Posts Tagged ‘Silversun Pickups’

Grammy Awards 2010: Who Will Win Best New Artist?

Tue Jan 26 2010 by Robbie Daw
Yesterday we offered our predictions for what will happen in all the major pop categories for the 2010 Grammy Awards, so today we turn our focus toward the list of hopefuls up for sometimes-cursed Best New Artist—i.e. the one field Beyonce and Taylor Swift aren't front-runnners. More »

The Silversun Pickups: They’re Pretty OK

Tue Sep 15 2009 by Maura

And by “OK” I basically mean “not worthy of adulation, nor of an immediate channel/frequency change once one of their songs starts playing from a media outlet,” and “vaguely interested, enough to possibly buy a record by them if it’s in the Amazon MP3 discount bin.” The video for their new single “Substitution” came out today; it was on AMTV—the six-hour block of music-video programming that every person who complains about MTV’s lack of music-related content seems to forget about, perhaps because it’s on in prime getting-ready-for-work time—this morning, and it was fine enough to take me through a few minutes during the 7 a.m. hour. Not great, vaguely recognizable as a Silversun Pickups song, and a cute video. In this cultural moment of the Internet breaking out in hate-hives over and over again, I think that’s just enough for me to ask for, no? Clip after the jump. More »


“Unplugged” Gets Rebooted For Our Attention-Span-Challenged Age

Fri Jun 5 2009 by Maura

MTV Unplugged is coming back to TV! Well, sort of: Come Monday, the first episode of the newly revived show, featuring throaty-voiced Briton Adele, will air on MTV’s morning video block AMTV–only it’ll air in chunks, with snippets of the six-song set as well as interviews and other backstage footage being meted out over the course of AMTV’s six hours. In order to watch the whole thing, you’ll have to fire up your browser and huddle in front of your computer while Adele performs “Chasing Pavements” and other selections from 19. New episodes will come out monthly, with next month’s installment featuring the Silversun Pickups. More »