Weekend Collision

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Sleigh Bells will be livestreaming their New York City show tonight (02.17) at 10:30 pm EST via The Bowery Presents’ newest venture – The Bowery Presents Live.

Launching as part of YouTube’s new original channels initiative, The Bowery Presents Live will allow fans all over the world to witness Sleigh Bells’ biggest hometown show to date. & what’s even cooler, is that you don’t have to go anywhere, video will start playing below.



In other related news, Sleigh Bells display their fashion chops in GQ & prove they’ve got the tenacious looks to match their tunes’ aesthetic + versatility. “It’s about twisting the sweet and classic with something perverse and uncomfortable,” says Sleigh Bells’ Alexis Krauss, a former teacher who also admits to being influenced by Norwegian black metal, 80’s pop culture, & motorcycle clubs. “For us, there are no guilty pleasures… When we were making Reign of Terror, I might say that we were writing a song that was like Def Leppard mixed with George Michael.”

Meanwhile you wait for the show to start, head over to GQ.com to read more from the interview + check out the photos!

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Coast Jumper forwent the luxury of dingy motel rooms + camped out across the country, packing their lives into a car that would take them from the blank winters of their youth to where they would eventually complete their five-man lineup in California.

Meeting as teenagers in upstate New York, the members of Coast Jumper spent 4 years growing up together under the same roof, enduring the harsh winters, friendships come & gone, life. Sequestering themselves one winter in their dimly lit basement, Coast Jumper assembled the collage that is Grand Opening. Equal parts ambiance, aggression, harmony, & release, it’s about lost loves but it’s also about new ones. It’s about finding purpose + meaning in something, but also becoming disillusioned with the whole damn thing. It feels like a bunch of kids growing into themselves. In that basement, they took an oath to never stop.

Coast Jumper:

“This is our very first album. It’s called Grand Opening. We’ve put in hundreds of hours, heart, and soul into this record; we are very proud of it. Do hope you like it.

Two things:

1) You can pay whatever you want for it. We appreciate anything you want to throw our way, but we won’t hate you if you don’t pay us (promise).

2) Please listen to it in order, as a whole, at least once. “

Get it now on Bandcamp. Now playing “For Youth”.