Features
Wednesday, January 21 2009
Part 1: AmpLive to Damien Jurado
From AmpLive to Damien Jurado, PopMatters offers up the first batch of Slipped Discs, 40 great albums that didn't quite make our year-end list in 2008, but our writers thought belonged there.
Reviews
Thursday, July 7 2011
Friendly Fires: 10 June 2011 - Hollywood
Though the trio of disco-punk kings known as Friendly Fires aren’t yet a household name, the boys are rock stars of the finest sense.
Monday, May 23 2011
Friendly Fires: Pala
The dumb joy of Friendly Fires’s ecstatic celebration should be more than enough though to sustain those who are wise enough to not confuse this for anything other than a pop album.
Monday, November 17 2008
Lykke Li + Friendly Fires
Live, Lykke Li is a show of force, and during an hour of mesmerizing, artfully arranged originals and a few covers, she confirmed there's plenty of teeth behind her tweeness -- and piquancy, too.
Blogs
Monday, November 14 2011
Friendly Fires Release Video for "Hurting"
It's November and the compiling of year-end lists is in full effect. Pity then that Friendly Fires waited until the month of eschewing the new…
Wednesday, August 10 2011
Friendly Fires + The Naked and Famous + Cults - Live at SummerStage in Central Park
On record, Friendly Fires are a kinetic blend of dance rhythms, massive washes of synthesizers and guitars and the blue-eyed soul yelps of frontman Ed Macfarlane. Live, however, they’re even better, a frenzy of motion from which the noise escapes.
Friday, April 29 2011
Friendly Fires - "Live Those Days Tonight (Back to '89 Rave Montage)"
The self-titled debut of Friendly Fires was the choice of yours truly in PopMatter's 2008 Slipped discs selection. Since then, the band has released an…
Tuesday, August 25 2009
Friendly Fires + The Phenomenal Handclap Band: 12 August 2009 - New York
12 August 2009 - Le Poisson Rouge, New York / Word and Pictures by Thomas Hauner
Wednesday, July 29 2009
Friendly Fires - "Kiss of Life" (video)
Friendly Fires sing emotively on a beach with mask clad drummers on their latest video "Kiss of Life". It's a pretty instantly memorable and catchy…
