Dave Lombardo of Slayer. Other guest artists include Chuck D. of Public Enemy and Vernon Reid of Living Color. The record was co-produced by Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto. DJ Spooky is also a professor of music mediated art at the European Graduate School where he co-teaches (with Michael Schmidt) Intensive Summer Seminars in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. His most recent projects have included The Sounds of Katrina, an experience of the city of New Orleans through words and music as the city prepared to celebrate Mardi Gras. Also, a DJ Spooky video shot and instructional interview are featured on the new Microsoft site called Crossfader.com, that aims to become a resource and guide for DJs and electronic musicians using PCs, rather than Macintosh computers.
Links:

>DJ Spooky Site
>Sound of Katrina on NPR
>Microsoft Crossfader

Local boys The Hopefuls made a big splash when their single “Lets Go!” featured on MTV’s “Laguna Beach”.

>Check out their website through 2024 records