We know you lost sleep over the course of last month, waiting patiently, racking your brain to see what we could possibly list as our favorite albums of 2011. We lost sleep too, compulsively checking our lists twice and perhaps after a fist fight or two, we settled on 25 firm choices. After all, who listens to as much music as us? Who actually has time to listen to put together a valid top 25 list with no filler? We're fairly certain that most other sites don't include at least a handful of the albums listed on none other [...]
Como sabemos , la banda inglesa Elbow es la encargada de la música de los Juegos Olímpicos Londres 2012 que serán televisados por la BBC . La banda estuvo promocionando la canción en una entrevista este fin de semana. En una entrevista con Noise11 , el bajista de Elbow , Pete Turner , contó que la canción fue terminada a fines del año pasado y que fue "muy divertido porque nunca habíamos hecho algo así, escribir [...]
Facebook On paper, London's Big Deal doesn't really bring a lot to the table. Two guitars - one acoustic, one electric - and two voices - one American male, one English female - and that's about it. There's not much in the way of virtuosity in the former and neither Kacey Underwood or Alice Costelloe's vocals would stop anyone in their tracks either alone or in harmony. To hear it described, you'd be forgiven for expecting it to lean towards being rather conventional and/or pedestrian. And yet their debut album [...]
Enjoy their full set here. Elbow recently dropped by QTV. Purchase Elbow items via Insound. MP3: Elbow - Back To Black
Según The Official Charts Company , Coldplay , Florence + The Machine y Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds fueron las bandas que más discos vendieron el año pasado. Muy cerca quedaron Foo Fighters y Mumford & Sons . La banda de Chris Martin lideró además los charts de singles más vendidos con Paradise [...]
Ed Sheeran , Jessie J y Adele predominan en las nominaciones a los Brit Awards . El joven compositor inglés Ed Sheeran está nominado en cuatro categorías, incluído Mejor Solista Masculino Inglés compitiendo contra James Blake , James Morrison , Noel Gallagher y Professor Green . También está nominado para Mejor Álbum Inglés junto a gigantes [...]
Following in Schonberg's footsteps I attempted to buy 12 albums during 2011. Did I do it? Well as I type this I honestly don't know, so together let's have a look at the albums I bought and see how I got on. As I think it will be close, I'm going to count all albums I bought, whether they were released in 2011 or not - I may revise this if I easily make it! [...]
Tweet In the last couple of months we've been going through some changes, from staff members, the direction of content, ways to connect with us, the design, and a bunch of others that we deal with at LBYB HQ behind the scenes. One thing we noticed that was causing problems was the site's RSS feed . It wasn't always updating on time and sometimes it wouldn't update for more than a day. We'd notice our subscribers had been steadily increasing but [...]
Ricordate la notizia di oltre un anno fa ? Invitati dall'ereditiera Jemima Khan a suonare per un prestigioso e riservatissimo evento benefico, i Pink Floyd avevano fatto sfumare la possibile reunion dopo ben cinque anni dall'ultimo concerto insieme. Motivo? Il fastidio (parole di Nick Mason) di "suonare per un branco di sofisticati damerini" e non per una manifestazione dalla portata mondiale e popolare come il Live8 . Evento che potrebbe invece somigliare molto alle prossime Olimpiadi di Londra 2012, i cui organizzatori hanno - al momento - ufficializzato solo il tema composto dagli [...]
HAPPY NEW YEAR! The 3rd go around for my massive year-end compilation. 53 songs! You're getting 3 more songs then last year! Bringing compilation awesomeness to a Whole. New. Level! Revel in it's greatness! AGDFA's 2011 Year-End Comp Mix. 01. The Black Keys - "Lonely Boy" 02. Dinosaur Pile-Up - "Mona Lisa" 03. Foo Fighters - "White Limo" 04. We Were Promised Jetpacks - [...]
The Schönbys are fictional, made-up awards for me to let you know what I've enjoyed listening to during 2011. Winners and nominations are drawn from music I have seen, heard or bought during the preceding 12 months. 2010, to me, seemed a poor year for music. When it came to choosing my top albums of the year I struggled to come up with a top 5. Was it a general dearth of good music, or just the fact that having a young baby meant I had other things on my mind? Maybe both these things transpired to cause [...]
2011 was the first year that I wasn't fully involved with OnlineRock , a company/website/label that I started back in 1999. I was looking forward to not being tethered to the website and having some freedom to explore other creative endeavors. At first I didn't think that much had happened in 2011 but looking back on it, it seemed to be a pretty eventful. From house concerts and traveling to books and recording, 2011 was one of the better years. Here are some of my highlights. Live Music: One thing [...]
You've made it - our top 25 songs of 2011 are right here. We were blown away by the talent here and perhaps some of the way these songs worked out for the respective artists here could either be sheer luck to have a song turn out so favorably or perhaps it came down to just raw talent. Whatever it is, these songs rocked our day, week, month or heck... even our year. Enjoy the best of the best with our top 25 songs of 2011! 25. The Remainers - House [...]
It was an OK year. Nothing more, nothing less. Timber Timbre and their album "Creep On Creepin' On" was without a doubt, the album I've listened to and seen performed live the most all year. Taylor Kirk's dark, swampy sound speaks to me. As for the rest of my top 5, these albums will be listened by yours truly for years [...]
Albums Het einde nadert, tijd voor een terugblik. De beste albums zie je hierboven. Elbow was voor mij echt een ontdekking dit jaar (ondanks dat Sytse ze al tijden bij me naar binnen probeerde te duwen), en dat is hem met het concert in de HMH definitief gelukt. Bedankt nog daarvoor. Verder in de top [...]
11.David Thomas Broughton - Ain't Got No Sole The first song we heard from DTB's fantastic album, and perhaps the poppiest of the lot. Catchy, unusual and immensely hummable. 12.Kurt Vile - Baby's Arms Another album from which it is tricky to extricate just one song as a highlight, but for some reason I'm giving this the nod above Jesus Fever or Puppet to the Man . I think it's the most late night and glass of red winey song on the album, but it's close. 13.The [...]
Roger Deckker A little before the holidays rolled in, Swedish songstress Lykke Li gave her fans an early Christmas gift by releasing a three-song EP of stripped-down versions of this year's Wounded Rhymes . They're decidedly spare and more downbeat than the finished versions, but if you liked the moodiness that pervaded her second album, then you might well like these versions better than the album versions because they've got shadowy atmosphere to spare. And if the version of "Jerome" sounds familiar, it's because a video of the [...]
Estamos ya a una semana de terminar otro año y eso significa que ha llegado el momento de hacer un recuento de lo mejor y lo peor de este 2011. En este caso vamos a hacer un repaso por la mejores agrupaciones, las más famosas, las más relevantes, en suma, las bandas que estuvieron en oídos de todos en este año que termina. No hay números eso sí, aunque tal vez una que otra elección un poco controversial. Aclaro que uno de los puntos a considerar a la hora de hacer esta lista era que los grupos hubieran sacado producción [...]
Here's Part Two of my list of my favourite things from 2011. And by things, I mean albums, songs, and gigs, as opposed to huge steaming piles of crystal meth. (Disclaimer: I do not have anything to do with huge steaming piles of crystal meth. It's all meow meow round here, you know) Part One is over here . The Others Elbow – Build A Rocket, Boys! The Seldom Seen Kid was always going to be a hard act [...]
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