Word: stereolab
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...Four Suture Stereolab (Too Pure/Beggars) Stereolab is getting old. Not in a fully bad way, but in the way that anything middle-aged becomes a little more predictable and a little less exciting. “Fab Four Suture,” the band’s latest release, culls together a year or so of music, previously released only on vinyl, and packs it into a single album, available, depending on your level of connoisseurship, as a CD, a limited edition double 10”, or a triple 7”. Variety’s great, but the elaborate...
...April 13, Clearlake was playing a much larger venue—the Roxy in the Theater District. In the hours before their show opening for Stereolab, the band quietly sip at bottles of beer in the venue as they haul equipment onto the stage with the help of their roadies. A publicist comes by with an allowance for this time: ten dollars each for use at the bar. A call goes up for some take-out Thai food. There is no lavish backstage playground for these musicians. Members of Stereolab periodically emerge from backstage to check the scene...
Clearlake has been sharing a short series of gigs with fellow Brits Stereolab, a band of constant cult fame. Over a decade-plus-long career, Stereolab has consistently released some of the most popular indie pop, and their fame is far greater than Clearlake’s at this stage in the game...
...We’re not really intimidated to be sharing the stage with Stereolab,” Woodward remarks. “I mean, they’re not really that much older than us. We’re good friends with a couple people in the band, so we manage to get on pretty well with them. They’re not so much this ‘elder generation...
...Cody Chesnutt proved the place of electronica and the electric guitar in the music of this new hip-hop movement. But Common’s new album delivers the exclamation point on an already strong declaration. In “New Wave,” Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab delivers a stunning vocal hook as Common declares his independence from the music industry. Meanwhile, “Jimi was a Rock Star” serves as a nod to the album’s most obvious musical influence, as well as a showcase for Common’s lyrical abilities...