In a recent interview with Pitchfork, Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux and RTX (now Black Bananas ) fame teased some new details about the long-delayed Avalanches release. Not only did Herrema team up with the Australian band to write lyrics for a new song titled "The Stepkids", but Herrema also told Pitchfork, "They said the album is definitely going to come out this year. And I heard [...]
A recent brief debate cropped up in a comment thread on our recent post about the band IO. You can see that post here and all it's reader's musings, but the main complaint was the lack of a distinct chorus within the tracks. Now for our tuppence worth we suggested that music doesn't actually need a chorus, no more than every film needs a twist, but amongst certain genres or types of music it is perhaps expected, and particularly if you are discussing the brand of indie that IO create. Personally we didn't think the lack of a [...]
When you compile a list like this, you start to tremble at how much you're really going to absorb in the ensuing months. This doesn't even cover the misses and surprises. If you're a casual listener, you might get through an album a day. Okay, maybe two. If you're a fanatic, you're spinning discographies left and right. Still, after 365 days, either person is buzzing. One's just a little louder with the phonetics. As I wrote back in December, in a year, you'll have your next roundup of favorite albums. You'll have a new favorite song. You might [...]
AVALANCHES REFIX! - an almighty rerefix of The Avalanches available for the price of a Facebook Like. Bargain . Now you can spend your hard earned pennies on penny sweets and crack.
Top 10 Releases of 2011 Once again, the great releases of this year are roundly ignored by other 'best-of' music compilers. I am again mystified how some of the releases included here got such short shrift, particularly, when there was not much by way of competition. 2011, overall, was largely dominated by folkie southern-rock sounding bands, which is a direction that is easy for me to ignore except for the insanely good The Wooden Birds record, which, against all reason has shown up on no best-of lists that [...]
Back in the day, when two artists didn't like each other, they'd deal with it in relatively low-profile ways: A snippy backstage comment, or a pointed interview comment. Maybe they'd toss in a lyrical jab, the way Lynyrd Skynyrd did toward Neil Young on "Sweet Home Alabama," but that would be just about it. That's all changed. If, say, the Kurt Cobain/Axl Rose VMA-backstage kerfuffle had happened today, the resounding Twitterpocalypse would have the over-capacity whale showing up for three solid days whenever you tried to reload the site. And every time an artist is even vaguely annoyed at something [...]
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Hacía mucho que no hablábamos de The Avalanches . Este grupo / colectivo de música electrónica formado en 1997 ha llevado a sus fans al borde del ataque de nervios debido a lo mucho que les está tomando preparar su esperado segundo trabajo. Con una fecha de lanzamiento esperada para 2012, acaban de surgir nuevos datos de uno de los trabajos más esperados del año que viene. Vienen directos de la banda, y de su cuenta de Twitter , donde han dado algunos nombres de temas, posibles nombres para el disco e [...]
Oh, look what Santa brought! Yes, everything from the sentimental to the chemically-enchanced is there, right there under the tree! And what's that? A DMCA takedown notice? Oh, Santa, you shouldn't have! Twelve Days Of Christmas - Peter Brogs "On the first day of Christmas my Jah Jah gave to me/ A garden full of sensi." And what says 'Christmas' like highly potent cannabis plants? [...]
Filed under: News Kristy Sparow, Getty Images Earlier this year, Bon Iver mastermind Justin Vernon took the Grammys to task , claiming they encourage musicians to compromise their art. Now, according to Pitchfork , the Avalanches have fired back at the singer -- who, incidentally, just racked up four Grammy nominations himself -- on account of Bon Iver's Bushmills Whiskey endorsement . "A musicians 'art is compromised' [...]
The Avalanches haven't released an album in about 11 years, but that doesn't mean they've stopped paying attention. And since that album was Since I Left You , people pay attention when they make a fuss. Recently, The New York Times posted an interview with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon in which Vernon essentially calls the Grammy Awards meaningless. (The interview was conducted months ago, before Bon Iver got nominated for a buttload of Grammys .) And in a series of posts on their Twitter this morning, the Avalanches have called out Vernon for maintaining [...]
The Avalanches – "Soca! Sirens! Brains!" I assume that many of you are already acutely aware of the somewhat recent news that the Australian electronic collective's second album is "basically finished" , and are searching for a way to satisfy your appetites while you wait for it to descend from the clouds, bathed in golden light. Fear not, I come to your aid. The band recently updated links on their website and youtube page to a large number of mixtapes and remixes that they've done over the past decade, all [...]
Hear The Track HereOut of all the hundreds of thousands of rock bands I have come across while reviewing none - not one - have touched me in quite the same way as Avalanche; great songs, wonderfully experienced musicianship and production values that most of us can only dream about. Ever since I first met them back on Songplanet in 2005, Avalanche haven't put so much as a foot wrong but with the
I am all about recycling, upcycling, composting… anything that reuses materials that are already on this earth. If a friend wants to use jeans for insulation or to make a quilt out of old clothes, I will be over in an instant! But recycling music? I was not keen on this idea until I heard [...]
There are a number of problems that I have noticed with the different Amber Ales that are on the market. If they are something like Killian's, they may have a decent flavor but possess no (or incredibly little of a) bite. However, those that are a little too happy when it comes to including hops [...]
GoPro HD: Avalanche Cliff Jump with Matthias Giraud from GoPro on Vimeo . Shot 100% on the HD HERO® camera from GoPro®. GoPro.com Matthias Giraud and Stefan Laude capture some of the most incredible content seen by GoPro as they hit the Alps like true heroes skiing the French backcountry while escaping a large avalanche on their tails! deepgoa.blogspot.com underground music guide _________ © dg [...]
I've been experimenting with glitch, electronica and sample-based instrumental hip-hop for sometime now. Here's a brief roundup of all the tracks I've come to adore. DJ Shadow is on a league on its own and is the only reason I have any respect for hip-hop. South Californian edIT's featured tracks are from his close-to-perfect debut album Crying Over Pros for No Reason released back in '04. Also keep in mind that Gerhard Behles of Monolake went on to found [...]
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Tweet If you're at all like me then you're probably fairly excited to listen to "Conatus", the new album by Zola Jesus . In the last couple of months we've heard a fair few tracks from the album as well as a collaboration with M83 on the song "Intro" . Each song has slightly outdone the previous one we've heard, from "Seekir" to "Avalanche" to "Vessel" , as each one is overtaken by [...]
Hear The Track HereIf I had known, at the beginning of this year when I named Avalanche as my Artist Of The Year 2010, what I know now, I'd have probably draped them in ermine and proclaimed them King Of The World, Ma into the bargain. For my money, with a band as long-lived as Avalanche, adaptability is a required skill but this year they have surpassed themselves in that respect, and in many
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