Mixtape: Twenty Years of Noise Pop (Podcast #269) In February, the Noise Pop Music Festival turns twenty by gathering over one hundred local and touring bands from across the indie spectrum for a week of exciting concerts all over the City. Two decades of championing independent music is an accomplishment worth celebrating, and this mixtape collects twenty bands that have performed at Noise Pop events in years past. As you'll hear, a whole bunch of big names graced Noise Pop bills before achieving fame, as past festivals [...]
Often I am reminded there is a fine line between satire and insensitivity. Sometimes a friend will nudge me, and sometimes I'll be spoken to in stern tones. Like a child who has knowingly committed a misdeed. Actually it is my mother who usually takes me to task for striving to pass off such exaggerated [...]
Oh hi, guys. I didn't hear you come in. Thanks for stopping by. So…I drank a lot last night. Like, A LOT a lot. And oh boy did I ever make an ass out of myself. It's almost as if when I drink now I convince myself that I'm creating a social performance art piece [...]
Celebrating (roughly) four-and-one-half years of Sunday Mix Tapes. I'm back from India. I'm trying to pretend I'm not jet-lagged but after sleeping five hours on the plane I came home from the airport (at 7am) and slept until noon. Then I woke up and ran 20 miles (which sucked!). Then I went out drinking. I [...]
This post might come off to you as super depressing and/or super sentimental, so I apologize and/or you're welcome. There have been many bands who've come and gone without much notice, but then there were those bands that announced their break up and you weeped for a few days straight with their best album on repeat (No? Just me? Oh...). You know this is an ominous fact that's bound to happen to most of your favorite bands (unless they're from the 60s/70s; the drugs were different then). It's something that we all must accept and savor while we [...]
Sunsettes are a Tampa-based duo specializing in funk-tinged indie-rock. Comprised of Nathan Kozyra and Michael Schlein, Sunsettes quietly released their debut Coup de Grace last December. Their compositions are frequently led by acoustics and keys, with Kozyra assuming a vocal delivery incorporating both stream-of-conscious narratives and straightforward romantic metaphors. Although the instrumental arsenal is mainly [...]
Oh, The Frisky. It's been far too long since I've glanced at your website. I can't imagine what I've been missing. No doubt there have been scores of articles penned on such hard-hitting topics as kitty cats and sexy celebrities you'll never meet! What's that you say? You've instituted a regular feature that details what [...]
I had a feeling that sending my initial inquiry to Beulah's e-mail account with the subject: "an inquiry (from a male fan!)" would not yield desirable results. Considering the amount of null responses I received at the front-end of my trip, I was pleasantly surprised by the band's cooperation. I anticipated a sit-down with Miles [...]
One cold New York City night in January 2009, I found myself in the back room of the Bowery Poetry Club, encircled by the typical PBR-wielding twenty-somethings and some of the most magical music I've ever encountered. By wandering in to find shelter from the shivering chill, I had unknowingly stumbled upon the EP release [...]
Miles Kurosky solo at SXSW 2010 / photo by David Greenwald ( Editor's note: This post originally appeared in May 2007. MP3 links have been updated .) Radio sessions are the best. You get a quality recording and the band tends to do things acoustic and quieter. This particular session is not acoustic and quieter - in fact, it's noisier than some of the album versions of some these tracks. This is great The Coast is Never Clear- era material with Beulah in fine form. For the uninitiated: The [...]
Happy Friday to ya, my friends!!! Man oh man have I been a busy little beaver lately. Work has been, well, work and nuttier than ever, but that's work and who wants to talk about that? Not I said the fly! Now, sure, we got you a badass mixtape to finish off the week all proper style... How's THAT for a teaser? But, before we get to that, let's talk about the other busys keep us busy. First up? [...]
Sometimes my mp3 player picks some really shitty playlists for me. Occasionally it will play back to back songs by the same artist, or just shit that I don't want to listen to. Every once in a while though it produces a perfect mix for my mood. My music device and I are in sync and I anticipate each track hoping the flow of awesomeness will continue. My ride home from a friends house the other night on 1-23-11 was one of those occurrences. The ride home lasted [...]
DOWNLOAD MP3: Backwords - "Better Off Alone" Backwords are a folkadelic rock band out of Brooklyn that successfully spread their infectious pop sound all over their most recent album Quilt, which they self-released last September. This quirky fresh track entitled "Better Off Alone" features ramshackle power chords and vocal trade-offs between singer Brian Russ and a female guest vocalist. Its sound fits somewhere between the slightly off kilter approach of a band like Beulah and The Moldy Peaches, while remaining playfully pessimistic towards love. Oh, and did I mention there's an [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: T. Rex, Girls, Beaulah "Smith Westerns - Still New" What's so good? Mark my words, Smith Westerns' Dye It Blonde WILL make numerous 2011 "Best Of" lists. How can it not?! This is as fresh as fresh gets. This Chicago-based band is taking the garage rock scene by storm; their sophomore album hasn't even hit the market yet (but will on January 18) and yet these guys are already [...]
2011 can suck my balls! centro-matic - the massacre went well (piano demo 1997).mp3 doug martsch -5 on 3 (1999).mp3 ween - booze me up and get me high.mp3 beulah - all points north.mp3 ulysses -change.mp3 let's visit your unwed moms, and dance to some new wave songs...
In celebration of the upcoming 200th Sunday Mix Tape, I've decided to spend a few days this week taking a leisurely stroll down memory lane. My memory's lane. I've compiled 199 official Sunday Mix Tapes as well as a few compilations that arrived on a Monday or other random day. It's time to take a look back and examine why this feature has become such a huge success. Since I can't post 200 MP3s this week, I'm going to list what is - in my opinion - the standout track from each installment of the series. About half [...]
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Who thought that true twee pop went away and died? Well, if it did, the word certainly didn't reach the Memphis group Magic Kids . Their new album, cleverly titled Memphis , is full of that old fashioned bounce and melodic shuffle that adorned some of the greatest indie albums of all time. That being said, this record is good, though probably not quite on the list of all time greats. "Phone" does throw some musical allusions [...]
Of Montreal's tenth album is their most accessible yet, offering a meshing of cohesiveness and ambition that coincides with the band's idiosyncratic sound. Kevin Barnes' lyrical variation of humor and serious infliction aid an album that is emotionally demanding, humorously witty, and melodically superb. With help from Jon Brion, it is their best produced and most organic-sounding effort yet.
The summer mixtapes have received over 100,000 visits since the first 2010 mixtape was published on Memorial Day weekend. The fifth installment of the Summer 2010 Mixtapes includes a variety of songs we love from classic rock to indie glo-fi, featuring artists and bands like Wavves, Band of Skulls, Blackbird Blackbird, Secret Cities, Raconteurs, Arctic [...] Related posts:Summer 2010 Mixtape, Vol. II: Animal Collective, The Drums, Jay-Z, Magic Kids, The Flaming Lips, Spoon, LCD Soundsystem, Radio Dept.Vol Ears To The Music, Vol. VII: Built To Spill, Modest Mouse, Pearl Jam, Clues, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Paramore & More Halloween [...]
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