Articles by Lauren Doyle
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Heavy Stuff
There is nothing more musically universal than the breakup album. This week, Los Campesinos!, the lyric-happy septet from Wales that we first met at Lollapalooza enters theirs into the canon. Of course, Los Campesinos! does the breakup ... -
This Might Sound Crazy...
Some people love David Lynch, others...not so much. I'm on the fence. I appreciate his work, his enthusiasm for character, and just the fact that there is somebody like Lynch out there, doing the kind of work that Lynch does. The work itself though, is just ... -
The Making of a Video
Surrender the Fall was in Miami recently to make a video for their first single, "Love Hate Masquerade" off their debut album, due in early 2012. The single, lead singer Jared Cole says, is based on a real-life love-hate relationship he had with a girl ... -
Dance Goes Deep
Miguel Migs is not your average purveyor of electronica. Influenced by his love of soul and funk, every track is steeped in humanity, making for music that stays with you long after you've left the club. I recently spoke to Migs about the process behind his ... -
Samplicious
DJ Shadow aka Josh Davis, the godfather of the musical sample, is back today with a new album, The Less You Know, The Better, out today on Roc-a-Fella Records. The sample-heavy album combines the sounds of multiple genres for an album that sometimes ... -
RHCP Are Born Again
Flea calls it a "rebirth." Anthony Kiedis says it's a "beginning." Chad Smith calls it "a new a band." What are these Red Hot Chili Peppers talking about? Themselves, under the influence of I'm With You, their sparkling new album, out today on ... -
So You Want to Go to Machu Picchu...
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Lost City of the Incas by American explorer Hiram Bingham. A million people are expected to tour Machu Picchu’s ancient corridors this year. Want to be one of them? First, you’ll ... -
Be Afraid - Be Very Afraid
If you've been to a mainstream music festival in the last decade, chances are you've been among the crowd when the sun started to set, and a couple of DJs took the stage (along with a couple of singers, and a sitar player) and the music started up, and the ... -
Post-Determined Pop
YACHT is no pleasure cruise. YACHT is an acronym that stands for Young Americans Challenging High Technology. It's also a very quirky band with a sound you can't help but love. Their new one, Shangri La, out today on DFA Records. Shangri ... -
Look Before You Dive
As legendary diver Art Pinder says, freediving is not a spectator sport. It's also not a sport that you can just pick up and run with. Freediving requires training, guidance, and the right mindset. Go through that training, and you enter the ... -
Learning to Dive
Martin Stepanek has been in the water since he was a kid. As he tells Rum Bum's Andrea Ocampo, Stepanek started freediving as necessity, when the older kids in the scuba club he belonged to took all his equipment. Not one to give up, Stepanek dove anyway, ... -
"Not a Spectator Sport"
Every sport has its Michael Jordan, its Babe Ruth, its Joe Montana. In the sport of spearfishing, Art Pinder is that man. Pinder grew up in Miami, following his brothers, who he calls "the greatest divers," and spearfishing the old fashion way – with a ... -
Into the Blue Wild
Sheri Daye, organizer of The Blue Wild Ocean Adventure Expo, has an impressive resume. She took the Women’s Freedive Spearfishing National Championship 2006, and has speared more than a dozen world record fish, including a 179-pound yellow fin tuna. ... -
"You've Got To Spend a Lot of Time With You"
Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras, the legendary freediver, known for establishing the sport of freediving in the U.S., as well as for setting multiple world records in the sport, including the first-known world record of 112 meters way back in 1989, made his way ... -
The Wait Is Over
We've given love to our fair share of new releases this year, but at the same time we've been holding our breath. Where is this year's The Suburbs? Where is this year's Plastic Beach? Where is this year's High Violet? Where are the epic albums ... -
Helplessness Never Sounded So Good
I do not envy the band who has a hit the size and magnitude of Fleet Foxes' self-titled debut. The bigger the hit, the bigger the pressure is to producer a killer followup, often after a year or more of touring nonstop. This is the predicament Fleet Foxes ... -
Road Weary
When we met them at Austin City Limts, The Airborne Toxic Event was one of our favorite bands of the weekend. They were fun and humble and willing to talk, despite an obvious road-weariness from being tour for the first time. That road-weariness has ... -
Love, Lost & Found
As the frontman of the indie band Elefant, Diego Garcia has been known in the NYC music scene for a while now. But those new to his music would be hard-pressed to recognize the solo artist of today in the new wave sound of his youth. For Garcia, that's kind ... -
Alive and in Focus
Nicholas Douwma, aka Sub Focus, played a live set at ULTRA, mixing tracks into a witch’s brew of sound right before our eyes. His set was an audio-visual feast for everyone who made it over to his little corner of ULTRA. Before his set, he sat down ... -
On the Sunnery Side of the Street
DJing duo Sunnery James and Ryan Marciano loved the energetic crowd at ULTRA – especially when they reacted with love for their new track "Tribeca." Sunnery and Ryan will be touring Ibiza and the U.S. this summer, so no matter on which side of the pond you ...
