[MONTHLY] Mercurial Minds Motif: The Sights and Sounds Best Of May 2013

When people shut down their hearts, others always talk about opening them up as the end all be all. It’s like: “Hooray! Your heart is open again! Now deal with it, asshole!” Mash this process together with an intense, mercurial mind and attempt to mesh emotions and intellect as if they’ve always been the best [...]

[CONCERTIVUS] Rhye’s Full Set @ NYC’s Le Poisson Rouge

Rhye’s full set @NYC’s Le Poisson Rouge via NPR. [Concertivus]= Concerts for the rest of us. This is a new feature on the Sights and Sounds where we will be collecting all the best in studio/live performances from around the web so those who can’t make it to concerts can still get a taste of [...]

[EXCLUSIVE] Interview with The Weeks at Hangout Music Festival

Formed in the early spring of 2006 by a scraggly group of teenage kids, The Weeks – comprised at the time of Cain Barnes, Chaz Lindsay, Cyle Barnes, Damien Bone, and Samuel Williams – “demonstrated how much five kids between the ages of 14 and 16 knew about pain, death, love, loss and the trials [...]

[ELECTRO/POP] Martin Solveig & The Cataracs ft. Kyle – “Hey Now”

Bursting at the seams with all the frivolity and fun factor we’ve all grown to love, Martin Solveig returns to the spotlight with a masterful of slice electro-pop in “Hey Now” featuring The Cataracs and new kid on the block Kyle. Out now on Big Beat Records, “Hey Now” is fuel-injected playfulness that should last [...]

[VIDEO] The Lonely Island ft. Robyn – “Go Kindergarten”

The massively funny trio of The Lonely Island are back again with a hilariously too-smart-for-it’s-own-good single in “Go Kindergarten” featuring a (surprise) vocal appearance from Robyn in her first guest spot since the Body Talk albums. Featured on their upcoming The Wack Album, this has to be one of the most ridiculous songs I’ve seen [...]

[Concertivus] MØ + Yours Truly – “Pilgrim”

MØ “Pilgrim” from Yours Truly on Vimeo. [Concertivus]= Concerts for the rest of us. This is a new feature on the Sights and Sounds where we will be collecting all the best in studio/live performances from around the web so those who can’t make it to concerts can still get a taste of the indie [...]

[VIDEO PREMIERE] Brøthers- We Are Pushing On

When I originally found Brøthers debut single, “We Are Pushing On”, I was in a bit of a dark place. Exhausted by surviving two years of extensive chemo for lymphoma, I’d made it out alive but had been lingering for almost a year in a place of emotional stagnation. Maybe it was how hard I had [...]

[A CAPELLA] Lindsey Stirling & Pentatonix – “Radioactive” (Imagine Dragons Cover)

I love when artists think outside the box when it comes to covering other groups, and the a capella group Pentatonix plus violinist Lindsey Stirling have absolutely smashed their cover of Imagine Dragons‘ single “Radioactive.” Taking a steam punk-esque approach to the visuals, the group sings an impressive rendition of “Radioactive,” complimented by the sultry [...]

[K POP] PSY – “Gentleman”

Ok, I know what you’re thinking. Why in the world would we write about Psy‘s new K-Pop music video, “Gentleman” after being released two days ago and receiving already more than 122 million views on Youtube? Well, because it’s effin funny! After being inundated with “Gangnam Style” over the past year, I thought I had [...]

[EXCLUSIVE] Backstage Interview with Dragonette

Canadian pop trio Dragonette are a lot of things. Anyone who has spent some time with the group can attest that they are extremely talented, super nice and genuinely humble, and they have their own brand of quirkiness that they pull off with effortless cool. I first caught up with Joel, Dan, and Martina while [...]