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Our Favorite Visuals of the Year
Jan 03, 2014
By Mike Hilleary
While the days of watching music videos on television are long gone, over the past several years the visual art form has certainly found second life (like so many other things) as an excellent online commodity. More
New Album Praxis Makes Perfect Out Now
May 03, 2013
By Mike Hilleary
This week Neon Neon released their newest LP Praxis Makes Perfect. More
New Track Off Praxis Makes Perfect
Mar 08, 2013
By Mike Hilleary
Neon Neon‘s Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip have unveiled the first track off their forthcoming new album Praxis Makes Perfect. More
Out April 29 Via Lex Records
Jan 24, 2013
By Laura Studarus
It’s been a minute since we heard from Neon Neon. But now the Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip super duo is prepared to return with a vengeance. More
Also Nick Cave, Neon Indian, and Yoko Ono
Jan 13, 2012
By Mike Hilleary
The Flaming Lips just can’t seem to help themselves anymore (as if they ever could). More
Announces U.S. Tour in Support of 'Hotel Shampoo'
Feb 25, 2011
By Lauren Barbato
Gruff Rhys loves collecting mini bottles of shampoo from various hotels. This spring, it looks like his stash will certainly get a boost. We have the details. More
Debuts Video for Latest Single
Feb 07, 2011
By Lauren Barbato
Super Furry Animals frontman
Gruff Rhys is bringing his latest solo effort to America via Witchita Recordings. We have the details. More
Hotel Shampoo due February 2011
Nov 09, 2010
By Lauren Barbato
You never know what to expect from Gruff Rhys, whether it’s an album written entirely in Welsh (2005’s Yr Atal Genhedlaeth) or equipped with 96” cardboard sheets to make your own “candylion” (2007’s Candylion). For Hotel Shampoo, his latest solo album that’s slated for a February 2011 release, Rhys has again taken his inspiration quite literally. More
Interviews
Apr 02, 2008
By Marcus Kagler
Any child of the ’80s knows the idea of the year 2000 back then was really insane,” says Bryon Hollon (aka Boom Bip). “There were a lot of TV shows and movies with laser guns and hover cars and stuff. According to Gruff, all roads from the ’80s lead to John DeLorean.” More
Reviews
May 07, 2013
By Dan Lucas
Concept albums, by and large, have a bad reputation: self-indulgent, bloated, and lost in their own sense of importance. Pink Floyd, for example, had a penchant for them and with it earned, fairly or otherwise, the contempt of the 1970s hipster crowd. The tag of onanistic prog rockers has remained with them through to this day; therefore it must be seen as something of a risk for any contemporary outfit to tread a similar path. More