lower dens

Directed by Zachary Treitz.

Lower Dens performed a haunting, stripped-down version of the Hall & Oates cover that Jana Hunter and the group have been mixing in their recent live sets during a new session for our friends at SiriusXMU. Catch the full session tomorrow night on XMU, and come see Lower Dens this summer in Dallas + Austin at Gorilla vs... Read More ...

Tickets for this summer's Gorilla vs. Bear V shows featuring Jamie xx, Lower Dens + more go on sale this morning at 10 AM. You can grab tickets for the Dallas show on July 31 at the Granada HERE, and the Austin show on August 1 at the Mohawk HERE...

We are beyond psyched to announce the fifth installment of our annual Gorilla vs. Bear summer show here in Dallas, and that we'll be expanding to a second night in Austin this year for the first time ever. GvsB V goes down on Friday, July 31, in Dallas at the Granada Theater + Saturday, August 1, in Austin at the Mohawk...

Basically the most important piece of prophecy since Revelations. Nobody has ever thought so deeply and so comprehensively about American civilization, nor written the product of that thinking with such terrifying clarity. -- Jana Hunter, Lower Dens "Romance is coming back, Warren...

This album has really informed my playing and thinking about music recently, specifically the way they take a simple idea and push it and push it until it sort of breaks into something new. I feel connected to the way this album uses punk and pop, desperation and exuberance in an honest way that still feels refreshing to me decades after its creation...

Along with people like Kathy Acker and Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz worked to bring gay culture out of its campy, self-mocking state and turn it into something that could stand beside as opposed to in opposition to straight culture...

We're all running from something, which Becker identifies as death without meaning or legacy. That the source of so much of our culture ought to lie in fear is both sad and eminently forgivable. There's nothing more human than this. Our music tries to sound how it might feel to forgive this essential fault in ourselves and in all of us...

The light of Bowie's stardom often obscures the names of his formidable side people. In this celebrated live show (listen to the full show here) it is impossible to ignore the energy and inventiveness of Carlos Alomar, George Murray and Dennis Davis, the core of the band which helped cement his reputation in the seventies...

Richard Thompson is a remarkably fluid guitar player. His rhythm playing sneaks in lots of passing lines and his solos often contain material from a variety of idioms without sounding forced. His tones change with the times but are always in good taste and unique to him...