Julianna Barwick

Will The Chart-Topping Success Of fun.'s "We Are Young" Break Pop-House's Top 40 Stranglehold?

The new No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, crowned today, is the grandiose slice of car-commercial-approved arena-pop "We Are Young," by the trio fun. Thanks to some massive sales at iTunes and other digital outlets—302,000 of them last week—"Young" leapt over Kelly Clarkson's "What Doesn't ... More >>

Meet Korallreven, The Swedish Pop Duo With Airy Melodies And An Ear For New York City

"Korallreven" is the Swedish word for "coral reef," and that imageappropriately sums up the Swedish dream-pop duo's beautiful, yet threatening sound, which is both beautiful and threatening. Korallreven's music is filled with these kinds of dualities: cold and sunny; vast and intimate; light and hea ... More >>

NEW SPIRITUALS

Sun Araw and Prince Rama team up

Live: Julianna Barwick And Ikue Mori Keep It Minimal At White Columns

Jenn Pelly​ Julianna Barwick & Ikue Mori White Columns Gallery Thursday, July 14 Better than: Spending twelve hours in a tiny car driving to Chicago to watch Julianna Barwick play this weekend at Pitchfork Festival. (Oh wait...) The not-for-profit White Columns Gallery describes itself as " ... More >>

Q&A: Helado Negro's Roberto Carlos Lange on "The Message," Gigantic Floppy Discs, and the Album He's Making with Julianna Barwick

by Andrew Stout ​First there's the owl; then there's the enormous afro. The sight of the two in close proximity means you've likely entered Roberto Carlos Lange's domain, whether it be through the front door of his Brooklyn home or by hearing one of the dozens of sound sculptures and animated ... More >>

Live: Lustmord's Live-Action Horror Movie Rattles Chairs, Brains

Lustmord/Void Ov Voices/Robert Piotrowicz Abrons Art Center Sunday, April 10 Lustmord has 300 types of rumble. Yesterday afternoon at his second American show in 30 years--his first in New York--he broke out the one that clears your sinuses, the one that itches the waxy parts of your ear canal, t ... More >>

Julianna Barwick's Sound-World

Using vocal loops to get back to church, or at least that one tree she loved

Download: Julianna Barwick's Joyfully Narcoleptic "The Magic Place"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Pic by Jody Rogac​The last we heard from Brooklyn's Julianna Barwick, back in the early days of YIMBY, she was a relative unknown enchanting us with her home-recorded, digitally released 2009 EP Flor ... More >>

Download: Beauclerk's Ice-Machine-Inspired Ambient Daydream "Dance Of The Stars"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Low-resonance, high-discomfort ambient drifter Beauclerk is a one-man drone menace, mixing glory and danger via saxophone and a Line 6 pedal. The seismic side gig of James Bradley, owner of trusty W ... More >>

Download: Megafortress, "Freedom From Fear"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​The one-man desert-drone machine Megafortress lurks between the terrifying and sublime--a fertile combination of the zone-altering synth spookery of Oneohtrix Point Never, the spectral moans of Lich ... More >>

Tonight! Julianna Barwick, Todd P, Ryan Schreiber, Blissed Out, Lou Reed, Sonic Youth, Moby, And Black Keys

via PitchforkThe Barwick-meister​Tonight, Julianna Barwick mimics the cries of weeping dolphins and angels with Bieber Fever at Le Poisson Rouge, her latest vocal-loop monastery. For the show's after-party, venture out to Monster Island Basement, where she's spinning her first DJ set alongside ... More >>

The 1000TimesYes Top 100: The Top 100 2009 Records Of A Guy Who Listened To More Records Than You

You know, we actually have other shots of Chris, he just won't let us use them. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​As a guy who plausibly could claim he listened to more music than anyone in the last year short of Robert Christgau, 1000TimesYes's Christopher R. Weingarten seemed like the ideal guy to as ... More >>

Yes in My Backyard: Download a Mixtape of 2009's Best Local Music, Starring Black Dice, Sleigh Bells, Antipop Consortium, and More

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. This is a compilation of 2009's best local music, lovingly curated by YIMBY columnist Christopher R. Weingarten Your curator this evening, lost in the Death By Audio maze. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​Ne ... More >>

CMJ: Sian Alice Group and Julianna Barwick Take Back the Cake Shop; Holly Miranda Holds Court at Le Poisson Rouge

At Santos, not Cake Shop, but same idea. Let's make a vast generalization here: there is a certain male prerogative that responds to CMJ's fever pitch of hype and borderline hostile audiences by becoming--for lack of a better word--Pavement. He will climb up on a stage, only to signal that he has ... More >>

Week in Review: Pajamas Are Pussified

Kylie! Photo by Santiago Felipe.​In the week a tiny little boy named Falcon first captured America's heart and then threw up on that heart on live television and even rhymed about doing so in song, we swam feebly in the ocean of headlines involving both Michael Jackson and Paul Anka, DJ AM and ... More >>

Watch: Julianna Barwick's "Sunlight, Heaven"

Clocking in somewhere halfway between music video and performance doc is Ray Concepcion's treatment of Julianna Barwick's "Sunlight, Heaven," shot recently at Brooklyn's Littlefield. It definitely reclaims all the loopy majesty of her voice. Still, as between fuzzy optics and crystal clear takes o ... More >>

SMASH IT UP

Chain and the Gang do stripped-down soul-punk

Yes In My Backyard: Download Helado Negro's "Deja"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Visual artist and sound sculptor Roberto Carlos Lange, a.k.a. Helado Negro, is a sponge that soaks up nothing but the breeziest sounds. Summertime hip-hop jams, Tropicalia, and '80s New York club b ... More >>

Watch Julianna Barwick Do Her Ecstatic Crooning Thing Live

Julianna Barwick, whose delightfully warm and echoing "Bode" graced this site yesterday, stopped by the Time Out New York offices to give a live demonstration of her ethereal one-woman choir technique. On display: the adept vocal range she bragged about to us yesterday; loops in action; and what ap ... More >>

Week in Review: I Say "Your Alley" with the Utmost Respect

This is how we roll now. Photo of Electric Zoo inappropriateness by Puja Patel.​Short weeks are the longest of them all, aren't they? In honor of the rain and cold outside, and in the interest of killing just a bit more time before it gets good and dark, let's run things back. Relive the week ... More >>

Download: Julianna Barwick's "Bode"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Julianna Barwick photo by Claire Titley​Brooklyn one-woman choir Julianna Barwick makes ambrosial symphonies using just her voice and a loop pedal. With her church upbringing and punk rock attitude, ... More >>

Tim Hecker+Grouper

Wordless Music Series Announces Fall 2009 Lineup, Starring Destroyer, No Age, Mount Eerie, Tim Hecker, Broadcast, and Micachu and the Shapes

Here we have the fourth-annual slate of Wordless Music fetes, pairing as always electronic and indie-rock types with classical musicians, to presumably horizon-expanding effect. We kick off in September with that bananas Warp Records birthday-party deal (feature Battles, !!!, Flying Lotus etc.), ... More >>