Sleigh Bells Announce SPIN Cover (Oh, and 'SNL' Gig)
February 8, 2012 The word is out: Sleigh Bells are on the next cover of SPIN! Oh, and they're playing Saturday Night Live, too. …
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February 8, 2012 The word is out: Sleigh Bells are on the next cover of SPIN! Oh, and they're playing Saturday Night Live, too. …
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January 24, 2012 Last week Sleigh Bells dropped their new single, the fizzy and ferocious Reign of Terror single "Comeback Kid." Today, they add to their already stellar collection of ominous videos with the clip for the song, which starts in nicely Freudian fashion with singer Alexis Krauss jumping around on a bed in a red bathrobe while clutching a large gun, ends with guitarist Derek Miller doing a Breakfast Club style fist-pump freeze-frame, and get …
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January 16, 2012 Right at the tail end of 2011, Sleigh Bells shared "Born to Lose," the first single from their upcoming new album Reign of Terror. …
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December 13, 2011 With their needles-in-the-red 2010 debut, Treats, Sleigh Bells proved themselves capable of making a terrific noise. On their upcoming new album, Reign of Terror, due February 14 on Mom + Pop, the crunchingly melodic duo wanted to show they were capable of more. "[Reign of Terror] is me growing as a songwriter," says guitarist-producer Derek Miller, a few days after the album was finished being mixed. …
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December 2, 2011 Sleigh Bells are back! The metal-guitar-meets-dance-pop Brooklyn duo announced the existence of their sophomore effort, Reign of Terror, in a trailer posted online early this morning at a new website, ReignOfTerror.tv.
The clip is pretty oblique — it gives no release date yet for the album — but it does suggest that singer Alexis Krauss could have a fallback career as a Bond-film villainess. …
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October 17, 2011 The 31st CMJ Music Marathon is just days from descending upon New York City for its annual orgy of contract inking, palm-greasing and premature blogjaculations. There are more than 1,200 artists making the rounds this year and the internet is busy trying to make sense of the chaos — understandably we're not exempt and we pick our Top 30 here. …
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March 30, 2011 This week: Alexis Krauss, 25, elementary-schoolteacher-turned-indie-rock-heartthrob as the singer of Brooklyn noise-pop duo Sleigh Bells. The band plays Coachella in mid-April, then hits the road with CSS beginning April 28 in Orlando.
FAVORITE SONG:"'I Follow Rivers' by Lykke Li. ?While this may not be my favorite song of all time, it's definitely my current obsession. …
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March 17, 2011 It's not a real party until MTV shows up with the cameras. Which is what happened on Wednesday, when the network's dorm-room offshoot mtvU brought the open-bar Woodies Award show to Austin, TX, for the opening night of SXSW.
But first things first: Um... "Woodies"? Sure, flown-the-coop students love sexual innuendos as much as cheap beer and open bars, but, really, what's with the name? …
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