Watch/Listen: New Rustie and Owen Pallett Tracks From Everything Is New...
[placeholder:mediastore.audiofile.8782][placeholder:mediastore.audiofile.8781]Rustie and Owen Pallett are two of the contributors to a pair of compilation albums benefiting Scottish Love in Action, a...
View ArticleArcade Fire, Karen O, Spike Jonze, Pharrell, Owen Pallett Receive Oscar...
[placeholder:mediastore.audiofile.8082]The 2014 Academy Awards air March 2 on ABC, and the nominees have just been announced. Karen O and Spike Jonze are in the running in the Original Song category,...
View ArticleOwen Pallett Announces New Album In Conflict Featuring Brian Eno, Plus Tour -...
Owen Pallett has announced the follow up to 2010's Heartland and Swedish Love Story EP. It's called In Conflict, and it's out May 13 via Domino/Secret City. It features contributions from Brian Eno on...
View ArticleVideo: Owen Pallett: "On a Path" and "The Riverbed", Featuring Brian Eno - News
Owen Pallett's new record, In Conflict comes out May 13. Today, he's shared videos for two songs featured on the upcoming release. Watch the lyric video for "On a Path" (which premiered via The New...
View ArticleUpdate: Owen Pallett - Feature
The frequent Arcade Fire collaborator and art-pop auteur spars with Ian Cohen about the end of the world as we know it, the evils of capitalism, why he thinks so many people got Reflektor wrong, and...
View ArticleRead Owen Pallett's Essay on Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" and Music Theory -...
Photo by Elisabeth VitaleOn March 18, The Daily Beast ran an article by Ted Gioia bemoaning the lack of music theory and technical knowledge that appears in music criticism these days. Of the many...
View ArticleRead Owen Pallett's Analysis of Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" - News
Photo by NabilEarlier this week, Owen Pallett wrote an essay in which he analyzed Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" using music theory. At the end, he noted that the analysis was a fairly easy task. "If I...
View ArticleRead Owen Pallett's Essay on the Genius of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" - News
Last week, Owen Pallett set out on a mission: to explain big pop hits using music theory. So far, he's taken on Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" and Daft Punk's "Get Lucky".
View ArticleDaphni and Owen Pallett Collaborate on New Single - News
[placeholder:mediastore.audiofile.9792][placeholder:mediastore.audiofile.9791]Daphni (Dan Snaith of Caribou and Manitoba) and Owen Pallett have collaborated on a split single, "Julia" b/w "Tiberius"....
View ArticleOwen Pallett Shares "Song for Five & Six" Video, Pushes Back New Album...
Owen Pallett's new record, In Conflict is out May 27 via Domino/Secret City. (It was originally slated for a May 13 release.) Following the lyric video for "On a Path" and music video for "The...
View ArticleIn Conflict - Album Review
Since abandoning his Final Fantasy guise to make music under his own name, Owen Pallett's treated his work like a logic maze; on his latest, which features contributions from Brian Eno, he steps free...
View ArticleOwen Pallett Again Explains the Mechanics of Pop: Beyoncé, Haim, Ariana...
Owen Pallett has again stepped up to explain the technicalities of pop through music theory, following his explanations of Daft Punk, Lady Gaga, and Katy Perry. At Buzzfeed, Pallett writes about...
View ArticleArcade Fire Add Spoon, tUnE-yArDs, Owen Pallett, Constantines, Dan Deacon to...
Photo by Ryan MuirArcade Fire are currently in the middle of a giant international tour. Earlier today, it was announced that the newly reunited Unicorns will open several of the shows, along with Dan...
View ArticleOwen Pallett Remixed by DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn, Announces Tour - News
Owen Pallett has shared a collection of remixes of his song "Song for Five & Six" from his latest album In Conflict. They come from the late DJ Rashad and his collaborator DJ Spinn, Ada, and the...
View ArticleFoxes in Fiction Share "Shadow's Song" Featuring Owen Pallett - News
[placeholder:mediastore.audiofile.10191]Foxes in Fiction have shared "Shadow's Song", which features violin by Owen Pallett and appears on their forthcoming Ontario Gothic LP, which is out September 23...
View ArticleOwen Pallett Discusses Mariah Carey and "Call Me Maybe" in New Pop Theory...
Owen Pallett released an album called In Conflict this year. But he's also allotted a fair amount of time to a unique side project: explaining the theoretical mechanics of pop music. He's previously...
View ArticleTanya Tagaq Beats Arcade Fire and Drake to Win Polaris Prize - News
UPDATE: Throat singer Tanya Tagaq's album Animism won the Polaris Music Prize, beating Arcade Fire, Drake, Mac DeMarco, Chromeo, Owen Pallett, Tim Hecker, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, and others. She wins...
View ArticleArticles: Our Bandwidth Could Be Your Life - Feature
Twenty years after the Internet went mainstream, artists including Feist, Thundercat, Ariel Pink, Flying Lotus, El-P, Japandroids, and many more remember their first online experiences. By Stuart Berman.
View ArticleOwen Pallett Shares "In Conflict" Video - News
Owen Pallett has shared the video for the title track of his very good album In Conflict. Directed by Jason Last, it's a video with quiet moments of conflict and long blank stares into the camera....
View ArticleStaff Lists: The 100 Best Tracks of 2014 - Feature
From Perfume Genius' heroic glam, to Sophie's oil-slick electronic excursions, to Young Thug's masterful weirdness, to Taylor Swift's bulletproof pop, to Future Islands' sweeping synth rock, these are...
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